Some people around here, apparently, prefer to drive away a good percentage of former Cruz supporters (which number in the millions) and lose to Hillary, than for Trump to win with the support of former Cruz supporters. They bash Cruz more than Hillary, Obama, or Planned Parenthood. And worse, they bash former Cruz supporters. Baffling.
As far as I can tell, Cruz is no longer a factor in this campaign.
On the Internet ownership issue, he and Trump agree, as they do on many, many other important issues.
Attacking Cruz is foolish right now because he is not even up for election. Save it for after the election.
If the cruzers vote for Hillary because of the bashing from trumpsters here, they were never conservative to begin with.
I’ll welcome Cruz’s endorsement (if it comes), but I sincerely doubt his motives.
He thought his convention speech would set him up in 2020 like Reagan’s 76 speech set him up for his 80 run.
Unfortunately for Ted unlike Reagan, he lacks even a hint of Reagan’s charisma, humor, or persuasion.
Now that it looks like Trump might win and 2020 is out the window, Ted has to make nice to salvage his career.
I would also point out that Trump never bashed Cruz supporters, but Cruz insulted Trump supporters repeatedly.
I'll still hang around and see what happens.
“Some people around here, apparently, prefer to drive away a good percentage of former Cruz supporters (which number in the millions) and lose to Hillary...”
I’m a former Cruz supporter, but I wised up to who and what he is, early in the campaign. I’m not offended in the least by any vitriol I see directed towards him. He earned every bit of it.
I’m also not sympathetic to people who still remain so enamored of him that they fail to see how much damage he’s inflicted upon the party, at a time when we can least afford dissension in the ranks.
Ted should have conceded to Trump after Indiana, and told his followers to respect the choice of the larger number of Republican voters. But no, Mr Ego couldn’t let go of his bruised feelings, and fomented division amongst us for months, by not coming to terms with his loss and heartily throwing his support to the winner.
Yep.
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!