Posted on 09/21/2016 3:45:04 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Ted Cruz: "Appreciate @realDonaldTrump’s support of our efforts to keep the internet free."
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Concur; he is out of the race and Trump needs all the votes he can get. Cruz may be trying to find a way back.
Letting bygones be bygones is an excellent attitude.
BTW, creating division among us doesn’t do us any favors and I really appreciate the tone in your posts. Sometimes I get so fed up with the attitude of some I consider pulling my financial support of FR. With more people with your attitude I’m far more likely to continue my support. I’ve met Jim, John and many other freepers. Leaving would be difficult, no doubt!
I gathered that! Thanks for your posts.
Could be. We need all the help we can get keeping our fleeting freedoms.
Wut? Ted didn’t call Donald a Trumpanzee?
I have a six pack of vitriol
whoops “had” a six pack of vitriol you should shout your orders louder and have someone bigger and badder than you to attempt to enforce them.
Cruz is my Senator for now.
I will vote for a crippled blind hamster with a foot stuck in his exercise wheel before I will ever vote for cruz again for anything.
NO ONE did anything to cruz ... that weirdo did it to himself... he is but a minor footnote, done, gone and nothing.
“Having read a lot of the Cruz threads I came to a different conclusion.”
You should have kept reading.
If you find yourself enamored of someone who’s universally reviled, perhaps you should examine that person a little bit closer.
Ditto.
Let’s take Baby Steps. _1 _ _2 _ _ _3 _ _ _ _4 _ _ _ _ _5 ________TRUMP!
It is a positive move in our direction. We’ll accept it. Remember how it works?
$5, $10, $20, ...$100 ... whatever you can.
Five dollars is a start. :- ))
A compliment is a beginning. It will open the door for his supporters.
Think of it like a cult leader trying to persuade his devoted flock of muslims to suddenly become Mormons-> overnight. You got a start some where. Maybe with the muslims, the polygamy benefit could be the turning point. J/k
>>”Ted should have conceded to Trump after Indiana, and told his followers to respect the choice of the larger number of Republican voters.”
You don’t understand, Mr. Windflier (with all due respect.)
Ted had NO intention of dropping out in Indiana. He was forced to step down by Poppy Bush due to the exposure of his father’s involvement with Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assassination. He was ordered out!
Ted very very angrily withdrew, not of his own accord. He had just raised another 10 million dollars and pledged he was IN till the end.
Ted had his delegate thieves and operatives in line to overturn the first vote at the RNC Convention. He had a huge war chest to coerce delegates to change their votes. He had lawyers working to disqualify entire state delegations for Trump. Florida delegates confirm they were discussing it back in April. He also had his delegates holding the bulk of the positions on the very important RNC Convention Rules Committee conspiring to alter the rules on his behalf. He and his minions had plotted to overturn the will of the people.
Ted Harvey Oswald was mad as hell.
Funny thing is, he would be down by double digits to Clinton right now.
His support base that truly loved and backed him was almost exclusively from the “prairie states.” Those states all have low electoral votes. We would be in a very bad position with a guaranteed loss on election day. All for an ego.
Note that Ted lost every single district in FLorida and Ohio. -No chance 4 win with zero zero zero crossover appeal.
I’ve dug deep and simply disagree. To each his own!
You are on the mark. None of us should let personal pique interfere with our getting the largest vote possible for Donald Trump. Consider this:
Given the logistics of contemporary American politics, it is not only important that Trump win. The larger the Trump vote, the better our chances of his being able to get Congress to go along with what he needs to get done. A cliff hanger victory would be better than a loss, of course. But a 60 to 40% landslide, would vastly--vastly--increase his ability to achieve the restoration of the America we long for.
That is infinitely more important than venting outrage against those he has previously defeated!
Now is clearly not the time to be driving anyone away by feeling a non-existent need, at this point in time, to reexamine the record of a defeated Primary opponent. We need every vote we can get. (See my post above.)
Ted Cruz: Appreciate Donald Trump’s support of our efforts to keep the internet free
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LOL!
This is Ted’s way of “stating” this is a “Cruz project.” He wants to make sure Trump doesn’t wrangle his credit.
After flopping at the convention, he’s trying to be a little more careful with his words.
“I’ve dug deep and simply disagree.”
Oh stop. If you’d dug deep, as you claim, you’d be more informed about Mr Cruz than the average Freeper, and would likely be one of his most vocal critics.
In fact, you haven’t “dug” at all, as 90% of our issues with Ted lie right on the surface. To wit:
1. His vote to end debate on TPA, a necessary precusor to TPP.
2. Wanted a 500% increase in H1-B visas.
3. Loans? What loans?
4. Constitutionally ineligible, but ran for president anyway.
5. Married to Goldman-Sachs.
6. Gave $500,000 to the Fiorna campaign without explanation.
7. Stabby the Clown (say no more).
8. Iowa Caucus shenanigans (shameful).
9. Ex BushCo lawyer (suspicious).
10. His PAC slandered Melania Trump, and Ted did not object.
11. Attended closed door meeting with Jeb and Rubio.
12. Hired Jeb’s brother and finance team.
13. Refused to release his citizenship docs (just like Obama).
14. Delegate wrangling and outright theft.
15. Blamed Chicago rally violence on Trump.
16. Reneged on his written pledge to endorse the nominee.
17. Told RNC convention attendees to “vote your conscience”.
Those points are off the top of my head. There are many, many more.
If none of those things gave you pause about the man, then you’ve got a high tolerance for wickedness and dearth of character. The vast majority of Republican voters don’t, which is why Ted’s political career is over.
In post 54 you said to each his own but you apparently didn’t mean it. I’m not going through this again as I have smarter ways of spending my time. I do appreciate your time and efforts, I just disagree.
It was a subtle signal to you that I was willing to walk away with a civil disagreement, but you didn't catch it, and kept pitching your opinion of Cruz.
Wanna keep talking? Alrighty then, we can go til the cows come home.
Point of fact: Ted's stock value among Republican voters is in the toilet - not just with me and a handful of Freepers. The man is widely reviled on this side of the aisle for his disreputable performance during the primary.
He's very likely to lose his next bid for his Senate seat, here in Texas. I, and millions of other Texans will not forget what a weasel liar this guy proved himself to be, and will vote accordingly in 2018.
Given everything we now know about him, I can see absolutely no reason for any conservative to ever give him the time of day again. Your continued support for the man can only be held in place by a serious lack of information. Few who trusted him before, trust him now, because they paid attention to what he DID, not what he SAID.
I don't buy into the idea that there's a significant number of disaffected Cruz supporters remaining, whose bottoms need powdering to woo them over to Trump.
Any such animal was never a solid conservative to begin with, if they can't see past their butthurt, and come to grips with the stark reality of what we face with a Clinton presidency.
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