Cruz to O’Reilly: You ‘Defend’ Trump ‘A Lot’

Breitbart ^ | 4/8/16 | Ian Hanchett

[markomalley]

Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Sen. Ted Cruz told Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly that he defends GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump “a lot” on Thursday’s “O’Reilly Factor.”

After Cruz pointed to Trump’s donations to liberal politicians, O’Reilly objected that these donations weren’t made “as a politician.” O’Reilly then advised Cruz to have a press conference in Penn Station to see what has happened to it under Mayor Bill de Blasio (D).

Later on, Cruz argued there’s “liberal intolerance” in New York state, and stated that New York State Senator Rubén Díaz (D) told him that he knew exactly what Cruz’s reference to “New York values” meant, and that Díaz pointed to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (D) statement that “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay” “have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”

O’Reilly responded that “Trump doesn’t subscribe to any of that.” Cruz objected that Trump does because “he funded it.” O’Reilly again said that this was done “as a businessman.” And “You can have two lives.”

[markomalley]

So will the meme become "Cryin' Ted"?

[unsycophant]

Does Cruz ever talk about what he’d do to make America great? IDK.

It seems like all I ever read or hear from him is complaining about Trump, or how other people favor Trump.

Cruz has the backing of the GOP ground machine; millions of dollars in PAC support; many pundits & MSM; moonbats; conservative moonbats;

and yet, we get nothing but Lyin & Cryin Ted.

Does he have any vision as a leader, for the USA?

[MIA_eccl1212]

With all the crap he blames on Trump every time he opens his mouth, you would think that Trump was the one who was working in government positions most of his professional career instead of insider Ted.
ROFL

[FreedomGuru]

Cruz-cino proves again that he is a typical politician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYJyVEUaC4

[unsycophant]

LOL. So, so true.

Speaking of which, Trump should be hitting him hard in that department. Cruz IS the insider, no matter what he’d like ppl to believe. He’s a career politician and that isn’t a good thing to be right now.

[MIA_eccl1212]

Does he have any vision as a leader, for the USA?

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sure... stop Trump no matter the cost, so he can serve his multi-national globalist masters of the seven mountains using his powers derived from being the FACE OF GOD, who is anointed by Glen Beck who also offered Ted the Oath of Office, even though Ted is not the president...

That's the seven second run down of his vision.. oh and I forgot... first and foremost... BLAME trump for everything that happens in the meanwhile.

[nathanbedford]

Typically, that is consistently, Ted Cruz conducts himself in a hostile interview without putting a foot wrong.

He was confronted by a smirking, grunting, eye rolling, interrupting Bill O'Reilly who was determined to make the interview not about the candidate or his policies but about Bill O'Reilly. Cruz made his arguments brilliantly as he always does without rancor, without pettiness, without snarkiness in the face of naked arrogance.

It is remarkable that a candidate has to pass the test of what Bill O'Reilly thinks, likes, or will endorse during an interview. Even Katie Couric did not descend to that level.

Ted Cruz won the contest going away.

[grania]

Does Cruz ever talk about what he'd do to make America great?

No. He keeps the soap opera alive, while Trump keeps telling people what has to change and how he'd go about it. I stated on another thread that Cruz's delegate maneuvers have destroyed any hope that he believes in the core US value of fair play.

Another core value is that when someone games the rules, real US patriots do whatever it takes to win. At this point, it would be wonderful to see Cruz taken out of the race. No more threats or hints ahead of time about whatever might cause that to happen.

On a positive note, Cruz might have just made a mistake. Why the heck did he accuse OReilly of all folks of favoring Trump?

[nathanbedford]

If you had actually watched the interview you would have seen that which you say you yearn for.

[nclaurel]

Pray the weather doesn’t throw any bad storms or Cruz will blame Trump. It will be interesting whether Obama can blame Bush faster than Cruz can blame Trump for any untoward issues.

[iowamark]

Trump and Ted Baxter are old friends, as Baxter makes clear in his books. I am sure that Cruz was advised to avoid The Factor. BOR was generally polite in the interview last night and Cruz handled himself well.

[Rastus]

Is he still doing that? When he gets his marching orders, he sticks to them like a champ. He tag-teamed with Rubio against Trump at that one debate, and it was nothing out of his mouth but “Donald this” and “Donald that” from that moment on. It’s to the point where I switch the channel if he comes on the screen a la Obama.

[jpsb]

Do live in the USA?

[SkyPilot]

MOONIES FOR CRUZ - by Ann Coulter

The Cruz-bots don't care. They don't care that they're being used as a cat's-paw by the Never Trump crowd, and that a brokered Republican convention is more likely to end with Bernie as the nominee than Cruz.

The Cruz cultists don't even care about plain honesty, which I always thought was a conservative value. Republicans used to be appalled by guttersnipe, lying political operators like the Clintons. Now they are guttersnipe, lying political operators like the Clintons.

It's all hands on deck to stop the only presidential candidate who wants to save America from the cheap labor plutocrats. Cruz has flipped to Trump's side on every important political issue of this campaign -- which only ARE issues because of Trump. These are:

-- Quadrupling the number of foreign guest workers to help ranchers and farmers get cheap labor: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.

-- Legalizing illegal aliens: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.

-- The Trans-Pacific Partnership deal: Cruz was for it, and now is against it.

-- Building a wall: Cruz was against it, and now is for it.

These are all positions Cruz has changed since being a senator -- most of them he's flipped on only in the last year. I'm supposed to believe that U.S. senators can sincerely change their minds about policies it was their job to know about, but a New York developer can never change his mind about pop-offs he made more than a decade ago.

Back in 1999 -- 17 years ago -- when Donald Trump was considering a presidential run on the Reform Party ticket, he said this when asked about abortion by Tim Russert on "Meet the Press": "Well, look, I'm very pro-choice. I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it. I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the subject. But you still -- I just believe in choice."

Russert then asked him specifically if he'd ban partial-birth abortion. Trump said, "No. I am pro-choice in every respect and as far as it goes, but I just hate it."

A year later, Trump wrote in his book "The America We Deserve": "When Tim Russert asked me on 'Meet the Press' if I would ban partial-birth abortion, my pro-choice instincts led me to say no. After the show, I consulted two doctors I respect and, upon learning more about this procedure, I have concluded that I would indeed support a ban."

Sometime in the intervening 16 years, Trump became fully pro-life.

You can say you don't believe him -- just as you might say you don't believe Cruz has truly changed his mind on amnesty, the wall, or the Trans-Pacific Partnership, etc. But to claim Trump is pro-choice today -- present tense -- is what's known as a "lie."

But that's what Cruz says over and over again, including in a campaign ad -- and not one of those "super PAC" ads that count even less than a retweet. A Cruz ad plays the clip from that 1999 interview where Trump says, "I am pro-choice in every respect," repeats it three times, and then cuts to a narrator proclaiming: "For partial-birth abortion, not a conservative."

These are the kinds of lies that used to drive conservatives crazy when the Clintons did it. Not anymore. All's fair in smearing Trump.

[MarDav]

Ted was making a point to Bill O’Reilly that he [O’Reilly] spends an awful lot of time defending Donald Trump. He then pointed out several instances of Trump’s positions and...O’Reilly defended Trump.

I’d say he did a pretty good job of proving his point.

[Rastus]

“And all the kids cheered! But I didn’t cheer. I stood right up and started shouting, ‘This isn’t what happened last week! Have you all got amnesia? They just cheated us! This isn’t fair! He didn’t get out of the cockadoodie car!’”

[nathanbedford]

You know perfectly well where I live.

Why do you persist in your passive aggressiveness, if you think it will advance Donald Trump's prospects, go ahead, attack my patriotism.

You are an intellectual coward because you persist in attacking me rather than dealing with the points raised on a substantive basis.

No wonder you support Trump.

[Wpin]

Cruz is always working to bring the world around to his deluded, deranged viewpoint. What has been amazing to me is how many of his supporters have willingly given up their will to this madman. We have seen this in the past, but not here, in this nation. It is like Jonestown on a much larger scale.

[markomalley]

What has been amazing to me is how many of his supporters have willingly given up their will to this madman.

That's the thing that I don't understand, particularly among FReepers, who should know better: all politicians are narcissistic, opportunistic, lying scumbags. ALL of them.

There is not a single one of them who would not gladly throw his/her own mother under the bus in order to advance his/her career.

And, by the way, that includes a candidate who thinks he's running for pastor in chief or one who claims that he isn't a politician.

Anybody falling for any politician's schtick is a gullible fool and will find himself sorely disappointed at some point.

[Red Steel]

I’d like to add nobody knew politically who Ted Cruz was until only 4 years ago or about his views. He was born on the national political scene where he could have made up much of his political and personal persona in the ambitious pursuit of the Senate and now the presidency And Bam! The CONservative world swallowed him whole cloth.