Posted on 03/05/2016 3:38:24 PM PST by Marie
I think it’s possible that after Rubio’s poor Super Tuesday that the anti-Trump vote is coalescing around TPA Teddy.
The GOPe was suffering PTSD over the thought of Trump possibly running the table- they will be in catatonic apoplexia if it starts looking like Cruz has a chance of being nominated. They could have “bargained” with him, Cruz not so much. GO CRUZ!
I bet Romney is sitting in his plush den, yelling at the TV:
"I didn't mean CRUZ!!! It's supposed to be RUBIO!!! Dammit, America, can't you get ANYTHING right???"
I’ll be 65 when the election comes around. This will be my last vote. But only if Trump is the nominee. I’ll vote for him because I’d like to die believing my country is on the right track. Other than that, this is my last rodeo and if it’s not Trump, then I don’t really give a damn.
What are you talking about?
Did Ted Cruz not call the Republican Majority leader a liar on the senate floor.
The GOPe doesn't like him, cause he's not like the, don't play their games.
Reality to Lodi!
so far, Cruz in Ks and Maine, tied in Kentucky
wouldn’t it be funny if Cruz flips the polls and wins Louisiana.
woohoo
As will I. And I'll have the decency not to spike the ball and dance around the end zone like a chimpanzee with its ass on fire.
Looks like the establishment is having a nightmare.
Just when they were starting to warm up to Trump, up jumps their worst fear: Cruz.
At least Trump will compromise. Cruz has made it clear that he is not interested in compromise with the establishment.
Cruz at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC., 2011 In addition to his success in Heller, Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 5–4 in Van Orden v. Perry.[41][45][54]
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow,[41][45] in which he wrote a brief on behalf of all 50 states which argued that the plaintiff did not have standing to file suit on behalf of his daughter.[59] The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz’s brief.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 5–4 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.[45][60]
Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt to re-open the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and were on death row.[41][45][47][54] With the support of the George W. Bush Administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate.[50][61] They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the US had breached its obligations under the Convention.[62] Texas won the case in a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.[50][61]
As much as I want to believe, I do not see a way Cruz or Trump gets nominated. The process is not fair because it is controlled by the GOPe (Reince and his lackeys with their GOPe support in congress)
” ... if it’s not Trump, then I don’t really give a damn”
Agree emphatically. All this talk about Cruz’s independence, horsefeathers ... Trump is the anti-establishment candidate.
Cruz is Rubio’s doppelganger. The GOP-e is ecstatic tonight.
Why do you think the GOP-E selects the delegates? Do you know how your state’s delegates are selected? Have you ever taken part in delegate selection?
“Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose.”
So you believe that the choice for conservatives is to elect an extremely liberal, big government businessman? Why would a conservative want to vote for him?
Thank you Ted Cruz.
Upon hearing Cruz's claim of a major player in Florida "some top Bush aides played down Mr. Cruz’s role, a few sounding surprised to hear that he had had one.
Joe M. Allbaugh, Mr. Bush’s campaign manager, said he was unaware of Mr. Cruz’s work because he himself was “with Baker in Tallahassee” at the time.
George J. Terwilliger III, who helped lead the legal team, said Mr. Cruz was indeed “a contributor to the effort there, albeit at a relatively junior level.”
Another lawyer, Daryl Bristow, said he had recently learned of Mr. Cruz’s involvement by looking through a photo album from the recount period.
“If I had not seen that picture, I would not have known he was there."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/us/politics/before-rise-as-outsider-ted-cruz-played-inside-role-in-2000-recount.html?_r=0
Messiah Ted isn't viewed by others the same way his supporters view him.
I am not fighting you. I probably agree with you. The democrats and the GOPe are all about their power over us. Do you think the GOPe will let independent people pick delegates? The delegate selection process varies between states. The establishment on both parties controls it. The D’s have the Super Delegates that are not binded by voters. The R’s have the more subtle rule 40 and controlling second round delegate voting.
Trump now up 40% to 33% for Cruz in KY.
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