Posted on 07/24/2016 6:01:31 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Woah – Robert Mercer Excoriates Ted Cruz For His Non Endorsement Convention Speech…
There were some who clung to the belief that Senator Ted Cruz could survive his belittling, too-cute-by-half, selfish convention speech. That group just lost a whole lot of members with this published story.
Robert Mercer, the renegade, outlaw (non traditional) political billionaire who determines where all other outlaw political billionaires go with their view$, has just delivered a non recoverable smack down upon Senator Ted Cruz.
Noted, of course, is the vessel (NYT) utilized by an angry Mercer – to deliver the message and drive home the scope of his rebuke:
(Via New York Times) In an extraordinary public rebuke, two influential donors who were among the biggest supporters of Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign excoriated Mr. Cruz on Saturday for his decision not to endorse Donald J. Trump at the Republican National Convention.
The remarks from Robert Mercer of Long Island and his daughter Rebekah Mercer suggest widening fallout over Mr. Cruz’s convention speech, in which he did not endorse his former rival and, instead, suggested that Republicans should “vote your conscience” for candidates “up and down the ticket.”
“Last summer and again this year, Senator Ted Cruz pledged to support the candidacy of the nominee of the Republican Party, whomever that nominee might be,” the Mercers, who rarely comment in the news media, said in the statement to The New York Times.
“We are profoundly disappointed that on Wednesday night he chose to disregard this pledge. The Democratic Party will soon choose as their nominee a candidate who would repeal both the First and Second Amendments of the Bill of Rights, a nominee who would remake the Supreme Court in her own image. We need ‘all hands on deck’ to ensure that Mr. Trump prevails”.
“Unfortunately, Senator Cruz has chosen to remain in his bunk below, a decision both regrettable and revealing.” (read more)
This is HUGE…. Remember, Mercer bought and built the entire Cambridge Analytics empire specifically for Ted Cruz. Then Mercer purchased Breitbart to assist the endeavor; then Mercer put $11 million into Cruz super-PAC’s.
Oh man, this is delicious.
Especially because Fox News is already going full moonbat.
Additionally, this could mean the following political Sea Island attendees are also forced, for sake of their own political reelection skin, to go “Full Trump”:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), political guru Karl Rove, ? House Speaker Paul Ryan, GOP Senators •Tom Cotton (Arkansas), •Cory Gardner (Colorado), •Tim Scott (South Carolina), •Rob Portman (Ohio) and •Ben Sasse (Nebraska).
HUGE !
Truer words were never spoken. It has indeed been very revealing about the character and political leanings of all the players.
I attended a Portman fundraiser in 2012, just after the Rs won the senate. I asked him, given that Obama would veto any repeal of Obamacare, what would the Rs do.
Absolutely no answer. It was clear he didn’t want to do anything. BTW, the fundraiser was at the home of a major Indian doctor who has been pushing for an expansion of H1B visas. (Can you guess from which country?)
I’d like to think Trump is pulling him over, but I think the polling flipped earlier than that.
“I hear rumblings that some want to see Perry challenge Cruz for the Senate seat next election. That will be tasty!”
If that happens I will support Perry.
To the author: It’s “Whoa” not “Woah”. Good grief.
“Gingrich’s speech that followed showed the huge difference what there is between a seasoned statesman and an immature power hungry politician which is what Ted is.”
Good point.
Too cute by half
NYT, April 2015: Hedge-Fund Magnate Robert Mercer Emerges as a Generous Backer of Cruz
NewsMax July 2015: Politico: Money Man Behind Breitbart's 'Cheerleading' of Cruz
Wash.Post Oct 2015: How a reclusive computer programmer became a GOP money powerhouse
Hugh Hewitt says he’s on the Trump Train, but you’d hardly know it with the type of commentary he carries on with, and some of the yuck-yucks he spews out from time to time.
“Too cute by half.”
Did I say something wrong?
>I hear rumblings that some want to see Perry challenge Cruz for the Senate seat next election. That will be tasty!
After what Ted did at the convention, I put aside $1000 to denote to his primary opponent in 2008. But I expect I won’t have to. Ted Cruz won’t even run.
I’d rather have Portman than Strickland in the Senate and as long as he keeps his head down and stays in his lane I’m willing to give Portman a pass...ymmv.
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