Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

LIVE THREAD:RNC National Convention Day 3 July 20, 2016 starts @ 7pm ET
youtube ^

Posted on 07/19/2016 11:58:42 PM PDT by nikos1121

Wednesday: Make America First Again

• 7 p.m.: Speech by nominee for Vice-President

• TBA: Speech by Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich

• TBA: Speech by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)

• TBA: Speech by Eileen Collins, retired astronaut

• TBA: Speech by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi

• TBA: Speech by Laura Ingraham, former attorney and host of the Laura Ingraham Show

• TBA: Speech by Phil Ruffin, hotelier and owner of Treasure Island Hotel and Casino

• TBA: Speech by Michelle Van Etten, entrepreneur

• TBA: Speech by Ralph Alvarado, Jr., State Senator for Kentucky and Physician

• TBA: Speech by Darrell Scott, Pastor at the New Spirit Revival Center Ministries

• TBA: Speech by Harold Hamm, CEO and founder of Continental Resources, one of the largest oil producers in the country, shale oil pioneer and 39th richest person in United States

• TBA: Speech by Gov. Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin

• TBA: Speech by Lynne Patton, Vice President of the Eric Trump Foundation

• TBA: Speech by Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator from Florida

• TBA: Speech by Eric Trump, son of Donald Trump and Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization

• TBA: Speech by Newt and Callista Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and wife

• TBA: Speech by Gov. Mike Pence, Governor for Indiana and presumptive nominee for Vice President



TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; cleveland; conservative; conservatives; convention; donaldtrump; gop; lauraingrahamrocks; liverncconvention; livethread; mikepence; newtspeech; ohio; pambondi; pence; phillipruffin; republican; republicans; rnc; rncconvention; rnclive; trump; trumppence; veep; vp
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 3,321-3,3403,341-3,3603,361-3,3803,381-3,398 last
To: Enchante
Ha ha, that was one of the worst predictions of all time.

LOL ... yeah. Blew that one, didn't I?

3,381 posted on 07/21/2016 7:59:21 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3211 | View Replies]

To: ri4dc

Yes, but we can see from what he’s saying this morning that he was never going to endorse or support Trump.


3,382 posted on 07/21/2016 8:09:05 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3354 | View Replies]

To: RitaOK; bushwon; SomeCallMeTim; FenwickBabbitt; goodnesswins; AllAmericanGirl44

Cruz’s performance last night was all about 2020. He stayed as long as he could in front of the cameras and lights all for the sake of 2020. His appearance had nothing to do with the 2016 election except possibly he wouldn’t mind seeing the election thrown to Hillary if he thought that would increase his chances in 2020.

There are certain people I will automatically turn off when they appear on TV. Cruz is now one of them. I used to think maybe he was OK. But as of now, I can’t stand the guy, at least as far as his political aspirations or public persona goes. When he talks, his words sound tinny and hollow to me - nothing solid, no ring of authenticity. Last night was no exception.

I just read a short biography on Benedict Arnold. What came through was a fatal flaw that Arnold’s personal ambition was more important than the lofty goals he was supposed to be fighting for. That’s Ted Cruz. Cruz supposedly stands for constitutional freedom but he’s shown me he puts his own political ambition and future first. In that sense, Ted Cruz is a Benedict Arnold as far as I’m concerned.

Someone said Cruz thinks he’s Reagan in 1976. Apparently his dad and apparently Cruz himself, think that Cruz has some sort of Divine Right to become President. I think they’re both nut jobs.

And if you want, I’ll tell you what I REALLY think about Cruz.

:)


3,383 posted on 07/21/2016 9:00:31 AM PDT by Jim W N
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3379 | View Replies]

To: Jim 0216

Cruz’s copy of Reagan’s ‘76 convention speech must be missing the last line: “We must go forth from here united, determined that what a great general said a few years ago is true: There is no substitute for victory, Mr. President.” I certainly don’t remember Cruz talking about unity or victory in the presidential race. Except for some policy overlap, he is nothing like Reagan at all.

I totally agree about Cruz’s fatal flaw of ambition. And the scariest people are sometimes those who believe that they are specially chosen by God for certain tasks or positions, because too many take it as permission to do absolutely whatever they want since they are in a “righteous” cause.


3,384 posted on 07/21/2016 9:42:39 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3383 | View Replies]

To: FenwickBabbitt

It’s pretty close to being a certifiable nut job, really. I’ve seen it before and it is not pretty.


3,385 posted on 07/21/2016 10:23:14 AM PDT by Jim W N
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3384 | View Replies]

To: Jim 0216

Agree with you Jim, it is a combination of disgraceful and pitifully hilarious (in that SMH kinda way).

Someone else posted that if this was all about 2020 (which I do agree with) then teddy running in 2018 means yet another unfulfilled Senate term. Great strategy teddy!


3,386 posted on 07/21/2016 12:45:13 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3383 | View Replies]

To: MinuteGal; Shortstop7; flaglady47; seekthetruth; seenenuf; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum; 3D-JOY

Apart from her “Conservative” appearance and clarity seems she has some problems with dating Rat men, hmmm, sigh.

However, she gave the Knee-Pad Media a broadside salvo that sent the ball out of the park, LOL !!!


3,387 posted on 07/21/2016 3:11:30 PM PDT by danamco
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3240 | View Replies]

To: AllAmericanGirl44

TTTT


3,388 posted on 07/21/2016 4:59:34 PM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3386 | View Replies]

To: Jim 0216; Jane Long; Windflier; LS; Jim Robinson; nopardons; Syncro

Here is what I believe. Fredo just trumped himself.

Cruz is about to enter into his future. He can look forward to being shunned in the US Senate, like never before, this time with the public backing it, given no chairmanships, and doubtless he will be primaried in Texas, for his senate seat.

He can look forward to being treated like TRUMP has been treated. Totally alone, despised by all media but for a handful, by both parties, and wholly rejected by donors galore. But, with none of the grace and charisma of TRUMP, he won’t come out on top, but fall from grace and over the cliff.

Cruz sat on upwards of 90 million dollars, poured in by Wall Street globalists and has a buff professional team left over. He will run again for prez on that machine of his. But, next time he will not have the stream lined path to the nomination he thought he had this year. All that money, all that ground game, all that team, and he got creamed.

Now he has even shrunk his voter base by at least 60% all by himself. He never collected all the Evangelicals he thought he bagged. And, with a good shunning, it will shrink some more.

Next time, he will be despised by voters as well as donors who hopefully will be energized across the nation to fuel his opponents at his every turn. Grassroots, like me, will work for his opponent. The media will ride him out of town, including Texas media, in Dallas and Houston and Austin and San Antonio.

Cruz calculated that he had this 2016 nomination either in the bag, or Jeb would win and find a spot for him to run again, in 2020.

Cruz is too narcissistic to even internalize what the hell he has done to himself.


3,389 posted on 07/21/2016 5:27:38 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxmsists coming, infinitum.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3383 | View Replies]

To: RitaOK
From a previous exchange...

[Cruz thinks he has] permission to do absolutely whatever they want since they are in a “righteous” cause.

My answer: It’s pretty close to being a certifiable nut job, really. I’ve seen it before and it is not pretty.

3,390 posted on 07/21/2016 5:33:46 PM PDT by Jim W N
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3389 | View Replies]

To: Liberty Valance

The paid Hillary hacks sure orchestrate this garbage.
I just read Hillary is going to announce her VP choice
in a few hours.... More orchestrations to take away from
Our Trump.....


3,391 posted on 07/21/2016 5:42:19 PM PDT by beethoven (Texans for Trump! Schroeder plays for Trump!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3374 | View Replies]

To: Jane Long
I wish we could orchestrate a recall on Cruz. I despise him. CNN is crap for having him on to taint another night of our convention... So annoyed.😡
3,392 posted on 07/21/2016 5:48:24 PM PDT by beethoven (Texans for Trump! Schroeder plays for Trump!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3391 | View Replies]

To: Jim 0216

I might watch Cruz. I expect a public melt down at some point.

I also would like to contact his donors and Addleson in Vegas, to find someone to primary him right out of Texas.

TRUMP will probably take care of that for me. LOL!


3,393 posted on 07/21/2016 5:56:02 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxmsists coming, infinitum.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3383 | View Replies]

To: RitaOK

“Cruz is too narcissistic to even internalize what the hell he has done to himself.”

That about sums it up.

You’ve got to be pathologically narcissistic to do what Ted did last night, then turn around and double down on it the very next day.

As I commented on another thread, he helped no one but Hillary with that divisive speech.

Get out, Ted, and never come back.


3,394 posted on 07/21/2016 5:57:28 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3389 | View Replies]

To: RitaOK

<< We need to find those donors who nearly assaulted him after the speech.
That story is going to get some cover, and perhaps they will help us defeat the snake, when he comes up, in TEXAS.
I can not think who I wouldn’t vote for, to avoid voting again, EVER, for this creepy Cruz.
We need to call Dan Patrick, or what? Ken Paxton? Thornberry? Gomert? ANYBODY.. >>

I heard George P Bush’s name floated around as someone who may challenge him in the primary. You know, the guy who’s trying to give away the Alamo to a foreign country.

Too bad Texas doesn’t have a write-in option. I’d just have to skip that one and leave it blank. Ugh.


3,395 posted on 07/22/2016 3:49:25 AM PDT by Nita Nupress ("We can't fix a rigged system with the people who rigged it." (Donald J. Trump - June 7, 2016)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3215 | View Replies]

To: Nita Nupress

I don’t want to think about another Bush, but I do hate to be mean to young George Preston Bush, otoh, just because he is a “Bush”. You know what I mean?

He has been loyal to TEXAS and to making a career here from the beginning, and was educated here.

Dan Patrick is another not-a-Bush, fine conservative, not known as a serpentine political climber, contrary to the methods of Cruz.


3,396 posted on 07/22/2016 7:06:10 AM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christ Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxmsists coming, infinitum.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3395 | View Replies]

To: ri4dc

Well I wasn’t arguing he didn’t deserve the reaction - what was unfortunate is that it allowed the press to make a huge story out of it and make that the story of the night vs. covering Pence’s speech.


3,397 posted on 07/23/2016 5:26:25 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3354 | View Replies]

To: Republican Wildcat

Clinton Cash Movie playing now-between 8 pm and 11 pm.

no email or password required

http://www.breitbart.com/clinton-cash-movie/

1hr long—am watching it now


3,398 posted on 07/23/2016 5:27:05 PM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3397 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 3,321-3,3403,341-3,3603,361-3,3803,381-3,398 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson