Posted on 04/14/2016 12:12:55 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
The establishment sure is warming up to old Ted.
>> This, after all, was written by Martin Armstrong of Armstrong Economics....whoever that is.
I’ve never known Armstrong to be wrong before (whoever he is), PLUS it was on the interwebz. Must be so!
I have no doubt the RINOS in Congress had no desire to be "on the record" as not fighting to defund them.
PS...about this bogus story title? Cruz never had the GOPe's support....so he had nothing to lose.
That was another plus that got him my vote.........
This is more evidence that they're going to throw him under the bus.
VOTE TRUMP.
That may be your takeaway, but most conservatives takeaway that Cruz will actually fight for the pro-life principle rather than just claim to be pro-life after years of being pro-abortion like Trump. I admire Cruz for standing up to the RINOs in the Senate!!
No need to confess ignorance. We accept you with all your flaws.
If Cruz doesn’t admit that he was wrong about the Michelle Fields thing... and apologize to Trump, then he’s clearly too much of a wuss to hold ANY office. This is his big chance to prove he’s a man.
“Cruz supporters started to disconnect from him when Cruz blamed the Chicago violence on Trump.”
This should have been a warning to thoughtful Cruz FReepers, and it surprised me how little impact it had.
Today’s been a great day for trump. The news is about dropped BS case. So glad the liberals like Cruz went off on Cruz about the campaign manager. Cruz’s words have come back to haunt him.
“Just because the count is low on the FR caucus, doesn’t mean there’s not just as many Cruz supporters as there are Trump supporters. Maybe, like me, other Cruz supporters don’t feel it’s worth their time to vote on such a silly caucus....every day.”
If that’s true, why are all the “Vote Cruz” votes in the caucus right after each day opens? It fine if you prefer cognative dissonance to the truth, but you’re just cruzin’ to loosin’ nonetheless.
Why would any of them vote for Cruz on the second ballot? If the point is to nominate a candidate with less support than the front-runner, why not go all the way to the bottom and nominate the least popular candidate. It’s the same logic.
I’m sorry, but you missed the point.
Sadly there is a great difference between “fellow conservatives” and FReepers on the FR Caucus.
They aren’t conservatives anymore. They sold their constituencies out and buried the details.
Uniparty vs. patriots.
Globalists vs. Pro-Americans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0&feature=youtu.be
It’s a Big club and You ain’t in it.
Eddie Haskell-#1 (Chicago)
Eddie Haskell-#2 (Fields incident)
At the family town hall with his daughters in the audience;
T. CRUZ: He would be someone that you would be a fool not to look at seriously. He’s very, very talented. And, you know, you asked if Marco and I are friends. Let me tell you a story.
So last year, I wrote a book called “A Time for Truth.” And in the book, one of the chapters is talking about the year I spent as a law clerk at the Supreme Court. And it describes — the chapter begins with me watching pornography on the Internet with Sandra Day O’Connor, which was a bit of a bizarre experience.
(LAUGHTER)
It was the first of the Internet porn cases to go to the court, and the court librarians were showing the justices what the Internet was, and they’d pull it up, and the story I told, I was clerking for Chief Justice Rehnquist. They paired the chief justice and Justice O’Connor and their law clerks were in this little room looking at this computer screen that pulls up hardcore porn. And Justice O’Connor — I still remember, she leaned forward and she squinted and said, “Oh, my!”
But the Marco piece of this — so the book comes out and there were some — you know, reporters thought that was a funny story, so they wrote about that story. And I’m on a plane and Marco texts me and says, “Holy cow, you watched porn? Our oppo researchers missed that.”
(LAUGHTER)
Now that was funny. And listen, he’s got a good sense of humor. I laughed when he sent that text.
http://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-cnn-family-town-hall-full-transcript-new-york-city-447880
>> It is difficult to portray yourself as a leader when you have so little influence that no one follows “your leadership.”
Perhaps you would be happier with trump, who would “lead” the country to full embracement of faggot marriage and abortion on demand.
I’ll stick with Ted Cruz, because principles. CONSERVATIVE principles.
You nailed it. Why go yo the caucus and read all the vile postings from Trumpets when you can get them right here on any thread dealing with the primary race?
“Cruz will actually fight for the pro-life principle “
And just where will all that “fighting” get us? Abortion is murder, but unfortunately, until the electorate changes their collective minds, “fighting to stop it” isn’t likely to accomplish anything, but it will take us away from stuff that we can and should get accomplished. BTW, if Ready Teddy had knocked up one of his GFs, what do you think he would have done about it to save his political skin?
Cruzers used to vote. Then events unfolded and Ted’s mask fell off. Only a handful remain: Texas diehards, can’t blame em and cornpickers from Iowa.
(posted by Freeper Beautiful Gracious Skies)
“A prominent aide to George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign could barely contain himself when we asked him to discuss Cruz, who worked in the Bush campaign’s policy shop.
This person described Cruz as hyper-arrogant and widely despised, and he emphasized—over and over—that the pervasive dislike of Cruz within the Bush ranks had nothing to do with ideology.
(Cruz, he noted, never objected to Bush’s call for compassionate conservatism, immigration reform, and national education standards, and no one on the campaign regarded him as an ideologue.)
The problem was simple: Cruz’s personality.
“Ted thought he was an expert on everything,” says this campaign veteran, who asked not to be named. “He was a smart and talented guy, but completely taken with himself and his own ideas. He would offer up opinions on everything, even matters outside his portfolio. He was a policy guy, but he would push his ideas on campaign strategy. He would send memos on everything to everyone. He would come to meetings where he wasn’t invited—and wasn’t wanted.”
In fact, this Bush alum recalls, “the quickest way for a meeting to end would be for Ted to come in. People would want out of that meeting. People wouldn’t go to a meeting if they knew he would be there. It was his inability to be part of the team. That’s exactly what he was: a big a$$hole.”
“I don’t know anyone who had a decent relationship with Cruz.” And when Bush became president, his top campaign aides agreed Cruz should not be offered a job in the White House.
“No one wanted to work with him,” this source remembers. “George W. Bush couldn’t stand the guy.”
This person adds, “It’s a real quandary for Bush campaign people: Trump versus Cruz, who to vote for? And it would be a big quandary even if it’s Cruz versus Hillary Clinton. That’s how much they cannot stand him.”
by Tim Murphy & David Korn -MJ
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