Trump Goes Personal Against Cruz; Disparages His Cuban Ancestry; Questions Christianity

Politistick ^ | December 11, 2015 | Matthew K. Burke

[jpsb]

"I can't figure why they don't do coal gasification like South Africa"

Maybe after we get the current corrupt political class out of DC we can make some rational decisions on a host of issues. But with the folks in DC now? Not a snowballs chance in he||

[Will88]

They conveniently forget that Cruz said he didn’t trust Trump’s judgment. The nuclear button. He got caught with his pants down.

Trump never strikes first. He would never have said anything about Cruz until Cruz struck him.

Yes they do forget. And they don't realize that all their Trump bashing in the name of Cruz is actually damaging to Cruz. And Cruz has shown very poor judgment in abandoning his previous truce with Trump. He was echoing George Will and others by implying: do you want Trump's finger on the nuclear button?

Ted is showing himself to be much more an establishment Republican than some have thought. What do his billionaire donors want? And his fence straddling and hair-splitting and flip/flopping about immigration and trade make him even more suspect. He's been very inconsistent on those issues even since he announced his candidacy.

[Servant of the Cross]

Huge difference between privately explaining to your donors why you think you will win - basically explaining your strategy to them - and making a personal attack on a political opponent in a televised public rally.

BTTT. Huge. Difference. Class versus Nonclass.

[Still Thinking]

Yeah, the current crowd of morons explains the issue for today, but I thought it made sense even before they were in charge, yet there are nothing but pilot projects. Weird. Wonder if it has something to do with the composition of our coal, vs. SA.

[Servant of the Cross]

Trump never strikes first. He would never have said anythibg about Cruz until Cruz struck him.

LOL!

[GregoTX]

You are wrong on 2 accounts.
1. You kept calling me a Trump supporter. My money, support and primary election vote goes to Ted Cruz.
2. The headline is misleading, Trump did NOT insult Cruz's Christianity or heritage.

[jpsb]

From a different thread

I do not agree with him on eminent domain. However that issue is not even in my top one hundred. Neither is ethanol. We are being invaded and are losing the War with Radical Islam. So really who gives a flip about eminent domain or ethanol.

If ethanol or eminent domain is all you've got against Trump, it game over and lights out. Because Enforce the law, build the wall, trumps both ethanol and eminent domain

[Parley Baer]

Gutter yellow journalism at its best. Obviously the OP is in the gutter by posting the cr@p article.

[Will88]

Like I say you have a decoder ring if you got that from his statement.

Like I said, Trump called into Fox and Friends this morning and discussed it further.

[deport]

I do like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba, in all fairness

If Trump said this he's a jackass.

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A jackass he maybe but Rafael Cruz converted from Roman Catholic
to a born-again Christian in 1975.

[Steelfish]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/428415/krauthammers-take-if-trump-nomineeparty-could-be-facing-another-goldwater-scenario

[Steelfish]

Apparently it doesn’t matter to the Trumpkins that two-thirds view him negatively and a Trump candidacy will lead to another Clinton presidency and a judiciary with a lifetime tenure to complete the socialist and rabid left-wing agenda.

[fidelis]

"And by the way, and again, I do like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba, in all fairness. Its true. Not a lot come out. But I like him nevertheless.”

I'm not a Trump supporter at this point (and, in fact, am leaning toward Cruz), but I can't see how this garbled comment is any kind of clear insult to Ted. What the heck is it supposed to mean, anyway? It's practically a non-sequitur, something along the lines of "I like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of Senators come out of Texas, in all fairness. Its true. Not a lot come out. But I like him nevertheless.” It doesn't have anything to do with anything and is vapid to the point of meaninglessness.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

‘Cruz is very shrewd. He will not reply in kind, but take the high road. It will pay off in the long run.’

Or he will allow his super pac to attack trump so it appears he is taking the high road...

[Genoa]

Trump’s use of “but” doesn’t fit your spin on the intent of his remarks. I ain’t buying it. He meant to disparage.

[dforest]

Come on now, you know the truth. Only reason Trump reacted was because what Cruz said about him. By the way, that was not the first time Cruz said what he did about Trump. This is the first time Trump jabbed back.

So take your koolaid boy and put a band aid on it.

[paul544]

The media haven’t been able to destroy Trump. The Democrats haven’t been able to destroy him. The only weapon left for them is to pit unwitting Republicans against each other to do it.

[gov_bean_ counter]

" Trump argued. "And by the way, and again, I do like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba, in all fairness. It's true. Not a lot come out. But I like him nevertheless,"

Sandwich technique. The "I like Ted" delivered with all the sincerity of "Brutus is an honorable man".

[gwgn02]

Never go full Trump, never.

[Servant of the Cross]

Come on now, you know the truth.

You can't handle the truth ....