By SJ Otto
The recent protests against Donald Trump are
understandable, but no really helpful right now. That is because most of the
other candidates are just as bad as he is. That is especially true of Tec Cruz,
who many non-Trump supporting Republicans want to win the nomination this
summer.
The facts are that there is very little difference
between Cruz and Trump on the issues. The main difference is that Trump is way
less polished, speaks openly about his plans and has made a lot of inflammatory
speeches leading to the impression that he is a racist.
But if he is a racist then so is Cruz. Presently Cruz is
not having trouble from protesters but he really should. He would make a
terrible president and his policies are almost identical to Trumps right down
the line.
A few examples:
Immigration:
From Politico
"I was watching the other day. And I was watching Ted
talk. And he said, 'We will build a wall.' The first time I've ever heard him
say it," (Donald) Trump said in a TV interview on Sunday. "And my wife, who was
sitting next to me, said, 'Oh, look. He's copying what you've been saying for a
long period of time.'
"Every time somebody says we want a wall, remember who
said it first," Trump groused at an event in New Hampshire on Tuesday evening.
"Politicians do not give credit."
As Cruz has talked more often about building a barrier along
the United States' southern border with Mexico, so too has Trump stepped up his
complaints, mentioning the Texas senator's alleged intellectual theft every day
so far this week.
But Cruz aides counter that their candidate broached the
idea of a border fence long before Trump seized the agenda on immigration by
vowing to deport 11 million undocumented migrants and promising to build a
"big, beautiful wall" to keep them out forever.
Donald Trump wants to close the borders as Sen. Ted Cruz is
calling for law enforcement to patrol Muslim neighborhoods following Tuesday’s
deadly terror attacks in Brussels .
For his part, Cruz said the U.S.
needs to “immediately halt the flow of refugees from countries with a significant
al Qaeda or ISIS presence.”
“We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure
Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized. We need to secure the
southern border to prevent terrorist infiltration. And we need to execute a
coherent campaign to utterly destroy ISIS ,”
Cruz said in a statement.
The Republican presidential hopeful said Obama has not
been tough enough on ISIS .
“It is long past time that we had a president who will
acknowledge this evil, will call it by its name and utilize the full force and
fury of the United States to
defeat radical Islamic terrorism to defeat ISIS,” the Texas senator said.
Ted Cruz took the stage Monday at a massive pro-Israel
gathering and immediately tore into rival Donald Trump’s Israel-backing bona
fides.
“Let me say at the outset,” the Texas
senator said as he took the stage at the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee’s annual gathering, “Perhaps to the surprise of the previous speaker,
Palestine has
not existed since 1948.”
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That was a jab at Trump, who spoke right before Cruz and
several times referred to the Palestinian territories, some of which are under
Israeli control, as “Palestine ”
— a definite faux pas in some pro-Israel circles.
Cruz, who is seeking to emerge as the Republican Party’s
anti-Trump standard bearer, sprinkled several other swipes at Trump throughout
his address to AIPAC, a high-profile Washington
conference that drew thousands of people and every presidential candidate
except for Bernie Sanders.
Abortion:
Donald Trump has issued a short response to pro-life
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Trump says Cruz’s recent television
ad saying Trump “can’t be trusted” on abortion issues is off base. Trump says
he is pro-life and has been for a long time.
Cruz
is out this week with a new campaign commercial slamming businessman
Donald Trump, who is running as a pro-life candidate, on abortion. With Planned
Parenthood funding and a future Supreme Court nomination battle in mind, Cruz
says voters “can’t trust” Trump on those key pro-life issues.
World
Trump: Water boarding
fine for terror suspects
Donald Trump said Tuesday that authorities interrogating
Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam should "do whatever they have to
do" to get information in light of the deadly terrorist attacks in
Belgium.
Trump said
on NBC's "TODAY" if he were elected president he
would make sure the United
States has "strong borders," and
said people looking to come into the country would need "absolute perfect
documentation."
He and other presidential candidates reacted to the deadly
explosions that rocked the main Brussels
airport and the metro system near European Union buildings.
Abdeslam should be subjected to harsh interrogation
techniques, Trump told NBC. Belgian authorities should be able to "do
whatever they have to do" to get information from the suspect, he
continued, adding waterboarding "would be fine."
"If they could expand the laws, I would do a lot more
than waterboarding," he continued. "You have to get the information
from these people. And we have to be smart. And we have to be tough. We can't
be soft and weak."
Dismissing critics who say harsh interrogations don't yield
reliable information, Trump said: "I am in the camp where you have to get
the information, and you have to get it rapidly."
Trump made his first remarks on the Brussels terror attacks on Twitter.
GOP rival Ohio Gov. John
Kasich tweeted a statement on the Brussels attacks.
"We must ... redouble our efforts with our allies to
identify, root out and destroy the perpetrators of such acts of evil," the
Kasich statement read, in part. "We must strengthen our alliances as our
way of life and the international system that has been built on our common
values since the end of the Second World War comes under challenge."
Texas Sen. Ted
Cruz released a statement
on his Facebook page.
It read, in part: "Make no mistake — these terror
attacks are no isolated incidents. They are just the latest in a string of coordinated
attacks by radical Islamic terrorists perpetrated by those who are waging war
against all who do not accept their extreme strain of Islam."
"When I am sworn in as president," the Cruz
statement continued, "we will name our enemy — radical Islamic terrorism.
And we will defeat it."
Cruz later criticized Trump for saying to The Washington
Post that he favors
a light footprint in the world.
"Donald Trump is wrong that America should withdraw from the
world and abandon our allies," Cruz told reporters Tuesday.
The Texas senator also
called for a halt to the entrance of Syrian refugees into U.S. until a screening review can
be conducted.
Democratic front-runner Hillary
Clinton said in a statement Tuesday: "Terrorists have once again
struck at the heart of Europe , but their
campaign of hate and fear will not succeed."
The statement also read, in part: "Today's attacks will
only strengthen our resolve to stand together as allies and defeat terrorism
and radical jihadism around the world."
-When Trump wins the nomination, then it will be time to
protest him.
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