Posted on 03/11/2016 8:31:56 PM PST by lonestar67
"The responsibility for that lies with protesters, who took violence into their own hands. But in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top. Any candidate is responsible for the culture of a campaign. And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that is facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discord," Cruz said
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You’re sick man. 30000 citizens got thier right to assembly and Free Speech stepped on tonight by far left radicals and communist and Ted Cruz sided with them and blamed the victims. You’re sick.
Your guys BLM allies is what repulsed Americans tonight.
Cruz is a political prostitute who has thrown in with the establishment to save his worthless hide. Notice now and in the future the nearly identical talking points between liberal media, Cruz, Rubio, and now Kasich.
Trump did nothing to bring this on tonight it was planned. Evidence is the talking points brought up in the debate then echoed all day today in media. They’ve taken every word Trump ever uttered even though much was in fun and magnified it a thousand times to get to their goal. If we allow these people to determine our future we’re done. But then maybe we’ll deserve it for being sheep instead of thinking individuals.
Mine did too. Cruz......I was going with you. What a coward to blame rethoric and not the communists
Sorry, we've all seen him saying it on video tonight. Too bad for you, pumpkin.
“Anyone of these jackals could have stepped up tonight. Losers all!”
I expected it from Kasich and Rubio, but not Cruz. I was sorely disappointed in him. “Constitutionalist” my a**.
Fess up, Steelfish - you were a Drama Queen in a previous life, weren't you? :)
The point is that there IS no environment of hate. It's a manufactured media ploy. People get mad at you because you're parroting the media and refuse to consider you're being manipulated. That's what you call "hatred".
good grief. Not sure what your agenda or angle is but to say “campaign manager attacked a reporter simply for asking a question” is absurd. isn’t there a speech that might be micro-aggressively offensive down at your local college that you should be going to shut down tonight?
And yes, Cruz DID blame Donald Trump. If you watched the entire impromptu press conference, you’d have seen he went out of his way to repeatly assert a talking point that this was the result of the Trump campaign’s tone.
He also said something about destroying US consulates in the Middle East because of youtube videos
Please, just read the article.
Sheesh.
Moveon, black lives matter, communists, anarchists are bullies. They routinely storm and take over events as candidates and speakers run for cover.
These protesters damage property, engage in disorderly conduct, and threaten the safety and security of the event. This isnt new with Trump. I saw it with Bush too.
Tonight would have happened no matter who the GOP front-runner would have been. It’s not the tone or the words of Donald Trump that threatened these paid rent-a-mobs, it’s the possibility that their leftist candidate could actually lose to the GOP-Front-Runner (whether it be Trump, Cruz or Carson) that threatens them.
It’s happened to Bush.
There are plenty of videos on YouTube where peaceful Tea Party protesters get sucker punched in the face by these same groups.
Like you said, it’s not new. It’s just gotten worse, not because of Trump but because of 8 years under Obama with his anti-cop stances, his intolerant ways and these violent protests are an extenstion of Ferguson...etc
Well at least this post put a smile on my face.
That Cruz press conference really put me in a foul mood earlier ><;;
Trump clinched the GOP nomination tonight.
I was leaning cruz....I just changed my mind. Trump now. You’re right.
An itty bitty cabal of Ted Cruz operatives here
Cruz hid out at private $120+ plate fundraiser in the suburbs tonight instead of holding a free open forum on a liberal college campus...he has no right to speak on this issue...
You can bet Rush/Levin and Beck will be blaming Trump on Monday. They are principled Constitutionalists too.
Pray America wakes
As of now I call Cruz a traitor who supports the end of the right to assembly and speech. Cruz is a traitor to the rights enshrined in the constitution and for colluding with commies and illegals. The same goes for Rubio and Kasich and the GOPe and FOX news.
Are you a move in? *
*someone not originating in the state of Texas.
You DO understand that the New York Times destroyed "reporter's privilege" that day, don't you?
Trump is awesome. :)
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