Posted on 05/29/2016 7:26:15 AM PDT by Brookhaven
The fact that he didn't choose this path either shows that he's incapable of strategic thinking and planning (a fatal flaw in any potential president) or perhaps he really does know that the questions of his constitutional eligibility for the office are more than just campaign rhetoric. In either case they don't bode well for any sort of national political future for him.
How is conscience defined here? Refusing to vote for a murderer or refusing to vote for someone who called you a liar and beat you fair and square? I wonder.
Cruz filled out the checklist better than anyone else running, as far as apparent conservatism. But, seeing the man in action on the campaign trail was not flattering to him at all. He’s going to have a lot to overcome, if he continues to have Presidential aspirations.
As for Cruz, he burned his bridges when he sold out to the GOPOe
At this point, I really do not care. He just needs to COMPLETELY and unequivically stand down. End his delegate and conventions scheming and release his delegates. He needs to forget 2020 as that is Trump reelection. Besides, he is NOT ELIGIBLE and has not address his undisputed Canadian birth. Even he once said he was ineligible. Time he faces facts and moves on.
Yeah, so much political capital to lose, NOT.
There is an electoral majority to be had without them AND their supporters.
If one is to truly remake a party, one must not only vanquish the opposition, but expunge them...and then win without them. They must be isolated and completely without influence.
Cruz and his supporters have chosen this fate for themselves. They will be expunged and the nominee will go on to a general election win.
At the time, as Tigar wrote in his 1969 article, any college student who asked could get a student deferment. When he graduated in 1968, Trump’s classification shifted to 1-A, or "available for service."
Had that stood, Trump would have been drafted.
But Trump had a physical exam in September 1968. He had taken one less than two years earlier that did not disqualify him for service as we can tell from his 1-A classification in July 1968. However, his second physical was followed in October with a new classification, 1-Y. That designation put him near the bottom of any call-up list. It meant he would only be drafted if there were a national emergency.
His draft number was 356 just for the record.
I don’t think that Cruz, or Bush. Will ever endorse. They’re both licking their wounds for being “cheated” out of the office they felt an entitlement to.
They’ll both maintain an Al Gore level pout and do everything they can to damage Trump.
A murderer? You lost me there.
I posted the link so you could read for yourself that the conscience clause is nothing new.
I agree 100%, we should move forward without them. Those who wish to join us are welcome, but to those who don't we need to treat them with suspicion and as potential enemies.
No matter how many facts you give some people, they persist in believing the lies the left has told them.
It gives them cover, an excuse to not vote for him because their guy lost.
While I'm fairly sure that part of the deal he made with the GOP to keep running was that they would not fund a primary candidate against him...I'm even more certain he will not be reelected to the US Senate.
If there is not a grassroots challenger in the primary (look for a very rich man), there will be a "moderate" democrat that cleans his clock in the general.
"Ted Cruz was a Canadian Citizen when he asked for our vote 6 years ago. He deceived us by not disclosing that fact, one which he most certainly was aware".
Good. Frankly Cruz’s campaign showed so much pettiness, deception and game playing as well as his unChristian behavior, I don’t want people to think Trump supports that.
You’re right of course. That was my point, after all.
//Instead, he’s doing the self-destruct thing.//
And claim ‘principals’ when it is really hubris
What I’m saying is this: is the conscience clause designed for those who cannot vote for a nominee because he may be a criminal or possesses some other awful trait or can the clause kick in because the delegates are pouting because Cruz lost the popular vote?
You think he has any honor?
Or in this case the “principled” conservatives.
So I take it you don’t support Cruz then?
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