Anybody got an argument that's not a blatant attempt to pimp their own candidate?
Here’s one: his wife works for what’s potentially the most evil entity on earth outside of our federal government. Don’t know exactly what that’s worth but it has to give pause.
The things Trump does take #1 consistently in with GOP polls is the number of people who distrust him, and the number of people who won't vote for him.
Go ahead and cheer him on. He needs the help getting his sister onto the Supreme Court.
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I would like to hear Cruz give the specific details of why he strongly supported TPP before deciding against supporting it and I'd like him to give a specific rundown of the lies that he accused McConnell of.
Not that I doubt McConnell lied. But if Cruz is going to make the statement, he should get specific about it.
Cruz gave a full disclosure on TPP on the Rush Limbaugh show a month or two ago. Bottom line was he trusted McConnell to keep his word. Big mistake.
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Cruz owns Texas when it comes down to who people would actually vote for.
That's opinion which has no basis in fact.
Texas is a big state. But somehow Lyceum could only find 261 GOP primary voters. So their margin of error is +/- 6 percent. Trump leads by 5 points.
In May 2012 Dewhurst was leading Cruz by 17 points; 46 to 29 percent Cruz beat Dewhurst; 56.8 to 43.2.
Cruz should drop out. Trump has Texas all sewn up...
Texas Lyceum Republican Primary Donald Trump 21% Ted Cruz 16% Ben Carson 12% Jeb Bush 10% Carly Fiorina 6% Marco Rubio 3% Mike Huckabee 2% Rand Paul 1% John Kasich 1% Bobby Jindal 1% George Pataki 1% Rick Santorum 1% Lindsey Graham 0% Chris Christie 0% Jim Gilmore 0% Survey of 261 GOP primary voters was conducted September 8-21, 2015. The margin of error is +/- 6.01 percentage points. Data courtesy of the Argo Journal.
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SOMEBODY please tell TRH that Netanyahu NEVER said "Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away."
The good news about Cruz is that his fund raising in solid and he's got a lot of money in the bank. He'll still be there when this gets down to 4 candidates and then hopefully his message on Constitution, rule of law and individual liberty will speak volumes.
I hope it's the right strategy. I hope the people support him at this point don't give up on him before he get's a chance to use that money. I think he's our best bet at this point.
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I have much admiration and regard for Ted Cruz. I like him. Most of the article is valid and he has a great future in government. He serves us well.
At the same time, I do not feel that he is the best candidate for President in terms of "moving ideas and advancing policy." He is too loyal to conservative issues to be the leader that we need at this time –– or to attract the cross-party votes necessary to win. Even if he won, he would have trouble in getting anything done.
For lack of another, I still think that Trump fills that bill, warts and all.
His principles are fine in my book, I like that he is a successful businessman and, as such, he understands the economy is ways that no politician ever can.
Look at his tax reform plan, which is fantastic. For example, getting much of the $1.2 trillion or so sheltered abroad by American companies repatriated to the US would be hugely beneficial. That is their own money, they earned it, and it is stuck abroad so that it is not sacrificed to the spendthrift federal government and wasted on foolish policies. No other American politician has suggested an acceptable way to induce them to bring it in. That is just one way he is smarter –– street smarter –– than the others.
CORRECTION: I was wrong. It is $2.1 trillion, not $1.2 trillion, in foreign profits that US companies are holding abroad to avoid US taxes. See http://tinyurl.com/oo23c35
Having been personally involved in such activities, I feel for the companies who are painted into a corner in not being able to repatriate those earnings, though of course it seems sensible to keep the funds abroad and use them to build international activities.
As just one example from my distant past, as I'm sure they won't mind, at Gillette we built spectacular foreign businesses by using those funds. Now it seems that they may have done enough. Certainly the state-of-the-art blade plant we built in Iran in the '70s which was nationalized by the Ayatollah didn't work out so well.
I still credit Trump and his advisors with offering the most creative plans and the ones that serve the country's interests the best.
We need to appeal to enough voters to get cross-overs and I think that Trump can best get more to come around, as much as I like several of the others. People do like a winner and a guy with cojones.
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Anybody got an argument that's not a blatant attempt to pimp their own candidate?
Cruz is an Israel firster.
That's something that's starting to cost candidates support.
The GOP is going to have to get away from it.
A lot of Americans are getting tired of fighting Israel's wars.
Trump is an Israel firster.
Takes family vacations in Israel every year to visit his relation and check up on his business interests.
I don't know about family members, though I doubt that.
As for business interests, let's think a bit about where you might put investments, or even license your brand, in the Mideast. Where is the most reasonable risk? Who are most likely to honor their commitments? Where can you repatriate dollars?
I trust The Donald to look to his own best financial interests. Also, keep in mind that most of the real estate tycoons in NYC with whom he does business every day are Jewish. He has business relationships with most of them. It is understandable that he has to get along.
And BTW, these are substantive comments, not just pitching his candidacy.
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