Moved and seconded.
Posted on 05/05/2016 7:16:22 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Ted Cruz "suspended" his campaign, but that doesn't mean his SuperPAC has stopped. They're still sending out emails.
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Of course it would.
That is well within the rules.
Politics is a dirty business, but this may be dirtier than usual (or it may be inertia). It looks mostly like a “Vote Cruz not Kasich” email, rather than “Vote Cruz not Trump”, and it may simply have been programmed into the sequence and them not stopped when the campaign was suspended. Let’s not jump to conclusions here, but let’s also not get complacent.
Whether exceptionally sleazy or merely bureaucratic inertia, this is a useful reminder. Trump voters need to go to the polls for the rest of the primaries. Trump needs to choose loyal delegates in the remaining states and not just delegates who are compelled to vote for him against their will. And Trump supporters need to volunteer in his campaign from now until the election is over and then still stay vigilent until the inauguration.
It is time, past time, for Trump and Cruz supporters to unite behind the republican nominee. I hope Cruz supporters will follow my advice above and volunteer in the Trump campaign. Even if you think Cruz would be better, that is not a real-world option. There is no doubt that Trump would be dramatically better than Hillary in every way.
Moved and seconded.
I notice Trump campaigning hard in WV, not leaving anything to chance.
Ditto!
There is a new book out entitled Liar Liar Cruz on Fire in which some may be interested:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/05/no_author/biggest-fraud-political-history/
The many lies of Cruz Sr & Jr are carefully documented and exposed.
Yes, I’ve seen that and think we can do better.
Just stating the obvious. We’re better than what we’ve all seen here lately.
But then I am. I haven’t participated much but I’ve read many (not all) threads. We can do better.
Okay, but it seems to me the best way to achieve that objective was to stay in the race, even if they couldn’t afford to actively campaign. They would still have volunteers, Cruz and Kasich supporters would go to the poles and vote thinking they were still in the race.
Having officially dropped out, it seems like the odds are much higher that Trump walks away with the primary votes, and has even more delegates bound to him than he would have had they stayed in.
I just don’t see how announcing that the campaign is suspended helps if the objective is still to deny Trump 1237. Then again, I never thought of Cruz as a master strategist.
Churchill was born in 1874, at that time a woman lost her US citizenship when she married a foreigner. Churchill himself recognized that he could only have become an American citizen if his father had been an American citizen.
“By the way, I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have got here on my own. In that case this would not have been the first time you would have heard my voice. In that case I should not have needed any invitation. But if I had it is hardly likely that it would have been unanimous. So perhaps things are better as they are.” Churchill speech to joint session of U.S. Congress, December 26, 1941
By the time Cruz was born, the laws had changed. His mother did not lose her citizenship by marriage and she passed US citizenship onto her son.
That Cruz e-mail is from late April. It may not reflect Cruz’s thinking at this point.
So you have seen Trump supporters comparing themselves to monkeys, have you?
Somehow I don’t believe you.
Cruz only 'suspended' his public campaign. His super pacs are still very active. Cruz and his so called pundit class still hope they can deny Trump that 1237 and have themselves a 'contested' convention like 1976.
Um, no, that’s not what I said.
I think I agree with you in general. We saw the same phenomenon play out in Canada, as we watched a conservative government lose its edge by constantly trying to square the circle, accommodation to the liberal elites then sudden jerky movements to the right, almost overshooting into rabble rousing territory. They never managed a consistent stand and were swept out of office basically by an overgrown teenager with a mastery of one thing, social media.
Using the term conservative is anyone’s free option, but whether they really are conservative is another question entirely. Ryan says he questions Trump’s credentials and the Trump faction has the same response in return.
I’m not sure if there is much left of a classically conservative political position in most western countries. In this environment it is very difficult to square security concerns with civil liberties without racial or religious profiling. We have not really adapted to the reality that we are in a sort of slow-motion low-intensity global war and that our leftist fellow citizens are essentially a fifth column. We don’t want to stir the pot or rock the boat in most cases. In my own case, I tried to alert my fellow citizens to these dangers and got thrown into a series of lawsuits alleging libel and slander. Our elites just don’t get what they are doing. They can’t help themselves, it’s as though they never heard of the Trojan horse.
Donald Trump is a flawed human being to be certain, but God works in mysterious ways. If our societies are going to pull through this challenge, it will take stronger action than conventional politicians are willing to take. I don’t even know if Donald Trump could stand the heat of what is really needed. And I don’t know if you can get the genie back into the bottle at this stage. However, not trying is not the best option.
Churchill was given honorary citizenship for the great man that he was. Churchill refused to bow to Hitler and brought Great Britain through the war through his pugnacious and brilliant intelligence in face of disaster. There is One other honorary citizen of the united States. He was an immense help to America during our war for independence, The Marquis de Lafayette.
Amen.
You said - “While I haven’t read all the threads, I don’t get that at all about Cruz supporters. The insults on this thread alone from Trump supporters is the infighting I see.”
I said - “So Trump supporters are calling people Trumpanzees?”
You said - “Yes, I’ve seen that and think we can do better”
I said - “So you have seen Trump supporters comparing themselves to monkeys, have you?
Somehow I don’t believe you.”
Have I missed something?
I haven’t baited anyone or mentioned Cruz in any way. I’ll vote for Trump because I want to keep Hillary out of the White House. But I’m getting increasingly disgusted by the continued attacks against Cruz and the continued assaults on Cruz supporters here on FR.
Jim made it plain that everyone who wanted to continue on FR needed to get behind Trump. Fair enough. But some of you need to remember that there are a lot of conservative, patriotic Americans who will be holding their noses when they cast their ballot in November.
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