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12-23-2015, 10:39 AM
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That WaPo cartoon depicting Cruz's daughters as monkeys was despicable. No one would stand for the same being done to obama's kids...but of course, the liberal cartoonist claimed Cruz's daughters are "fair game" since they were shown in a campaign ad with Cruz and his wife.
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12-23-2015, 12:44 PM
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Re: Sen. Ted Cruz Makes It Official
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That WaPo cartoon depicting Cruz's daughters as monkeys was despicable. No one would stand for the same being done to obama's kids...but of course, the liberal cartoonist claimed Cruz's daughters are "fair game" since they were shown in a campaign ad with Cruz and his wife.
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She said the kids are not off limits if you use them as props. LOL! Who else are you going to read Christmas stories to? Uh, children.
I like Ted's Twitter response:
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Classy. @washingtonpost makes fun of my girls. Stick w/ attacking me--Caroline & Catherine are out of your league.
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The Editor said he hadn't seen it before going to press. Right. We believe you. LOL!
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12-24-2015, 04:23 PM
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Re: Sen. Ted Cruz Makes It Official
Exclusive RedState Video: Ted Cruz Explains why His Position on H-1B Visas Has Changed
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RedState: Senator, I think the path to legalization issue has been beaten to death and I won’t go over it again. One of the things you have supported in the past is raising the ceiling on the number of H-1B visas. Is that something you still support?
Ted Cruz: It is not. And in this circumstance, there are changed circumstances, and anyone responds to changed circumstances. I have supported and I still support the original idea of the H-1B program which is to bring in very high skilled workers to produce jobs and economic growth. That’s a good thing, when you have more jobs and economic growth.
However, we have seen in recent months this program being abused over and over and over again. We’ve seen companies, blue chip names that we all know bringing in not high skill workers, but medium to low skill workers, and IT workers, and firing American workers and replacing them with foreign workers. And then, to add insult to injury, forcing the Americans who have just been fired to train their replacements. That is wrong, it is grotesque, it is offensive, it is a perversion of the program.
And so, like any rational person faced with changed circumstances, you change your position in response to how the facts have changed.
That’s why I’ve said that as President, I will impose a 180 day moratorium on the H-1B program, in order to carry out a comprehensive audit of the companies that have received H-1B visas to determine if they are abusing the program – if they are bringing in low skilled workers, if they’re firing American workers, if they’re perverting the program. Any company that has abused the program will be suspended from participating in it, and any company that has violated the criminal laws will be prosecuted.
You know, this is yet another manifestation of the lawlessness of the Obama administration. They don’t enforce the laws, the President decrees illegal and unconstitutional amnesty, but he’s also lawless with big companies that are abusing the H-1B program.
It’s one of the reasons I joined with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) 80% in introducing legislation to dramatically reform the H-1B program so that it can function as it’s intended to. To require, for example, an advanced degree, not just a bachelor’s degree, but a master’s or a PhD. To put a preference to U.S. universities. To require as a minimum salary $110,000, so that you’re not using it to bring in low cost foreign workers and replace American workers. To put in a 2 year hiatus from any company bringing in H-1Bs from laying off workers, so you gotta choose one or the other, but you can’t be laying people off at the same time you’re outsourcing.
All of these are reforms that are common sense I think to make the program work. And we need to make sure that our immigration laws prioritize American workers first, and as President, that’s what I’ll do.
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12-26-2015, 09:40 AM
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Re: Sen. Ted Cruz Makes It Official
I am not a bit surprised that Mike Huckabee would stoop to such dishonesty in order to attack Ted Cruz. I am sure he is bitter over the evangelicals supporting Cruz over him.
After all, Huckabee, being the goober that he is, courts the evangelicals and then supports the Establishment. Case in point, he sided with the other Establishment members in support of David Dewhurst over Ted Cruz.
Huckabee has an entitlement mentality, thinking he deserves the honor. I've never believed he was an honest conservative, and he isn't.
The latest is that Huckabee, using the Left's tactics, is commenting on a "cropped" video clip, put out by Politico, to try and disprove that Ted supports same-sex marriage.
Politico, cuts the clip with "NO" and along with Huckabee, tries to say that Ted is dishonest and says things behind closed doors differently than what he says publicly.
Here are Mike Huckabee's comments, and it's beyond the pale dishonest of him.
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“Conservatives are being asked to ‘coalesce’ around yet another corporately-funded candidate that says something very different at a big donor fundraiser in Manhattan than at a church in Marshalltown. Shouldn’t a candidate be expected to have authenticity and consistency, instead of having to look at a map to decide what to believe and what to say?
“One reason I do respect Trump is that whether you agree with him or not, he doesn’t pretend with his principles or change his message depending on his location or audience. If issues like marriage and the sanctity of life are truly issues of principle and not just politics, then there should not be geographical boundaries to what is right and wrong.”
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Except, here is the full exchange:
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Male questioner: “Can I ask you a question? So, I’m a big supporter. And the only issue I really disagree with you about is gay marriage. And I’m curious: Given all the problems that the country’s facing — like ISIS, the growth of government — how big a priority is fighting gay marriage going to be to a Cruz administration?”
Cruz: “My view on gay marriage is that I’m a constitutionalist and marriage is a question for the states. And so I think if someone wants to change the marriage laws of their state, the way to do so is convince your fellow citizens — and change them democratically, rather than five unelected judges. … Being a constitutionalist is integral to my approach to every other issue. So that I’m very devoted to.”
Same questioner: “So would you say it’s like a top-three priority for you — fighting gay marriage?”
Cruz: “No. I would say defending the Constitution is a top priority. And that cuts across the whole spectrum — whether it’s defending [the] First Amendment, defending religious liberty, stopping courts from making public policy issues that are left to the people. …
“I also think the 10th Amendment of the Constitution cuts across a whole lot of issues and can bring people together. People of New York may well resolve the marriage question differently than the people of Florida or Texas or Ohio. … That’s why we have 50 states — to allow a diversity of views. And so that is a core commitment.”
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12-26-2015, 09:46 AM
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Re: Sen. Ted Cruz Makes It Official
The Huckster, Huckabee.
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Mike Huckabee Takes Aim At Ted Cruz In Iowa
Earlier this week, Huckabee attacked Ted Cruz — though he did so without mentioning his name — over Cruz’s principled stance on homosexual marriage.
This is unseemly. Huckabee, of all people, understands the federalist argument on homosexual marriage: it is an issue for the people of each state to decide. But Huckabee, at his core, is a big government social conservative.
The Iowa Caucuses are February 1. If the Huckabee Super PAC is already off the air and the Cruz campaign is just starting its ad buys, this media blitz stops being an election strategy and begins to look and smell like a consultant payday before the Huckabee campaign goes dark.
http://www.redstate.com/2015/12/25/m...ted-cruz-iowa/
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12-26-2015, 10:05 AM
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Re: Sen. Ted Cruz Makes It Official
From Mark Levin. He mentions Nick Ryan who used to work for Santorum.
The link has Rick Tyler, Ted Cruz's National Spokesman, sharing how the ad is dishonest.
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Mike Huckabee hack, Nick Ryan...
Mark Levin·Friday, December 25, 2015
Mike Huckabee hack, Nick Ryan, is running an Iowa PAC that's spending a fortune smearing Ted Cruz; Ryan started out as a staffer to former RINO congressman Jim Nussle. Can't these losers ever run on their records or positions? I guess the question provides the answer. Beware, Iowa!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/24/politi...ary/index.html
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Huckster, Huckabee...
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12-26-2015, 10:27 PM
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Re: Sen. Ted Cruz Makes It Official
Anyone wondering why Sen. Ted Cruz, who leading in Iowa and 2nd nationally isn't being asked on the Sunday morning shows? I am wondering that myself.
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12-27-2015, 09:02 AM
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Anyone wondering why Sen. Ted Cruz, who leading in Iowa and 2nd nationally isn't being asked on the Sunday morning shows? I am wondering that myself.
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Because he's not establishment like Rubio and he's not crass like Trump. He's the real deal, and both the establishment and the media do not want the voters to hear him.
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12-27-2015, 01:23 PM
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Re: Sen. Ted Cruz Makes It Official
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Because he's not establishment like Rubio and he's not crass like Trump. He's the real deal, and both the establishment and the media do not want the voters to hear him.
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Agreed. My question was actually rhetorical.
So, what's going on with Ted's ground game is that he stays behind to speak to the people, personally, after his speeches and any Q&A's. The people like him a lot.
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12-28-2015, 11:25 AM
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Re: Sen. Ted Cruz Makes It Official
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Observers say Cruz in control in Iowa
Cruz’s campaign has a chairman in all 99 counties — many with several co-chairs — more than 2,000 volunteers and a network of pastors advocating for Cruz, according to Frazier.
http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/sta...4d7c36ab6.html
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The Cruz campaign also set up a Cruz camp for volunteers coming from out of state to help. They had to open a second camp, because the first filled up so quickly.
It would be nice to see the people take this away from the Establishment.
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