03/7/16

Support for Trump Backfires on CPAC

By: Cliff Kincaid | Accuracy in Media

Donald J. Trump has been pouring tens of thousands of dollars into the coffers of the American Conservative Union (ACU), the sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). But the financial bribes went for nothing, as Trump cancelled his CPAC speech last Saturday amid reports that hundreds of conservatives were preparing to turn their backs and walk out on the billionaire businessman’s remarks.

The reason for the threatened walkout was apparent in the results of the CPAC straw poll, a survey of CPAC participants, showing Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in first place with 40 percent, Senator Marco Rubio second with 30 percent, and Trump getting only 15 percent.

Trump’s massive financial investment in the ACU and its chairman, lobbyist Matt Schlapp, didn’t pay off in the end.

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03/6/16

Yet another prominent leftist chooses Trump: Cruz is ‘a hard-line, Tea-Party style, evangelical warrior’

By: Renee Nal | New Zeal

Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential hopeful, speaks during the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., March 4, 2016. The four-day conference to unite the political leaders of the conservative movement continues through Saturday. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)

Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican presidential hopeful, speaks during the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., March 4, 2016. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)

Australian “public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics” Clive Hamilton explained that Donald Trump is the lesser of two evils for the Republican nominee because Donald Trump “has a history of taking liberal stances on a range of issues,” while Ted Cruz “is a hard-line, Tea-Party style, evangelical warrior who would ruthlessly use the power of the presidency to impose his vision on America.”

Hamilton’s revealing article was first published at the Conversation, and was re-printed at econotimes. Hamilton laments that while Cruz has a “record of fanaticism,” Donald Trump is more of a “dealmaker.”

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