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It’s on: New Cruz ad ridicules Trump as fake Republican
Hot Air ^ | February 10, 2016 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 02/10/2016 8:37:25 AM PST by GodGunsGuts

Like Donkey Kong. Ted Cruz scored a surprising third-place finish in New Hampshire in yesterday's first-in-the-nation primary, and now it looks like he's going for a knockout before South Carolina. Cruz tweeted out the campaign's latest web ad after his victory, one that takes aim at the winner, Donald Trump. The ad depicts children playing with their new "Donald Trump action figure," and says what he does most is "pretend to be a Republican"...

It's a tour de force of counter-Trump arguments. The ad manages to mention Trump's friendship with Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid (and adds in a shot at Anthony Weiner, too). Bailouts and Too Big To Fail get mentioned, but it's Trump's support for eminent domain that gets most of the attention (video):

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: New Hampshire; US: South Carolina
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To: inpajamas

Nope.

So you are saying it’s ok for govt to take property from individuals with compensation via ED is

OK if you allow property to go to energy corporation that in no way benefits America.

Yet
not ok if govt allows property to go to Trump corporation which benefits citizen and raises tax revenue

To recap - you are saying ED for one type of corporate use is ok and for another type of corporate use is not ok.

You do realize the ED maneuvers with Keystone are being done by private corporate interests, right?

You still haven’t made the argument why that is ok.


121 posted on 02/10/2016 9:10:55 AM PST by austinaero
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To: jpsb

He needs to follow Trump’s example and run a nice campaign that’s never been nasty at all. /EPIC SARC TAG!

Take a long hike off a short pier, Trump-ocrite.


122 posted on 02/10/2016 9:11:15 AM PST by JediJones (Ideology is NOT optional.)
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To: Signalman

A big difference between public domain and private domain. Most conservatives side with property owners when it comes to real estate development.


123 posted on 02/10/2016 9:11:19 AM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: MeganC

“I’ve been on the fence between Cruz and Trump but I will say if I had to vote right now, today, it would be for Cruz.”

Given the fact Ted Cruz was born n Canada and cannot lawfully serve as President, his candidacy will probably fail when the voting for the general election sees ethical voters refusing to vote for either of the two leading candidates. When you look at electoral history, every such unlawful Republican candidate after 1880 has lost the election to a Democrat. The opponents of the Democrats-Marxists cannot afford to let this election be lost by default to the Democrat candidate. Whomever the Republican candidate will be, the candidate must not be an apparently unlawful candidate, whether or not a person chooses to accept the allegation the candidate is unlawful. Regardless of what some people choose to believe, the voters have the right and the power to disqualify any candidate for any reason, no matter how trivial, and contested eligibility for the office is anything but trivial.


124 posted on 02/10/2016 9:12:01 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: GodGunsGuts
-- if Trump admits it, he will have to admit he is a big, giant liberal...not an anti-establishment CONSERVATIVE. --

He doesn't have to admit any of that, one way or the other. And you are going to find him to be a big, giant liberal no matter what anyway.

He can come out and lie just as much as the rest of them do, and leave it to the people to figure out the truth, or trust the press (which is a really bad tool for figuring out the truth).

125 posted on 02/10/2016 9:12:05 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: DoughtyOne

Oh btw...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/02/10/nh-gop-establishment-spends-20x-per-vote-as-trumpcruz/


126 posted on 02/10/2016 9:12:39 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: libbylu

You ailed The Don.


127 posted on 02/10/2016 9:12:46 AM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Signalman
Utilities are heavily gov't regulated and obtaining a right of way is less onerous than grabbing the whole property and kicking the people off of it.

Besides there are all sorts of examples of utility rights of way that obviously skirted some properties for some reasons. Keystone has been rerouted numerous times and it's not over yet.

128 posted on 02/10/2016 9:13:07 AM PST by Paladin2 (w)
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To: austinaero

Not understanding the ED position of the Trump-haters.

Using Keystone pipeline as an example: Anti-Trumps say it’s ok for private corporations to use ED to build Keystone but

Not OK for private Trump corporation to use ED to buy land to enhance a business open to the public and subject to tax payments.

Not seeing the difference.


129 posted on 02/10/2016 9:13:11 AM PST by austinaero
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To: GodGunsGuts
Here's a Tape of the Ted Cruz Campaign Lying to Iowa Voters About Ben Carson

..."Now, a series of voicemails show that the Cruz campaign stopped at nothing to get the word of Carson's rumored dropout out in time before the caucuses. The voicemails say that the campaign has "breaking news" about Carson's dropping out of the race, asking voters to "inform any Carson caucus-goers of this news and urge them to caucus for Ted instead." The caller clearly claimed that Carson was dropping out:

"Hello, this is the Cruz campaign with breaking news: Dr. Ben Carson will be suspending campaigning following tonight's caucuses."..."

130 posted on 02/10/2016 9:13:30 AM PST by BlatherNaut
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To: DoughtyOne
People who have fallen in behind Trump won’t be moved by it.

Only about a third of Republicans have "fallen in" behind Trump, and Trump's negatives are huge. There is rich ground to be mined in the other two thirds by Cruz.

Mocking Trump is incredibly easy to do - and very funny too!

131 posted on 02/10/2016 9:13:55 AM PST by BigBobber
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To: Kudsman

I think Ted knows what we do. He has very little choice but to try to knock the other guy off.

What has he accomplished? There’s nothing to point to. Yes I know he argued nine cases before the SCOTUS and won two of them outright, but is that going to convince folks he’s presidential material? I don’t think so.

His goals, even if stated first, weren’t stated loudly enough for folks to realize Trump didn’t say them first.

Everything comes off sounding like “Me too Ted”, and that isn’t a winning situation for him.

I know this sounds like ripping Ted to his supporters, but in truth it’s just a reasoned analysis of his situation.

It isn’t good.


132 posted on 02/10/2016 9:14:47 AM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: ETL; All; Jane Long
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133 posted on 02/10/2016 9:14:49 AM PST by mkjessup (Sarah Palin says "GO TRUMP GO!!!!")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Cruz and Trump will have equal power to implement whatever they want as President.

Trump’s plans are often FAR more pie-in-the-sky, difficult to implement than most of Cruz’. Having Mexico pay for the wall? Banning all Muslims? What makes you think any President could get others to agree to that or find the exec. powers to do it?


134 posted on 02/10/2016 9:14:54 AM PST by JediJones (Ideology is NOT optional.)
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To: Sasparilla

Supporting the pipeline does not mean supporting ED abuse.


135 posted on 02/10/2016 9:15:03 AM PST by Laserman
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To: Signalman

“The Keystone Pipeline is a private project.”

It is part of our National Security plan.


136 posted on 02/10/2016 9:15:26 AM PST by Beagle8U (Don't settle for Bill de Blasio's NYC 'values'.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

I’ll be sure to keep that in mind as he trounces Ted throughout the South.


137 posted on 02/10/2016 9:15:32 AM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: heights

{The most pitiful, childish, snarky add, I’ve ever seen.}

Exactly, it’s perfect for its target audience: most of trumps supporters


138 posted on 02/10/2016 9:16:07 AM PST by Axeslinger (Trump: the Kaitlyn Jenner of conservatism. One's not a woman, one's not a conservative.)
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To: libbylu
This is the funniest ad because it nails the donald. I am sick of debates but hopeful Cruz will take him out Saturday.

Dream on. It does no such thing.
Only the ignorant will issue the expected emotional response.

The irony is that this hostility is based on distortions that 90% of Freepers simply do not understand.

139 posted on 02/10/2016 9:16:15 AM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Ted Cruz will move the ball in our direction, despite the opposition. The power of the presidency will enable him to get some things done that we’ll like.

I have no faith that Trump will move the ball in the direction we want to go.


140 posted on 02/10/2016 9:16:16 AM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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