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Anyone else here a little disappointed in Mark Levin? I listened to him yesterday to see if he was on board supporting Trump, and he just kept on defending the little man. He was calling Chris Christie and Huckabee sell outs to the establishment for supporting Trump and attacking what Cruz did. He said Cruz didn't break his oath, because there was no oath to be broken. (I have no idea what he means by that). He kept on saying Reagan never endorsed Ford in 76 although alas has shared some YouTube videos of it. What do you guys make...

The self-righteousness and smugness of Ted Cruz in refusing to endorse Donald Trump, then walking off stage in Cleveland, smirking amidst the boos, takes the mind back in time. At the Cow Palace in San Francisco in July of 1964, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, having been defeated by Barry Goldwater, took the podium to introduce a platform plank denouncing "extremism." Implication: Goldwater's campaign is saturated with extremists. Purpose: Advertise Rocky's superior morality. Smug and self-righteous, Rocky brayed at the curses and insults, "It's a free country, ladies and gentlemen." Rocky was finished. He would never win the nomination. Richard Nixon took...

by: Jim Buzzell My number one political goal this year is to get Donald J Trump elected President of the United States of America. Once that is done my next number one goal is to take care of this illegal alien posing as a US citizen: Why has no one in the national media, national conservative talk show hosts or anyone else investigated, probed or asked questions about Rafael Edward (Ted) Cruz’s birth right? 1 RAFAEL EDWARD (TED) CRUZ: Was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1970. 2 Is Rafael Cruz a Natural Born Citizen of the United States of...

Free Republic traditionally frowns on vanities. I know, I've been a member here since 1999. I too have had my knuckles cracked by the Moderator's ruler and my posts promptly yanked or locked because I could have easily responded on an existing thread. Vanities crowd out the real news. They're too numerous to count, and most vanities do nothing but stoke the poster's ego (ME! ME! ME! I WANNA BE THE NEXT GEORGE WILL!). And most of them are frankly, quite boring. However, some vanities do serve a legitimate purpose. Breaking news, for example is one. When FReepers hear about...

Those were not technical glitches. It was done on purpose. The Trump campaign knew. They were already in the process of distracting from Cruz. I mean, Cruz may not have known it, he was backwards to that giant screen, but it went black. It was flashing. It looked like it had DirecTV and there’s a lightning storm. It gets pixelated for a while and then it went black. Then a portion of it was black. It was distracting in and of itself, so much so the TV networks had to cover from a different angle, a side angle where the...

Lately I have seen a lie circulated by the left, and by people still enamored by Ted Cruz: That Reagan neither endorsed Ford at the Convention, nor went on to endorse him later.I present to you proof that the latter is simply a lie.Reagan for Ford ad '76

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.

Sheldon Adelson refused to meet with Ted Cruz after the conservative Texas senator failed to endorse Donald Trump in a controversial speech to the Republican convention, several media outlets reported. The billionaire Republican donor and his wife, Miriam, barred Cruz from the suite where they watched Cruz’s speech, which was greeted by boos, CNN first reported.

<p>CLEVELAND — Ted Cruz hasn’t changed his mind on Donald Trump.</p> <p>The Texas senator was speaking to the Texas delegation in Cleveland on Thursday morning where he was repeatedly pressed and declined to endorse (or even commit to voting for) Trump. On Wednesday night, he was booed off the stage after telling voters to "vote your conscience" but not endorsing the party's nominee.</p>

The U.S. Capitol Police have offered to provide additional security protection for Texas Senator Ted Cruz following angry confrontations on the floor of the GOP convention in Cleveland, a law enforcement source tells DailyMail.com. The offer of extra protection came hours after Cruz left the Quicken Loans Arena Wednesday night being subjected to taunts and boos after he refused to endorse Donald Trump and instead urged Americans to vote their 'conscience.' His wife, Heidi Cruz, had to be hustled out of the arena by a Cruz supporter fearful for her security. Cruz addressed Texas delegates Thursday morning and got furious...

She continued, “I’m beginning to understand why Ted Cruz has been hated by everyone every place he’s ever been from kindergarten to the United States Senate. I must tell you the only way I’m making money this year is on bar bets trying to get Donald Trump in the White House. I won all of them. I would have lost if we had made a bet on who would endorse Donald Trump first, Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz. Because Marco Rubio is just sort of standard establishment. They’re very much against having borders in our country so they’re against Donald...

From what I hear, Team Cruz was pleading him to endorse Trump. I say this not to belittle her, but to note what she struggles with: his wife is a little sick. You manage mental illness, you don't "get over it." As a politician, I would say Cruz' decision was absolutely unreasonable. But I'm not sure I could throw my wife and mother of my kids under a bus for the greater good. I wish he or someone on his staff had had the wit to undo this Gordian knot. What I would have loved to have heard was this:...

What Did Trump Really Say About Cruz' Wife and Father?

Former 2016 GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says fellow former candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) betrayed Republican nominee Donald Trump last night at the Republican National Convention. Cruz opted not to endorse Trump after he vowed — as the other candidates had — to support the eventual nominee.

Hillary Clinton is using part of Ted Cruz's controversial convention speech to troll Donald Trump Hillary Clinton used part of Sen. Ted Cruz's controversial speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday to troll Donald Trump. Cruz caused an uproar at the convention when he refused to endorse the GOP nominee, laying out a case against Clinton but imploring voters to "vote their conscience." In a tweet on Wednesday, the Clinton campaign echoed Cruz's sentiments. "Vote your conscience," Clinton tweeted, linking to a page on the website where users can check their voter registration.

Ted Cruz on Thursday strongly defended his refusal to endorse Donald Trump during his Republican National Convention speech, saying he's not "in the habit" of backing politicians who attack his family. The Texas senator sensationally withheld an endorsement of Trump in his speech Wednesday, earning a chorus of boos from the floor while getting upstaged in a power play by the GOP nominee himself.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let's go back even further to the Grooveyard of Forgotten Hits, audio sound bites. This is August 12th, 1980, in New York City at the Democrat National Convention and Teddy Kennedy. KENNEDY: I congratulate President Carter on his victory here. I am confident that the Democratic Party will reunite on the basis of Democratic principles and that together we will march towards a Democratic victory in 1980. For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope...

Back on April 28, we learned in rather comical terms that John Boehner is not a fan of Ted Cruz. At all. So much so that according to NBC the former Republican House Speaker told an audience at Stanford University that the Texas senator is "Lucifer in the flesh" and a "miserable son of a bitch." Overnight, the former House Speaker, a stalwart of the old GOP establishment, chimed in again in the aftermath of the Cruz fiasco and summed up his reaction to Cruz's controversial RNC speech in three words, according to a former aide: "Lucifer is back."

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here's another thing, folks, do not forget. They're gonna go back here and analyze Trump versus Cruz in the battle of the wives. Who got that started? You remember? And what did they do? That's right. A Cruz super PAC. And of course the candidates are not allowed any contact with the super PACs at all, never. It doesn't happen. Ahem. A Ted Cruz super PAC published photos of a scantily clawed Melania Knauss when she was a model back before she -- maybe even after she had married the Trumpster. And so that page got flipped...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: By the way, folks, here's another just a little throwaway question. Does it surprise you that somebody saying "vote your conscience" would be booed practically out of an arena? Vote your conscience. Boo! Vote your conscience. Boo! Leave! Get out! I mean, I know I'm not including context here, but just stop and think of this for a second. Cruz's message is vote your conscience, and all hell rained down on him. Now, the context is that vote your conscience, I know, happens to be a rallying cry for many of the Never Trumpers. And further context...