Cruz aide: Trump running 'Seinfeld candidacy'

The Hill ^ | February 11, 2016, 10:37 am | Jesse Byrnes

[SoConPubbie]

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A top aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) argued late Wednesday that his Republican presidential rival Donald Trump is running a campaign about nothing.

"This is like the 'Seinfeld' candidacy," Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler said on CNN's "Erin Burnett

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"It's about nothing. The whole campaign is about nothing."

"I didn't hear one substantive piece of anything, of policy there, nothing about immigration, nothing about job creation, nothing about what's going on in North Korea right now, nothing about defeating [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria]," Tyler said. "I mean, this is amazing. This is a 'Seinfeld' candidacy. It's about nothing."

Republicans have long criticized Trump for relying on his personality instead of detailed policy proposals during his media-oriented campaign.

Trump late Wednesday held his first major rally since winning the New Hampshire primary earlier this week. He and Cruz are battling for a win in South Carolina, which holds the next Republican contest on Feb. 20, following Iowa and New Hampshire, where Cruz and Trump won, respectively.

[SoConPubbie]

	"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams " Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." - John Quincy Adams

[Neu Pragmatist]

Grasp those straws ! defeat dishonest Cruz ...

[Daniel Ramsey]

61% speaks for itself.

[proust]

Weird, the exit polls showed that Trump won on all the major issues, Economy, Immigration, Terrorism, etc. Cruz sure knows how to pick a staff.

[DrewsDad]

So true. Who can actually define Trump’s healthcare policy?

[Spirit of Liberty]

Nothing about immigration?! What does he think ‘build a wall and don't let Muslims in until we can verify who they are’ is about, pancakes??

[moonhawk]

“61% speaks for itself.”

Sorry, 61% of what?

[Helicondelta]

What’s the Cruz campaign about?

I only know about his proposal to create the VAT tax.

[PROCON]

[proust]

The fact that those issues are “nothing” to this guy speaks volumes about Cruz and why he’s not winning.

[The Right wing Infidel]

Trump supports gun rights, closing the borders, ending Muslim immigration, bringing jobs back to America from china.

Yeah that’s not a campaign about nothing,

[Daniel Ramsey]

Latest Newsmax poll has Trump at 61%

[cripplecreek]

Pretty much.

[dynoman]

Ted’s lies about Trump, in just one interview!

Lie 1 - Pro-abortion and supporting partial birth abortion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=197

Lie 2 - Trump is calling for the same socialized medicine as Sanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=216

Lie 3 - pushed partial birth abortion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=239

Lie 4 - Even as a candidate Donald says we need to have full on socialized medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=298

Lie 5 - at the debates he said we ought to have socialized medicine like Canada and Scotland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=302

Lie 6 - said trump said If you as a republican don’t support socialized medicine you are heartless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=312

Lie 7 - If you want to see Bernie Sanders style of socialized medicine Trump is your guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RHgqFQ85uZs#t=335

Check out this thread;

No Senator Cruz, Donald Trump does NOT want Single Payer health care.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3395968/posts

The author is with the Cruz campaign!

[heights]

And Cruz is like the Character from the movie, “Deadzone’.

[moonhawk]

Never mind—I saw it. Wow.

[dowcaet]

Nothing. That’s what we’ve been getting from Republicans in Congress for the past seven years, and truthfully, for much longer than that. A sizable portion of the GOP electorate has had enough of elected Republican officeholders, and that includes a good many conservatives. How else can you explain the continuing success of Donald Trump?

[Lagmeister]

Cruz, his campaign and fan club are a collection of liars. I am stunned because they profess such piety. What gives?

[dowcaet]

Nothing. That’s what we’ve been getting from Republicans in Congress for the past seven years, and truthfully, for much longer than that. A sizable portion of the GOP electorate has had enough of elected Republican officeholders, and that includes a good many conservatives. How else can you explain the continuing success of Donald Trump?

[almcbean]

The Trump supporters are angry my friend. Like an old man sending back soup in a deli.