Posted on 03/23/2016 5:57:36 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Ted Cruz attacked Donald Trump’s character for threatening his wife on Tuesday and blamed his opponent's attack on “a very bad night” in Utah.
“If Donald wants to get in a character fight he's better off sticking with me, because Heidi is way out of his league,” Cruz said on CNN’s “New Day,” responding to a late-night tweet from Trump warning, "Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”
The attack reveals a lot about Trump's character, Cruz said. "That should be beneath Donald," he said. "The reason he's doing that is because he had a very bad night last night. He got clobbered in Utah."
Trump’s tweet — which began with “Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad" — is an apparent reference to an online ad by anti-Trump super PAC Make America Awesome, which used a photo of Trump’s wife Melania posing nude in British GQ in 2000 in an attempt to sway conservative Mormon voters.
Cruz responded via Twitter shortly after: "Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you're more of a coward than I thought. #classless.”
On CNN, host Chris Cuomo asked the Texas senator if engaging with Trump was a good idea.
"The tweet he was unhappy about was not even a super PAC supporting me. It is an independent group. I don’t know them,” Cruz said. "When Donald gets scared, when he gets angry, when he gets threatened ... So last night Donald threatened my wife, he went directly after my wife."
Cruz also ratcheted up his pressure on John Kasich, who fared poorly in Tuesday's contests, to get out of the race, repeatedly calling the Ohio governor a “spoiler.”
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No, the other guy is the only Candidate. You got me wrong.
Ben Carson? I am guessing you are talking about the CNN story. Where Cruz did nothing wrong? But a staffer retweeted a story?
Oh, the shame.
Looks to me like trump will either lead at the convention, or maybe even have the numbers. I get that.
Cruz may not even be eligible. I didn’t think Obama or McCain were, but I guess the rules have changed. I get that.
‘Cruz lies’ keep adding up. Carson. Blaming DT for the violence at the cancelled rally. Now this ad. But none of them are true. I get that.
DT may get elected, and may reverse a lifetime of political stances and be a great president. I get that.
Everyone whose leg doesn’t tingle for DT is, well, you see the posts. The lies, accusations, and mocking is over the top. On a conservative site. I don’t get that.
“Sorry, these are not assets if you ask me.”
Yet you’ll back someone who has supported the worst of the Liberal Left and the Chief RINO in the Senate?
How are those assets exactly?
so. according to cruz, donald trump is responsible for the protesters shutting down his (trump’s) rally in Chicago, but cruz is not responsible for cruz’ own pac running a totally cheap shot attack on trump’s wife.
cruz is a piece of shit.
Ok.....sorry....I would have just said Trump then, really.
The system was created by the likes of all the other candidates in the race with the exception of Trump, Fiorina and Carson.
They create a system of influence peddling as the “way of the world” and then criticize a businessman who uses their “master plan” to build a business.
Interesting.
Your wife is a member of the CFR
And your superPACs are disgusting
Ha! I got winged by a little blue on blue fire. No biggie.
Cruz is the boss of the staffer. Where does the buck stop? That was the beginning of the end for me with Cruz. : (
Absolutely. It's a painfully obvious question.
Also, let us not forget that Mr. Trump bragged, in print no less, about his pride in wanting to be associated with a beautiful piece of a**.
But never mind, because consistency is not recognized as a positive value in the New World of Trumpistic Logic.
Anyway, as we already knew, Mr. Trump can do no wrong. Get over it. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Oh that’s rigjt. Just a closely associated super PAC. Plausible deniability
Has Ted become LDS? Cause Beck sure makes it sound like he had
That's the ticket. Use Obama leadership skills and blame someone else for bad things happening.
Maybe I haven’t been here long enough, but I haven’t ever seen such disgraceful behavior by freepers toward fellow freepers. (Not directed at OP.)
Additionally, the level of discourse on election-related threads has devolved into kindergarten taunts and name-calling with no hint of meaningful discussion or debate. Demonstrably fase rumors and accusations are perpetuated with no regard for fact-checking. It makes me sad that one cannot have a substantive discussion.
Cruz could come out today and loudly and roundly condemn the ad, and that still would never be enough. And no... I don't think a PAC (that opposes Trump and has no ties to any campaign) should attack anyone's wife.
So enough with all the manufactured outrage.
We need some kind of catch phrase.....something like “Danger Close”..... :0)
Fiorina is also a Bush operative.
No.. the group is not in Cruz’ name. “Make America Awesome” is an independent, anti-Trump PAC. Liz Mair already debunked Trump’s lie that the ad came from Cruz’ campaign.
A Ted Cruz superPAC. Plausible deniability and the oldest dirty trick in the book. Bush did it against McCain in the SC primary as did Thad cochrane in Mississippi against McDaniels. Particularly nasty stuff
Trump has himself - no Super PACs, no talk radio bigmouths covering for him. Cruz hides behind all of the above and lobs out lies and innuendo then throws up his hands and says not me. He is a sleaze of the worst order.
Cruz has NO chance of getting to 1,237. None. He isn’t going to win 90 percent of the remaining delegates. He has no reason to be in this race. None, execept to service Romney and Bush.
Foolish and delusional
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