Posted on 02/29/2016 2:39:31 PM PST by SoConPubbie
In perhaps the craziest election season in decades, if not ever, singling out one item as the kookiest is virtually impossible.
However, Former GE CEO Jack Welch, widely considered one of the most successful businessmen in history, said that Donald Trump and Marco Rubio calling constitutional conservative Ted Cruz a “liar” without being able to back it up is the “craziest” thing of this election cycle.
Appearing on FOX News with host Neil Cavuto, Jack Welch said:
“The craziest thing in this election has been the idea of people calling Ted Cruz a liar. I’ve watched this guy for the last 18 months. The one thing this man is is straight and truthful. Truth and trust go with this guy. I wrote a book about Truth and Trust — this guy personifies it.”
Let’s take ethanol. He goes into Iowa with a six-term governor and tells them we’re through with subsidies. Right straight in the eye — no one else gets there. They all come around to it — Rubio always comes around to Ted’s positions eventually.”
Jack Welch wasn’t shocked that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a failed RINO presidential candidate who led the Garden State to a record nine credit downgrades under his leadership, endorsed Trump saying that Christie is a “political animal” who is “interviewing for a job” in a presumed Trump administration since he will soon be looking for work.
“He needs a government check and he loves the political scene,” Welch said of Christie. “Once a political animal, always a political animal.”
Jack Welch summarized his support for Ted Cruz by applauding the Texas Senator for being the first to call out the corruption in Washington, D.C., in both parties, where politicians and crony lobbyists join together to benefit from big government at the expense of taxpayers. Cruz coined the term “Washington Cartel” to accurately describe this unholy alliance.
“Ted Cruz is the first one to call this crowd a cartel — to call them for what they were — and that’s why I supported him,” Welch told Cavuto.
It’d be a shame to nominate someone as unelectable as LBJ and Nixon.
Oh, wait.
“From a Canadian perspective Trump is wrong on the efficiency of a single payer system. It looks good in theory but once put into practice, it is an utter waste and the bureaucracies that are instituted to maintain the machine are abhorrent.”
I fully understand. I am both an Israeli and USA citizen and grew up in Israel, so I grew up with mandated healthcare.
Even in Israel with an overabundance of doctors (insert Jewish joke here), you really need to rely on private insurance/doctors to get quality.
If one gets a lie out first and your people want to believe anything you say. And the news media hates the individual you are lying about, then your lie bcomes the truth. So it is with Trump about Cruz.
I like Ted and will vote for him in the primary tomorrow though I will enthusiastically support Trump when he wins the nomination. I will admit, though, that Cruz has made some missteps along the way. He has traveled in pretty tall cotton his whole academic and professional career and in my view did not anticipate and was not well-equipped for the street-fighting of this contest. He has been clumsy. Trump is much better prepared for that sort of thing.
The word liar is still so gauche. There is a gentler, kinder sort of lie, now for over 20 years, characterized and popularized by the Clinton Criminal Enterprises, Inc.
Characterized by expert subtle redefinitions, like "it all depends on what the definition of "is" is..." or "I did not have sexual relations with that woman... I tripped"
Seems Cruz has taken the low road since teaming with Beck. All of the issues that plague him now go back to Beck.
What happened to Beck? There was a time years ago that he seemed pretty rational.
Did Team Cruz not realize where Beck is these days?
Where is the lie?
Trump favors the Obamacare mandate. THAT's socialized medicine.
If you tell a big enough lie often enough, people will believe it. Trump repeats his lies endlessly. Often even endlessly in just the same sentence. There are a whole lot of people that fall for it. I follow the adage that people who repeatedly call others a liar are simply projecting their own values on others.
yes
And everyone ignores the proven, documented lies of the hildebeast. Just goes to show - being caught in lies is a detriment for a repub candidate. It’s a required skill for a rat.
That book was written 16 yrs ago, before the recession and before Obama. He was looking at various approaches, he did not advocate for one definitive policy:
He also wrote in that book:
“We need a change in the tax code that would give groups and individuals tax breaks for health insurance that are equivalent to those that corporations now receive. This would allow ordinary citizens to buy coverage that compliments their company policy and gives them more of what they need. It would also give them the option to jettison the company policy altogether and just buy their own insurance.”
He favors some sort of public assistance for indigents. We have this now, it’s called Medicaid. I haven’t heard any GOP politician at any level be deemed a socialist because they didn’t resist Medicaid.
Otherwise he favors free market competition for insurance companies, which will draw down costs.
Neither of these are mandates.
Of course not. The mandate Socialist Little Donny "loves" is to force insurers to ignore pre-existing conditions, and to force all citizens to buy an insurance policy from one of them.
Nixon didn't make it on his first try (and barely on his second if you look at the popular vote). Johnson couldn't even get the nomination and had to become president through the backdoor, winning his own later election in no small part because of a wave of sympathy for Kennedy.
And really, what we're dealing with now is how those guys are remembered looking back, not what people thought of them in their heyday. The baggage Nixon and Johnson got in their own time is a definite negative for somebody who reminds voters of them.
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