If Trump wins the nomination, which seems likely, I will vote for him...
It certainly isn't because of any Trump supporters convincing me...
Ted Cruz is a decent conservative man who took on the Washington cartel, keeping his promise to his Texas constitutions...to fight for them...
I didn't like how his campaign turned out, but it was in response to Trump's campaign...
Trump posters projected Trumps over the top type childish campaigning style demonizing Cruz and Rubio posting lie after lie with virtually zero actual evidence to support their vile smears...
This place became like kindergarten class with no teacher ...
I understand political opposition to a candidate, but what happened here was so over the top, so in the sewer, so low brow...
I thought we as Freepers were better people...
Guess not...
Two things I learned:
some conservatives here also believe in the Marxist axiom: "The end justifies the means" and how easily people project the persona of their candidate...
Which is sad...
Sure. Personally I think it's pretty childish. That being said, it clearly gets the point across of the person saying it thinking the recipient is a blind sycophant of Mr. Cruz. It doesn't help further the cause of discussion. One of those retorts that invites further flaming. Hopefully it's use becomes outdated.
I'm with you Popman. I know many of the Trump people on this forum are good conservatives, but there are many who just can't stand the idea someone else doesn't like their man. So they've character assassinated one of the strongest conservatives in Congress in many years.
Ted Cruz's behaviour during the entire course of this primary season, and him teaming up with the GOPe, has perfecetly epitomized unprincipled, Machiavellian tactics.
Ted Cruz has been magnitudes more Machiavellian than Donald Trump has. The GOPe and Cruz campaign long ago ceded the moral high ground to Donal Trump.
Cruz played the race card against Trump, knowing full well that it was a blatant smear, and totally false.
Then, after the cancellation of Trump's Chicago rally by organized Leftist criminality, Ted Cruz gave only lip service rebuke to the thugs, and, instead of showing solidarity with the frontrunner, or even his own party, Cruz proceeded to go on a ridiculous diatribe against Trump, even throwing in the "Trump campaign attacks reporters" smear that, of course, turned out to be a total hoax.
Then, of course, there was Cruz trying to blame Donald Trump for the National Enquirer story, which was totally false, and which was being shopped by the Rubio campaign weeks before. Indeed, the Rubio campaign went back and deleted Tweets in a futile effort to cover their tracks.
To reiterate, it is, by far, Ted Cruz and the GOPe who have employed Machiavellian tactics during this primary season.
Donald Trump has employed various tactics, some of them needlessly lowbrow, but his campaign has most definitely not used the same type of amoral tactics as Cruz has. Cruz, after jumping in bed with the GOPe, has taken the term "Machiavellian" to new heights.
One must be viewing the world through rose-tinted glasses to not see the naked, unprincipled opportunism which Ted Cruz has engaged in repeatedly.
Apparently, Ted Cruz plans on limping into the GOP convention with, at best, about 700 delegates or so.
And then what's he going to do somehow, magically? He's going to seize the nomination from Donald Trump, displacing the party's clear frontrunner.
Then what? This is the most ridiculous part: after swiping the nomination, he will:
It would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.
Ted Cruz appears willing to sacrifice not only the party, but even the entire country, on the altar of his own blind personal ambition and egotism. God forbid!
Vote Trump