Posted on 03/12/2016 4:53:30 AM PST by jimbo123
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas said on Friday that Donald J. Trump bore responsibility for “creating an environment” that encourages violence at his events.
Speaking to reporters at a local Republican dinner outside Chicago, where Mr. Trump had just canceled a rally amid fierce confrontations between his supporters and protesters, Mr. Cruz began by saying that the “protesters who took violence into their own hands” were responsible for the episode.
“But in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top,” Mr. Cruz continued. “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 discourse.”
Mr. Cruz invoked the protests and violent police run-ins at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and predicted that future skirmishes were likely.
“When the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face, the predictable consequence of that is that it escalates,” Mr. Cruz said. “And today is unlikely to be the last such instance.”
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Bye ye Teddy and take your cultists with you.
This may well seal the nomination for Trump.
Ted exposed himself as part of the appeasement, GOPe, anything-to-win crowd.
I’m a Cruz supporter, but man am I disgusted by this response.
New York Times.
Just saying.
The single most influential leftist newspaper, on the entire planet.
Cruz is despicable. Pond scum.
He is doing his Rev Wright imitation.
Yet there are Freepers who are still orgasmic over him.
From another thread:
Do women who wear short skirts deserved to be raped?
Those who blame Trump for this event are making the same type of argument.
The protesters are provoking a confrontation and then blaming the victim.
These protester are engaging in a crime of intimidation just as a rapist is engaging in a crime of power.
Wittgensteinian Logic
Please see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein
Lyin’ Ted.
No, you can blame #BlackLivesMatters
He should be:
Cruz supporter here: Ted what will you say when they show up at one of your rallies? (First they came for...)
I am very dissapointed in him for what appears to be rank opportunism.
A good man running for President and thousands of decent Americans who support him were denied their rights to free assembly and speech. Cruz, who knows law and rights chose to ignore the violators and instead blame Trump as somehow being the blame. Anyone who can support such a dishonorable man is no friend of mine.
I will vote Trump next Tuesday and in November, no matter who the nominee is.
I’m a Cruz supporter too, but this response is making him look real squishy.
I WANT A TOUGH GUY in the white house who will crack liberal heads!
If you had used this opportunity to hit the disruptive violent leftist thugs, I would have elevated you.
Your reliance on your debate honed slick lawyerly weasel words has been your strongest weapon. But unfortunately for you, it is a double edged sword.
Trump has encouraged his supportes to be violent.
His supporters, at his rallies, have responded by being violent.
Now, I am not going to say that this justifies the actions of the violent protesters in Chicago. Obviously they were breaking the law, and trying to suppress their political opposition through violence.
But Trump has been doing the same thing. It is a little late for Trump to be trying to stuff that Genie back into the bottle.
If Cruz or Marco FoamBoy Rubio win the nomination, no thanks I’ll stay home or vote 3rd party.
I have no trouble believing the GOPe was in on this.
We now know what Bush may have said to the 3 stooges on debate day.
Ted Cruz supporters should be ashamed of themselves.
Cruz will never get my vote now..
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