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Cruz: I didn't attack Trump earlier to avoid becoming 'roadkill'
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Posted on 03/25/2016 1:25:30 AM PDT by springwater13

Ted Cruz didn’t attack Donald Trump early in the cycle because others who had “ended up as roadkill.”

In an interview with Wisconsin's Charlie Sykes of WTMJ, the Texas senator was pressed about his earlier fawning statements about Trump, including a tweet from December that said he wouldn’t engage with Trump because the billionaire businessman was “terrific.”

“What took you so long?” WTMJ asked, referring to Cruz's now full-throated attacks on Trump.

“It was a wonderfully diverse, talented, dynamic, young field. It had really incredible talent. If you look at a number of the candidates that took on Donald Trump early on, they ended up as roadkill,” Cruz said in the Wednesday interview, which was first reported by BuzzFeed News.

Cruz said the strategy all along was to first build up a strong core of support before directly taking on Donald. “And not be roadkill,” Cruz added. “I am very strongly committed on the anti-roadkill approach.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2nddivisionvet; cru; cubanmistresscrisis; elections; lyingted; trump; weaksister
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To: springwater13

“Ted Cruz didn’t attack Donald Trump early in the cycle because others who had “ended up as roadkill.”

But it kind of seems to be happening to him anyway. :-)


141 posted on 03/26/2016 11:38:04 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: rineaux; 2ndDivisionVet
I'm not voting...

Heresy is apparently a one way street these days.

142 posted on 03/26/2016 11:51:57 AM PDT by Theophilus (Always vote. Always vote your conscience. God wins every election.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2; springwater13
But it kind of seems to be happening to him anyway. :-)

Don't hurt your face smiling, Sometimes "roadkill" goes both ways.

143 posted on 03/26/2016 12:00:31 PM PDT by Theophilus (Always vote. Always vote your conscience. God wins every election.)
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To: Theophilus

Wow!


144 posted on 03/26/2016 12:02:15 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

That’s an argument for hunting if I’ve ever seen one.


145 posted on 03/26/2016 12:07:17 PM PDT by Theophilus (Always vote. Always vote your conscience. God wins every election.)
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To: Theophilus

The mother of all North American road kill.


146 posted on 03/26/2016 12:08:20 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Theophilus

OMG!!!!! :-)


147 posted on 03/26/2016 12:09:54 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Smokin' Joe
I listened to Rush on Friday. He said that Pacs were "afraid" to do the dirty work of candidates who wanted to disavow the attacks, because they could "get in trouble" with the FCC.

I started laughing.

Rush, for all his political skills, was clearly back peddling.

In political circles, it is Standard Operating Procedure to use Pacs as the dirt machines. The candidates know they don't even have to respond or disavow the attacks, becasue they can claim that to "even communicate disapproval might indicate cooperations, so for the good of the law, I must stay silent."

It is a load of BS and everyone knows it.

I also laugh at the sudden worship of the sacredness of election laws. You mean like voting ballots being handed out like flyers in Utah? You mean like some precents having over 100% turnout? You mean like candidates or their surrogates campaigning in front of and even inside polling locations?

Ha ha ha.

148 posted on 03/26/2016 2:03:57 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

IF that story in the Tabloids in true—even if its only 50% true—Ted is toast.


149 posted on 03/26/2016 8:26:08 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

What if it isn’t true? Then the bulk of you have slandered and defamed a good man.


150 posted on 03/26/2016 8:29:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: springwater13

“It was a wonderfully diverse, talented, dynamic, young field. It had really incredible talent. If you look at a number of the candidates that took on Donald Trump early on, they ended up as roadkill,” Cruz said in the Wednesday interview, which was first reported by BuzzFeed News.
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So Cruz does not copulate with rats and is deathly afraid of them too.....Thank you Mr. Trump for showing us this YELLOW rose of Tex....I mean Canada.

Unbelieveable Cruz would say he was afraid of Trump, as if that was a selling point. Wimpy and not smart....although he does have a way with words.

VIVA KING RAT GO TRUMP!


151 posted on 03/29/2016 11:34:07 AM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: SkyPilot

Its all about....who would you .....copulate with?


152 posted on 03/29/2016 11:52:27 AM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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