Posted on 07/21/2016 8:22:22 AM PDT by dontreadthis
Ted Cruz walks off stage at Republican Convention to the boos of the crowd as Trump is cheered. Cruz said he couldn’t endorse Trump in good conscience for attacking his wife during the campaign. Cruz should know that when you stick your hand into a dogfight, expect to get bit.
Ted Cruz went to the Republican convention and refused to endorse Trump. I expected as much from Jeb Bush who said he would win without the TEA Party, and not only broke his word, his bond, to support the people’s choice of candidate, but is so petty that he wouldn’t even show up. I expected better from Ted Cruz. To show up and say “vote your conscience” rather than endorse the candidate chosen by the people makes him just as petty.
How this race has morphed from right to left:
This is how the people saw the election during the primaries;
Cruz Trump Bush Hillary Bernie
This is how Cruzers see the election now;
Cruz/Bush Trump/Hillary
This is how Trumpsters see the election now;
Trump Cruz/Bush Hillary
Bush, like Hillary, is a part of the Washington Establishment. The death blow to Cruz’s campaign was when he was endorsed by the establishment. If he joins with them now against Trump, how does that make Trump one with Hillary? The answer is – it does not because you are wrong. Trump’s own children speak to his character, just as Romney’s did, over all the propaganda by the DNC and GOP.
The problem with these disparate views is that there are only two candidates in this election who matter. Ted’s “vote your conscience” may be a hint at a third party GOP candidate. Trump has pulled in the Reagan Democrats, but conservative purists don’t seem to care. If they stay home or vote third party that gives this election to Hillary and they become the Ross Perot’s of 2016. If they do this then they squander all moral authority and any respect they thought they had. No one will rally to them in four years.
Trump has become the champion of the people against the Washington Establishment. Should he prove untrue to his word then primarying him in four years is justified. But if Cruzers and the Bushies sabotage him under the mantle of conservative purity, as they did to Romney in 2012 when he was their choice in 2008, and give us a third term of Obamaism, then don’t expect the rest of us to back you ever again.
The last time a billionaire businessman ran was when Ross Perot ran against the Republicans to give the election to Clinton. Perot didn’t want to be president; he just didn’t want Bush to be. Trump is not running against Republicans, he IS the Republican! He’s not running to give the election to Democrats, but to defeat them. Trump gave Cruz a thumbs up just for showing up, but that’s not enough for most.
I loved Ted Cruz. I saw him as the most intelligent, moral man in Congress. But today he let me down. He took an oath to back the candidate that was the choice of the people. He fought the good fight and even took the high road over Trump’s low road, but Trump got to Cleveland before him.
Trump didn’t win because he’s the better man who appealed to our better nature as Ted tried to do. He won because he appealed to our simplest nature. Liberals think that means he appealed to our basest nature as “haters.” But what he did was appeal to the righteous wrath of the common man in the way he could understand. Cruz lost because he thought he could win with high rhetoric and intellectual morality proving he’s not ready to fight fire with fire. When you put on the Armor of God you have to strap on a sword to go with it. The Sword of Righteousness is a flaming blade that does no good when left in its scabbard.
If conservative purists think they will save America by denying Trump and giving the election to Hillary they are sadly mistaken. This will not only be a betrayal of their fellow Republicans, it will be a betrayal of their own souls. Edmund Burke said;
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
What does it say of those good men when they know what to do but refuse? When you take sides with Washington elites and America goes down in flames, who do you think will rally to your flag? Obviously, it’s not just Democrats who are delusional.
"The death blow to Cruz’s campaign was when he was endorsed by the establishment."
Cruz just proved he’s a liar, as Trump has said all along.
His promises are worthless. Lyin’ Ted!
If they go this route, it will guarantee 8 more years of Democrat malfeasance, corruption and outright treason..................
The entire theme of Cruz’s speech led to the inexorable conclusion that Trump must be elected.
He is so tone deaf he didn’t realize he was defiling his own high sounding words.
After last night I concluded that Cruz has no integrity and is butt azz stupid.
Cruz is owned by the Bushes.
If you want more proof how delusional Cruz is, he went from being booed off the stage, straight into a skybox of wealthy donors, who promptly told him “you’re a disgrace!”
Trump’s counsel on CNN wanted to know, “what was he doing, looking for money?”
Only thing worse than a RINO is a RINO pretending to be a conservative. At least Bush, Lindsey, Romney, etc, wear their
Rinocity on their sleeves.
Actually the death blow was the arrogance of Cruz. He chose to not campaign in the south because his arrogance told him he had the south locked up. He stupidly thought no one here would vote for a guy from NY.
Trump came south and campaigned hard and often. He won people over. Hence Ted was destroyed in the SEC primaries. That gave Trump a huge advantage because the northeast was polling strong for Trump not Cruz....
Cruz thought because his dad declared that God had anointed him and that Beck said God had picked him that that made it so.....When people prophecy and it does not come true we call that being a false prophet.
Ted tied his legacy to Glenn Beck.....that says it all
... What is really frightening is that this man is in the senate and attempted to run for POTUS. He is a manipulative-egomaniac. He needs to go live in a padded cell with no sharp objects except maybe a plastic mirror so he can give speeches to himself — to keep his deranged ego satiated. Go home Ted whichever country that may be — but not USA.
Oh Canada...
After reading his book I was very impressed and donated $500 to his campaign early on
What a mistake
Chicago did it for me
Makes me want to scream
The beginning of the end for Cruz was when he made that NY Values crack on the debates. Had he never said that, he may have been able to win. But Trump hammered that home and won ever county in NY, Connecticut, New Jersey and PA.
That ended him, because it showed his dark heart. He still looks down on New Yorkers. He made a snide remark to the delegates last night when he was beginning to get booed.
Cruz......boos.......you loose. If you can’t support your party during a Presidential election, especially when the opposition is so clearly evil, you are dead to me.
Tjat was the end for Cruz...at that point Trump was well over half way to the nomination and Ted was hoping for Indiana
loose = lose
As one who supported Cruz, I will say that tone-deaf seemed to be the campaign theme (and the author of the article has a pretty bad case of it as well.) I liked his qualifications and his willingness to take a stand. His ability to alienate the left (including the RINOs) was a badge of honor until it became apparent his real ability was to alienate everybody. Barring a miraculous rehabilitation, Sarah Palin's "delete your career" will be a fitting epitaph.
I believe Cruz’s performance actually helps Trump. Cruz is so disliked it will draw more people to Trump.
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