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When did Free Republic posters turn on Ted Cruz?

Posted on 02/19/2016 6:03:16 PM PST by hardspunned

I've come to this site every day since Ted Cruz became a national political figure. Perhaps I'm just getting old with a failing memory but I can't recall any derogatory posts about Cruz until Donald Trump began his ad hominem attacks on him. I don't remember Freepers attacking him as he built a record in the senate.

Can someone direct me to the threads and posts by the Freepers who now hate Cruz that were made prior to September of last year?


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To: IAMNO1
as opposed Trump saying about Carson: “If you’re pathological, there’s no cure for that,”

I'm sure you know this already, but I'll repeat it anyway.

Carson actually WROTE that in his book. Trump pointed that out every time he repeated Carson's words.

101 posted on 02/19/2016 6:29:02 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: hardspunned
I personally turned hard against Cruz with the "I forgot" two-fer: (1) he "forgot" to list his Goldman Sachs and Citi loans; and (2) he "forgot" he was a dual citizen.

You can't run as a pure evangelical Constitutional genius and at the same time be that galactically "careless" and dishonest.

At that point, the scales fell off and I saw how slippery Cruz was with multiple deceptive "explanations" and excuses.

Every single day has brought new damning evidence to confirm that conclusion.

102 posted on 02/19/2016 6:29:02 PM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: hardspunned

I didn’t post it at the time, but ever since Ted Cruz entered the presidential race, I’ve been worried about his chances in the general election.

I love Ted Cruz! I loved his filibuster against Obamacare!

But I know what will happen to ANY Republican outsider that runs in the general election.

They will get the Sarah Palin treatment. Not only from the MSM this time, but also from the GOPe.

So, of my favorites - Cruz and Trump, I have to ask myself, who will better withstand the pummeling of the MSM and the GOPe?

Think about it.

Obviously, it’s Trump.


103 posted on 02/19/2016 6:29:21 PM PST by EarlyBird (This space for rent)
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To: hardspunned
Just one minor example for you in July:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3308975/posts?q=1&;page=51#70

104 posted on 02/19/2016 6:29:46 PM PST by Elderberry
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To: hardspunned

“We forgot to build the wall of intellect” Why don’t you just ban us Trump backers, you know you want to.


105 posted on 02/19/2016 6:30:25 PM PST by heights
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To: LALALAW

Oh wow! Easy does it! I am a total Cruz supporter. With respect for Carson.


106 posted on 02/19/2016 6:30:36 PM PST by MLL
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To: navymom1
What aren't those Iowa Carson supporters being held accountable for voting for Cruz, if they did.

I mean, would you vote for Cruz if I told you Trump was going back to run his empire.

Cruz's people only repeated what CNN had said, taking a campaign break.

107 posted on 02/19/2016 6:30:48 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: samtheman

And Rubios parents were not even naturalized citizens when he was born! How is he even in the race??? 300 million people and our top 3 candidates are foreign nationals.


108 posted on 02/19/2016 6:31:02 PM PST by bigtoona (Lose on amnesty, socialism cemented in place forever Trump is the only hope.)
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To: hardspunned

You can find my post “Heid Cruz Worried Sick”— that’s when it happened to me. I was inundated with Heidi’s donation pleas and started distrusting both of them. I made several calls and sent emails to find out why the emails were coming from Brietbart, but noone returned my contact. I liked Cruz for VP up until then.


109 posted on 02/19/2016 6:31:14 PM PST by georgiegirl
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To: hardspunned

I don’t think you need to see any threads or posts. Just run through the past two weeks in your mind. Iowa: Cruz sends out phony “Voter Violation” Warnings to scare the rubes into voting for him. Then on election night, puts out the bogus bulletin that Carson is quitting; Vote for Cruz. Then this week, the PhotoShopped image of Rubio shaking hands with Obama.

When Rubio called him on the crappy, obvious Photoshop job, the Cruz Campaign’s reply was; paraphrase.....O.K., we PhotoShopped that one. But there are lots of actual photos of Rubio shaking hands with Obama, If you don’t like ours, send us one of them and we’ll use it.

That begs the question: If there are so many of them out there, why didn’t the Cruz Campaign use one of them in the first place? Probably because there aren’t many, or any to be had.

I feel bad about this. Cruz was my second choice after Trump. I find no pleasure in seeing Cruz, and/or, his organization self-destruct?


110 posted on 02/19/2016 6:31:40 PM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: hardspunned

I’m 100% for CRUZ

I’m 100% against TRUMP — will NEVER vote for TRUMP

He has all the bad qualities of Clinton and Obama rolled into one.

Yes, espoused positions are important ....

TRUMP the other night on MSNBC was read a listing of the positions of the socialist Sanders.

Trump thought they were reading his positions!!

But more important for me is their character, their view of life, etc. that will set the way they approach governing.

To all you Trumpers out there, I do feel your pain that motivates you to go with Trump.

But before its too late, please read Vexed by Trumpology by Steve Deace on February 18, 2016 at http://stevedeace.com/news/vexed-by-trumpology/


111 posted on 02/19/2016 6:31:52 PM PST by Critical 1
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To: hardspunned

“When did Free Republic posters turn on Ted Cruz?”

The good ones haven’t.


112 posted on 02/19/2016 6:32:00 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: IAMNO1

How do you know what enters into my thinking about Trump? As to the Carson/Trump stuff there were alternative explanations online to counter Trumps bad press. I get it, you don’t like Trump and that’s cool. But I do and in my opinion he is not only going to be the nominee, he is our next president.


113 posted on 02/19/2016 6:32:46 PM PST by navymom1
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To: hardspunned
Pretty amazing isn't it.

Cruz, Limbaugh, Levin GOPe Establishment.

I will agree Cruz bringing Beck into the fold was a terrible idea.

114 posted on 02/19/2016 6:32:57 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Pan_Yan

“The GOP plays Assassins Creed in the primaries and Words With Friends in the general elections.

Free Republic plays DOOM. Every. Single. time.”

Post of the day! ;-)


115 posted on 02/19/2016 6:33:38 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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To: hardspunned
I can honestly say I did turn on Cruz. At one time he was my #1. After Trump entered the race I watched Ted draft Trump and say nice things up until he got caught on a secret mic in a meeting. He backed off somewhat after that but had to come out of the shadows as he likes to put it.

After that I did more research, found several times where he stated he would secure the border then have a conversation on what to do with illegals already here. Then he voted for cloture on TPA/Fast Track for Obama. That prompted more research and I found where Ted co-authored WSJ article pushing for TPA and more power for Obama.

Ted Cruz joins the establishment

That did me in. I thought Cruz was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington but he's just another politician working for the establishment. They have no choice actually, they already took the bribe and agreed to the terms.

116 posted on 02/19/2016 6:33:53 PM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: bigtoona

When did you learn that the founding fathers didn’t mean for ‘natural born’ to be so damn flexible? Do you have any documentation to offer the rest of us, or is this your conjured belief? Since no one has successfully questioned it up till now, where do you get the authority that you seem to quote? Help us out. If you have evidence, please offer it.


117 posted on 02/19/2016 6:34:08 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: TexasCajun

Please, can we not rehash old issues. I gave my opinion to a poster who asked about Sen Cruz. My post was kind and respectful. I think it needs to be left at that.


118 posted on 02/19/2016 6:35:02 PM PST by navymom1
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To: j.argese
"Oh, when Ted started attacking, lying, cheating, scamming, flim-flamming, etc., etc.," - j.argese

If you repeat that Trump mantra 100 more times, does it make it true? Here's where I, and I'd like to say, many of us have a real problem with this type of invective. Cruz was one of the most honorable candidates going into the election. He was widely disliked in the Senate because he, to quote William F. Buckley:

"...stands athwart history, yelling stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it."

No, he didn't play "nice" in the GOP-e sandbox.

Then Trump comes along with a bunch of half-truths and all lies in his character assassination of anyone who disagrees with him, anyone who's in this way, and Trump supports echo him, as you are doing.

Facts aren't important. Honor and integrity aren't important. It's 100% Alinsky all the way, with Trump supporters.

Trump isn't going to win the November election with 60% of GOP voters hating him, and 40% committing to never voting for him. It ain't gonna happen.

So go ahead, trash Cruz and every other GOP candidate, and certainly their FREEPER supporters, and you're guy has a golden path to the White House.

For sure man ...

119 posted on 02/19/2016 6:35:18 PM PST by OldSaltUSN
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To: from occupied ga

probably the same fools who drooled over shrub when he was president (as in the endless gushing posts on a day in the life of...) A lot of people here are died in the wool GOPe and not in the least conservative.


Interesting...
I think most Freepers would define “dyed** in wool GOPe as those here who Support Bush, Rubio, and Kasich. Frankly I don’t see any people here that fit that description.

Just wondering...So who did you vote for in 2000 and 2004? Who did you drool over?

**corrected “died” to “dyed”


120 posted on 02/19/2016 6:35:23 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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