Posted on 08/10/2015 5:01:16 PM PDT by VinL
Following a campaign rally outside Nashville on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz revealed the foolproof debate question he’d put to Hillary Clinton if the two individuals were to meet on the debate stage next year. The subject of his query? Not Benghazi or destroyed e-mail servers, but income inequality.
“Over the last six-and-a-half years, the rich have gotten richer and hard-working men and women across America have seen their lives get harder and harder,” Cruz said during an exclusive interview with The Federalist on his campaign bus. “The people who have been hurt the most are the most vulnerable. Young people, Hispanics, African-Americans, single moms.”
“We’ve seen for two terms now the big government policies you and Barack Obama advocate don’t work,” Cruz said before getting to the ultimate question for Hillary. “Why should anyone believe a third term of the same failed policies would produce anything different?”
A former college debate champion, Cruz expanded on how he thought Hillary might respond to his question, and how he might react to that response.
“I think she would respond with high level rhetoric about income inequality that would not address any of the substance,” Cruz told The Federalist. “And then I hope to come right back at her with: I emphatically agree income inequality is a tremendously important problem. That’s why it is such a compelling indictment of your record that it’s increased dramatically under your policies.”.
Conspicuously missing from Cruz’s question and response were any mention of any of the various scandals dogging Hillary Clinton: nothing about deleted e-mails, mishandled classified information, Benghazi, or Planned Parenthood organ trafficking. The junior senator from Texas said those omissions were intentional.
“If one goes down the road of scandals with Hillary, it would consume more than a two-hour debate,” Cruz joked. “And frankly, the key to winning in 2016 is running a populist campaign of hard-working men and women against the bipartisan corruption of Washington, which Hillary embodies.”
Cruz, whose poll numbers surged into the double digits after last week’s first Republican primary debate, told The Federalist that 2016 is a grand opportunity for Republicans to invert the traditional media narrative that the GOP is rich and out of touch, while Democrats are the party of the working man.
“My dad came to America with nothing, washing dishes, making 50 cents an hour. When I was in high school, my parents went bankrupt,” Cruz said. In contrast, he noted, “Hillary and Bill Clinton have made hundreds of millions of dollars exploiting their government service.”
Cruz didn’t seem at all worried about Hillary’s power to drive the narrative in 2016. Why the confidence?
“Hillary Clinton hasn’t even driven a car since 1996.”
“Hillary Clinton hasn’t even driven a car since 1996.”
LOL Take their narrative and shove it right down their throat.
Y E S
Meanwhile Hillary sees this comment and furiously comes up with an answer that will put Cruz in his place only to have Ted Cruz come after her on some other issue she wasn’t expecting.
With that in mind, ask a really tough question:
Hillary: When is it safe and legal to enter the gore zone when merging into freeway traffic?
What I took from Cruz was how he has this entire panorama of the campaign before him- down to rejoinders.
He’s already played out every detail in his mind.
Hillary is of average intelligence, and a horrible speaker
Cruz is a brilliant man, and a brilliant speaker
I’ll take this matchup all day long, and twice on Sunday : )
“He’s already played out every detail in his mind.”
No doubt about it.
With candidate after candidate disqualifying themselves in my book, Cruz just keeps pulling the thoughts right out of my head.
Now - a debate that allows for an actual give and take without any grandstanding or stacked questions by moderators? Cruz would eviscerate her.
I’ve read that one of the ways he honed his debating skills was to have like 5 different people firing questions at him about different subjects.
Good thinking
“Take their narrative and shove it right down their throat”.
BINGO!!!!
And keep at it. Give them no quarter. NONE.
This was just a wrist-slapping question from Ted Cruz.
You can bet there are some super razor-sharp Samurai-sword questions Cruz will use to slice and dice HiLIARy into BB-sized pieces in any debate they have, no matter which fifth-column leftist media skank moderates.
HilLIARy will probably hit the sauce before she faces that debate demise.
She’s going to feel compelled to answer him so in effect he’s already debating her.
Sorry, Senator Cruz but you will never get to ask St Hillary that or any other question of substance. She will never appear before any committee you are on and you will probably be forbidden to ask question at any debate OR you will be shut out like you were last Thursday.
I thank you for the thought though.
He does seem to have an amazing ability to play things out in his head.
Problem is, the electorate is dumber than dirt.
Yes, but anyone can make a comment aimed at the opponent, and if it is a strong one, the opponent will look weak if they fail to address it. All Cruz has to say during a debate is "Over the last six-and-a-half years, the rich have gotten richer and hard-working men and women across America have seen their lives get harder and harder. The people who have been hurt the most are the most vulnerable. Young people, Hispanics, African-Americans, single moms. This is the direct result of the policies that my esteemed opponent is espousing and promising."
If Hillary (or any opponent) does not counter that punch, they're toast.
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