Try THIS!!!
Posted on 04/20/2016 8:29:04 AM PDT by Jeff Head
“Cruz has known for some time that he wouldn’t win prior to the convention. He’s just a wrecking ball with some huge donors.
It was reported very early in the campaign that Cruz was well funded. He was a wrecking ball (though mostly ineffective) in the senate and that’s what he’s doing now.”
Appealing to the moral side of Ted Cruz is just STUPID.
He is all ambition! Sooner or later Cruzers have to ask WHY all those big $$$ donors and most of his supporters (except the few he still has conned) are open border funders and TPP like trade deal beneficiaries.
I will be surprised if the globalists allow America to have a new President sworn in. I expect they can generate a false flag large enough to accomplish Martial Law and end the Republic. I’m expecting the Rapture to happen between NOW and late Fall of 2017 ... those clouds are lookin’ more and more like homeward.
Yes, interesting dynamics in that family. I agree.
I agree he’ll carry on too.
Tead is one of those guys that is always right, even if the whole world disagrees.
On some points, I actually agree with that in principle. None of them exist here.
Trump is a lot better than the Cruz folks give him credit for.
Thanks for the mention of your traverse through the process.
You are projecting your wishes on Trump
Come on, though a devious grinch, Cruz is not unintelligent.
He KNOWS that he is being “used”...but as a man of changeable opportunistic “principle” and is fully aware of the scheme he is wittingly participating in to the detriment of the formerly-working people of this country.
I kinda figured that wasn’t the final draft, knowing you. (grin)
Not trying to offend, here, but is that supposed to be Cruz’s fault? Did Cruz make the rules for the way the “party” in Colorado chose to choose their delegates? Why would that be a low-blow, fault of Cruz? Am only seeking to understand.
Yes...and the MSM and the DNC are pushing for it...sadly, so is the GOPe.
Both men are very smart, and they both love this country.
Trump is brash, irreverent, and has significantly shifted his positions. Yet I personally believe, at his age, with his kids and grandkids, that he has established positions now that we need and most of us agree with if he will actually do them.
I have come to the conclusion over the last months that he will. He wants to win, and he is articulating many things that are keeping America from winning that I believe he will tackle and do all he can to correct.
Cruz, despite the pronouncements by many, has been a fighter for the constitution and conservative values from the start...and he often went it alone in the Senate when most people would not have had the commitment or gumption to do so.
They are both also clearly proud men who are convinced of their own importance to the here and now.
Cruz’s ground game, despite what many say, has been brilliant in terms of setting himself of in the event of a brokered convention...and it has all been by the rules.
Trump’s counter strategy, to call fowl (where there is no fowl) and thereby gain media attention and blunt the impact of Cruz strategy is also brilliant from a political perspective. And I believe that is exactly what it is.
I do not blame either of them for those things.
But the personal attacks and the dragging down of one another have only provided fodder to the DNC, the MSM, and the GOPe.
The GOPe is now trying to co-opt Cruz to stop Trump. I do not believe Cruz has gone over to them...but I am afraid he will try and use them (while not trusting them) to get to the nomination in an ugly convention battle.
I believe that battle will cause us to lose in November.
That type of divisiveness has to end in order to preserve the HUIGE anti-establishment coalition the two men together represent.
If they can bring that together and go forward., they will absolutely crush the livening daylight out of the GOPe and put together a much broader coalition which...if united...I believe wins in November too.
As it stands...Trump is the winner by a significant margin, and it falls to Ted to be the one to stop the divisiveness, unite with Trump, find the way to put the rancor behind them, and pull together for the sake of this nation.
Ted’s positions, Ted’s efforts both in the State of Texas and in the US Senate are something I admire...but the reality is what it is.
Trumps actual published plans and policies are not that far different that Ted’s. Ted can unite this thing and pull the two sides together if he will lay down the war hatchet and make peace with trump for the good of the nation...if he only will.
I am praying...and writing...and working to make that the outcome in any way I can.
IMHO, it is the only clear path to victory I see in November.
Read my post 189.
Cruz strategy for preparing for a contested convention on his terms has brilliant. Only problem is, in this election cycle, it will absolutely poison the well.
In a like fashion, Trump’s counter strategy of calling fowl (where there is none) and thus getting all the more media attention and casting a shadow on what Cruz is doing has also been brilliant from a political perspective.
I cannot blame either man for those things in such a high stakes political fight.
The thing that is poisoning it all is the rancor and out and out anger and hate the two teams are developing for one another...when in November they are going to both need all of those millions of voters and supporters to combine.
That is why I wrote this letter.
Cruz is the one who it has fallen to end the rancor, lay down the war hatchet, and make peace and unite the two camps.
He can do that...if he only will.
Well said.
Thank you. I hope to change my tag line soon.
Let’s pray he takes your advice. He’s young and will rebound well if he does this sooner than later.
I honestly believe at this point that Trump will probably take more than 57% of the remaining delegates.
But there still needs to be a lot of healing to occur for the GOP to be able to unite and beat the Dems...and the sooner Cruz does that, the better for our nation.
You are in for a surprise then because the 'TEA Party types' are the Cruz delegates, and the 'Elite Establishment types' are the Trump delegates, regardless of who they are bound to for the first vote. The Cruz camp hand-picked their delegates while the Trump camp took what the GOPe gave them.
I survived THIS:
If it makes you feel good to blame me for not voting for Romney(”Obama thanks your for your support”) then fine.
Beck still does; I think.
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