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Cruz booed after refusing to support Trump
CNN ^ | July 21, 2016 | Theodore Schleifer and Stephen Collinson

Posted on 07/20/2016 10:09:51 PM PDT by monkapotamus

Cruz's rebuke ignited a hot scene around the senator as soon as he left the stage. People averted their eyes from Cruz and his wife as they walked with their security detail on the skybox level of boisterous Republicans.

On the donor suite level, people approached Cruz and insulted him, a source told CNN's Dana Bash. One state party chairman reacted so angrily that he had to be restrained.

Cruz, who has long sought the support of GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, was turned away when he tried to enter Adelson's suite.

Andy Abboud, a senior aide to the Las Vegas casino magnate, said Cruz was initially invited to come up to visit the Adelsons, but when he failed to endorse Trump the invitation was rescinded...

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; adelson; booed; cruz; cruzbooed; cruzspeech; lyinted; radicalcruzlims; sorecruzers; tedcruz; texas; trump
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To: castlegreyskull

I seem to remember Ryan getting in some solid hits! Quite a pasting!


81 posted on 07/21/2016 4:30:17 AM PDT by refermech
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To: stars & stripes forever
Americans are furious—rightly so—at a political establishment that cynically breaks its promises and ignores the will of the people.a

In this first substantive sentence Cruz speaks of himself, a promise-breaker and one who ignores the will of the people. Trump pegged him right: He IS Lyin' Ted.

Then in his last he "promise[s] to lead the fight for freedom and our liberty". How can such a snake be trusted?

82 posted on 07/21/2016 5:19:49 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: monkapotamus
Cruz had his one last chance and Trump was kind enough to give it to him - he's obviously not very smart or he would have noticed that those who tried to get the rules changed for him had moved on over the previous two days and had opted to go for broke with Trump.

He had a smug smile when an expectant crowd cheered him on the stage and I would imagine he felt a bit of the pucker effect when he got booed off.

Newt tried to assuage the situation but he also knows that what Cruz did is inexcusable at that venue.

I predict that Cruz coffers start drying up like Oklahoma in the dust bowl.

83 posted on 07/21/2016 5:30:22 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: vette6387

TRUMP had the judgment to realize that he NEEDED the Cruz
supporters & sought to include them in the convention.
TRUMP set no trap and showed common courtesy.

Cruz broke his PLEDGE. No excuses. No parsing words. After
8 yrs. of Obama lies, it is long past time for TRUTH.


84 posted on 07/21/2016 5:31:44 AM PDT by Twinkie (JOHN 3:16)
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To: monkapotamus

Ted Cruz = Trojan Horse = Bush Proxy Politician for the Globalist since the Bush name is now garbage


85 posted on 07/21/2016 5:34:45 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: refermech

Ryan beat him to hell, despite being 20 years older.


86 posted on 07/21/2016 5:40:21 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: crazyhorse691

Reagan endorsed Ford and didn’t tell the voters to ‘vote their conscience’!


87 posted on 07/21/2016 5:45:04 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: pleasenotcalifornia

Yep, just that. Hate that I voted for him in the primary. However, I won’t make that mistake ever again. #Trump2016 FTW


88 posted on 07/21/2016 5:46:16 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: Maelstorm
Agreed.

Cruz has a Messiah complex.

89 posted on 07/21/2016 5:46:53 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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“Vote your conscience” is a far cry from supporting Trump and even light years further away from endorsing the choice the people have made. Some need to learn to live in the real world and not some Utopian ultra-conservative simulation constantly spinning around in their head. In their head is the only place that exists and it’s all an illusion.


90 posted on 07/21/2016 5:48:57 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: monkapotamus

91 posted on 07/21/2016 6:10:25 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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To: castlegreyskull; refermech

Nolan Ryan fights Robin Ventura (August 4, 1993)

92 posted on 07/21/2016 6:13:54 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama, representing Islam since 2008)
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To: monkapotamus

Did anyone else interpret Cruz’s admonition to vote the entire ticket “up and down” as a grudging, backhanded endorsement?


93 posted on 07/21/2016 6:31:39 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Pelham

I wish I knew how to photoshop. Trump was the Nolan Ryan in that picture with Ventura making his worst decision in his baseball career.


94 posted on 07/21/2016 6:32:31 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: faithhopecharity
Cruz as a bright lawyer knows his eligibility problem too, and yet he ploughed ahead

The Kenyan set that precedent...

95 posted on 07/21/2016 6:34:17 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Pelham

Nice. Quite a pounding!


96 posted on 07/21/2016 7:03:51 AM PDT by refermech
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To: castlegreyskull

An amusing analogy - but was really more like a manager giving a guy a prime slot in the batting order in the World Series... and serving up a grapefruit... and watching the guy whiff.


97 posted on 07/21/2016 7:17:52 AM PDT by karnage
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To: goldstategop

Cruz had such a great chance to bury the hatchet between him and Trump. Cruz will never get his head straight until he forgives Trump.


98 posted on 07/21/2016 7:22:02 AM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: karnage

You analogy works as well.


99 posted on 07/21/2016 7:37:47 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Mr. Mojo; faithhopecharity
Worse than not showing good sportsmanship is the fact that he went back on his word.

Yup. Sore sport AND a dishonorable POS whose word means exactly...JACKSQUAT! /Chris Farley.

His character is that of a sewer rat. And he kinda resembles one too.

Now that you mention it, his mannerisms are oddly rodent-like :-)

100 posted on 07/21/2016 9:13:18 AM PDT by HangUpNow
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