The mudslinging is at an all time high however, Justice Scalia’s death cemented my “wasted vote” for Ted Cruz!
People are all up in arms about Ted’s ads using Trump’s own words in them. Heck, Trump’s campaign sent a cease and deceasist letter because of one of them! Seriously? It’s Politics people, not for the faint of heart.
Do you really believe that we can’t go after Hillary in the same vain? Who on our side has the cleaner closet when the machine does open up in the General election? Rubio, Trump, or Cruz?
The Supreme Court hangs in the balance. This is our last chance to get this one right.
Ok, unleash the pain, cause I know I’m about to be pulled apart by the rabid, but really think about what we are about to all be doing very soon. Pick a President.
It's gotten to be sickeningly predicable.
I just got back from voting, I wish I had read this before I wasted my vote on Cruz.
No other Republican can win those states.
Losing New York would be devastating to Democraps
Except in a head to head, Cruz kicks trumps ass by 16points. Pretty sure Rubio does too but not as big a margin. Whatsamatter trumpeter, scared?
Side note, I’m sure your ridiculous vanity managed to convince exactly zero people. So you got that going for you! Yay, you!
If he does make it to the general election, I don't think he will do well. Maybe I am wrong but I just don't see Ted Cruz appealing to the moderates and Independents that he will need if we are going to beat Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden or Shrillary. I do understand his appeal among us hard core conservatives but there just aren't enough of us to carry a general election. It's a hard fact to come to terms with but I'm a realist. Ted Cruz as nominee will send many people over to the Democrats, a third party or they might just sit out.
I firmly believe that Donald Trump is our best choice. He has broad appeal and should the Democrats make the mistake of nominated Bernie or Shrillary, I think he will beat them very soundly (he might have trouble against a Joe Biden however).
Trump is not a perfect conservative on paper but he is definitely running a more conservative platform than any other GOP candidate save Cruz himself. I'm also impressed with Trump's broad life experience that he brings to the table and his private sector business expertise. I think Trump will serve as a "CEO" type president and will hire the best and brightest to work in his administration - not political hacks and relatives of donors, etc.
I also think Trump has a much better temperament than Cruz. Trump is pleasant, easy to get along with, and I can see him making some good deals for America with regard to trade and getting things done domestically. Unlike Cruz, I think Trump has the ability to rally Congress (using the presidency as a bully pulpit) to get his agenda passed in a constitutional manner.
I'll support Cruz should he somehow overcome Donald Trump and win the nomination but I feel that our best bet to win the general and actually change the direction of this nation is with Donald Trump.
Ted Cruz is only 44 years old. He's got a bright future regardless of what happens here. I do hope that Cruz takes some of that nasty edge off him and learn that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Some of Cruz's followers should take the same advice.
Innuendo. This stuff makes me sick.
Yes, Ben Carson said Cruz lied. But Cruz’s people simply repeated what a CNN report said, based on what Carson’s own staffer told them. And the claim that was made - that Carson would not be campaigning in NH or SC - was true.
Yes, Marco Rubio said Cruz lied - about him saying opposite things about executive amnesty when speaking in English than when speaking in Spanish. But the ads themselves prove who is the liar. Rubio desperately tried to say that Cruz couldn’t know what he’d said in Spanish because Cruz doesn’t speak Spanish (as if that matters), so Cruz proved him wrong by speaking Spanish. And the head of the border patrol’s union has described Rubio’s “Gang of Eight” actions in a way that very much supports what Cruz has been saying about Rubio.
Yes, Trump has said that Cruz lied, and in one case he has a point, if Cruz’s ad said that Trump actually did bulldoze a woman’s house. If the ad said he TRIED to use eminent domain to bulldoze a woman’s house then he did not lie. He said Cruz lied about Trump’s views on Obamacare but based on the things Trump has said publicly (”The government will pay for it” and that he likes the Obamacare mandate, for instance) Cruz’s conclusions were justifiable absent further explanation from Trump, which still hasn’t been forthcoming. Instead of clarifying he simply called Cruz a liar, unless I’m overlooking something (which is very possible).
His fellow Senators won’t endorse him because he did in DC what he said he would do - confront the pigsty and the lies. In addition, these are the people who know they need to work with whoever becomes POTUS so they may be hesitant to get Trump mad at them. I wonder why they’d be afraid of that? It’s not like Trump bulldozes whoever he sees as opposition or something... Trump says Cruz is ineffective because he doesn’t know how to “deal”. Isn’t schmoozing and “dealing” the very thing that has gotten us into this mess? And how can Trump say he’s going to straighten out DC if his plan is to schmooze and deal just as DC has always done? The one who will be hated is the one who confronts that system, and the ONLY person who has done that is Ted Cruz - who is predictably hated for it.
Regarding who will get the minority votes, we don’t know what would be done to either Trump or Cruz if they finally get the nomination and the media comes out in full force against them. That was the strongest reason you gave for not voting for Cruz and it is a question mark.
Thank you very much!
Don’t be a busybody; I’ll vote for who I please.
Come November, I’m going to waste my vote on Gary Johnson.
A vote for Cruz is a vote for gridlock.
Research my posting history, crap like this has driven me from leaning Trump to leaning Cruz.
I don’t think you are doing Trump any favors.
You insult the True Gray Fox.
Robert E. Lee.
I always find it amusing that Cruz haters list “No one in the Senate likes him” as a reason to not support him. Last time I checked, the primary reason for supporting Trump or Carson or Fiorina was because people didn’t like the establishment and wanted an “outsider.” So given the ways Trump has promised (remember that word) to do a laundry list of things that the current GOP majority has failed/refused to do, how many pals in the Senate do you think he has?
Harry Reid, maybe?
This is why the Enlightenment, egalitarianism and the American experiment is lost. When a vote is no longer considered a person’s expression of political choice but simply chit in a grand political contest it’s over. The will of the people is no more. Elections are simply a political contest between competing political powers and their supporters.
To me, that overwhelmingly confirms why I should vote for Cruz . . . to bust up the Washington insider BS.
To some, Ted Cruz talks a good game and he may. But if his campaign doesn’t stop sending me up to six emails a day marked “Urgent”, looking for money, he will never get a vote from me.