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Ted Cruz's cowardly anti-transgender stance
The Chicago Tribune ^ | April 25, 2016 | Rex Huppke

Posted on 04/25/2016 1:00:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Ted Cruz is a coward.

He's other things — a GOP presidential candidate, a senator from Texas, possibly the Zodiac Killer (Google it) — but most of all, and most unquestionably, he's a coward.

A coward mocks what he doesn't understand. A coward seeks political gain by maligning others. A coward talks about North Carolina's controversial bathroom law, which requires transgender people to use the restroom that matches the gender on their birth certificate, by saying this at a Sunday campaign event: "If Donald Trump dresses up as Hillary Clinton, he still can't go to the girl's bathroom."

Hah! The crowd laughed and thought it was a stitch because, naturally, all transgender women look like Trump in a pantsuit, right?

Wrong.

Not just wrong, but offensive. And not just offensive to transgender people, offensive to any American who thinks denigrating transgender people is repellent...

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; perverts
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To: SERKIT

I have no desire to defend Trump to this extreme. I simply don’t get anyone who does. Insult all you want, does not mean I agree with that stance or can pull the lever for one who does. To each his own.


21 posted on 04/25/2016 1:27:25 PM PDT by tioga
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Corker Bill co-sponsor, while Cotton stood alone


22 posted on 04/25/2016 1:38:16 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: tioga
I have no desire to defend Trump to this extreme. I simply don’t get anyone who does. Insult all you want, does not mean I agree with that stance or can pull the lever for one who does. To each his own.

The flip side is Cruz spending so much time on this marginal wedge issue in pandering to the Christian right which has has by-and-large been lost to Trump. We have better things to worry about. One thing we can agree on - "to each his own".

23 posted on 04/25/2016 1:38:18 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: SERKIT

You’re right, for years trannies used the women’s restroom and no one noticed. I for one have never seen the elusive trannie. That said, when you make it a law that men can use the bathroom or dressing room of their choice, depending on the gender they are feeling like that day, it creates problems where there were none. Now, if a man that feels like a woman goes into a restroom with another man’s wife or daughter and that man escorts him back out to protect his loved ones, that man broke the law and can be prosecuted. See how that works? The decent, civilized people are the evil ones, the cross-dressers and perverts are the good guys.


24 posted on 04/25/2016 1:41:26 PM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: Veracious Poet

Obvious punch line: “So, you’re a lefty, eh?”


25 posted on 04/25/2016 1:46:48 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: SERKIT
The flip side is Cruz spending so much time on this marginal wedge issue in pandering to the Christian right which has has by-and-large been lost to Trump.

Actually that is a lie. Trump used to win the most when there were more than 3 candidates in the race, but never the majority.

Now that Rubio and Carson are out, Ted Cruz wins the vast majority of evangelical Christian voters. Not Trump.

As to another point about pandering. Yea, lets ignore the largest portion of the Republican base the the GOPe always has.

We now know you are truly a good old fashioned GOPe man who could give a crap about the morality of this country.
26 posted on 04/25/2016 1:51:53 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The crowd laughed and thought it was a stitch because, naturally, all transgender women look like Trump in a pantsuit, right?”

Nobody gives a damn what they look like, we still don’t want them sneaking into the opposite sex restroom.


27 posted on 04/25/2016 1:56:26 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
2DV: are you just now realizing this: Ted Cruz is a coward.
28 posted on 04/25/2016 1:57:46 PM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: SERKIT

“Cruz can go back to his call-girls.”

Ah, you’re a liar and pro-pervert.


29 posted on 04/25/2016 1:58:24 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: gg188

So you’re pro-transgender?


30 posted on 04/25/2016 1:58:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Either Cruz or Trump, but Hillary we must dump!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The "solution" or "compromise" will be, mark my word, UNISEX Bathrooms. Solves everything without millions of buildings having to add bathrooms for TG at great cost.

Lezzies will have complete access to prepubescent girls, gay men will have access to prepubescent boys and TGs can take their pick.

And women, children and men will be HOLDING it until they get home.

31 posted on 04/25/2016 2:04:21 PM PDT by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
WHAT FACTS?

You and he are delusional.

32 posted on 04/25/2016 2:16:30 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Why do we have ladies’ and men’s rooms in the first place? Can’t we all jut get along and pee together?

No. We have separate facilities because a certain modicum of modesty is required for our civilization to remain civilized.

I’ve been told that many women won’t even move their bowels when there are other women present in the rest room. What happens if transexuals are going to be there too?


33 posted on 04/25/2016 2:18:32 PM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...Donald Trump won't take on the PC police. He's one of them.

Rule 1 in destroying one's credibility: Assert something absolutely absurd, like say...Donald Trump's problem is he's too PC....yeah.....

34 posted on 04/25/2016 2:23:00 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: AndyTheBear

So you were on vacation last week?


35 posted on 04/25/2016 2:26:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Either Cruz or Trump, but Hillary we must dump!)
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To: nickcarraway

The Zodiac Killer thing they alluded to was a joke conspiracy theory. Kind of like an onion article. Was done for humor.


36 posted on 04/25/2016 2:31:18 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: nickcarraway

The columnist lost any chance of my reading further with that idiotic aside.


37 posted on 04/25/2016 2:35:57 PM PDT by bootless ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth."~RWR)
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To: AndyTheBear

I know, but it’s still stupid.


38 posted on 04/25/2016 2:36:16 PM PDT by bootless ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth."~RWR)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

[[A coward mocks what he doesn’t understand.]]

The following were all posted or said by donald=-

“Look at that face!” he cries. “Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!”

John McCain’s a “dummy.”

John Kasich is “desperate.”

Rick Perry “needs new glasses.”

Karl Rove is “a total loser.”

Irrelevant clown ted sweats and shakes nervously

... is a dummy. Just look at ...’s past.

Losers such as ...(fill in name) use me for publicity for themselves. They are strictly third rate.

... is truly as dumb as rock.

... is a totally overrated clown who speaks without knowing the facts.

... works really hard but is a guy who just doesn’t have it—a total loser!

Hokey garbage ...

Hokey garbage ted

Dummy ...

and for a growing list of most of the insults said or posted by donald- I’m pretty sure donald has ted beat for sheer numbers of insults-

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html?_r=0


39 posted on 04/25/2016 2:46:19 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So you were on vacation last week?

Asking a silly question on FR is not going to keep an ad that looks silly and cringe worthy from looking silly and cringe worthy.

I first saw this ad on Red Eye this last week, they had a bit of fun with it.

40 posted on 04/25/2016 2:50:46 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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