Posted on 02/26/2016 2:09:51 AM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
Ted Cruz said late Thursday that rival Marco Rubio would make a better president than Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
"Marco is not my enemy, Marco and I are friends. Marco and I would both make a much better candidate and a much better president than would Donald," Cruz told CNN's Jake Tapper after Thursday's Republican debate.
"I like Donald personally. He's a charming guy, although he can turn on you in an instant," Cruz continued.
Rubio is a better candidate than Trump, even with all the things you’ve listed.
FRiend, you are now supporting amnesty and Obamatrade. And Cruzers call Trump supporters cultists? LOL.
Seriously. That is the ONLY thing that MAKES SENSE? No other possible explanation that could make any sense?
Arguing with liberals has always been frustrating. Arguing with 'conservatives' has only recently become so...
Trump supports re-entry, and he says he’s going to make it easy. What’s the difference? I guess you now support amnesty too.
The fact that Trump supporters do not even know their guy's position is another turn-off. I am tired of his supporter's insults and you only proved it by your post to me that accused me of being an amnesty supporter. You further solidified my position!
Yes, but isn't that basically what we used to call a distinction without a difference?
I mean, given a binary choice between Rubio and Trump, Cruz becomes a Rubio supporter. I just don't see how it can be spun any other way.
Trump supports re-entry, and he says he’s going to make it easy. What’s the difference? I guess you now support amnesty too.
The difference is Marco Rubio wrote an amnesty bill with Schumer in the U. S. Senate. After campaigning against amnesty. Now Cruz defacto endorses that.
All of Cruz’s weak “Me Too” campaign season tough talk on amnesty is hypocritically exposed now. And that his “conservative” supporters are now comfortable with amnesty and obamatrade shows what a cult Saint Rafael has created.
Ted Cruz is destroying himself. Robot Rubio is part of the Gang of 8 and is determined to push amnesty down our throats. Cruz is smart enough to see through that empty suit, and yet he feels Rubio makes a better president than Trump!? It tells me that Cruz is at heart an amnesty supporter.
I don’t like Rubio. But his track record on this is no worse than Trump. You can the make the distinctions between private sector comments and writing bills, but I don’t see how that really matters. Both are claiming to have changed their position.
What exactly are Cruz and Rubio’s healthcare plans? How are they going to deal with the uninsurable? Be specific like they wanted Trump to.
Chances of getting an answer=0%
Pray America wakes
I don't trust Rubio on amnesty which is a big concern. I don't trust Trump on anything since he's been all over the place.
Pro eminent domain
pro Planned Parenthood funding (you might as well ask blacks to fund the KKK because they make such pretty white sheets)
Bush lied us into war
Neutral on Israel/Palestinian conflict
Sister would be a good supreme court justice
Pro Obamacare mandate one day and against it the next
pro tariffs
Christians (Kim Davis) should lose job or violate religious convictions
Gay marriage settled law/ must bow to courts
For starters
I don’t like Rubio. But his track record on this is no worse than Trump. You can the make the distinctions between private sector comments and writing bills, but I don’t see how that really matters. Both are claiming to have changed their position.
I’m truly sorry you can’t see the difference between hot air and the actions of sitting US Senator.
Marco Rubio swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. Then wrote an amnesty bill with Schumer that would destroy the Constitution by importing millions of undocumented Democrats.
You’re fine with that because Ted Cruz is now fine with that. There’s really nothing more to discuss here. Good day.
Rubio is a lot more conservative and consistent than Trump except for the Gang of Eight.
I don’t trust Rubio on amnesty which is a big concern. I don’t trust Trump on anything since he’s been all over the place.
Rubio is also in favor of Obamatrade. Apparently, Ted Cruz is now to. That shouldn’t be a surprise after he campaigned for Obama’s TPA for a month.
Wow Cruzaholics really ought to read this. Cruz just lost any anti-establishment votes he might have been courting. He’s put a stamp of approval on Rubio and he and Rubio are now the same...professional politicians who put party above country.
Here is the transcript of the interview with 60 minutes.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-60-minutes-scott-pelley/
search for ‘your plan for Obamacare?’ to find the exchange in the transcript.
You are correct, Donald didn’t say ‘the government is going to pay for everybody’s health care’. His exact words are ‘the government’s gonna pay for it’.
Read the transcript. Or watch the video.
I don’t expect you to abandon DT or change your mind about him or whatever. But Aquinas wasn’t spewing ‘pure crap’.
I also don’t like Rubio’s security over privacy issues nor his eagerness for boots on the ground. But Trump is a salesman who has flipped on just about every major issue. He still doesn’t have a coherent healthcare plan.
Yeah, I’d draw the line differently for eminent domain—but it’s understandable why a major RE developer would see benefits for troubled cities, especially. Likewise gas pipeline developers see benefits for using it on hundreds more properties for a new gas line.
Priorities: we’re really not going to stop abortion by stopping funding to PP, which apparently wasn’t technically breaking any laws.
IMO Bush did as well as lie us into war. I can’t fault Trump for seeing Bush more clearly than many here do. It will also help him in the general election. And he did soften his initial comments.
He’s not neutral on Israel and Palestine and I don’t expect him to give anything away on that count.
No, he wasn’t for “the” Obamacare mandate (which BTW Rubio keeps in his Obamacare “replacement”). He was for the mandate for insurers to cover those with pre-existing positions. Yes, that is problematic for insurance without some sort of separate pools, such as some states do with high-risk drivers, but Trump didn’t give that level of specifics, he simply answered the question about the pre-existing condition mandate.
He’s not going to nominate his 80yo sister, that was simply a nice word on his family member.
He is right that if China continues to cheat on our deals that we should reciprocate in some way, though as he has repeatedly said he’s in general pro-free trade. I much favor that than Cruz’s pushing the TPA leading to TPP and then trying to pretend he wasn’t for TPP.
I don’t really think he was wrong on the Kim Davis thing—just like I don’t think we should change the functioning of government to accommodate Muslim government employee sensibilities.
Gay marriage is settled law that is indeed inevitable at this point—we must bow to the courts insofar is that is how our government is structured. But if he follows through on naming Scalia/Alito-type judges as he claims, we’ll be in good shape.
And yeah, I do believe Trump broadens the GOP tent with some of the social-issue impurities that you don’t like. That IMO is part of what makes him electable in 2016, whereas I doubt Cruz is.
Cruz should have played nice and been #2 for 4 or 8 years before stepping up to the presidency.
What Name Can Generate the Most $ for the FR? Trump? Cruz? Rubio?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3402118/posts
So far ...
Trump 40 [by two pledges]
Cruz zip. [not one dime by anyone.]
Rubio zip. [not a dime by anyone.]
Healthy competition to help get this forum over the budget hump.
NOTE: number of pledges will also be counted as a separate and more significant IMHO.
So, borders are less important to Cruz than he claims?
Doesn’t Rubio want to triple H-1Bs visas?
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform
Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.
Does Rubio still call enforcing the law ‘militaristic’?
Rubio: “If We Prove Illegal Immigration Is Finally Under Control,” Americans Will Respond In “Responsible Way”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/23/rubio_if_we_prove_illegal_immigration_is_finally_under_control_americans_will_respond_in_responsible_way.html.
“Bill O’Reilly grilled Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio ...”
“Look, I don’t believe the American people support some sort of militaristic round-up of individuals, and I don’t think you could carry it out. The sort of tactics it would required would offend the American people,” Rubio said.
bmp
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