Posted on 02/26/2016 1:13:51 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
RUSH: In terms of substance? I disagree with Chris Wallace. I think there was substance in this debate last night, and depending on what you want -- depending on what you were hoping to see and then what you think going forward -- there's really only one candidate in this debate last night which was chock-full of genuine policy-oriented substance, and that was Cruz. And I happen to know, folks...
I hear from people constantly, as you can imagine, and I hear from you even on the phones. But there have been people during the entirety of this campaign who think that Trump is a pretender, that he really doesn't know much about what all this is about, that he's getting by on the cult of celebrity and other things in our pop culture that people get excited by and attach to. There have been people who say, "We've gotta expose Trump. Trump's gotta be exposed. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He doesn't know conservatism.
"He doesn't know policy. He's just up there saying things that sound good in a populist sense." So what Cruz did last night was essentially expose that. If that's what you think needs and has needed to happen, Cruz did it last night. And probably the best way to illustrate how it happened is, one of the fears that a lot of anti-Trump people have is he's not really even a Republican. And they keep talking about all of his donations to people like Chuck Schumer and the Clintons.
Trump's response was, "Hey, look, you know, I live in New York City and they run the show there, and I'm in business, and there are certain things you have to do to get things done. You have to work with these people. But I'm a Republican." And he's made it clear, and he's tried to make that point over and over again. But Trump found last night Ted Cruz illustrating that. (summarized) "Look, if you think we have to beat Hillary Clinton, Trump's not the guy to do it. Trump cannot go out and hit Hillary Clinton on any of the things that she has done, any of her corruption, because he has contributed to her.
"He has donated. All that would have to happen," Cruz says, "is for Trump to hit Hillary in the debate and Hillary, and all she's gotta do is say, 'Donald, I don't know what your problem is. You donated to me to do this exact thing. So I don't know what your problem is now.'" And Cruz said, "We can't nominate somebody who donated to her." It's akin to the people that said we shouldn't nominate Romney. "If we nominate Romney, there's no way we can get Obama on Obamacare because Romney invented it in Massachusetts.
"Romney gave us Romneycare, and the guy that wrote Romneycare then turned around and wrote Obamacare," and it took Obamacare off the table as far as Romney's concerned. He couldn't hit it because there's a retort, "What do you mean you don't like Obamacare? You wrote its father. You implemented and signed into law its father, Romneycare. What are you?" And Cruz's point was that same set of circumstances with Hillary are going to occur.
Because it can be demonstrated that Trump's donations to the Clintons over the years -- including to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation -- have facilitated political move that Hillary Clinton has made. So the people who have wanted Trump exposed, that was pretty substantively done by Cruz. On the Rubio side, what Rubio did was literally just laugh at Trump all night, literally made fun of him, mock him. Not act frightened or afraid of him, and not be worried about ticking off his supporters, either.
A first for both.
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Yep we are getting a Romney McCain combo in Trump.
The media will turn against him (like they did McCain). And he’s in bed with the Clintons (Like Romney was the father of Obamacare).
Republicans are going to nominate the one person guaranteed to lose.
B.S. article. Donating doesn’t mean you endorse 100% of everything the donee does.
Horsec**p.
If HRC say to Trump “then why did you contribute?” Trump replies “Because you were for sale”.
Rush who?
Even Rush is beginning to wobble GOP-e in his futile attempt to prop up Cruz...
Easy counter for Trump:
I donated to a lot of people.
Dems, Republicans.
I donated to Ted Cruz.
I’m a businessman.
I’m a smart businessman.
I get things done.
Except it's even easier to say "Yes, I donated to you hoping that you would do the right thing. But like always your campaign promises ended up being lies."
The most important takeaway from the debate came right after the debate:
The Great Conservative has now SWERVED to support the 8Gang Cabana Boy.
Cruz is now the Great Conswervative.
Trump freely admits giving money to candidates and pols from both parties. Much more to Rs than Ds, if you bothered to do any research.
But your whole argument is negated by the next statment that you chose to edit out, where Trump said “I donated to you”, and Cruz agreed and said he received $5,000 from Trump.
So that just shows your boy can be bought, isn’t fussy about where the money comes from, and can be had pretty cheap.
Way beyond anything your sorry ass has ever done.
“But obviously he can’t release those tax returns. How would it look? you do pretty well if you don’t pay taxes for 10 years when you’re making millions and millions of dollars.”-Harry Reid
“He can do it tomorrow. He doesn’t want to do it, because presumably here’s something in there”- Ted Cruz
Release your taxes Ted, do you have something to hide?
What’s your sound little lamb? Baaa, baaaaaa
If HRC say to Trump “then why did you contribute?†Trump replies “Because you were for saleâ€.
Making them both corrupt? Ahhhhh...the old I know you are but what am I campaign strategy. Gotcha.
“Except it’s even easier to say “Yes, I donated to you hoping that you would do the right thing. But like always your campaign promises ended up being lies.”
Good one.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Friday vowed to "open up" libel laws in order to sue media outlets that write "purposely negative" and "horrible" articles about him.
"I'm gonna open up our libel laws, so when they write purposely negative and horrible, false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money," Trump said at a rally in Fort Worth, Texas.
"We're going to open up those libels laws," he added. "So that when The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money."
"You see, with me, they're not protected, because I'm not like other people, but I'm not taking money. I'm not taking their money. We're going to open up libel laws, and we're going to have people sue you like you've never got sued before."
Trump, who has a contentious relationship with the media and has accused several members of the press of treating him unfairly, did not offer additoinal details about the plan.
The billionaire businessman’s comments came moments after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who ended his own Republican presidential bid after a poor showing in New Hampshire, endorsed him for president."
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Andrew Jackson's mother: On being an honorable man: "indict no man for assault and battery, nor sue him for slander."
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We Investigated, Donald Trump is Named in at Least 169 Federal Lawsuits
"...Just a note, the cases listed below only include those filed in U.S. federal court. Who knows how many others were filed in state courts around the country."....
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