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The Nuclear Option: Ted Cruz Loves Himself More Than Our Country
Breitbart.com ^ | July 21, 2016 | Charles Hurt

Posted on 07/21/2016 3:59:39 PM PDT by Biggirl

CLEVELAND — In the end, it was all about Ted Cruz. Delivering an unvetted speech before the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, Ted Cruz — as is always his custom — carefully calculated just how to do it so it would benefit himself the most. And it backfired.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: cleveland; cruz; cruzicide; gop
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1 posted on 07/21/2016 3:59:39 PM PDT by Biggirl
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2 posted on 07/21/2016 4:01:10 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Biggirl
Well, truth be told, unless he went off script. It was vetted. Now, he did go waaay over the alloted 7 minutes, so maybe that's what the writer is referring to.
3 posted on 07/21/2016 4:02:27 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: Biggirl
Trump gave him the rope to hang himself, and he used it.

I guess that is called "The Art of the Deal".

4 posted on 07/21/2016 4:04:07 PM PDT by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: Biggirl

People ask why Trump let him do that, knowing in advance. The simple answer is that Trump just inoculated himself against the so-called “thin skin” snide remarks.

He let ted blather on for 3x his allotted time, then just walked in and stood there as Cruz spewed. Trump didn’t react—just stood there and if you could read his mind, might have been something like, “Is that the best you got, Ted?”

Next time someone says The Man Donald has thin skin, just point to this event.

Brilliant!!!


5 posted on 07/21/2016 4:04:56 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Boy did I pick the wrong freeper name. This time. lol.)
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To: Biggirl

Cruz figured no one would care if he didn’t endorse Trump.

He was surprised to discover people actually cared.

And that’s when it all went downhill for him.


6 posted on 07/21/2016 4:06:07 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Biggirl

“Ted Cruz — as is always his custom — carefully calculated just how to do it so it would benefit himself the most.”

I got to thinking today about the question of who really benefited from Ted’s shameful performance last night.

It wasn’t Ted. It wasn’t Trump. It wasn’t the Republican party. It wasn’t the voters, nor the country as a whole. It can even be concluded that his narcissistic rant did nothing to help the establishment. So who gained from that desperate act of division?

Do I really have to say it?


7 posted on 07/21/2016 4:14:02 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: dragnet2

When I first heard anything about Cruz, I thought he was a good guy and a principled conservative. I loved his standing up to the establishment Republicans. However, the first time I saw him and heard him speak, he immediately jumped to a 9 on the Weasel Scale. Everything about Cruz is phony, from the way he scrunches up his eyebrows in fake sincerity to the way he tells tear-jerking stories one after the other. He gives me the creeps.


8 posted on 07/21/2016 4:16:21 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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Your right it was vetted. He said all the right things, congratulated Trump, cannot elect Hillary, ...etc. He was sandbagged by Trump. Gingrich read his speech and tried to clarify. It was clearly a Trump hit cause Cruz didn’t bend over and kiss his a$$ like Christie and others. Trump and his supporters demand submission.


9 posted on 07/21/2016 4:16:47 PM PDT by D Rider
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This guy is a real piece of crap. Never liked this since he seemed to be a real oily salesman and I hate used car salesmen. He was like memorized talking points and just couldn't be believed he really understood what the points really mean.

Trump for President.

10 posted on 07/21/2016 4:17:16 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Windflier

Hillary and Soros have so very much money to share with “friends”. Even a nice ride on AF1 with Obama as a treat.


11 posted on 07/21/2016 4:18:11 PM PDT by nclaurel
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To: Cruz2Victory

You should ask Jim if the mods can change your name. Your name is going to be a heavy burden in the future...due to no fault of your own.


12 posted on 07/21/2016 4:18:25 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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LOL u r so silly


13 posted on 07/21/2016 4:18:31 PM PDT by Lazamataz (With Cruz's 2016 Convention speech, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz are now solid allies.)
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To: Biggirl

I really don’t think it was Ted’s plan for him to be booed off the stage.

He thought he would be cheered for sticking to “his principles”.


14 posted on 07/21/2016 4:19:00 PM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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To: Biggirl

There once was a scumbag senator named Cruz,
whose father befriended Oswald for some sick use;
The globalist bastard swore and made a pledge
but like ObamaTRADE and his wedding vow, he did hedge,
The egotistical oily liar thought he’d nothing to lose.


15 posted on 07/21/2016 4:19:05 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Pining_4_TX

Did ya ever see Cruz, circa college age video, of him standing in front of a camera saying he would be leader of the world someday?

Ya can’t make this stuff up.


16 posted on 07/21/2016 4:19:51 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: COBOL2Java

Knowing what someone is going to say merely means you know ahead of time they are going to screw you


17 posted on 07/21/2016 4:20:49 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Windflier
Do I really have to say it?

No, please, I don't want to read, hear or see the name.

FMCDH(BITS)

18 posted on 07/21/2016 4:20:51 PM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: Cruz2Victory

I don’t think Trump planned that Cruz would be booed off the stage.

I think Trump offered him the spot, then it was simply too late to take it away, even though he had read the speech.


19 posted on 07/21/2016 4:21:09 PM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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Cruz must have woke up this morning thinking he would smell victory.

Wrong. If anybody watched his breakfast with the Texas delegation
this morning, he was defensive and irritated after many in his own
Texas delegation pounded and confronted his Lyin a$$.


20 posted on 07/21/2016 4:21:12 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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