Posted on 02/12/2016 8:15:00 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
As Matthew Continetti remarked on Twitter, whoever handles Team Cruz' campaign ads deserves a raise - assuming this comes directly from the campaign, as MSNBC reported today. While Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders argued over the record of Henry Kissinger and the foreign policy of the Nixon administration, the Cruz campaign launched a pitch-perfect shot at Hillary in this Office Space spoof. Rather than destroying a printer, however, "Hillary" and two aides destroy an e-mail server while the soundtrack raps out, "Damn, it feels good to be a Clinton": ...
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=GO CRUZ GO...The principled Conservative in the race
That’s why we are in it. I truly believe Ted Cruz may be our last chance to change course before we are completely swallowed by the socialist abyss. He’s the only candidate who has promised to methodically go through and rescind Obama’s executive orders, uproot the socialist rules Obama is feverishly writing into our bureaucracy, and close the departments that are causing this country so much harm.
Ted Cruz 2016!
ROFLMAO.
I love Teds ads. They are so on point, effective and very well done. Office Space is a classic.
“Not true! When Ted Cruz found out that one of the actresses in one commercial was a porn star that campaign add was pulled. Has nothing to do with this one.”
Don’t you think it is a little unsettling that his volunteers don’t know anything about Cruz. Do they think he would have been ok with having a porn star? I think overall Cruz has not shown leadership at all with his volunteers. They are doing so many things that Cruz “has no idea” were done. If I were a Cruz supporter, I’d e-mail Cruz and tell him to get a tighter ship because right now it seems they are running chaotic.
Polls are pretty much all over the board. Hold your smirk for the night of the primary, if you can! He who laughs last laughs best!
Laughed my fanny off! Hope he keep’em coming :o)
Polls are pretty much all over the board. Hold your smirk for the night of the primary, if you can! He who laughs last laughs best!
Hope for the best: a Trump blowout.
Prepare for the worst: a Cruz squeaker win.
That’s a good ad. Good one, Cruz!
While I would disagree about the desired result, I doubt that things are going to be a blow out one way or the other. Those of you Trumpsters who are thoughtful would agree that S.C. is much more fertile ground for Cruz than NH.
Those of you Trumpsters who are thoughtful would agree that S.C. is much more fertile ground for Cruz than NH.
Again, I am ready for any outcome, but I think you should be too, and dont be so sure that Religious=CruzVoter.
You should prepare for your version of the worst, too.
Yes, I am too. In my opinion, Trump would be the very worst choice we Republicans have had in many years. But if he is the nominee I will hold my nose and vote for him. But I fear he is a train wreck in prospect. As Rush says, Cruz is the real deal in the mold of Reagan. But with all that said. I will vote for the nominee.
That’s why the American people like the Clintoons: they hope one day to get free passes too for various infractions, but it never happens that way. Maybe the American people are incapable of discerning truth.
I will vote for any nominee too except Jebbie.
Let me know when you’re ready for a list of new sign ups who are spending all day bashing Trump. The list grows longer every week.
Awesome. Go Cruz!
Unbundle the panties, then ask yourself -- does the freeper whom you were addressing owe you something?
Ok, you're on. I call. Down and dirty, babe, lay them cards right out on the table, face up. Let's see what you got.
Send it.
I'm willing to examine it.
Then in return you may owe it to yourself to look into the posting histories of a couple of dozen freepnames to see if they've been doing much of anything but posting one "bashing" comment after another, in tarring and slandering Senator Cruz any 'ol which-a-way.
Don't get me wrong. It is not that Cruz is beyond criticism. He isn't. No one is.
But there are a few people around here (and I'm not talking about those who are supporting Trump for whichever reasons, and doing so, honestly) that I suspect are DU'ers and DNC operatives, one of those being a "sleeper" troll type having a sign-up date from many years ago, but until a couple of months ago had not posted comment since 2008 or so...and is among a few who have as name here a two-digit number followed by 3 initials. I don't recall which relatively old-timer freeper fairly recently expressed the view that according to their own memory, in past election cycle years FR had a lot of then new sign-ups who had names of that format, and appeared to that freeper like they were social media political operatives. Not all freepers who's names here fit the format are not for real, but some may be. But those were not exactly the people I was mentioning in comment #34, for that was including people who are presently allowing their inner demon-bag to come out and play, play, play...
The one person I'm thinking of with the double-digit plus 3 letter name may be honestly enthused over the Donald, yet what comes out of that one is non-stop wall-to-wall unmitigated hatred of Cruz -- which candidate had long been a favorite on this forum, long before Trump entered the race, apparently adopting many of our own political stances.
As for Trump having apparently, figuratively speaking 'gotten religion' in politically conservative sense --- If it looks too good to be true -- then how's the rest of that saying go?
As it turns out, the fact that Trump is becoming more openly confessing to being a Populist candidate tells us that he really isn't a 'conservative', lending credence to the view that he's been hijacking and harvesting/feeding off of what could be termed conservative's angst.
My own concern here (possibly concern troll alert? but I'm for real, regardless) is that despite his relatively strong polling numbers and support, the way he's gone about "responding" to issues and questions appears to me (frequently, but not always) as something of a cartoonish caricature of conservative's otherwise well-founded, well thought out principles which if presented coming out of Trump-mouth while facing the Hildabeast in the general election, with support of the chattering typewriter class (the LameStream Media) could make the Beast appear to be an acceptable, "reasonable" choice in comparison to The Donald.
A question in my own mind -- did Trump enter the contest in part, to do that very thing? To make it that the Beast, despite her high negatives, could squeak past a Republican candidate, regardless?
Trump himself could have been manipulated into that, even becoming convinced in his own mind that he could pull it off and actually win (instead of being a person the Hildabeast and Co., media-majority controlling DNC sycophants could quite easily mock and ridicule, doing so even in politically effective understatement -- pointing at Trump while saying, "see? the Democrat Party has always been the Party of reasonableness, and those Republicans -- just look at them!" "They are all extremists and stupidgreedyselfishXenophobic haters of all that is true good&pure American Way they makeWaronWomen (won't let us have abortions on demand anymore) blah, blah, blah...", and the Hildabeast with her smug "I know what's best for you" smirk wins office after a hard fight, which "hard fight" and how dirty & wrong Rethuglicans are in their inner-most being ---will be the meme de la' Next Decade.
If it went the other way, and the guy was able to pull off the palace coup and get himself into office, then as Jimmy Carter noted, unlike Cruz who would stick to and fight for his own [bedrock] principles, Trump would be malleable.
When Trump says he would get the best experts (thus the best advisers, when that kind of talk is understood for what it is) then the question there is -- who would be those advisers?
Couple that with Trump's personality being sort-of mercurial (although not failing to keep his eye on his own personal gain money ball) and it would be a crap-shoot of yuuge proportion to elect that guy, if the thought there would be that he would adhere to conservative principles, while not at some juncture getting this nation in a heap a' extra trouble shooting his mouth off needlessly insulting world leadership the world over.
But send the list, deary. I'm calling that cheap bluff.
Not sure why you feel the need to pepper your response with terms such as ‘deary’ but to each his own.
I understand your stance on Trump, but read your long reply nonetheless. Nothing new in there that I haven’t read/heard for months. You have every right to see it the way you do, I wouldn’t attempt to take that away. I also have the right to see the man the way I do, as well as seeing Cruz the way I do. It seems redundant at this point to go through your points one by one, but I will say, I do not believe in the tired worn tale that Trump is there to somehow prop Hillary in whatever fantasy you guys can conjure up.
As to the list - and no, nobody ‘owed’ me anything. I was responding to a claim that there are so many new posters for Trump. In fact, there are plenty new ones for Cruz.
I’ll freepmail them, out of general respect.
Believe what you want. I was speaking towards a possibility that among those he may have received encouragement from, were people who preferred him as a candidate for the Hildabeast to run against (instead of other potential GOP nominees) much for reasons which I outlined, and possibly more...
There is a remote possibility that Trump could not be bought off for reason of already being bought and paid for, also.
It's simpler though (and so likely as not more accurate?) that; he's an opportunist, perceiving weakness in both political party's candidates, thus in his own eyes those weaknesses providing opening for himself to siphon off conservative votes from candidates such as Cruz. He'd otherwise been working toward parroting/paralleling red-meat conservative's preferences for some time (in order to be able to achieve that same siphoning of votes from actual conservatives) preceding officially announcing his own candidacy for the Republican nomination.
On a plus side of the ledger, as far as himself appearing to just recently have become a conservative (yet in some way within himself have the actual political instincts of one, in part, sometimes anyway) his years of instances mouthing (and providing financial support) for liberal Democrats could have been himself being deceitful to those same liberal Democrats in order that he would be liked by that particular "in-crowd". As far as that being the case, if so -- then we are not to think he won't jilt us also? Oh really.
You may have misunderstood me.
I was not speaking of "new" posters most chiefly and only (although including consideration towards there being a few of those) but more about, as I put it "...recently there has emerged on this site a cadre of Trump supporters (not uniformly all Trump supporters, mind you) who attack Cruz (and Cruz supporters) using Alinskyite tactics, ..."
A list of those persons would not be limited to recent sign ups, although admittedly it can be difficult to sort the chaff-chaff from the wheat-wheat, while various actors go about rake-raking Cruz over the coals using any possibly argument/tactic/angle, including many which are ill-founded.
I was not speaking about all Trump supporters, even those who can offer a harsh word for Cruz, and a few words for some Cruz supporters too, but was including talking about those who may say or think themselves 'conservative', yet in the way they have been making habit of going about tearing Cruz down, includes mocking some of the bedrock principles which Cruz portrays himself taking stand for, which are among the principles long supported by this site's management, and many members.
A recent favorite charge broadsided against Cruz is hypocrisy. Hypocrisy because someone among his supporters, or else campaign "camp" said or did something objectionable. Without fail no matter what it is, it will be exaggerated, passed around from mouth-to-mouth like some virus which mutates, to in the end, it be all Cruz's fault most directly and personally.
That this sort of thing comes into play in response to The Donald having come under harsh examination, comes across as being attempt to deflect criticism from Trump -- at the cost of Cruz and the "conservative" values he was long associated with, making it difficult to not see it as attack on the conservative movement that sounds a lot like what I can find on any street corner where low-info, media-duped Dem Party voters can be found.
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