Cruz questions Trump’s conservative bona fides, judgment
By David Weigel and Katie Zezima January 16 at 2:50 PM
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) continued his rhetorical onslaught against Donald Trump on Saturday, casting him as a false conservative and questioning the real estate mogul’s temperament and judgment.
“Donald’s record does not match what he says as a candidate,” Cruz told reporters after a forum in Fort Mill, S.C. “It seems Donald has a lot of nervous energy. For whatever reason, Donald doesn’t react well when he’s going down in the polls.”
The remarks are part of an aggressive escalation in a relationship that had been strategically chummy. For months, Cruz had effusively praised Trump, stating there was a benefit to having the New Yorker in the race and chiding the media for “the little game” of pitting Republicans against one another.
Thursday’s Republican debate marked the end of that. Cruz, with unconcealed delight, chided Trump for raising questions about whether he met the Constitution’s “natural born” standard for president; with less success, he started raising questions about whether a Manhattan mogul could be trusted by conservatives.
Read more...https://www.
Comments
-----------
Thomas Williams
7:55 AM EST
I
hope that the United State political divisiveness’ doesn’t keep tearing
this country’s population stability apart before our enemies do. If the
American people elect someone else instead of Donald Trump the day of
reckoning with our country’s enemies will just keep getting pushed back
until another day. Generations of American people have allowed
themselves to get dependent on this country's Government, so the liberal
DC establishment has not helped those people at all. And has only made
the lives of those American citizens worse off.
What White people did to America is absolute political rubbish and a lie. That any society down through history has dirty laundry and not just because of the White people who were the majority building a nation.
This Country’s Washington DC political establishment better look at themselves first, before it is too late for them, but I do not believe that the DC establishment will do that with their little block of power at all.
So it will be because of the collective willpower of the American people who will save America, if we are to save our own soul first before we can help someone else....Ted Cruz is a political hypocrite talking like that about the American people living in New York, and reasonable American people know it. Donald Trump is truly nothing like the Washington DC establishment at all and that includes Ted Cruz. Ronald Reagan carried New York twice.
What White people did to America is absolute political rubbish and a lie. That any society down through history has dirty laundry and not just because of the White people who were the majority building a nation.
This Country’s Washington DC political establishment better look at themselves first, before it is too late for them, but I do not believe that the DC establishment will do that with their little block of power at all.
So it will be because of the collective willpower of the American people who will save America, if we are to save our own soul first before we can help someone else....Ted Cruz is a political hypocrite talking like that about the American people living in New York, and reasonable American people know it. Donald Trump is truly nothing like the Washington DC establishment at all and that includes Ted Cruz. Ronald Reagan carried New York twice.
----------
Thomas Williams
Thomas Williams
7:49 AM EST
It
is very good for the American people to be exposed to some practical
reality, and common sense solutions at this time. Because the Ivy League
liberal political dream world propaganda machine is hurting our
country's populachion. And in turn making a basket case out of our
generations children, that these Ivy League crazy professors are
teaching.
I don't have a problem voting for Donald Trump and do not buy into the fear that the Washington DC establishment are saying about Donald Trump personality. But in fact are really upset that Trump is upsetting the DC Billionaires US Government rice bowl, that is ripping off you and me.
It is going to be very interesting to see if Donald Trump can keep this kind of political momentum up against all the political forces against him, even from his own Republican Party.
Remember it is still early to get a true picture over how the DC establishment, and media, can still finally stop Donald Trump popularity. Because it is going to take the full willpower of the American people voting for Trump pushing him across the finish line to beat back the Washington DC billions of dollars elections creation.
That keeps electing a person that is controlled by the DC Billionaires money.
No wonder that the DC establishment is all shook up over Donald Trump, because he is not one of them for real.
I don't have a problem voting for Donald Trump and do not buy into the fear that the Washington DC establishment are saying about Donald Trump personality. But in fact are really upset that Trump is upsetting the DC Billionaires US Government rice bowl, that is ripping off you and me.
It is going to be very interesting to see if Donald Trump can keep this kind of political momentum up against all the political forces against him, even from his own Republican Party.
Remember it is still early to get a true picture over how the DC establishment, and media, can still finally stop Donald Trump popularity. Because it is going to take the full willpower of the American people voting for Trump pushing him across the finish line to beat back the Washington DC billions of dollars elections creation.
That keeps electing a person that is controlled by the DC Billionaires money.
No wonder that the DC establishment is all shook up over Donald Trump, because he is not one of them for real.
---------
Jeffro1969
Jeffro1969
6:49 AM EST
Two things Ted Cruz has that the Donald does not:
1. A deep, profound love for the Constitution.
2. A demonstrated willingness to fight for its restoration, against strong opposition by entrenched interests.
Trump, by his own boastful admission, was willing to say anything and cozy up to anyone he needed to in order to make money. I do like Trump, and the fact that his business interests have suffered as he pursues the presidency does lend credence to his newly professed views. HOWEVER, I have doubts that he truly knows the Constitution or that he is willing to take the steps necessary to restore the Republic. On the contrary, I fear that however pleasing his policies might be the Donald is only too glad to expand the "post-Constitutional Imperial Presidency" Barack Obama created.
That's why I am for Cruz.
1. A deep, profound love for the Constitution.
2. A demonstrated willingness to fight for its restoration, against strong opposition by entrenched interests.
Trump, by his own boastful admission, was willing to say anything and cozy up to anyone he needed to in order to make money. I do like Trump, and the fact that his business interests have suffered as he pursues the presidency does lend credence to his newly professed views. HOWEVER, I have doubts that he truly knows the Constitution or that he is willing to take the steps necessary to restore the Republic. On the contrary, I fear that however pleasing his policies might be the Donald is only too glad to expand the "post-Constitutional Imperial Presidency" Barack Obama created.
That's why I am for Cruz.
-----------
By Steve Bayne
"What kind of game is Ted Cruz playing? He's a sharp lawyer with a trick that's hard to see. In particular, I think he is playing a trick on evangelicals in Iowa and elsewhere. Ted Cruz's game is identity politics, only it has a lawerly twist. (Thank you Harvard)
Ted Cruz's identity politics is not the politics of race, class or gender. Ted's found another niche: demographic identity. Ted Cruz doesn't like NY values. If he doesn't like NY values, what is he going to think about Chicago values; and, if he doesn't like Chicago values he sure won't like Detroit values; and if he doesn't like THOSE values how about LA values, or Philadelphia values, and the list could go on to include virtually every major urban center in America. He is using religion to create a divide, one that suggests he cannot lead all of America.
All people capable of moral thought have good and bad habits. Cruz isn't talking about values; he's talking about ways of life. His identity politics is drapped in religion. Christianity is not the only religion to be drapped in the cloth of identity politics. Cruz is a slick operator, but be not deceived. He is an "operator."
American culture has been largely, and most importantly, defined by New York (read: "urban") culture. New York City and other urban centers have sustained American culture since our inception. There is a price to be paid by those who drape themselves in the flag of religious opportunism. That price is disliking people and their ways of life which offend (Oh!) such Christian souls as Mr. Cruz.
Trump is authentic; Cruz is not. I say to my evangelical friends: "Don't be taken it; don't be used again." Don't like my man Trump? Maybe I can convince you; but if I can't, you will find more authenticity in any one of a number of other candidates: Carson, Rubio, Huckabee, etc. than you will find in Mr. Cruz and his identity politics!"
-----------
Unbrainwashed
7:54 AM EST
"What kind of game is Ted Cruz playing? He's a sharp lawyer with a trick that's hard to see. In particular, I think he is playing a trick on evangelicals in Iowa and elsewhere. Ted Cruz's game is identity politics, only it has a lawerly twist. (Thank you Harvard)
Ted Cruz's identity politics is not the politics of race, class or gender. Ted's found another niche: demographic identity. Ted Cruz doesn't like NY values. If he doesn't like NY values, what is he going to think about Chicago values; and, if he doesn't like Chicago values he sure won't like Detroit values; and if he doesn't like THOSE values how about LA values, or Philadelphia values, and the list could go on to include virtually every major urban center in America. He is using religion to create a divide, one that suggests he cannot lead all of America.
All people capable of moral thought have good and bad habits. Cruz isn't talking about values; he's talking about ways of life. His identity politics is drapped in religion. Christianity is not the only religion to be drapped in the cloth of identity politics. Cruz is a slick operator, but be not deceived. He is an "operator."
American culture has been largely, and most importantly, defined by New York (read: "urban") culture. New York City and other urban centers have sustained American culture since our inception. There is a price to be paid by those who drape themselves in the flag of religious opportunism. That price is disliking people and their ways of life which offend (Oh!) such Christian souls as Mr. Cruz.
Trump is authentic; Cruz is not. I say to my evangelical friends: "Don't be taken it; don't be used again." Don't like my man Trump? Maybe I can convince you; but if I can't, you will find more authenticity in any one of a number of other candidates: Carson, Rubio, Huckabee, etc. than you will find in Mr. Cruz and his identity politics!"
-----------
Unbrainwashed
7:29 AM EST [Edited]
----------
--------------
No comments:
Post a Comment