Posted on 03/08/2016 11:08:29 AM PST by Citizen Zed
As the reality of Donald Trumps lead sinks in, party figures who once insisted Ted Cruz was at least as bad are starting to come around.
There was a timelong, long agowhen the Republican Party was afraid of Donald Trump, but it truly loathed Ted Cruz.
They hated him. They couldnt stand him. They might have thought Trump was a huckster, they might have thought he didnt have any idea what he was doing, and they might have thought he was a bigot, but at least he wasnt as insufferable as Ted Cruz, the man who had gone out of his way to wreck the partys plans in Congress, and had called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar. Forced to choose, party elders tended to shudder and lean Trump. Lindsey Graham was particular piquant in his criticism. He was very clear he didnt like Cruz, who he said was no better than Trump and whom he accused of McCarthyism. He cracked, If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.
A lot can change in a couple weeks. Graham made his joke about murdering Cruz way back on February 26, which makes it all the more surprising to hear from the South Carolina senator these days.
I can work with Ted Cruz, Graham said. I know what Im getting with Ted Cruz.
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Did you hear that the Secret Service paid a visit to Beck over his stabbing comments?
http://conservativetribune.com/glenn-beck-black-suits/
There is a reason the liar label stuck to Ted the Lying King.
“I can work with Ted Cruz, Graham said. I know what Im getting with Ted Cruz.”
Translation: Graham has gotten his marching orders from the Party - Whatever it takes, stop Trump
Outstanding! Lou gets it in spades.
Us vs. Them. I take credit for coining that one from years ago on the Michael Medved show :)
Yep. I’ll still vote for him as the nominee but I’d like a refund on the book he ironically titled “A Time For Truth”.
Cruz still beating Clinton in RCP’s General match-up. Trump still losing to everyone is same data.
Aren’t Trump voters tired of smearing Cruz? Only a few days ago the GOPe said they “could work with Trump”. Now Trump is so bad to them that they “could work with Cruz.”
This is a victory for all of us! It means that neither man is willing to work with the bastards and now they’re down to a choice between two men who they loathe and who is bad for the Washington cartel. Instead of celebrating, we keep on savaging each other! Though a Cruz supporter, if Trump is the nominee I will be excited to help him get elected, especially because how vicious the GOPe has been to him, just like they have been to Ted for several years now. How about you? Are you willing to do the same? Has there any conservative senator willing to call the sleazeball McConnell a liar to his face on the floor of the Senate? How can you still think that he’s in bed with those guys? Let’s unite behind our two people and hope they don’t destroy each other too much before the general.
What the GOPe doesn’t get is that what they’re praying for, a brokered convention, could result in their worst scenario: it will force Trump and Cruz to join forces because on their own they will be picked apart by the GOPe. That would be a formidable force against Hillary.
Yeah we all know what we’re getting with Cruz.
Another bought and paid for beltway guy, with a wife who works for Goldman Sachs and thinks a North American Union is awesome and should be established.
They are backing Cruz and Cruz is happy to be part of the establishment if it means taking out Trump
What Cruz needs to get into his sleazy head is that the same people he is in bed with right now will stab him right in the back once he has done their dirty work
Look at swing states
swing states
VA Cruz came third and never won a single county
FL Cruz is third
OH Cruz is third
CO don’t know but I cannot see the demographics going for Cruz.
Cruz is screwed. No wonder he keeps parroting for Rubio to get out and vote for him instead of others.
Name a single state Romney lost that Cruz can win? I’ll give you five Trump will win New York New Jersey Pa. Ct. Nevada. If Trump just holds the ones Romney won he gets to 279. No pie in the sky that Trump wins California or Ill. or Mass or Maryland just simply logic. Choose Cruz and lose. It is as simple as that. His appeal is way too narrow.
The enemy of my enemy etc.
Cruz is being backed by the establishment here in FL and Cruz has no problem with it.
Millions are being spent on attack AD;’s against Trump. Cruz has Romney;’s staff,. Romney said vote for cruz, Graham said he could work with Cruz.
Others in the establishment have said they will vote for Clinton if Trump is the nominee.
Maybe President Trump would appoint Cruz and Christie as Supremes?
I’d love to see Pelosi’s face.
Wait, I take that back.
Those who think it won't happen must trust the backstabbers. That would be the same folks who stole the nomination for Cochran.
Idiots or complacent? It's one or the other.
Hopefully Cruz can keep the Yellow-haired Orange-faced Penis-describer from getting the nomination.
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