Posted on 04/17/2016 9:03:54 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
Most anywhere Nicole Malliotakis goes, she gets the question—in the Staten Island senior center, on the streets of Brooklyn, at her parents’ kitchen table. Why aren’t you supporting Donald Trump? Earlier this year, Ms. Malliotakis, a 35-year-old New York assemblywoman, was her state’s leading backer of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. She openly criticized Mr. Trump’s rhetoric against women and Muslims and his past donations to Democrats. In tweets she added: “#NEVERTRUMP.”
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How would I know WHO would primary him, in a few years? Did anyone know who all was going to run in the GOP presidential primary THREE YEARS AGO? I didn't; did YOU?
Well, hey, if it wasn’t for your double standards, you’d have no standards at all.
If Cruz hadn't brought Roberts in and kept pushing him forward, W would NEVER have even known that he existed!
Are you now claiming that I am clairvoyant? ROTFLOL
Trump was born on American soil and BOTH of his parents were AMERICAN CITIZENS at the time of his birth!
That is NOT true for Jindal and Marco and BOTH of them are also ineligible to be president or VEEP, as is Nikki Hayley.
Because you can’t beat a somebody with a nobody. I’ve seen these bullcrap posturings from people claiming Cruz is some left-winger RINO and Conservatives are all lining up to challenge him in 2018. Fact is, you can’t produce a name. Not one.
If you knew anything about politics, you’d know names well ahead of time. I knew about Zero when he ran for Congress against Bobby Rush in 2000, long before he appeared on the radar screen. I knew about Sarah Palin when she was still Mayor of Wasilla in 2001 ginning up for a run for Lieutenant Governor of Alaska.
Did I know in 2013 who was going to run for President in 2016 ? Well, yes, yes, I did. I knew Cruz would be the standard bearer for Conservatives coming into the Senate. Trump, while a surprise, has really been planning to run for President since the 1980s, but waiting for the right moment to have a go, and this election proved his moment to pull the trigger.
As an aside, you have to be prepared to run for President at least 3-4 years ahead of time these days because of the sheer amount of money and assembling of a campaign required. That may increase over the coming decades, 8-12-16 years, because you will need to assemble a multi-billion dollar warchest.
Tead admits making a mistake, but here you are trying to fault me for agreeing with him.
Quite comical...
LOL
How could Cruz know Roberts would go native on ZeroCare ? I’m curious.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3084490/posts
A lot of us were Cruz supporters at one time, who had him as our first choice. Now, not so much.
Furthermore, I myself believe Cruz is an NBC.
So I wasn't asking about JimRob's opinion, I 'm asking about your apparent radical change of opinion, or evolution, or whatever, on the NBC issue.
What's the big deal about you answering my question about when or why you changed your mind on the strict criteria you were citing with respect to 0bama?
It could be a simple as saying "I concluded I was wrong about the '2 US Citizen parents' requirement."
Why so mysterious? It leaves you open to charges of hypocrisy, and I don't think you're a hypocrite...
I don’t support Jindal, Roofio or the Willardbot from South Carolina for VP.
>Furthermore, I myself believe Cruz is an NBC.
I haven’t taken sides on this, but I really, really wonder why hasn’t he released all the docs on it? It should be easy to put to bed.
>How could Cruz know Roberts would go native on ZeroCare ? I’m curious.
Why didn’t the GOP impeach Roberts for his behavior? It’s clear he’s being blackmailed and it’s their duty to remove public servants that are allowing outside forces to control a supreme court justice. I would have thought a guy like Ted Cruz would have jump at something like that.
OK, they impeach Roberts. Now you’ve just given Zero carte blanche to appoint the Chief Justice. How does Chief Justice Eric Holder appeal to you ?
You "KNEW" that Cruz would run for president, in '13?
Did you also know that Bernie Sanders was going to run on the Dem side? And IF you say "yes", then you better tell me what the winning POWERBALL numbers for Wednesday are!
Like hell you knew that wee barry was going to run for president, in '08, when he ran for Congress against and LOST to Rush, in 2000!
OTOH, when Obama was given the same speaking spot, as Bill Clinton had been given, before him, at the Dem presidential Convention, that was when anyone with an ounce of political acumen knew that he was being groomed for the presidency.
Julian Castro was next up, but was TERRIBLE/not at all ready, but you better believe that the Castro twins are also be groomed by the DNC!
Cruz is really NOT all THAT Conservative; he talks the talk, but when push comes to shove, he folds.
And it's not just the Roberts thing that makes people's stomach turn re Cruz's BFF! That crazy "KILL ALL THE QUEERS" pastor is another, but his now joined at the hip Crazy Glenn Beck is another and so is Jeff Roe.
When it comes to Ted, you wear ear plugs, a blindfold and blinkers!
Are you having a problem understanding my posts?
I'm talking about Constitutional Duties not politics. Shouldn't a Constitutional Conservative do his duty and put principle before party and impeach him? Besides, it's Obama who is blackmailing him. That would have destroyed the Dems when it came out.
Just because you don’t know politics doesn’t mean others don’t. I’ve studied every person who has ever served in Congress. Have you ? Same for every person who has served as a Governor, every member of SCOTUS, every Cabinet member. Have you ?
#1, yes I knew Cruz would run for President if he won his Senate race in 2012. He did. That didn’t take rocket science to figure out, because he was a Conservative leader.
#2, I knew the Butcheress of Benghazi would draw a substantive challenger from the moonbat wing, just like in 2008. I expected it would be from a more conventional nutter like O’Malley.
#3, I said I knew about Zero in 2000. I did not say I expected him to run for President at that time, but I did expect he would not be finished in IL. His early preference was to run for Mayor of Chicago as a fallback after Congress, but when the Combine ran Sen. Pete Fitzgerald from office, that proved his opening.
Believe it or not, but Hillary has had a huge problem with the Democrat base for some time. She is viewed as their “Establishment” candidate that they don’t want. What’s utterly astounding is that she didn’t go nuclear on Zero in 2008 to get herself the nomination. She actually put the party ahead of herself to preserve her viability for the next open election.
#4, You are correct about the Castros, the ex-Mayor of San Antonio and present HUD Secretary in particular. Intellectual lightweights to be sure (and likely closet jobs, much like you-know-who), but a payoff to radical groups like La Raza, grooming their next divisive moonbat for high office. What’s really funny about those two guys is that mama didn’t bother to teach them fluent Spanish. Oops.
Glenn Beck is a nutter, to be sure. He had some sort of mental breakdown. Cruz should’ve thanked him for his endorsement and walked away.
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