Posted on 03/14/2016 10:13:32 AM PDT by Pinkbell
Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump views protesters as disloyal people worthy of punishment and that the best response to Mr. Trump is to defeat him at the ballot box, reiterating his own pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee in the fall.
Mr. Cruz re-upped criticism of Mr. Trump for recently having rally attendees pledge their support to him, likening it to an action kings and queens demand of their subjects.
“It’s also reflected in his treatment of protesters, where anyone who’s a protester is disloyal and must be punished,” Mr. Cruz told reporters in Illinois ahead of the March 15 primary there.
“The only pledge that I am interested in, the only hand-raising that I’m interested in is on January 20, 2017, when I hope to raise my right hand with my left hand on the Bible and pledge to each and every one of you that I will preserve, protect [and] defend the Constitution and fight for the hard-working taxpayers,” Mr. Cruz said.
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“That is a question the voters are asking: At what point do we say ‘enough is enough?’ ” Mr. Cruz said. “If Donald Trump is the nominee, he is a disaster, and the answer is to beat him.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
WTF is wrong with Cruz...desperation?
The so called protesters are part of an organized internet social media drive by BLM, LaRaza, and George Soros funded moveon.org. No sympathy for the orchestrated protests soever.
And, Ted is trying to capitalize on this organized, premeditated mob.
This is part of the politics as usual from Washington politicians that has people disgusted. Teds tactics are right out of the beltway playbook. Disgusting. Desperate.
For a bright guy, there's a lot of stuff he doesn't know.
"For one thing, the law makes it easier for the government to criminalize protest. Period. It is a federal offense, punishable by up to 10 years in prison to protest anywhere the Secret Service might be guarding someone. For another, it’s almost impossible to predict what constitutes “disorderly or disruptive conduct” or what sorts of conduct authorities deem to “impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions.”
Yes, keep pushing this narrative Ted.
The more you spread it, the faster your journey towards irrelevance will be.
These agitators are at war with us.
Ted going all in on stupid
understatement.... disloyal??? I see it as not taking crap from rude intruders or like a petulant teenager that needs a “smack up side the head” to get their attention... Wow.
No wonder his daughter did not want a hug from this creep.
To think I almost voted for this s.o.b.
His true colors have come out.
ted is a Uniparty hack.
Eff ted.
If there are those still here that support Cruz, we are in bad trouble.
Cruz is no conservative
It is sad to watch Teddy Cruz unravel. Maybe the pressure is just too much for him.
No way, seriously?
Even Rush supported Trump today. Rush has been in the tank for Cruz. He didn’t criticize the other GOP candidates, only the Dems, but at least Rush got this right today.
So Ted Cruz thinks violence at Trump rallies are merely “peaceful protestors”.
Once again, Ted sides with the violent liberals.
Rush defending Cruz right now.
Look how much time the “conservative” media spends defending Cruz. Not hard to see the divide and conquer conservative agenda there. Oldest page in the GOPe playbook.
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18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; .... They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 696; Pub. L. 90–284, title I, § 103(a), Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 75; Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7018(a), (b)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4396; Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60006(a), title XXXII, §§ 320103(a), 320201(a), title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1970, 2109, 2113, 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §§ 604(b)(14)(A), 607(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3507, 3511.)
Ted, we do NOT CARE what political hacks from Canada think!
Rush is going to need a front end loader to dig Cruz out of this hole.
It was sickening.
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