Posted on 02/26/2016 1:13:51 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
RUSH: In terms of substance? I disagree with Chris Wallace. I think there was substance in this debate last night, and depending on what you want -- depending on what you were hoping to see and then what you think going forward -- there's really only one candidate in this debate last night which was chock-full of genuine policy-oriented substance, and that was Cruz. And I happen to know, folks...
I hear from people constantly, as you can imagine, and I hear from you even on the phones. But there have been people during the entirety of this campaign who think that Trump is a pretender, that he really doesn't know much about what all this is about, that he's getting by on the cult of celebrity and other things in our pop culture that people get excited by and attach to. There have been people who say, "We've gotta expose Trump. Trump's gotta be exposed. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He doesn't know conservatism.
"He doesn't know policy. He's just up there saying things that sound good in a populist sense." So what Cruz did last night was essentially expose that. If that's what you think needs and has needed to happen, Cruz did it last night. And probably the best way to illustrate how it happened is, one of the fears that a lot of anti-Trump people have is he's not really even a Republican. And they keep talking about all of his donations to people like Chuck Schumer and the Clintons.
Trump's response was, "Hey, look, you know, I live in New York City and they run the show there, and I'm in business, and there are certain things you have to do to get things done. You have to work with these people. But I'm a Republican." And he's made it clear, and he's tried to make that point over and over again. But Trump found last night Ted Cruz illustrating that. (summarized) "Look, if you think we have to beat Hillary Clinton, Trump's not the guy to do it. Trump cannot go out and hit Hillary Clinton on any of the things that she has done, any of her corruption, because he has contributed to her.
"He has donated. All that would have to happen," Cruz says, "is for Trump to hit Hillary in the debate and Hillary, and all she's gotta do is say, 'Donald, I don't know what your problem is. You donated to me to do this exact thing. So I don't know what your problem is now.'" And Cruz said, "We can't nominate somebody who donated to her." It's akin to the people that said we shouldn't nominate Romney. "If we nominate Romney, there's no way we can get Obama on Obamacare because Romney invented it in Massachusetts.
"Romney gave us Romneycare, and the guy that wrote Romneycare then turned around and wrote Obamacare," and it took Obamacare off the table as far as Romney's concerned. He couldn't hit it because there's a retort, "What do you mean you don't like Obamacare? You wrote its father. You implemented and signed into law its father, Romneycare. What are you?" And Cruz's point was that same set of circumstances with Hillary are going to occur.
Because it can be demonstrated that Trump's donations to the Clintons over the years -- including to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation -- have facilitated political move that Hillary Clinton has made. So the people who have wanted Trump exposed, that was pretty substantively done by Cruz. On the Rubio side, what Rubio did was literally just laugh at Trump all night, literally made fun of him, mock him. Not act frightened or afraid of him, and not be worried about ticking off his supporters, either.
A first for both.
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Rush, fading into the sunset...
This won’t be over until the FAT MAN weeps next Tuesday night.
Trump will do three things: build the wall Bomb the shiite out of ISIS and prosecute Hillary. That’s enough for me.
This won’t be over until the FAT MAN weeps next Tuesday night.
Trump will do three things: build the wall Bomb the shiite out of ISIS and prosecute Hillary. That’s enough for me.
Tag line.
you either.....not to worry....Getting ready to go on a great hike with my conservative buddies....Most beautiful, well kept secret place in the country...wouldn’t have your sorry ass there if someone paid me....suck on that cock licker. :) No need to reply...it will be fully ignored and placed in my pathetic box....Fr has become a place of malcontent bootlickers....Have a nice life.....and keep trolling FR 24/7 if that gives meaning to your life.
The realities of places like New York City, Atlantic City, Las Vegas: If you don't grease the right palms, you can forget about getting anything done.
You sound worried. You probably should be.
We will see.
Wobble????
He fell down the doggone rabbit hole!
Why? Because Ted is right on the verge of totally turning this whole election around? Something like that?
Go on....tell me why I should be worried.
Well, that’s what I think about it.
But specifically and narrowly, I am only talking about the gambit of HRC chiding Trump for contributing to her foundation. These are sound bite verbal barbs. I think for the most part they disappear in days if not hours. But folks who chide Trump (again, not that I am a supporter) often get their fannies handed to them and I think this would be no exception. HRC is very, very unspontaneous and Trump will blather anything. if Trump’s response is “because you were clearly for sale” then I think that sticks better than most. But will convince nobody of anything. So who cares? There isn’t the mental capacity of the part of the vast majority of the electorate to weigh the consequences of HRCs abysmal performance as SOS and her deliberate violation of National Security Law she explicitly agreed to with “bribing” a politican to get a building built.
The whole process is embarassingly tawdry.
I find it interesting that his seeking personal gain as “a businessman” excuses pretty much every shady thing he has done. Who knew it was such a good excuse to be involved with the slimiest of the slimy and walk away clean - but wealthier...
Cruz is losing the key state of Florida to Hillary and Sanders in the latest PPP polling. Cruz losing:
“Clinton and Sanders do have wider leads over Cruz at 47/39 and 46/39 respectively. “
Meanwhile Trump 46% to Clinton’s 44%
and Trump 47% beats Sanders’ 44%.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2016/02/trump-leads-rubio-even-head-to-head-in-florida.html
Because....despite all of the “polls” claiming a Trump win....his unfavorability is increasing/rising...
as we speak. And for the first time, he actually took flac last nite and broke a sweat (his mustache, mostly...lol).
Portending signs, IMO.
You’re lying. You don’t find it interesting. It doesn’t meet your moral standards, you’re just turning a phrase.
I am not talking about “every shady thing he has done”. This place has turned into liberal-trained sewer of straw man argument and interests me less every time I come here.
See post #196. When pollsters drill down to state polls they have less options to manipulate like they do in thin national polls. Cruz is losing Florida by almost double digits to Hillary and Sanders while Trump is the only Republican candidate winning against those two Dems Hillary and Sanders.
Sounds ominous and scary, but you just keep right on believing it, as Trump racks up electoral victories, one after the other. The actual votes are the only polls that really matter, but apparently, they're less important to you than an opinion poll that aligns with your bias.
When it's all over, and Trump is President, you'll always have your precious opinion polls to look back on.
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