Moonies for Cruz

Congratulations to Ted Cruz for winning his fourth primary! Usually Donald Trump wins the primaries -- where you go and vote, like in a real election. Cruz wins the caucuses -- run by the state parties, favored by political operators and cheaters.

Until now, the only primaries Cruz has won are in Texas (his home state), Oklahoma (basically the same state) and Idaho (where Trump never campaigned).

So now, Cruz has finally won an honest-to-goodness primary. This is great news for him, provided: (1) the general election is a caucus, and (2) the national media universally denounce Cruz's Democratic opponent the same way the Wisconsin media denounced Trump.

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.

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."

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.

Trump has said a million times that he'd scrap Obamacare and replace it with a free market system (which, by the way, he explains a lot more clearly than Washington policy wonks with their think-tank lingo). Merely for Trump saying that we're "not going to let people die, sitting in the middle of a street in any city in this country," Cruz accuses him of supporting "Bernie Sanders-style medicine."

Yes, because Trump is against people dying in the streets, Cruz says that Trump thinks "Obamacare didn't go far enough and we need to expand it to put the government in charge of our health care, in charge of our relationship with our doctors." Over and over again, Cruz has repeated this insane lie, telling Fox's Megyn Kelly: "If you want to see Bernie Sanders-style socialized medicine, Donald Trump is your guy."

Trump's alleged support for the kind of national health care they have in Scotland and Canada is another big fat lie. Trump was issuing his usual effusive praise before he drops the hammer -- "It actually works incredibly well in Scotland. Some people think it really works in Canada." Then he continued, in the very same sentence: "I don't think it would work as well here. What has to happen -- I like the concept of private enterprise coming in. ... You have to create competition."

Cruz and his cult-like followers lie about Trump wanting a health care system akin to Canada's and Scotland's. They lie about his supporting Obamacare. They lie about his supporting partial-birth abortion. They lie about his ever having been a Democrat. They lie about his campaign manager assaulting a female reporter.

I tried being nice after Florida, when it became clear that Trump was the choice of a majority of Republican voters, nearly choking on a column praising Cruz for his admirable flip-flops to Trump's positions on immigration and trade. I censored loads of anti-Cruz retweets. But -- as with the Clintons -- you offer these Cruz-bots an olive branch and they bite off your hand.

The next thing I knew, the Cruz cult was accusing Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of criminal battery for brushing past a female reporter. Anyone who claims this video shows a "battery" is as big a liar as the liberals who lined up to say Clinton did not commit perjury when he denied having "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky.

They lie about my own tweaking of Trump -- I didn't like the Heidi retweet! -- amid a tidal wave of support. Trump is the only presidential candidate in my lifetime who will build a wall, deport illegals and pause the importation of Muslims. He's the only one who cares more about ordinary Americans than he does about globalist plutocrats. Does anyone really think I'm "tiring" of him because of a retweet?

Apparently, for slavishly devoted Cruz-bots, a normal human making a small criticism of her preferred candidate is unfathomable! That fact alone proves how dishonest they are about their own candidate.

I was under the misimpression that I was dealing with adults and not swine like Carville and Begala, willing to twist someone's words to win a momentary political advantage. Mostly, I was under the misimpression that honesty was still a conservative value.

Ohh let’s not forget that Trump was responsible for the National Enquirer story...

Cruz was leading the battle against the Gang of Eight Amnesty Bill and was trying to appeal to some colleagues who may at least accept that the priority should be to secure the border first.

"Ted Cruz was on my side and fought this legislation all the way through.... It was that close to being passed... and I think I can say this with integrity. Without the vigorous opposition of Ted Cruz, this bill likely would have passed." - Jeff Sessions

Jeff Sessions: Without Ted Cruz, Amnesty Would Have Passed In 2013

Hey Ann, did you have the same view when your former thrill of the moment was a guy named Mitt?

Cornell is as good as Princeton...

I've heard similar from UPenn (not Wharton) and Brown folks as well. I never hear anybody say Princeton is as good as Cornell.

BTW, I was not trying to be anti-Trump, but very much anti-Coulter since she has taken to the Romneys and Christies of the world. We come from the same state, Connecticut, and it pains me that someone with so much going right seems stuck on northeasterners.

45 posted on 04/06/2016 4:21:54 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)

The tweet I posted was sent by Cruz to his most loyal supporters. In it he spells his priorities out plainly: first, ‘secure’ the border, then mass legalization.

46 posted on 04/06/2016 4:22:17 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)

47 posted on 04/06/2016 4:22:24 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)

Upenn is way below Cornell.. and Brown is too... I don’t mind you attacking Ann, she has some issues (cough cough Romney).. She is right on this one though.. I will look up the rankings, now you have me curious..

And btw, amnesty did pass in 2013. It passed the Senate with the greatest of ease. Search it with your favorite engine; it’s a fact.

51 posted on 04/06/2016 4:25:34 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)

Wow US News has Princeton number 1.. I stand corrected.. Cornell is 15 and Penn and Brown (14) beat Cornell too..

See post 21

And please see my post 47. I was writing aganst Coulter, not really aganst Trump. If you look back, I congratulated Trump on both the Schlafley and Sessions endorsements. I also know some folks for whom I have 100% admiration, respect and trust for who are four square behind Donald Trump, and I could make a case for him in many ways, not so much in others.

If the conservative/tea party coalition does not completely blow up, I am hopeful that Trump's presence has been a net positive. I consider the Trumpers here competitors, not enemies.

54 posted on 04/06/2016 4:29:49 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)

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

This is a winning statement. Sadly, the evil media will prevent this statement from becoming wide spread and from rallying the pro-life electorate.

55 posted on 04/06/2016 4:32:11 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))

‘Ohh let’s not forget that Trump was responsible for the National Enquirer story...’

What do you expect from a person whose campaign idol is Obama? Cruz bought copies of The Audacity to Win and gave them out to each and every one of his staffers. It’s a blueprint for how Cruz planned/plans to win.

Obama’s cheating is well documented.

Enough said.

56 posted on 04/06/2016 4:32:55 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)

No problem. I went to U of Chicago over 30 years ago and half the students had a chip on their shoulder because U of C (undergrad) never got the recognition that Yale/Princeton/Harvard had even then.

57 posted on 04/06/2016 4:33:01 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)

Some of the anti-Coulter sentiment on this thread is repulsive. See post 52. If you want to make common cause with those hate-filled posters, that’s your decision.

58 posted on 04/06/2016 4:36:38 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)

Ann has become the Holy Water to all those possessed by demon Cruz. She just needs a young priest and an old priest to perform the mass exorcism.

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