Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump had a new target on Sunday, calling fellow White House contender Ted Cruz "a little bit of a maniac" as the U.S. senator surpassed him in an Iowa poll.
Okaaaayyyyy! That’s like the pot calling the kettle black. All of his campaign has been about reasonable things he can do and will be able to do, mainly stirring up hatred.
Cruz's dogged pursuit of conservative Iowa voters has paid off in the form of a 10-point lead over Trump in the state, which has one of the earliest presidential contests.
But last week he questioned Trump's judgment at a private fundraiser, according to the New York Times, after the billionaire businessman advocated temporarily banning Muslims from entering the United States.
All right! Are we saying Ted Cruz is the epitome of a great President? He has everything it takes to be a great president.
That got Trump's attention.
"I don't think he is qualified to be president," Trump said on "Fox News Sunday."
"I don't think he has the right temperament. I don't think he's got the right judgment. When you look at the way he has dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there like a, you know, frankly, like a little bit of a maniac - you are never going to get things done that way."
Of course Trump knows how to get things done. Just shout about it and make the most asinine comments a Presidential candidate can make.
Trump touted his ability to get along with liberals and conservatives and said that was the hallmark of the "world-class businessman" he is.
So, if he is a world-class businessman, does that mean it makes him the ideal person to be President? Is the United States run like a business?
"He's been so nice to me. I mean I could be saying anything and he'd say, I agree I agree,"Trump said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Trump made the same point on Sunday, saying Americans are living in fear of being attacked. He linked his proposal to ban Muslims temporarily to his tough-on-immigration ideas, which included building a wall at the border with Mexico.
So, the fear he is talking about, is the fear he keeps pumping into his campaign rallies, feeding on the fear, some of the American people have. Get in there, pump them up, get them agitated enough, so maybe they can become our“home grown terrorists”, who are already in the United States.
From what I understand, immigrants go through a long series of vetting, before they are allowed to come into the United States, which takes 2-3 years. By time they are able to come in, we are pretty damn sure they are not terrorists.
The woman terrorist, in the San Bernadino Massacre, was not a normal immigrant. She came to this country on a “fiancée VISA”, where they did not do as much vetting of her. Since she was able to come into the United States within about 3-6 months, they didn’t investigate her as good. They have now found out she had posted a lot of jihadist comments to her Facebook page, which were there, while they were checking into her back ground, but they didn’t see it. Maybe there should be a little more vetting on certain VISAS and not banning all Muslims from coming to this country.
"One of the reasons I'm sitting here and one of the reasons I'm so high in the polls is because it all started with the borders,"Trump told CNN. "I took much more heat when I said illegal immigration and southern borders and the wall and all of that than I ever took for this."
I don’t know what “Fantasyland” Trump is living in, but he is a very long way from being the right person to be President of the United States of America. With the way he shoots off his mouth about anything, and everything, trying to stir up the hate, which has already festered over the years, he is not trying to become the Republican Presidential nomination, he is recruiting for ISIS. He is playing right into their hands, stirring up the hatred and encouraging home grown terrorists to attack, who are already in this country. They don’t need to come here, just encourage people like Trump to keep stirring up the hatred.