Posted on 03/03/2016 1:12:53 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
Generally speaking, your enemies' actions will tell you who or what they fear. Mitt Romney's windy tirade, on behalf of the Establishment and against Donald Trump, is no different. The Establishment fears Donald Trump and not because he might lose. The Establishment is very adept at losing, having lost the popular vote in five of the last six Presidential elections. No. They are afraid of Donald Trump because they not only believe he might win; the actually believe he WILL win. His victory would end their gravy train and suspend, as well as expose to scrutiny, the rackets they have been involved in for the last quarter century. From the GOP Establishment's point of view, a Hillary Clinton victory is infinitely preferable to that.
I have listened for months now as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, among others, have repeatedly lumped Ted Cruz together with Donald Trump as the two threats for which, the Establishment has equal and unmitigated disdain. I think many of us knew that Ted Cruz was no threat to the Establishment but was a cog in its machinery. Willard Mitt Romney, the latest Establishment sacrificial lamb, has now revealed that Ted Cruz is, in fact, an Establishment operative in good standing. At his Trump bashing event, Romney said the following:
"If the other candidates can find common ground, I believe we can nominate a person who can win the general election and who will represent the values and policies of conservatism. Given the current delegate selection process, this means that I would vote for Marco Rubio in Florida, for John Kasich in Ohio, and for Ted Cruz or whichever one of the other two contenders has the best chance of beating Mr. Trump in a given state."
By giving Cruz his imprimatur, Romney provided a very valuable service to any voter who is torn between which of the two anti-Establishment candidates, Trump or Cruz, to support. The fact is there is, and always was, only one anti-Establishment candidate, and it was never Ted Cruz. Someone needs to let Rush and Sean know that they can now drop the line that Cruz is anti-Establishment. Unless, of course, Cruz wants to repudiate Romney's endorsement.
Come to think of it, since we are hearing many calls for repudiations of support/endorsements from this person or that group, perhaps it is not too bold to ask: Can we get a disavowal, Ted?
Didn't think so.
“In the debate last week, when Cruz tag-teamed with Rubio and then said he’d vote for Rubio ahead of Trump, they should’ve seen it.”
Yes, this was definitely the proverbial last straw for me.
I didn’t necessarily support Cruz before, but after that point I became adamantly opposed to him.
Very classy....
It should be obvious by now that the only reason either one of them ran for the Senate is so they could run for President.
Increase in HB1, TPP, Corker Bill, supporting Romney today, stating that he would support Rubio, etc. Not even close to 1000% buddy not even close.
If you decide to ignore any publication, website, or personality that doesn't pick trump as their candidate your informational world will be limited to trumps campaign website.
And not even a funny one.
That would tick me off, You show no proof, this is a nasty accusation.
Cruz has been fighting for us and you kick him to the curb.
Must be nice to read minds.
Who would have thought Palin would have endorsed Trump? The answer is nobody.
Circumstantial case so far, but the preponderance is preponderating.
Cruz, Toomey file amendment to give Congress more power over Obama’s Iran deal
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?id=2304&p=press_release
Ted Cruz: Why I voted YES for Corker Iran bill
http://therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-why-i-voted-yes-for-corker-iran-bill/
Do you realize how insane that statement is?
I guess not...
You have been blind this whole campaign season. Cruz has been taking money from PACs and you think that it is a lie. Well you keep being the Romney cheerleader. I think that is pathetic.
Did trump try to end obamacare? How did he vote?
Do you know how many times the house voted to repeal?
Do you know who argued that the repeal be brought up for a vote in the senate?
Hint, it wasn't trump. He was giving money to Harry Reid instead.
Beware the ides of March. (15th)
Yep nothing like a career politician fixing the mess career politicians have created. I got ya.
I don't think I can take much more of this nonsense and utter insanity, hysteria, whatever on this forum. I generally take a leave of absence during these repetitive periods of time where everyone appears loaded on morphine and anti-psychotics.
I really wanted to try and stick it out this time, but I think it's time for my vacation.
I'll pop back in sometime in 2017.
You people are not conservatives and at best you are sick puppies.
There is a difference between an intellectually honest assessment of any candidate’s policies and a perpetual hit piece posing as a magazine. NR should be ashamed of itself.
Part of its goal, as you suggest, is to educate. Well, when such a MASSIVE swath of the Republican base (not to mention a lot of indies and Dems) so strongly support a candidate, one of their main jobs would be to actually try to understand the candidate’s appeal.
I used to work in a grocery store and we had products our company made, including butter (my department). It had a great box, I always put it in the best display. But nobody wanted it. Now, I could have button-holed every shopper and constantly lectured them about how stupid they were the entire time they were in the store-—or a more profitable use of my time would be to ask what was wrong with my butter and why it didn’t appeal to them. But sticking little signs saying “Poison!” on a competitor’s butter-—especially one that sold the best-—was neither going to stop people from buying that (they would know I’m lying) or sell my own butter.
Have a nice vacation
You’ve done yourself a disservice by being an uninformed voter when it comes to 15 years of work history and volumes of text on the subjects of the efforts and accomplishments of Mr. and Mrs. Cruz. Get informed, it’s all out there on Google. THEN you can have an opinion that is informed and respected.
Cruz has been taking money from PACs and you think that it is a lie.
I don't have any objection to PAC's. But liberals do! What the hell are you?
Trump's self funded campaign should mean very little to a conservative. We don't want to confine our candidates to rich people who self fund. If that were the case, we would have petitioned Bloomberg to run, but he's far to authoritarian and liberal...
So your answer to this is to promote another authoritarian self funded liberal to fix the problem and throw conservatism out the window.
Who the hell are you people?
I don't know, but I am sick of it.
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