LOL - They're mad as hell, and their not going to take it anymore.
I'll make them a deal that they can't refuse.
So go ahead, make my day.
Posted on 03/23/2016 7:39:19 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)is being accused of lifting a line from 1995’s The American President while defending his wife Heidi following a Twitter bout with frontrunner Donald Trump.
Responding to Trump’s warning to Cruz to “be careful” after an anti-Trump super PAC used a photo of Trump’s wife Malania posing nude for GQ in 2000 in an ad in Utah, the Texas Senator initially responded by calling Trump a “coward.”
Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday: “Lyin’ Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin’ Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!”
Cruz later responded: “Pic of your wife not from us. Donald, if you try to attack Heidi, you’re more of a coward than I thought. #classless.”
Cruz then told CNN Wednesday morning, “If Donald wants to get into a character fight, he’s better off sticking with me, because Heidi is way out of his league.”
The New York Daily News is accusing Cruz of borrowing the line from the Michael Douglas film The American President without giving it attribution.
In the film, Douglas, who plays American President Andrew Shepherd, warns Sen. Bob Rumson (Richard Dreyfuss) to leave Annette Bening’s character, Sydney Ellen Wade, out of a political dispute.
“You want a character debate, Bob? You better stick with me, ’cause Sydney Ellen Wade is way out of your league,” Douglas says in the film.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Now on with the ragefest
Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unpleasant impulses by denying their existence while attributing them to others. For example, a person who is rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It can take the form of blame shifting.
According to some research, the projection of one’s negative qualities onto others is a common process in everyday life.
Projection tends to come to the fore in normal people at times of crisis, personal or political, but is more commonly found in the neurotic or psychotic in personalities functioning at a primitive level as in narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder.
Practical examples:
Victim blaming: The victim of someone else’s accident or bad luck may be offered criticism, the theory being that the victim may be at fault for having attracted the other person’s hostility.
Projection of marital guilt: Thoughts of infidelity to a partner may be unconsciously projected in self-defence on to the partner in question, so that the guilt attached to the thoughts can be repudiated or turned to blame instead, in a process linked to denial.
Bullying: A bully may project his/her own feelings of vulnerability onto the target(s) of the bullying activity. Despite the fact that a bully’s typically denigrating activities are aimed at the bully’s targets, the true source of such negativity is ultimately almost always found in the bully’s own sense of personal insecurity and/or vulnerability. Such aggressive projections of displaced negative emotions can occur anywhere from the micro-level of interpersonal relationships, all the way up through to the macro-level of international politics, or even international armed conflict.
Projection of general guilt: Projection of a severe conscience is another form of defence, one which may be linked to the making of false accusations, personal or political.
OK, snowflake. Project this.
Did or did not Trump have multiple affairs while married and with married women?
Did or did not Trump brag abut it in one of his books?
“OK, snowflake. Project this”
Psychological projection
Projection may help a fragile ego reduce anxiety, but at the cost of a certain dissociation, as in dissociative identity disorder. In extreme cases, an individual’s personality may end up becoming critically depleted. In such cases, therapy may be required which would include the slow rebuilding of the personality through the “taking back” of such projections.
Oh Lookie an Establishment RINO runs the Make America Awesome PAC.
http://www.lizmair.com/biography.php
Look at her history. She was the communications director of the RNC in 2008.
http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/Training/contact.cfm?FacultyID=48485
She worked for Scott Walker:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/liz-mair/
So Cruz didn't know this lady? Really?
“So Cruz didn’t know this lady? Really?”
All the Republican operatives know who she is. Jeff Roe (Cruz campaign manager) has her on speed dial
Go you know everyone in your industry or occupation? And why would a US Senator know a third-rate campaign flunky? Sarah Palin was a sitting governor but she didn’t know any of McCain’s staff until she became the running mate.
So let me get this straight. A PAC that is anti-Trump and has been hounding him for months who is NOT a Cruz PAC or related to Cruz puts out an ad. (The ad I agree is in poor taste.) Trump responds after it comes out and attacks Cruz by threatening his wife? Many Trump followers of course justify Trump’s threatening behavior (again) because it seems “Lying Ted” knew about this and may have made the ad himself. I wouldn’t be surprised if some thought Ted took the pictures himself without her knowledge.
Back to reality, Cruz denounced the ad and the PAC using the ad but that doesn’t set well so let’s make sure he has to answer for plagiarizing a line from an old movie.
Good grief this is getting ridiculous.
[[Good grief this is getting ridiculous.]]
That’s putting it mildly
Welcome to the insane FR ragefest- please leave your common sense and sense of decency at the door so as not to sully the interior furyfest
Thank you, exit82.
[[Projection may help a fragile ego reduce anxiety, but at the cost of a certain dissociation, as in dissociative identity disorder.]]
How about highbrow left-handed insults? What does that say about those who do such things?
did you not see this part?
“we have no involvement with them whatsoever.”
Do you even know for a fact Ted knows this person? Or are you just so angry at him that you assume he ‘must know her’?
Great post and absolutely right.
Furthermore, if I, as an elderly fundamental Baptist lady, finds nothing objectionable in a 20 year old photo of a lovely model who became Mrs. Donald Trump and is mother to his youngest son, I don’t see why anybody else would. This was a slimy ruse to get the votes of self-righteous Mormons that wouldn’t work anywhere but Utah - and I’m surprised if it worked there. I assume there are a lot of men in Utah.
The point is that no smarmy actions at all are out of bounds for Cruz. Cruz is a weasel. One day soon I will be singing “POP! goes the weasel”, without even any great-grands around to hear it.
[[The point is that no smarmy actions at all are out of bounds for Cruz. Cruz is a weasel.]]
He’s a weasel why? Because he personally did the ad?
“we have no involvement with them whatsoever.”
Not good enough for you huh?
Rage on!
“What does that say about those who do such things?”
In this case it’s called standing up for someone ... maybe you should go back and read some posts, then you might understand.
ohhhh i see- perfectly excusable then- Typical!
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