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 ...
[It appeals to the electorate IQ.]
After listening to Cruz supporters calling into AM talk radio shows, I am not surprise that a dumbed-down ad would be appealing....
Yes, standing up and saying those things was good.
On the other hand co-authoring support for the TPA published in the WSJ was bad.
IMO, that’s sort of a wash there.
Hanging with Beck was a big mistake. Beck is a corn flake. LOL
So what’s the deal with Goldman Sachs in that photo? Do you know?
Nice try.
Using your wealth, power and influence to attempt to subvert the constitution is not an admirable trait. Business-like or not. Legal or not.
Anybody can be goaded into overreacting; it's just a matter of the subject.
Entertainment for tiny minds and small people.
BUT without an actual count, my experience is that the number of POSTS favoring CRUZ seem to outnumber those favoring Trump 60/40. (and in vitriol, Cruz wins 90/10)
What do you think of this interpretation just from reading FR several hours daily? It seems to me that those selecting Trump vs Cruz in the caucus does not correlate to the number of each candidate's supporters' posts in the forum. Thank you.
Nice try, the ad is not for Cruz supporters but the grade school level donnie, bushy and taco boy supporters. Cruz supporters have higher IQ’s, can read and write script, have more than a 4th grade vocabulary and generally have higher educations.
More importantly, that is precisely why so many more people support him!
That would include me.
Stupid add. May even gain sympathy for Trump.
Far more effective would have been footage of Trump praising Hillary, Polosi, Obama etc.
Not a bad advertisement, but it doesn’t matter. If you don’t know by now that Trump is no conservative, you never will. His followers don’t care. Winning is far more important to them that what he’d actually do while in office.
The fickle nature of conservatives depresses me. For years all we hear about is that if we had a real conservative as a candidate we’d stop losing. We finally get a loyal conservative and a couple good enough candidates and suddenly all people talk about is how we need someone who can win.
We’re up against an old white Marxist and a candidate who may very well end up in prison shortly, and those who once demanded a conservative are instead supporting a guy who says we need to make more deals with Pelosi, or who wants to work closer with Mitch McConnell, or who wants back door amnesty. They want a moderate populist with a long, long history of supporting liberal causes because winning is more important, and you can’t win with a conservative. Conservatives are finally getting their wish in Ted Cruz, and they’re essentially giving the same argument that gave us Romney and McCain.
Ted can easily explain whatever Trump throws at him because A) he has a 97%-100% conservative/pro-liberty VOTING RECORD
and
B) The Donald’s “Ted Cruz is a Washington insider” commercials are laughable on their face.
That dog just isn’t gonna hunt.
You don’t think that’s coming? LOL...it’s coming alright!
Trump bought the building for $10 million bucks.
That was the total value of the building, but now I’m supposed to believe the tax abatement was worth $10 million bucks every year for forty years.
That didn’t occur to you?
It’s a decent question. I don’t have an answer for you though.
I set up the caucus each day, and folks participate who want to.
I try to publicize the caucus to get more participation. I urge folks to join in.
Other than that, people who wish to do participate, and those who don’t care to don’t.
That seems reasonable to me.
Cruz folks are welcome. Trump folks are welcome. I welcome folks who wish to vote for any of the candidates.
Not my words but here is an example of 2,140,000 results of a quick google search:
He is still indebted to Goldman. (“As for the Goldman Sachs loan, it remains outstanding, though the balance has been reduced to between $50,000 and $100,000.â€) Goldman, among other things, employs hundreds of workers on H-1B visas. Cruz used to advocate a huge increase in the number of H-1B visas, without, of course, saying he was on the hook to Goldman. Now, of course, Cruz wants to end H-1B visas. Maybe he should have taken out a loan from a bank that employed more Americans.
2. He didn’t simply “forget†to file the disclosure; he made up a self-reverential story to go with it. “Liquidate everything†really meant “get a honking-big loan from my wife’s company.†This will underscore his slipperiness on other issues, such as his stance on immigrant legalization. Can we take anything he says at face value?
I’m getting very close to calling it quits on Cruz. This attack is childish and makes Ted look desperate by STOOPING to using children.
DisgusTED with this amateur approach! Cruz was very unhappy when they cartooned his daughters, but her certainly has NO problems “using” his daughters and other peoples children to further his agenda, again, disgusTED.
And Cruz had the perfect opportunity to go at Trump ‘like a real man’ during the debate, instead, he chose to go at him like a coward.
I’m not sure, and am (theoretically) working right now.
Right. From your posting history, you have been a Trumpkin for months, but THIS ad is going to make you stop supporting Cruz... Suuuuure...
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