Drawing a connection between Trump’s comments and a wider push for political correctness, Cruz claims that the GOP frontrunner has thrown in his lot with the “PC Police” as they try to force everyone who disagrees with them to cave into their agenda and punishing those who continue to dissent:
“Cruz said that the instance of Boston Red Sox great Curt Schilling getting fired from ESPN over common sense criticisms of the transgender bathroom issue is a sign that ‘of course’ political correctness has gone off the rails in American media and culture. Schilling appeared earlier in the day on Breitbart News Daily with Stephen K. Bannon on Sirius XM 125 The Patriot Channel to note that he isn’t apologizing because he did nothing wrong, and he won’t back down. Cruz continued:
‘There is a liberal intolerance that seeks to punish anyone who dares speak out against political correctness. It is an intolerance for free speech that Donald Trump has reflected as well when he has said he wants to punish newspaper reporters who dare criticize him. The left engages in bullying, they engage in using brute political force to punish those who disagree with them. Real conservatives actually believe in individual liberty, and believe in free speech. The same way Donald Trump says if any company actually dares leave America, he will punish them—that is almost to what Obama and Hillary say, that they’re going to impose fines and penalties on any company that leaves America. The companies leaving America are being driven out by misguided leftwing policies that are making it harder and harder for small businesses to survive. Rather than using force to punish those who disagree with you—which is the approach of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—we should be working to create and environment that businesses want to come and expand jobs. As president, my priorities will be jobs, freedom and economic growth—and by reducing the taxes and regulations that are hammering small businesses. By ending amnesty, securing the borders, ending sanctuary cities, and stopping welfare benefits for illegal aliens, we will see millions of new high-paying jobs come back to America, manufacturing jobs coming back to America, wages rising. So, in three or four years, we’ll hear yet more talk about corporate inversions but this time it’s going to be other countries complaining that their businesses are leaving their countries to come to America because it’s such a good place to do business—creating jobs here, driving up wages. That’s the proper approach. That’s not Donald Trump’s approach. Donald Trump’s approach is the approach of big government power to punish you and indeed that’s the same approach Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have. It doesn’t work. I believe in the power of the American people, not the brute force of the government to punish anyone who dares to oppose Big Brother.’
When asked, to conclude the interview, if he believes that Trump’s answer here is proof that Trump is not prepared on issues or has no ideological core, Cruz replied that he thinks it’s worse than that:
‘It’s worse than that. Trump is and always has been a New York liberal. That’s why he supported partial birth abortion for most of his life. That’s why today he supports taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood just like Hillary Clinton. It’s why in the last 48 hours he came out for abandoning the pro-life planks of the Republican Party. It is why he is advocating for allowing grown men into the bathroom with little girls just like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It is why he supports the individual mandate in Obamacare just like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It is why he is advocating raising taxes just like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It is why he supports allowing illegal immigrants to become citizens just like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton although Donald would have them fly back to their home countries first and then come back as U.S. citizens. Those are his values.’
Cruz also, for the first time since Trump’s big win in New York, once again hammered Trump for ‘New York Values.’ That criticism got him in trouble in the Empire State, where he won no delegates after hitting Trump with the phrase earlier in the cycle, but now that the map shifts back to America’s heartland with Nebraska and Indiana in the month of May, Cruz is turning back to the attack line. He said:
‘They are liberal New York values and you know one of the most insightful comments made recently was made by Jonah Goldberg of National Review—it was when Donald Trump went on television and called for punishing women who have abortions. Jonah pointed out how Donald was rightly criticized by both pro-life supporters and pro-choice supporters for his ridiculous position calling for punishment of women. This is an important insight, Jonah said that is something that is said by a liberal that is pretending to be a conservative. A New York liberal who’s trying to pretend to be pro-life thinks that pro-lifers want to punish women. No one who is actually pro-life, who’s actually thought through the issues and principles, would ever believe that because with every abortion there are two victims: The unborn child whose life is taken, and the mother. There are millions of women who grieve about the consequences of abortion, who grieve about being pressured into abortion, sometimes against their wishes by Planned Parenthood and those who profit from the business of abortion. And Jonah linked it to a similar incident when Donald was on CNN and Donald was asked about Donald being endorsed by David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Donald refused to denounce the Ku Klux Klan, and Jonah pointed out that a liberal thinks that conservatives wouldn’t want him to denounce the Ku Klux Klan because a New York liberal believes that’s who conservatives are. Anyone who is a principled conservative wouldn’t hesitate to say the Klan is evil and bigoted and racist and has no place in American society—and denounce the Klan in an instant. All of these comments that are playing out are Donald revealing who he really is: A New York liberal who put on a mask for a few months to pretend he was a conservative and as Donald observed just a few months ago he was the establishment. He is the establishment. He funded not only Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi when took over Congress and passed Obamacare, but he also funded the Republican establishment when they sought to crush the Tea Party and crush conservatives—and that’s why the Trump campaign is now run by Washington lobbyists who want to expand the cronyism, expand the power of Washington over our lives and we’re all seeing Donald’s true colors.'”
Source: Breitbart
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If Ted wants to use the bathroom for girls then maybe that is why he opposes Donald trump