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 ...
I’ve been a loyal Cruz supporter up until now but this is too much. These are not protesters but violent disruptors. If Cruz is gonna take their side then I’m going over to the Trump camp.
Welcome. It’s very sad that career poltican Ted Cruz the man does not match the Ted Cruz principled conservative myth. So much potential wasted.
Even Lindsay Graham isn’t protesting him
What happened to that 150 IQ Cruz has, lol.
Maybe St. Rafael’s on the same stuff his chief benefactor Glenn Beck is on.
I think it’s desperation.
It’s not desperation. It’s calculation. Cruz is trolling for Not Trump voters right now. Conservatives are dead to him. This is how climbing career politicians operate. Use a group when you need them and discard them later when you have bigger fish to fry.
Keep talking Ted. You are exposing yourself as a poser for sure. Your conservative credentials are as phony as you are. Because you fought for them to only endear yourself with conservatives. You have zero credibility anymore.
Unhelpful, Ted.
Sometimes, ya just gotta STFU and let the rest of the world play its games.
Stick with your positive plan for the future, and let the protesters and Trump bloody each other.
Cruz is using the assault on the Constitutional rights of conservatives like FReeper Bushwon in Chicago as a platform to attack Trump. This is pure and unadulterated demagoguery. Disgusting.
By encouraging the thugs, someone is going to get seriously hurt or worse...
Yes, that is my opinion, and it has been my opinion from very early on into his campaign. That is why I switched to Trump months ago.
Here is what I posted to friends on Saturday:
Friends:
I do not believe that one should try to remain neutral, as between Cruz & Trump, after Cruz's pandering to a Leftwing media narrative, which seeks to blame Donald Trump for the organized thuggery that shut down his rally in Chicago, last evening. The whole point of the Chicago mob's effort was to retaliate & reverse the effect of Trump's achievement in breaking the hold of "politically correct" thinking on American public discourse. If the mob can shut down a public assembly for a purpose not "politically correct," we will never restore the historic heritage of the American peoples.
As I have posted in a rightwing forum, today:
What the Left has sought with the "politically correct" intimidation of dissent, is simply the latest form of the mob rule intimidation that almost destroyed France with the Jacobin Revolution; which sought to impose uniformity of thought by--among other atrocities--cutting off the heads even of teen aged girls, whose only sin was that they were born into landed families!
It is the latest form of the despicable November, 1917, Bolshevik Revolution, where Lenin and his equally despicable side kick, Leon Trotsky, used Trotsky's Red Army to suppress all dissent in Russia--even forcing the young daughters of Russian landowners into brothels, where they died from physical abuse within a matter of months.
It is the latest form of the German Brown Shirt stifling of dissent in the streets of German cities, paving Hitler's path to power, directed by his then side kick, Ernst Roehm. This led in a very few years to Kristol Night & death camps. (Of course, Roehm might have been hailed as a hero, as an out of the closet practitioner of homosexuality, by President Obama, in a "politically correct" America.)
I do not know how the introduction of Communist tyranny into China & Cambodia may have paralleled the tactics of Trump haters yesterday, but I am sure that there are many parallels. Forced uniformity of thought invariably involves some direct elements of mob rule.
We Stand With Donald!
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Bush administration
Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor George W. Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform.
Cruz assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devising strategy, and drafting pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court, in the case Bush v. Gore, during the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, leading to two wins for the Bush team. Cruz recruited future Chief Justice John Roberts and noted attorney Mike Carvin to the Bush legal team.
Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump views DISRUPTERS as disloyal people worthy of punishment.
Perhaps Sen. Ted Cruz should take a little time to learn the difference between a "protester" and a "disrupter."
Ted should also take a look at the history of protests/disruptions. He would learn that it is "owned" by the Democrats. The Democrats have been using violence, anger, since the 1960s. Today the leftists and Dems use "rent a mobs" to intimidate and disrupt anyone they do not like or approve. It is not cheap; it is a primary mode of control funded and managed by Communists and other leftists.
Ted should also review the First Amendment.
“and let the protesters and Trump bloody each other”
Bulls***
Sorry, it’s well established in law that one can’t utter fighting words or egg another on (create the situation) and then claim innocence or self-defense when there’s retaliation.
Cruz keeps doing things that make it easy for me to dislike him. I cannot wait to vote against Calgary Ted in 2018.
Lyin’ Ted Cruz....Very dissapointed with him..He lost my support long ago.
More double talk from Cruz. I can’t believe I initially supported this guy.
How can you be a defender of the 1st and 2nd amendment yet take the side of these disrupters?
Listening to Jeff Kuhner WRKO. He is saying Trump is right (and he is a Cruz supporter).
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