Posted on 03/12/2016 10:21:12 AM PST by WilliamIII
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas said on Friday that Donald J. Trump bore responsibility for “creating an environment” that encourages violence at his events.
Speaking to reporters at a local Republican dinner outside Chicago, where Mr. Trump had just canceled a rally amid fierce confrontations between his supporters and protesters, Mr. Cruz began by saying that the “protesters who took violence into their own hands” were responsible for the episode.
“But in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top,” Mr. Cruz continued. “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.”
Mr. Cruz invoked the protests and violent police run-ins at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and predicted that future skirmishes were likely.
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Cruz is right....
The protesters are wrong...and Trump is wrong...
it isn’t a right or wrong story
They both suck!!!
Cruz is America’s only Hope.
Yes, and from my perspective not being able to acknowledge that it's possible for the leftist protesters AND Trump to be wrong is being willfully obtuse. YMMV
I don’t know about anyone else but if trump doesn’t get the nomination I’m writing him in.
My first post here and frankly Trumps flip flops are nill to me. Cruz/Rubio flip flops on tpp are huge to me and the economy I’m in. If Trump not having gov experience is an issue to some, nay I say rather it’s a blessing. He comes from a bottom line environment rather than a ‘we’ve got to spend this budget on something or we’ll get less next year.’
Cruz is a low life weasel, has shown this repeatedly for years, and last night his words were the biggest weasel words by a low down liar I’ve ever heard.
How secure do YOU feel in your First Amendment rights if we cave to anyone who shouts you down and intimidates you with threats to shut you up?
I was fooled too.
Sheesh have you seen the video?....I wanted Cruz....at least as a secondary player...but now?.....Hes saying that P.C. is more valid than Trumps 1A.....Really?....
Hes toast
The video...of Cruz speaking is really bad...
Really?...the guy they arrested on stage is connected to ISIS
I have seen the video - he says nothing remotely of the sort.
He did, as the first thing he said: "Now, the responsibility for that lies with protesters who took violence into their own hands." He was tone-deaf to leave it at that - but this Cruz-blames-Trump meme going around is ignorant at best and deliberate disinformation at worst.
That omission and lack of emphasis speak volumes.
Let the chips fall where they may: Ted Cruz has damaged his brand greatly in this incident.
Trump, conversely, has brilliantly avoided a setup that was orchestrated to smear and damage his campaign using staged violence and disruption as the tool.
Instead, Donald Trump preempted the thugs and saboteurs, and demonstrated that he's a step ahead of them on the chess board.
Instead of leading and being statesmen in a moment when it was called for, the three second-tier GOP stooges were exposed as utterly routine and predictable politicians.
And I assure you there are a lot of "low info" voters who can see transparently what Cruz did, and won't forget it...
Cruz is toast
No, it's more like a baldfaced lie of the type usually associated with Democrat administrations.
But this is the GOP-e, so...oh wait.
She said, “I have friends who’ll tell me, ‘I like Ted, but he’s too far to the right.’ But I hear that less and less now.”
So Heidi is confirming that Ted isn’t as conservative as he used to be.
Are you sure it isn't simply that she has fewer and fewer friends? Or, that fewer and fewer people feel comfortable telling her that they like Ted anymore ? :-P
Trump talked about punching protesters in the mouth, then was mostly silent when one of his supporters sucker punched a protester at a rally of his.
The sucker punchee was a 26-year-old who was verbalizing obscenities and flipping the bird.
The guy that clocked him, was a 78 year old, who pointed out we had no idea who the obscenity-shouter was.
Then a day or so later, there are orchestrated mass protests causing the leading candidate (by popular votes received, and by delegate count -- no "running up the numbers" in a single highly populated home state here -- to cancel a major talk, *in* the home town of a prominent Dem politician, a town with a legendary history of violence and political protests; the home town of a known unconvicted domestic terrorist who admitted in public he was "guilty as sin, free as a bird" -- who was also present at the protests.
The day after that, a known supporter of a leading Dem candidate for President -- which candidate visited the f*ing Soviet UNION for his honeymoon -- rushes the stage at the Republican front runner's rally.
But somehow, this is "all" the GOP candidate's fault.
And I guess you never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky, either.
"I don’t excuse anyone, either the communist nor trump."
While drawing a false equivalence between members of a political party which engineered famines to the point that victims of the famine had to decide which of their children they would eat, on the one hand, and a successful, patriotic American businessman.
And doing the leading GOP candidate for President the dishonor of not capitalizing his name.
You are worse than pond scum; and in fact deserve banning from FR.
Indeed. I categorically reject the assertion that ANY exercise of free speech in ANY WAY mitigates violence unless that speech violates the "reasonable man" standard for employing deadly force in self defense.
Obviously, you have a different (and hopefully legally defensible) standard for abridging free speech.
So what is it?
No, the immature anarchists are. Nobody controls anybody’s body but them.
They all make their own choices.
This is deliberate to try to disqualify him.
It’s going to backfire because the harder the left pushes, the harder the right is going to push back.
Trump supporters will only increase their resolve.
Also, it MAY, hopefully, wake up some to what the other side has to offer us if THEY get in control.
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