Posted on 03/21/2016 7:38:36 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Ted Cruz on Monday mocked Donald Trump's grasp of history and promised not to be neutral in a negotiation between Israel and Palestinians, something Trump has said he would do if elected president.
At his speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Cruz started by highlighting a mistake Trump made during his own speech just minutes earlier.
"Perhaps to the surprise of the previous speaker, Palestine has not existed since 1948," Cruz said, drawing mixed laughter and applause from the crowd.
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Over my lifetime, I have met and worked with many intelligent people,and most lack good judgment. They have no common sense, and that is what I see with Ted Cruz.
Sorry punctuation will be the death of me. I meant one hundred years after Christ.
Intelligence - book wise, is one thing, but common sense and good judgment is another. Ted lacks both. Grits is grits.
I’m not a registered Republican but have voted a straight Republican ticket for 36 years.
OK...Got it....
Well most conservatives do, don’t find many conservatives that vote democrat.
A cousin of my husband’s who is well off and a Christian conservative revealed some interesting information to me recently. As we were stuck in traffic after visiting her mom she asked about the elections knowing that I follow politics closely. I told her that I felt Trump was the one I felt most strongly about based on reading tea leaves. She surprised me by saying that although her and her husband had supported Cruz in his senate bid and to a smaller extent his bid for the presidency in the first phase, she related conversations amongst her circle of upper class connections that gave her pause. I will call this cousin Mrs. M, she told me that she began to wonder about Cruz when she went to lunch with some ladies from her church, one of which explained her son’s reaction to Cruz in a very negative fashion. This son apparently worked with Cruz at a law firm in Houston. She said the son of her friend was of a very upright and well-bred character. Then another lady friend of hers had a lunch and when politics came up she warned that any discussion of Cruz in front of her husband was not recommended as her husband had a strong dislike of him from having worked in the legal arena with him. Mrs. M said that she kept filing away these instances in her mind and the final one came when her husband arrived home late from an afternoon with friends at a country club. He said they spent some time discussing politics and again a very wealthy fellow who had residence in Houston and NYC spoke about Cruz very negatively while talking about what kind of man Trump really was. He related that his kids were clean cut and very gracious and that doing business with the Trump organization had been a pleasure. Trump was a really good man who kept his word. None of this conversation was started by me, we just discussed the candidates and she let me know what she had found out through these opinions from her friends.
Maybe not as bone headed as Obama’s 57 states comment but it’s diplomatically consequential in the context of the Arab - Israeli conflict where anything you say, no matter how innocent or off the cuff, can and will be used against you for propaganda purposes.
On the other hand, Cruz did himself no favors with the snarky correction of Trump because it just makes him look small and petty.
The past history of the Middle East sucks, I'm more interested in how to shape a better future for the region.
Cruz does positive and win -win very well, but he does not do negative campaigning well
“If they are disillusioned the can go through the process of changing parties to the republican, last time I checked there was no money involved in doing this, and no law against it either.”
Maybe they don’t want to switch parties yet, to vote for under ballot candidates still...then there is the fact that in many states there is a time restriction, sometimes several months in advance. Then there are independent conservatives...But, you so glibly just write them all off in order to try to cheat your guy into the nomination...which is nearly an impossibility at this point.
Well we shall see now won’t we, and I just want to know why should we let the other side choose our nominee?
FL has a closed to party primary. Democrats vote for democrats, and Repubs for Repubs... no open primary. Not allowing the opposition, in either case to decide a candidate, the media notwithstanding. Much more sensible than the stupid SC “primary” and other states. People switch parties because of this and it is a truer measure of the “bleed over” vote... as it clearly showed with the Reagan democrats in FL at the time.
My ex BIL is one. Born and raised in Southampton, NY to 2 surgeons. The whole 8 bedroom and 12 bathroom upbringing.
2 PhDs and from Stanford and Harvard Med, but absolutely clueless about real life outside Academia.
He knows what he knows very well, but little else.
Yes...so glad his true colors started to come out in IA. I am so sick of this attitude!!
We are still fighting over Trump vs. Cruz? Now its the Palestine question? I don’t care about some brain fart during a speech. #1 concern is the removal of the GOPe and Democrat Cabal, do you want an insider to straighten it out or an outsider? I want to see new faces, I am more interested in seeing who will be brought in as staff appointees. Do you (plural, not you directly BFAC)trust appointments based on donations or internal associations? I believe that is why Trump may be more appealing to many of the voters, and especially those Democrat voters who are unhappy with the Democrats. The possibility of fresh faces exists more with Trump. Look at the other side, a possible felon, and some old cranky white guy looking for the good old days of the USSR.
Know what I think? The GOPe sees this as an easy election to win, by anyone in the GOPe. Are they aware, that, that kind of thinking will backfire on them as it has in the past? Even if they won with a picked candidate, can we really expect any kind of change in the way business is run in DC? I think most of you know the answer.
Oh wait...Trump has that New York attitude -— the one Cruz criticized.
We don’t have to register in my state, but if we did, right now I don’t think I could put myself down as a “republican” despite having voted that way for 40 years.
Part of that is because now I’m told I shouldn’t be part of their club if I support someone they don’t.
Cruz is very intelligent, and he wants you to know it.
Your entire premise is based upon some unproven theory that people are voting Trump insincerely. Yet, there are polls showing he has about 20 percent support with democrat voters...and he is clearly the choice of independent conservatives. So, you are saying heck with the possibility to expand the conservative base of the Republican party so that your guy might have a better chance of winning...which is about zero in any event? Or, are you one of those fine people interested in stealing the nomination from the people at the convention?
Well I am an American, then a conservative, then a republican. I am a registered republican, so I can vote in the primary and effect who the nominees are. As soon as the republican party is no longer useful, and I can no longer affect that change I will discard the republican party to the trash heap.
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