Don't vote for Fake Cruz, Rand supporters

[Unknownuser]

Carson is a decent alternative but has very little chance of winning the GOP nomination at this point. He'll probably drop out after New Hampshire.

Is that dude still running? Does he ever talk?

 

[BenMuldowney]

Cruz has said in exact words that he will use whatever tools are available to get elected.. that means that he will do ANYTHING to get elected.. lie, cheat, whatever.


so the guy has no morals... fuck him.


oh and until 18 months ago he was a canadian citizen... but at least hes open about being born in canada... so its a little better than obama. haha

well he kept his word with the mailer threatening voters to vote or be shamed. and then his campaign lied about carson dropping out... so far cruz is not the Christian candidate.

 

[WQuantrill]

what did he do to mike lee?

He lied about his criminal justice reform bill on the Senate Floor. Made a big commotion...

When Lee brought up his bill in the committee hearing, he wasn’t sure if he’d have Cruz’s support. But he certainly didn’t anticipate what came next.

Cruz attacked the bill as dangerous and politically poisonous. He said it would lead to more than 7,000 federal prisoners let out on the street. “I for one, at a time when police officers across this country are under assault right now, being vilified right now, when we’re seeing violent crime spiking in our cities across the country, I think it would be a serious mistake for the Senate to pass legislation providing for 7,082 criminals to be released early,” he said. The bill, he claimed, “could result in more violent criminals being let out on the streets, and potentially more lives being lost.”​

Cruz went on to warn his fellow senators that if they voted for the bill, they would imperil their careers. “We know to an absolute certainty that an unfortunately high percentage of those offenders will go and commit subsequent crimes,” he said. “And every one of us who votes to release violent criminals from prison prior to the expiration of their sentence can fully expect to be held accountable by our constituents.” Essentially, Cruz was saying that the legislation would let dangerous people out of prison, they would commit more crimes, and the senators would be subject to Willie Horton-style attack ads.

Lee, who was sitting right next to Cruz, could not believe what he was hearing. The bill, he responded, wouldn’t actually release any violent criminals from prison, and its sentence reduction for gun crimes was to reduce the minimum for felons caught with guns or ammunition from 15 years to 10 years—a provision that had once sent a man to prison for 15 years when he picked up a stray bullet in order to clean a carpet. “It is simply incorrect to say that this suddenly releases a bunch of violent criminals. It is tougher on violent offenders,” Lee sputtered. “That statement is inaccurate…. We’re not letting out violent offenders. That is false.”

Lee’s communications director, Conn Carroll, confirmed to me that Lee and his staff had no advance warning that Cruz was planning to brutally attack—and, in Lee’s view, misrepresent—his friend’s bill. “Going into that hearing, we definitely thought it was in the realm of possibility he would come out against it, just not with that kind of colorful language,” Carroll told me. The bill made it out of committee that day, but now it appears to be in trouble, with several other Republican senators taking Cruz’s line against it at a Senate lunch last week.

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Today, Lee has conspicuously joined every other sitting senator in declining to endorse Cruz’s presidential run. And while Lee and Cruz are still friends, the episode vividly illustrates Cruz’s talent for irritating other senators.

 

[Fivezeroes]

Is that dude still running? Does he ever talk?

He mumbles a lot. Kinda like Boomhauer from King of the Hill. I think he will be out after NH.

 

[Brett85]

Is that dude still running? Does he ever talk?

Yeah, he got 10% in Iowa. He's expected to not do as well in New Hampshire though.

 

[tonyaustin]

You mean the guy who is trying to sell a "humble foreign policy" and trying to get the religious vote is going to switch polices once elected?

I suppose the young people have not be around long enough to see how that tactic has been played by the establishment each cycle.

 

[CPUd]

LOL I guess today is the day for all the Trump and Cruz recruiters to come out of the woodwork on here and go at it. You guys should see if you can get an admin to open up subforums for them.

 

[Joeinmo]

Carson is a decent alternative but has very little chance of winning the GOP nomination at this point. He'll probably drop out after New Hampshire.

Im not really in to who can win, but more of who is the next best, and that is in no way a Cruz trump or Rubio

 

[ds21089]

Not that I like Cruz in the slightest nor would I vote for him.. But didn't Carson say something in response to carpet bombing that it was a "merciful" method?

I think he's just as influenced, corrupt as the others on stage.

 

[Joeinmo]

Not that I like Cruz in the slightest nor would I vote for him.. But didn't Carson say something in response to carpet bombing that it was a "merciful" method?

I think he's just as influenced, corrupt as the others on stage.

yes when he referenced to the children and unfortunately that's what happens when you have neocon campaign managers trying to get you votes, but before he decided to run _ Carson was very non-interventionist.

 

[Spikender]

LOL I guess today is the day for all the Trump and Cruz recruiters to come out of the woodwork on here and go at it. You guys should see if you can get an admin to open up subforums for them.

Said something similar in another topic. It didn't surprise me at all that they wasted no time once Rand suspended his campaign in flying out of the dark and saying "Support Cruz to Stop Narcissist" and "Support Trump to Stop Snake Oil Salesman".

Both blow nuts, writing in Paul or a third party candidate that's closer to my views.

 

[Joeinmo]

Said something similar in another topic. It didn't surprise me at all that they wasted no time once Rand suspended his campaign in flying out of the dark and saying "Support Cruz to Stop Narcissist" and "Support Trump to Stop Snake Oil Salesman".

Both blow nuts, writing in Paul or a third party candidate that's closer to my views.

Boom totally agree

 

[sparebulb]

Raphael Cruz aka Ted Goldman voted for the TPP before he voted against it. (sort of)

 

[cajuncocoa]

One would think Paul supporters would be smart enough to realize this....