Posted on 03/12/2016 10:35:57 AM PST by jmaroneps37
I am a Trump supporter but I would like to know if Cruz's comments about Chicago changed the mind of any of his supporters. Is it A) no difference I still support Cruz B) I am rethinking my support for Cruz C) I am now going to support another candidate or not voting?
The problem with Cruz’s statement is that he blamed Trump for something that is fundamentally the left’s fault.
yes, stating the truth is the highest praise.
Get a life. You are acting like a nut.
No, Trump will be a general election disaster of McGovern like proportions.
The riots in Chicago were obviously not his fault, but he has brought nothing but bullying, petty insults, invective, childishness, lies, conspiracy mongering, etc, to the GOP primary. He is a poison that is just going to have to work its way through the system. Worse, Trump isn’t even a conservative - he just harnesses the anger in the base for his own ends.
Cruz, on the other hand, IS an actual conservative with a real conservative track record. Cruz at least has a chance to beat Shrillery, Trump would get slaughtered.
No.
It was Trump’s New Yorkness that took some getting used to for me.
I was an early Cruz supporter and switched to Trump after I saw he was serious about stopping the Cheap Labor Express and how determined they were that he NOT be elected.
Ted had disappointed before with the TPA & Corker votes, but I still liked him. He stepped in it big time here.
Realize that FR is an echo chamber where Trump supporters can discuss, yell, vent and snipe to their heart’s content. They are cocooned in a safe environment of like minded souls who can forget that Trump’s negative ratings within the party are the lowest for any front runner in modern times. His rhetoric, for better or ill has alienated and driven away much support he would have otherwise gained. But then without this tough guy anti PC rhetoric he may never had gotten traction coming out of the starting gate in the first place.
My natural and immediate reaction to the events in the last twenty four hours is to rush to defend Trump from the liberal hordes. But thinking further I had to ask myself what is our end game and how do we get there? This is the moment where Cruz can expand his base, change hearts and minds and diminish the anti Christian sentiments arrayed against him.
I love Donald for being the first voice coming out of the wilderness populated with our effete cowardly representatives who refused to push back against the leftists. And now that Donald has kicked the cultural marxists in the teeth with the movement we’ve been waiting for I do not believe he’s the one to get us to the promised land. He’s our Moses. Ted Cruz is our Joshua. Youth and stealth!
“I prefer decentralization of power. I want power returned to the states and citizens.”
Have you even looked at Trump’s replacement plan? Repeal leaves vast amounts of federal power in place in medical care.
Trump’s plan gives block grants to the states for Medicare, returning some power back to the states.
It empowers the individual with Health Savings Accounts that are better than the previous version. It uses the commerce clause for its actual purpose; stopping the barriers that states put up to hinder competition, in this case, the Insurance industry.
His replacement is less concentrated government than we had before Obamacare.
Trump conservative? You must be from Maryland to believe that manure!!! Lol
Was Cruz supporter. AM DONE WITH CRUZ. Tuesday in the panhandle of Florida I will be voting for Donald Trump. The GOP needs to die a quick death. We need to get on with transforming the party into the Independent party. Give the rinos to the Democrat party where they have been in the closet all along.
I AM DONE.
I support Ted Cruz
No, but the way Trump handled his campaign manager’s attack on Michelle Fields has made me even more enthusiastic about making sure Trump loses the nomination.
Cruz fired his campaign spokesman for saying something bad about Marco Rubio. Trump’s campaign manager bruises a female reporter in an unprovoked attack and Trump sweeps it under the table like Hillary Clinton with one of Bill’s victims. Disgusting but predictable from the biggest big government statist to run for President in our lifetimes.
Maybe Ted actually thinks, sadly, that in a union with a Bush, he, Ted, will make the decisions. I think he does believe that.
I realize this will not be a popular position, but my support of mr. Cruz has not changed. For the very simple reason that what he said was true the multiple statements by both mr. Trump and members of his campaign about punching beating and the such like of people who do not agree with them has set a standard a low standard of discourse that has for all intents and purposes provided the excuse the agitators had to show up.
I will condemn harshly the protesters for what they did but their actions reflect on their half of the spectrum. As a person running as a Republican or at least for Republican candidacy mr. Trump claims to represent my half of the political Spectrum and as such I feel we have a right to hold him to a higher standard than that of the American left who has no morals to speak of.
I would also like to point out that had this happened at rally for any other candidate I can easily see Trump followers proclaiming it as attempt at a reichstag like fire event. Or claiming a false flag or some other conspiracy nonsense , I have noticed more and more the similarities between the hardcore Trump follower and the 9/11 truther in that both groups will happily claim that anyone who disagrees with them is paid provocateur. In fact I would be surprised if it least one of them doesn’t claim I am a shill of some kind.
Far too often I am reminded of the quotation that a fanatic is one that redoubled his efforts while losing sight of his goal , the goal is a more responsive and constitutional government not to just burn it all down which seems to be far too often what Trump followers happily claim here on what used to be Free Republic but may well be renamed Trump Republic and be done with it. Transcribed with Google Voice
You’re delusional. Even without my vote, Trump gets the nomination.
He was disgusting. He, Obama, Hillary, etc all went with the rioting mob shutting down someone speech, as -being- free speech.
I cant believe a year ago I thought he understood the constitution.
Little Jeb Cruz went spit out his master Neil S&L con man Bush exact talking points within 15 minutes period on CNN !
Congrats on outing yourself as the DC Uniparty
Bush Bot we all knew you were .
The Gope and Wall Street Cheap labor donors appreciate useful idiots like yourself .
You may not realize it, but lots of people are reconsidering their support for Ted Cruz, the false prophet. Who doesn't care about this country, only himself and his desire to hold power.
Just watch and see. They will do anything to stop him.
I will still vote for whichever one, between Trump and Cruz, wins the primary, because I can’t bear even 4 more years of leftist destruction, but his remarks have definitely disillusioned me about Cruz in a way which nothing he had said or done before had done.
But I will still vote for either one in the general. I will NOT contribute, by not voting, to the leftist juggernaut continuing its roll.
Kasich and Rubio are another matter, but I don’t think I’m going to have to make a choice as hard as that, regarding them, pray God.
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