My Open Letter to Ted Cruz after the NY Primary

Vanity | April 20, 2016 | Jeff Head

[Hoodat]

My letter is urging Cruz to unite the party.

You are urging the wrong candidate. Cruz is already reaching out to the various factions, engaging at the local level, and trying to sell the GOPe on the fact that change is necessary for the future of the Party. Compare that to Trump who continues to scorch the earth with his populist narcissism.

Cruz is working to change the Party for the better. Trump works to destroy it.

[Jeff Head]

Look, I am and have been an avid Cruz supporter. I believe he would be a better president.

But the facts on the ground speak for themselves. Trump is likely to either reach 1,237 before the convention or be VERY close. At this point, Cruz cannot.

Also, the facts are most likely that an ugly convention fight will by pyrrhic, no matter who pulls out the nomination. It will split the HUGE turn out we are getting now, and people will throw down their toys and walk away. We simply CANNOT afford that.

My principle focus is November and avoiding anything that will hand the DNC a victory and a devastating 3rd Obama term.

Trump's position statements on Immigration, Taxes, Jobs, International relations, Health Care, and even abortion, would all be tremendously helpful in turning the nation around...if they are carried out.

He will need support and unity within the GOP to do that.

Cruz is the single person who can provide that unity and I sent my letter in the hope and prayer that he will realize this and help us win in 2016.

If he does, he will likely become President after Trump and we could get 16 years of leadership away from the abyss.

Anyhow, that's my reasoning.

[caww]

He’s a Reaganite and a natural born American citizen in every sense of the word. A patriot. Probably the very best conservative currently serving in office. ..posted on 9/2/2013, 8:11:12 PM by Jim Robinson

[Tammy8]

Cruz had a lot of us fooled...including me. He lost me when he would not say straight out that he was going to secure the border or deport illegals after he had said it before. When he sided with thugs that disrupted a Trump rally and blamed Trump for the actions of thugs he totally lost me.

Cruz is just not the person many of us thought he was, he is not.

[Tammy8]

The change Cruz will get if he gets his way will be destroying the party and giving us another President Clinton, that will be far worse than her husband I am sure.

[sargon]

He’s a Reaganite and a natural born American citizen in every sense of the word. A patriot. Probably the very best conservative currently serving in office. ..posted on 9/2/2013, 8:11:12 PM by Jim Robinson

That was then. This is now:

The malleable "rules" are designed to to preserve, protect and defend the establishment ruling class. Nothing more.

Cruz knows this. He has betrayed the grassroots.

posted on 4/22/2016, 3:47:59 PM by Jim Robinson

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Over the last few days, I've repeatedly challenged 2DV, other Cruz fanboys, or any Ted Cruz supporter anywhere to state any plausible scenario whereby Ted Cruz limps into the GOP convention with, at best, 700 delegates or so, and magically seizes the nomination from Donald Trump without irreparably splintering the party, destroying voter enthusiasm, inducing countless Trump voters to stay home, and guaranteeing a Hillary victory in November.

What response have I gotten?

Crickets.

These Ted Cruz fanboys know the truth, as does their preferred candidate, Ted Cruz, and yet they still insist on their suicidal quest to both wreck their own party and even risk their country, all for one man's blind personal ambition. Absolutely shameful.

It would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous.

At this point, Ted Cruz's egotism and narcissism make Donald Trump's ostensible character deficits pale in comparison. They long ago ceded the moral high ground.

Vote Trump

[caww]

Trump has “handlers” now....His head Guru tells the GOP he’s been “projecting an image” (lying to the voters) in con games, they call this “the switch.”....so Manafort has admitted Trumps been ‘gaming the electorate’... It is all an act !

....Manafort therefore is telling Trump followers that all of a sudden what got them so excited was all just an act to get the nomination and now he’s going to reveal the “real” Trump? So which one is the authentic????....unbelievable!!!!

...He’s an admitted liar who has been deceiving his voters by manipulating their emotions with an “imaged” braggadocio......Trumps supporters will not know who they’re really voting for until it’s over...Interesting that Manafort has just hired numbers of lobbyists into the campaign leadership..... Trump is dumping the grassroots activists he hired duped in favor Washington lobbyists.....this gives all a clue what he will do in WAshington....these lobbyists are liberals.

[caww]

...”That was then.”....

No Cruz’s position on his citizenship has not changed....which is what is being addressed....therefore “He’s a Reaganite and a natural born American citizen in every sense of the word”...continues to apply regarding that statement..

[sargon]

Of course Jim hasn't said that he'll zot Cruz supporters.will zot those who piss in the sandbox and state that they will never vote for Trump in any case whatsoever.

Basically, "NeverTrump" clowns are not welcome on this forum, and I wholeheartedly agree.

Why? Because such an attitude is tantamount to a vote for Hillary.

[sargon]

Cruz supporter 2ndDivisionVet sez: (Don’t care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A “Natural Born” citizen requires two US parents!)

[caww]

Cruz is exactly the man people thought he would be...he has not changed...the political “climate” has however.....and with that all the political and strategic moves and such we see playing out to win this election.

If you keep your eyes on only players rather than the game moves ‘AS’ they are played,( and not as the media would have you see so you’ll tune into their shows),you’ll lose sight of who has ‘the ball’....

If you pay attention you can easily tell that Cruz is simply doing what he does so well...and he knows how the other side will play....he’s countering those moves in remarkable ways and this against the tide of the Clinton/Trump efforts to stop him.

Trump has up to this point successfully consolidated a 3rd Party inside the Republican Party, one which unite Hollywood Demorats and Clinton Demorats which will be far more advantageous to the corporate enties and lobbyists than any time in history, and this to facilitate control for the International Monetary Conglomerates ....... His next step, which he will attempt in July, is to hijack the existing infrastructure and ballot access of the Republican party and house this third party inside it.....and why he’s just hired all these lobbyists to head his campaign...”in the corporate world this is called a “hostile take-over”....

[caww]

How many times do the courts have to declare to you that Cruz is a citizen of this country before you’ll let it go???? The politically charged climate of this election is the ONLY reason people keep spreading this nonsense. It works to take up time and divert people off course....mostly forcing the ‘expendature of revenue sources’, which is in play in an election, which is at the heart of the Demorats and Trump campaign to keep this alive...

If you paid attention to Manaforts address to reporters he’s made it clear that in some states they know they won’t win BUT they can force their opposition to spend time and money.

Wake up...

[Tammy8]

Cruz has probably not changed...he just did a better job of covering things before the campaign.

[Jeff Head]

As to delegate predictions...here is my own through June 7th I have been working on:

Indiana is a huge key. If Cruz can win there, it will make a huge difference.

In the same vein, CA is a major key. If Trump does better there, it would easily make up for a loss in IN.

But if Cruz does well in IN and in CA, then he will probably deny Trump the 1,237.

The question will be by how much?

I personally feel that Trump may do better than these predictions...we will just have to wait and see.

My biggest issue is November and the GOP avoiding a split resulting over an ugly convention fight that leads to a DNC win. we simply MUST avoid that.

For that reason I wrote the letter that this thread is about.

[caww]

Ok...I see it won’t make any difference what I say bout this election you’re convinced Cruz is bad..so we’ll just leave it at that.

[wintertime]

He's as much a natural born citizen as the kid ( born in Mexico) of any Mexican drug lord and his American wife.

He's as much a natural born citizen as any kid born in a foreign country of a tourism American parent.

[Elsie]

 

2 Chronicles 7:14

If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,

then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.

 

 

Acts 11:26 The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.

[Elsie]

Cruz is working to change the Party for the better. Trump works to destroy it.

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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...

[Elsie]

Those who do not learn from history...

http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/abraham-lincoln-in-depth/abraham-lincoln-and-the-election-of-1860/

[Elsie]

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