Posted on 07/21/2016 12:11:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: By the way, folks, here's another just a little throwaway question. Does it surprise you that somebody saying "vote your conscience" would be booed practically out of an arena? Vote your conscience. Boo! Vote your conscience. Boo! Leave! Get out! I mean, I know I'm not including context here, but just stop and think of this for a second. Cruz's message is vote your conscience, and all hell rained down on him.
Now, the context is that vote your conscience, I know, happens to be a rallying cry for many of the Never Trumpers. And further context is that vote your conscience could be code language for how in the world can you possibly vote for this guy Trump if you have a conscience? And it's obviously, I think, what a lot of people thought Cruz meant, and that's why the boos. But just without any context, somebody says vote your conscience and gets booed.
Here's where I think Cruz could have done better. And, look, armchair quarterbacking, morning-after hindsight's always cheap and easy, but I think it's an important point. Last night Cruz complained that freedom was under assault. And he's right. It wasn't a complaint; it was a warning; it was an acknowledgment. But what he didn't do is make the clear difference that a Clinton and Trump presidency would make to freedom itself and to the Constitution itself.
It wasn't until this morning, under intense questioning from the Texas delegation that Cruz said he wasn't gonna vote for Hillary. He didn't say that last night. He left it for implication, or inference. I think had he drawn this comparison, he acknowledged that there's no contest between Trump and Hillary when it comes to voting to preserve and expand freedom, he didn't explicitly do that. Hillary Clinton's a clear and present danger to the Constitution. And Cruz, a lot of speakers made the point last night, but Cruz didn't. Not expressly.
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RUSH: Now, Cruz was asked about his pledge. They all took the pledge on the same stage last August to support the eventually nominee. And they asked Cruz about that, the Texas delegation. And he said that that day was "abrogated" when this became personal. "The day that pledge was abrogated was the day this became personal." He says, "I'm not gonna get into criticizing or attacking Donald Trump, but I'm just going to give you this response.
"I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father." And he mentioned this a couple of other times and used the words, "I'm not gonna be a puppy dog here in servitude to a guy accuses my dad of assisting in the JFK assassination." And again, in saying that, it just takes everything that Cruz said the night before in his speech off the table. We eventually got the big reveal.
Everybody said, "Gee, what's that? What's going on? What the hell here?"
All this in-depth analysis, and it boils down to that.
Some of the in-depth analysis was, you know, there's a lot of Never Trumpers out there, and the Never Trumpers, they're a loyal bunch, and Cruz wants to be considered the leader. Cruz wants to be the guy. He wants to be the guy that's considered the number one, consistent Never Trumper. And that's who he was playing to last night, at the expense of party loyalty. The Texas delegation was not happy.
Another one. I will wager it is a throw away account from someone who just snorted ozone.
Too bad that flight Cruz was on wasn’t headed to Calgary.
Strange posting history.
Where have you been for the last 6 years?
It is so sad that there are still people out there that won't admit that a person born on Canadian soil to a foreign father is not eligible to be President.
Ted we did, and you are out of the game for a distasteful Balk @ the RNC!
Thanks to CodeToad for the response above on the right!
Liberals LOVE Cruz. They claim he’s the only Republican “with balls”. They love anyone who hates Republicans like they do.
Says all we need to know about Lyin’ Ted.
Cruz did plenty of trash talk about Trump. Stop lying. Is everyone associated with Cruz a lair??
Plagiarism right here on Free Republic.
Plus every word and punctuation mark has been used several times in just this last week.
I expect to find out in due course whether Cruz gave one speech to Trump and then delivered another, as Trump has stated. If so, this can be nothing more than a premeditated attack in support of Hillary.
Liberals LOVE Cruz. They claim he’s the only Republican “with balls”. They love anyone who hates Republicans like they do. Says all we need to know about Lyin’ Ted.
Not only did Ted refuse to endorse Trump, he said never Trump. That and his expressed disbelief at being booed after expressing such a noble ideal tells me all I need to know about him.
Same here my FRiend. The Chicago vote counting was my wakeup call about how the rats win elections.
The Wikileaks DNC emails show Ted may have coordinated with the DNC.
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