Posted on 07/22/2016 9:40:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ted Cruz essentially gave a career-ending speech at the GOP convention on Wednesday night.
Cruz's speech was a slap in the face to GOP nominee Donald Trump. "Vote your conscience" is a wonderful-sounding phrase. But we all know what he meant: Don't vote for Donald Trump.
I was in the convention hall and the crowd's reaction was unbelievable. It started out as a few hands waving in the air and some booing, and then it just grew and grew throughout the entire convention hall. And then boom! It was absolute bedlam.
I've been to most of the GOP conventions since 1980, and I've never seen anything like it. These people stood on their feet and booed. These are Republicans! They don't do this. They don't know how to stand up and boo. And yet, Cruz so divided them and worked them into such frenzy that it happened.
Cruz tried to pass it off as just the New York delegation acting up. But that is wrong. The whole hall was in an uproar. You couldn't even hear the last two paragraphs of Cruz's speech because the booing had reached such a crescendo.
Cruz left an absolute disaster in his wake when he finished that speech. Everyone was dispirited, as one might expect.
And then came Trump's running mate, Mike Pence. Pence delivered a terrific speech. He touched on all the major themes -- the economy, shaking up Washington and Trump's outsider roots. He talked about how Trump understands that middle-class wage earners have been hurt; they haven't had a raise in 15 years. That's something that Cruz, in all of his years of political experience, still doesn't understand!
Really, within the first 10 minutes of his speech, Mike Pence turned a demoralized, dispirited, depressed, negative convention into an upbeat and united one. He hit all the right notes and had a lot of optimism in his speech. The Cruz disaster, which had left the convention hall spinning just moments before, was suddenly swept away.
The entire hall started applauding Pence. Then they started cheering and got on their feet for Pence. Amazing.
Trump couldn't have made a better choice. Mike Pence single-handedly pulled the convention back together and united attendees with an optimistic message. He gave great support to Donald Trump and the ticket. He basically snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. He turned destruction into positive hope.
I've never seen anything like that.
Ted Cruz will never politically recover from this. His delegation from Texas wanted him to play ball with Trump -- and he wouldn't. He was freelancing in that speech. His political career is over. He's finished.
Donald Trump and Mike Pence are just beginning.
We have to wait and see what Trump does tonight in his speech; it could make or break his presidential campaign. I personally hope that he puts a lot of focus on positive changes for America. I want to see a lot of growth in that speech. I want to hear him talk about lowering taxes and curbing regulations.
But here's what I want to see most of all: a follow-through from what Pence started. One of Pence's messages on Wednesday night was that we -- meaning the ticket -- can turn this nation around. It's an American malaise right now, from the economy, to civil unrest, violence and the threat of terrorism. And that is what Trump must prove to the nation and the world -- that he can turn it around. He's got to convince them.
It's kind of like Ronald Reagan redux. Reagan was able to do this. He proved that he could do the job. That's what Trump needs to do.
That's huge. It's more important than any policy detail.
And that's the spirit Pence invoked on Wednesday night. Let's hope Trump does the same.
Now, we why know the left wing mediots and Clintoons’s brownshirts hate Mike Pence!
It was only a disaster if your name is “Ted Cruz.”
So if Obama had been born in Kenya, it would have been OK?
They totally ignored that his mother was born and raised in Delaware which made him a natural born US citizen. Also she never gave her American Citizenship up when Ted Cruz was born, as she was not eligible because she wasn't long in Canada for Canadian Citizenship
I agree.
After Pence’s speech, we know why Donald selected Pence as his VP candidate.
A big hint was how the left wing brownshirt mediots attacked Pence as soon as Trump announced him.
YES! Good Post!
Who would have predicted that even six months ago?
It took me a while, but when I saw what you did, I lol’ed.
Thank you, that was really funny.
The following night in a CNN interview with Dana Bash, Newt excoriated Cruz and stated flatly that his career is OVER.
I like to think that Ted is Through in Texas.
In other words, Ted is TiTs Up.
When did Cruz apply for citizenship? Foreign born children must apply in order to be recognized by the US government.
lol!
That would be so cruzlike.
instead of going with the more simplified "d|ck head, esq", complicated-mess Cruz would opt for "Richard Cranium" instead.
The Tedlims organized (if you could call it that) offsite, promptly got beat here and in the field, and then went self-nukular...
Here’s what really happened.
The #NeverTrump folks (Romney, Jeb, other idiots) led Ted to believe he could still turn this convention around, or at the very least set Ted up to be the 2012 candidate. Now the #NeverTrump folks hate Ted, and they hate Trump. So this is a win, win for them. Ted was to egotistical to realize he had been had from the beginning. If he did derail Trump, which he didn’t. He would be hated by the largest republican crown ever to nominate their candidate, if the crowd turned on him, and they did, Ted would be ruined, and he is.
What the GOP doesn’t realize however, is no matter what happens from here on it, it’s not their party anymore. They aren’t even members, their time is over, and rightfully so.
Nice to see Pence getting his due.
5000 to 3.
Heidi, Mike Lee and Cruz against the rest.
Remember that about Mike Lee. He was the major tool used by his friend Cruz to try to change the rules at the convention.
He shouted “We love you Ted” during the speech.
Ludlow totally ignores the commendable clean up that Newt Gingrich performed on the Cruz ‘speech’. Newt got the convention back on an even keel prior to Pence’s speech.
Now, now, now...If Cruz's mother gave up her American citizenship then Ted is a Natural born Canadian...But then what about his dad??? His dad was still a Cuban citizen wasn't he??? That would make Ted a natural born Cuban...Or a Cubanadian...Or a Canubian...
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