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Ted Cruz says Bill Clinton not an issue in presidential race
Dallas Morning News ^ | 12/30/15 | Gromer Jeffries

Posted on 12/30/2015 6:47:43 AM PST by VinL

Ted Cruz says he won't use former President Bill Clinton's political liabilities against Democratic presidential contender and former First Lady Hillary Clinton.

"I am not interested in getting into personal attacks and innuendo," he said Tuesday at a news conference in Cisco. "Hillary Clinton’s biggest liability is that her policies are a disaster."

New York businessman Donald Trump, the frontrunner in the Republican race for president, has used Twitter to black Bill Clinton as abusive to women.

"If Hillary thinks she can unleash her husband, with his terrible record of women abuse, while playing the women’s card on me, she’s wrong! Mr. Trump said Monday via Twitter.

Cruz says he won't engage in such attacks.

Instead, he outlined how he would contrast himself with Clinton, should he get the Republican nomination for president.

"Because of the Obama/Clinton economic policies, millions of Americans are hurting," he said. “We have the lowest percentage of Americans working since 1977."

He added that "the Obama/Clinton foreign policy is terrible because of the strengthening of Iran and the rise of the Islamic State.

"That is a record that is substantially indefensible," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2016election; canadian; clinton; cruz; hillary; ineligible; notready; pasteltones; trump; uninspiring
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To: VinL
Setting himself up to be the affable loser. Like Romney and McCain before him. At least that what it seems like. Next he'll be telling us we need not fear having Shrillary as president.

Not good.

21 posted on 12/30/2015 6:58:50 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: P-Marlowe

I agree. Bad move, Ted. The high road took Dole, Romney and McCain nowhere.


22 posted on 12/30/2015 7:00:09 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard then Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: VinL
from Cruz's perspective

It often seems intentional. Not sure that it's a wise long game because of how it's training the electorate. Whatever, it'll be interesting to see how effective it is. Rather like a risky trick play in football. If it works, it's brilliant.

23 posted on 12/30/2015 7:00:16 AM PST by FourPeas (Chocolate, sugar and lots of caffeine. Hard to beat that.)
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To: dforest

It will be very important. Especially if she drags out Bill to do her campaigning for her.

I hope she doesn’t. He is a positive for her. People love him. His approvals are high even after all these years. Don’t know why but they are. How many people can be impeached and still be considered a great president. Not many that is for sure.


24 posted on 12/30/2015 7:01:43 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: VinL

Cruz is proving to be a terrible candidate. Never tell the enemy what you are not willing to do to win. Trump on the other hand show he is in it to win and every option is on the table. Use BC against Trump and Trump WILL USE BC against the beast. Cruz is at his best when he is agreeing with Trump ideas.


25 posted on 12/30/2015 7:02:33 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto Von Bismarck)
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To: jersey117

Sounds a lot like Ronney’s response when attacked by Obama.

Romney did nothing.


26 posted on 12/30/2015 7:02:47 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: VinL

doh..

Cruz just lost the last of my support with that statement.

I want someone who will FIGHT, not tie their hands behind their back before the battle even starts!

GO TRUMP!


27 posted on 12/30/2015 7:02:53 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: VinL

BJ isn’t until there’s another scandal. Can’t wait for Hillary’s next version of standing by her man.


28 posted on 12/30/2015 7:02:53 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: napscoordinator

Hill has already promised he will start campaigning for her. The arrogance of those two.


29 posted on 12/30/2015 7:04:03 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

You hope the high road works for him?

We’ve been hoping the high road works against these Clinton’s since 1991

Hope runs out, doesn’t it?

Of course the high road doesn’t work against them. Nor will it

Ted Cruz would get laziness. Sorry. He can be the best debater but this is football without helmets in a prison.

And It is as much about Bill Clinton as it is Hilary and that’s BEFORE Hilary drags him into it herself


30 posted on 12/30/2015 7:05:07 AM PST by stanne
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To: VinL

I get a little nervous. So many times the refusal to deal with such issue in others ends up boiling down to something not good.


31 posted on 12/30/2015 7:05:26 AM PST by John W (Less Than Two Years of ISIS Best Friend Left)
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To: VinL
Ted didn't get the memo that political correctness is very out in 2016.

Having a serial predator and his primary enabler in the White House is not an important issue? In fact it is the most important issue because you can not trust one thing that comes out of the mouth's of such vermin as the Clinton's.

32 posted on 12/30/2015 7:05:33 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: sarasota

I don’t know about arrogance, but I do know she wants to win.


33 posted on 12/30/2015 7:05:33 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: VinL

I very much support Ted Cruz in taking this position.


34 posted on 12/30/2015 7:05:42 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: grania

Yes, innuendo. If Hillary had a serial killer campaigning for her, it would be wrong to imply she was also a serial killer, right? Maybe terrible judgement, but that’s a direct problem. Innuendo as Ted seems to be using it here is simple- minded guilt by association. It’s a bad form of argument because it doesn’t deal with the real problem, the flaws in the policy and character of the candidate. This sort of thing just drives it home again that Ted is living out his Christian faith, and that should play well with the vast new evangelical coalition he is hoping to build. It makes sense.

Peace,

SR


35 posted on 12/30/2015 7:05:54 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: FourPeas

Not sure that it’s a wise long game because of how it’s training the electorate
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FP, the issue of Hillary’s enabling of her husband WILL ALWAYS be before the public. Cruz doesn’t have to speak to it— because there’s no end to those who will.


36 posted on 12/30/2015 7:05:59 AM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, then to consent to wrong.)
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To: stanne

Laziness = Lazio -ed


37 posted on 12/30/2015 7:06:26 AM PST by stanne
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To: VinL

Ted, you are not going to win this election by debate points.

Hillary is the greatest evil we have in this country—her Presidency will change this land in ways even Obama could not dream of.

You better be prepared to fight, and fight hard.


38 posted on 12/30/2015 7:06:57 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
I hope the high road works for him, because if he’s the nominee, this obnoxious witch will use every gutter tactic in the book against him and, unfortunately, history shows that they work.

Though Cruz said Bill isn't the issue, he leaves it wide open to attack Hillary head-on. Hillary can't come close to matching Cruz' intellectual level. He'll destroy her just by broadsiding her alone.

39 posted on 12/30/2015 7:07:30 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: VinL

Staying above the fray and refusing to lower yourself by wrestling with a pig (Bill Clinton).

Classy move. But that’s Ted. A class act.


40 posted on 12/30/2015 7:08:13 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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