If Cruz actually makes it into the spotlight, it is going to be a bumpy ride for him. When people really start looking at his record and sources of financing, they will see it is actually the same as Rubio’s.
What position do you hold on the Rubio team?
What position do you hold on the Rubio team?
Do you really want to lend your name to this kind of dishonest BS? Do you think Trump will, as well?
This is an article that I found a few days ago. LINK
If found it troubling.
Except for citizenship, it was McCain/Kennedy 2007 and the Gang of 8 plan. This is not something I've ever supported.
All of them (except maybe Santorum) have used language to allow for exceptions. For Trump, it was “letting the ‘good’ ones back in”.
Cruz has always been for legal status. Rubio wants to roll out alfombra roja.
So all these Cruz hating MSM sources vs single conservative Breitbart.
Sounds like Trump opposition research.
Fine, politics ain’t beanbag so they say.
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“TED CRUZ: Well, my view is first, we secure the borders and solve the problem of illegal immigration. And then I think we can have a conversation about what to do about the people who remain here.”
When liberals say, “Isn’t it about time we have a conversation on gun control” everyone knows what they have in mind. It is not loosening control on guns.
Similarly, when a politician says “let’s have a conversation about what to do with illegal immigrants already here” then you should know what he has in mind. It is not deportation. Same goes for “common sense” immigration changes.
“Have a conversation” is liberal-speak for persuading people against their will.
I can’t believe if he doesn’t want to do house-to-house searches throughout the nation by armed troops to round up housekeepers, construction workers and schoolchildren.
I can’t believe if he seems reluctant to create a special police force to take informers’ reports to root out nannies and dishwashers from our midst.
Cruz currently has no position on illegals already here. Many of us have speculated that he is purposely holding his fire, both on this, and on a few other topics.
The target is still in farway February. No reason to waste all your amunition when the target is so far way.
Don’t be a Walker and Peak in May 2015 might be another way to say it.
I don't know if that means a wall from the Pacific to the Gulf or not.
And neither does anyone else here.
Cruz is legitimate, whereas Marco will be the Dem nominee after Hillary is sent to prison.
The Dems like a slick-talking, Minority, amnesty-loving liberal.
At first glance, all of these things are true about Cruz. His new bill with Sessions is completely silent on doing anything with illegals who haven’t committed a new crime and who are north of the border states, as well.
Bump
You’re falling for Rubio’s liberal/RINO propaganda. From Breitbart:
On Sean Hannity’s radio show on Thursday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) dismissed the suggestion that his GOP colleague Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, was a proponent of the so-called “Gang of Eight” bill during the legislative process in 2013.
Lee, who was on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Cruz at the time the legislation was being debated in that committee, argued Cruz’s efforts to introduce amendments was in no way a gesture that he supported the bill.
He went on to add that that accusation, which would have meant that he and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), one of Cruz’s opponents for the GOP nod, had similar positions on immigration reform at that time were “absolutely false.”
“Well, look — as you know, as you just pointed out, I’m friends with both these guys,” Lee said. “I have enormous respect for both of them. I will tell you this: I serve on the Judiciary Committee with Ted Cruz. I was there with Ted Cruz the entire time as we spent weeks on the ‘Gang of Eight’ immigration bill. I was there as we both drafted and presented amendments trying to make this really bad ‘Gang of Eight’ amnesty bill not as bad.”
“And at no time during that process — at no moment did I ever see Ted Cruz take any action that was tantamount to saying he was embracing amnesty,” Lee continued. “He filed amendments designed to make the bill less bad. But that didn’t mean and does not mean now and never will mean that he was going to vote for that bill. He was just trying to make it less bad. And insofar as anybody is trying to suggest that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio had the same position with regards amnesty or with regards to the ‘Gang of Eight’ bill — that is absolutely false. One-hundred percent false.”
Lee went on to say he did not see a good reason to get involved in the contest and endorse a candidate, but he would “step up to their defense” when one of those candidates is unfairly accused.
This article is a major distortion of Cruz’s record. He did not lie about it; the article writer did.
Here is the actual record:
Read it and get back to me.
This “reporter†knows that Cruz never supported amnesty in any form, not legalization, as Sens. Lee, Sessions, and Schumer have all attested.