Posted on 03/12/2016 4:41:25 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In a press availability last night in Chicago, Ted Cruz laid it all out there.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
We need to learn to have disagreements without being disagreeable. To have disagreements while respecting human beings on the other side. Earlier today over thirty people were arrested at one rally. And then tonight, as violence broke out, the rally was canceled all together. Now, the responsibility for that lies with protesters who took violence into their own hands. But in any campaign responsibility starts at the top. Any candidate who is responsible for the culture of the campaign. And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that is facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discourse.
This wasn't the only statement that Cruz made. Earlier on Friday he gave a lengthier statement to Hugh Hewitt that really establishes his point well.
... there's no doubt that a candidate bears responsibility for the culture that is set from the top. And you know, my approach ... listen, it comes from how you view the voters. You know, Donald demands of the voters that they stand up and pledge their allegiance to him, pledge that they wold vote for him. As I mentioned last night, I think that gets it exactly backwards. This is a job interview. You know, kings and queens demand of their subjects that they pledge allegiance to them, but in America, we don't pledge allegiance to men. We pledge allegiance to the flag. we pledge allegiance to the Constitution. But we don't pledge allegiance to men. and this is very much .. each of us should be asking to work for 330 million Americans. And what I am doing is pledging my allegiance to you. And part of that is reflected on how you approach protesters, because if you are the monarch from on high, then protester is disloyal and needs to be cast out and punished.
That last line is killer. This is how so many at Trump events view protesters, and how so many Trump fans online view those who don't worship him. They see disloyalty. And they want to punish it.
Both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have correctly pointed out that you can't tell someone to go start a fight and then feign innocence, which is what Donald Trump is and has been doing. In unrest and violence at his rallies, Trump is seeing the fruits of his campaign. And everyone knows it. But as I mentioned earlier, you simply cannot ignore what the leftist movement in America has become. The protest movement. It is organized, it is funded, it is violent at the time and place of their choosing, and they choose it for maximum media exposure. It would be absurd to ignore the reality of the groups who have instigated time and again in the past. They've been waiting for a moment like this, and they are going to milk it for everything it is worth. And it is worth plenty of cash.
Like Leon said, it's really hard to find a good guy here.
I’m in FL, and I still haven’t voted early or by mail. Now it’s clinched.
After Cruz blaming Trump for the lefty riot in Chicago, I’m voting for Trump.
Ted Cruz, go to hell.
Dope. I guess Cruz thinks all radical leftists are all good people, just misunderstood?
Trump LOVES America. Obama strongly dislikes America.
Trump wants America to win. Obama insists America lose.
Trump wants to strengthen America. Obama does everything to weaken America.
Cruz, Rubio and Kasich have sided with Obama, Bill Ayers, BLM, Moveon.org and the GOPe.
True colors have come out. Cruz blaming a fellow candidate for the mob is outrageous - siding with the community organizers instead of Republicans in not a very honorable trait. I just threw my Cruz 2016 hat into the trash along with the garbage.
Cruz stepped in it again. Trump played it perfectly. Let it roil for network coverage then cancelled due to what every voter knows is lawless Chi-town tactics.
No Cruzbots at Red State. We are sick and tired of the asymmetry and un-level playing field. One never sees a Sanders or Clinton rally disrupted except by people more to the Left. 100% of the time they capitulate. Now we have someone who expressed how we feel about these losers and will not take their BS.
You’re the second person on FR to throw their bumper sticker away. Cruz made another huge error here.
I’m surprised that JR still allows TedState articles to be shared on here. They are sludge on the bottom of the barrel.
I just commented in the other thread...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3408170/posts
This didn’t just happen, it took organizers to make it happen. I think the word is “cognitive dissonance”, you see violent protesters breaking up a Trump rally and the news people droning on and on about Trump’s supposed violence.
You will never see Trump people breaking up a Bernie rally, or shouting down a Hillary rally. Because Trump people, Republicans in general, conservatives in general, are normal people who quite simply are not violent except in extremis.
It is the Left that is violent, and uses violence as a tool. That is so obvious, it is right there in front of you on the TV screen and yet the talking heads are telling to ignore your eyes, ignore your eyes, see what we tell you to see.
Ted Cruz just saw an opportunity to take a cheap shot; he missed the chance to make the more important point. That’s too bad. Lord knows people have taken their share of cheap shots at him, but there are times when you have to lay that aside and stand with the civilized against the barbarian.
I was open to either Cruz or Trump until Teddie’s sellout last night. NO MORE. It’s Trump all the way now.
FUTC.
Make America Great Again!
Why should Trump get all the free publicity?
George Soros just did control Trump! He shut him down. Not a good thing, but it did happen.
“Any candidate who is responsible for the culture of the campaign. And when you have a campaign that disrespects the voters, when you have a campaign that affirmatively encourages violence, when you have a campaign that is facing allegations of physical violence against members of the press, you create an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discourse.” Ted Cruz
This from Mr. “Voter Violation”, Mr. Ted Beck, and the candidate for whom a senior campaign official referred to their campaign as a “psyop” to manipulate potential supporters based on psychographic profiling. Really shows a lot of respect for voters. Right?
If Calgary Ted holds a rally in a forest, does anyone notice?
Bull. Vacuous platitudes.
FU TED
you just lost my support for good.
GO TRUMP!
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