TRUZ 2016 !!!
Posted on 09/11/2015 11:19:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It could have been the first general election rally of a Trump-Cruz 2016 ticket.
In front of a crowd of more than a thousand on a blisteringly hot Wednesday outside the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas fired up the crowd for Donald Trump, who brought them to frenzy status at a rally in opposition to President Barack Obama’s proposed nuclear deal with Iran.
It is certainly too far off to say it could happen, but not too far off to envision a similar scenario playing out a little less than a year from now on the larger stage of the Republican Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.
The rally seemed to lend credence to the running mate-candidate dynamic.
Cruz, largely responsible for helping to organize the rally with host organization Tea Party Patriots, spoke before Trump, as if to introduce the main attraction.
“I want to thank my friend Donald Trump for joining us today,” Cruz said to loud cheers from the crowd.
“I like him,” Trump said shortly before taking the stage after Cruz. “Ted Cruz was out there and he really backed me very strongly, and I always respected that. He asked me to come along and I guess he figured we’d get a big crowd and we certainly have.”
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Trump described the candidate’s relationship as “a little bit of a romance,” according to the Associated Press.
The two men have developed a rhythm of cross-compliments in their unique and unusual campaign relationship, even as front-runner Trump has engaged in tense, bitter clashes with other 2016 hopefuls.
“I was called by Senator Cruz a few days ago, and he said, ‘Do you think we can get a really good crowd out here to protest this incompetent deal?’ and I said, ‘Boy, can we get a crowd.’ That was three days ago, and look what shows up,” Trump started as he took the stage.
But beyond an affable relationship, there are practical advantages for the hypothetical Republican nominee Donald Trump to get the conservative firebrand from Texas onto his hypothetical ticket.
Recent remarks from Trump — and some of his past positions — have caused some conservatives to worry about the depth of his commitment to conservative positions and have opened up the business mogul to attacks from other GOP contenders.
“If someone wants to raise taxes, they should run as a Democrat,” Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said to the Boston Herald in response to a statement from Trump that he would support raising taxes on the highest income earners.
“I think if someone wants to raise taxes, they should run for the Democratic nomination,” Rubio repeated. “That party loves to raise taxes.”
But where Trump gives conservatives pause over possible apostasies, Cruz is bullish.
”Abolish the IRS; take all 125,000 IRS agents, and put them on our southern border,” Cruz thundered in his address to CPAC in April.
Cruz has advocated a flat tax to replace the current tax code, a policy that could technically increase taxes on the highest earners (keeping Trump consistent) by eliminating loopholes and deductions.
A combination of Trump’s rhetoric and Cruz’s proposal on taxes could form a supporting pillar of a generally populist ticket platform.
And Cruz could provide the cover Trump needs to stay in the good graces of social conservatives.
“Wrong, they’re absolutely wrong,” Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said of Trump and others’ remarks that gay marriage was the law of the land and that Kentucky’s Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis should be jailed for refusing to issue gay marriage licenses.
But Cruz was in the thick of the fight to back up Davis.
“Kim Davis stood up for her faith, and she told the truth. That is a powerful, powerful thing,” Cruz said during a visit to Kentucky to meet with the suddenly nationally known clerk.
Trump also took heat from social conservatives for suggesting in August that his sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, would make a “phenomenal” Supreme Court justice. Barry wrote a decision for the United States Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, in 2000 arguing the Constitution prevented states from banning partial birth abortions.
“There are a lot of folks that distrust where Trump stands on life because of his track record and even his recent vacillations on Planned Parenthood,” said leading pro-life activist Lila Rose in an interview with Talking Points Memo.
Trump maintains he is solidly pro-life, having transitioned on the issue over the years. But Cruz could certainly lend credibility to Trump’s stance on the issue. Cruz is leading an effort in Congress to force the issue of defunding Planned Parenthood before authorizing new federal spending.
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“In light of recent and horrific revelations that Planned Parenthood is trafficking in fetal tissue and body parts from abortions, we urge you not to schedule or facilitate the consideration of any legislation that authorizes or appropriates federal dollars for Planned Parenthood,” reads a draft of a letter being circulated on Capitol Hill by Cruz.
Who better to assuage the concerns of conservatives than the man who nearly singlehandedly shut down the federal government in 2013 in opposition to Obamacare, and who has reliably fought GOP leadership and the Democrats on nearly every issue close to the heart of the conservative base?
Who better to stoke the populist, anti-establishment flames that have propelled Trump to his front-runner status than the man who called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar on the floor of the United States Senate?
Of course, Cruz has not only a credible path to the GOP’s nomination himself, but arguably a more structurally sound path than Trump.
It is a distant possibility, but a Trump-Cruz ticket could be a winner.
Mine too.
I think they are going to team up. Look Cruz is only 44 and he’s a first term senator. There are a lot worse things that could happen to him than VP or AG which is a plum assignment.
For whatever reason Cruz is just not polling well. He wasn’t polling well before Trump got in. Maybe he’s just too conservative for the mainstream GOP voter. Who knows? But he’s not likely to get the nomination. So I think Ted Cruz is smart enough to see all this and make oranges out of lemons. I personally want to see Ted Cruz in a powerful position where he can really make a difference. Like prosecuting all the corruption in the Bureacracy for 8 years.
A good chance Cruz will end up as V.P. or A.G. with a S.C. appointment at the end of eight years. There will be HELL to pay on both sides of Congress.
and I think that is good, we need difference to make progress....but they are the only two that are standing up for America and Americans!!!
Well Cruz is going nowhere in the Senate and he knows it. The Senate is run by the GOPe and they hate his guts. He will never be Majority leader and he’s too ambitious to just stick around and be one of the herd. He needs an exit ramp to get out and Trump is it.
Texas Ted Cruz, Senate Majority Leader.
Texas Senator John Cornyn, Cruz's fetch-it boy! (How sweet would that be!)
Cruz as VP, i concur.
If they teamed up? We might actually win this. In fact, I’m confident we would. Just as confident as I am that if it’s NOT Trump/Cruz, we’re looking at another dummycrat administration. And we all know we won’t survive another dummycrat administration.
Thanks, at least you’re civil.
Many here are not.
I’d be thrilled with with Cruz-Trump in 2016, much more so than Trump-Cruz. But as long as we elect someone who will make repealing Obamacare, repealing gun control laws, repealing all Amnesty-related laws/actions/orders/policies, and repealing the last eight years of new executive orders and regulations, I’m happy.
We're watching two different complimentary styles of narcissists who operate differently but their end goal is the same....a “natural” attraction....Cruz is a “Obsessive Narcissist tempered by his faith (measured and stable)...Trump a Producing Narcissist....which gets things done quickly but not always efficiently) Thus they work very well together.
Most leaders ARE narcissists.....in politics absolutely....
I disagree with Jindal that Trump is a mega ego-maniac though, which is a mental disorder.
They are not the only two.
A Dream Ticket indeed!!!!
Exactly. If Trump picks good advisers I think his Presidency would accomplish a lot of good things.
The fact is, right now, if you accept the fact that Obama is a radical anti-American, who believes America is the root ill in the world, and who wants to punish America and bring her down...ALL of his actions make sense.
Then you have the political establishment wankers who want to play political games with our security and future...and so their actions begin to make a perverse sense as well.
We need leaders in the House and Senate, and we need an administration (like the one we are talking about), who will stand four square up to Obama or any other of his ilk and state, forthrightly and unequivocally that their actions are unconstitutional and will not be tolerated.
For example, on the Iran "deal," that this "deal," we need leaders who will state that it is not a "deal,", that it is a Treaty. Obama is trying to use his "deal," to change US Law and stop the sanctions.
Only a properly ratified treaty, or a counter resolution/act in Congress can undo the current law of the land.
Anyhow, strong American leaders would make this clear and indicate that any move by the executive to suspend US law on his own authority, without a ratified Treaty, or a Act of Congress, will be treated for the treason it is and articles of impeachment will be immediately put before the Congress.
THAT is how you deal with an anti-American like Obama. And I believe both Trump and Cruz are capable and willing to stand like that.
Trump needs to be out there traveling the International Circuit doing deals with companies and the leaders ....A LOT!...That’s his persona....you stick him in Washington behind a desk and he’ll be stir crazy as no other....As VP he has lots of room to get up and go and he knows the key International People as touch stones....we need him on the move on the outside....to generate “”the economic side of the equation”””.
Cruz needs to sit at the desk and tangle with Washingtons establishment ‘on his terms’......which he has been doing...only from a position of power....he knows the establishment, their tactics and the mind fields they like to lay...””the political side of the equation”””...
Impossible!!
Neither Trump or Cruz are approved by George Will, Charles Krauthammer, the National Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Chamber of Commerce, Megyn Kelly, Roger Ailes, the Washington Post, the Bush family, Karl Rove, La Raza, the SEIU, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, CNN, or the View.
Therefore, I cannot support them because all these establishment elites tell me what to do.
Jeb! for me, a man of the people, with compassion for all.
Oh, I forgot -/sarc
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