Posted on 05/02/2016 8:47:11 PM PDT by monkapotamus
It’s too bad. He could have gone places if he stuck with the issues, like defending our borders, fiscal restraint, abortion, etc. He got mixed up in dirty politics, and his image will never recover. He may not have won this year, but if he kept his integrity, he could have been a force in the future.
But he sold his soul for a shot at today and it cost him everything. It’s too bad.
The last straw for me is when Cruz demanded Corey be sacked over a hoax. Cruz own security team “assaulted” a protester trying to ask Cruz a question on stage but media didn’t care
The reason he fell so quickly is that he unknowingly categorized himself as an “establishment” candidate by 1) using establishment tactics by grabbing these delegates behind closed doors and 2) the establishment tactic of colluding with Kasich.
And Trump the master tactician hammered the air waves on how unfair these establishment rules are
Brilliant
Change the names and you got it. But who is who?
Kerry Von Eric vs Killer Khan
https://youtu.be/fIsR9FckHH8
The guy is really disappointing. I thought the world of him at one time and voted for him in TX.
busTED
The charge instantly put Cruz and his supporters on the politically self-destructive path of defending the arcane rules of GOP delegate selection while Cruz was also posing as a political outsider intent on upending Washington's cronyism, corruption, and failed policies. Lyin' Ted indeed! And in the meanwhile, Cruz never developed and communicated clear and compelling policy ideas to galvanize public attention and support. Despite lush funding, a solid campaign team, and great intelligence, Cruz has never quite developed a signature issue or even a good campaign slogan.
Oddly, Cruz is mostly in agreement with Trump on the immigration issue but has squandered that advantage by sniping at Trump instead of developing an image as a courtly and super-polite, super-smart version of Trump. Mike Tyson might have advised Cruz not to try out-punching someone who is a better puncher than you are. Stay out of his reach, outsmart him, and wear him down. Indiana may now go for Trump and have Cruz dazed and reeling before he and his campaign can develop and apply such insights.
>The plan worked in the sense that Cruz’s campaign managed to get many of his supporters named as delegates pledged to Trump on the first ballot. Unfortunately for Cruz, that success opened him up to Trump’s smash mouth charge that the delegate selection process was rigged by party bosses to favor Cruz.
The part that still shocks me is how proud Cruz and his supporters were about it. If they’d done it quietly it might have worked. Or even if they’d hadn’t rubbed it the faces of Trump supporters.
Most likely, the Cruz campaign is trying to keep up the spirits of their supporters by touting victories of any kind and arguing that Cruz still has a potential path to victory. Cruz staying in until the convention may nevertheless benefit Trump by showing him as a winner and giving the GOP time to reconcile themselves to trump as their nominee.
he comes across as dishonest and abusive.
If he treats his wife and kids that way, it might not go so well for him after the death of her dream...
Cruz has spent years planning to be the “GUY” but his ambitions are collapsing around him. Voters don’t seem to trust him and his reaction to events is really off the wall to say the least. He should have dropped out weeks ago...all he is doing is embarrassing himself. Cruz was solidly endorsed here, myself included, but as time went by folks didnt like, trust or believe. Some are saying it’s all been an act since he first went to the Senate....but who knows at this point.
In any case his political career is in shambles and probably wont recover. The sleaze handle he has picked up will stick.
I think we have seen the end of an age with the Republican Party. I don’t know how Rush’s and Levin’s shows are doing, but I would guess their ratings are down. The spokesmouths and major players have been largely discredited during this primary. Trump and his allies will replace them during his Presidency.
Especially those who claimed that Trump's ego was too big - turns out Cruz has a messiah complex as he now changes his rhetoric to it being a fight between good and evil and Indiana being the Nation's last chance to choose "good".
Ted has gone full "Glenn Beck".
Yep. Was early Cruz supporter. Even contributed. No longer. So disappointing.
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