Posted on 08/13/2015 7:47:32 AM PDT by Isara
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After a speech in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Mr. Cruz was asked about what a local reporter called the “T-word.”
Mr. Cruz heaved a brief sigh, before saying, as he has often, that he appreciated the attention that Mr. Trump had brought to the race, including last week’s debate. But a sliver of frustration slipped out.
This election is not about “a soap opera of personalities,” Mr. Cruz said, his only complaint.
If Mr. Trump has commandeered much of the attention in the Republican primary contest, Mr. Cruz’s seven-day, seven-state swing through the Southeast was a pointed effort to grab whatever limelight he could have to himself. The zigzagging bus tour, which ends Thursday in Tulsa, Okla., with a “This Is Cruz Country” rally, has drawn consistently enthusiastic crowds in the hundreds, and sometimes thousands, as Mr. Cruz tries to establish a foothold in states where a large number of delegates are expected to be up for grabs on March 1, Super Tuesday.
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Overflow crowds were met with overflowing tables: baskets of biscuits and gravy at Graceworks Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., pulled pork at a fairgrounds in Jackson, Tenn. Brown sugar meatballs kept a waiting crowd content in Murfreesboro while Mr. Cruz detoured to the memorial to Marines killed last month in Chattanooga. And sweet tea flowed at every stop.
“Y’all are making it real hard to talk with those onion rings,” Mr. Cruz told a crowd at a restaurant in Olive Branch, Miss. “Is there any food on earth that isn’t better deep fried?”
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“He’s a Christian, and I’m a true Christian,” said Hazel Bragg, who showed up to hear Mr. Cruz outside the Little Rock party headquarters. “And I believe if he goes God’s way, we can’t go wrong with that.”
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A "Captain Constitution" sketch of Ted Cruz, given to him by a supporter at a Memphis event on August 11, 2015
It would be one hell of a team.
Actually its Ted Cruz evoking Ted Cruz as he has always been.
I’m not really a Ted Cruz fan but he’s heads and tails above Trump.
Anne Coulter is already pimping that meme.
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What is “bad” on health care and entitlements?
That’s the one thing Cruz could do that will loose me, join Trump.
He won’t. He’s not stupid.
Universal Health Care
Ever hear Trump say anything bad about Cruz?
Ever hear Cruz say anything bad about Trump?
Ever wonder why?
Kill ObamaCare before it becomes a trillion-ton weight
Obamacare can’t be reformed, salvaged, or fixed. It’s that bad. Obamacare has to be killed now before it grows into an even bigger mess, as it inevitably will. Obamacare takes full effect in 2014. If it’s not repealed before then, it will be more than just another failed government entitlement program—it will be the trillion-ton weight that finally takes down our economy forever.
Obamacare is a heat-seeking missile that will destroy jobs & small businesses; it will explode health-care costs; and it will lead to health care that is far less innovative than it is today. Every argument that you’d make against socialism you can make against socialized health care, and any candidate who isn’t 100% committed to scrapping Obamacare is not someone America should elect president. Repealing Obamacare may be one of the most important and consequential actions our next president takes.
Source: Time to Get Tough, by Donald Trump, p.121-122 , Dec 5, 2011
Source: http://www.ontheissues.org/donald_trump.htm
I know why.
I wont say, because it’s so brilliant of a plan that it will be more fun just watching it work itself out if I’m right.
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