No amount of logic, no pointing out of obvious truths, no reminding of past positions, will sway them from their support of Trump. There is always an excuse, always a justification, always a reason why Trump's behavior is to be praised while even the allegation of similar behavior on behalf of Cruz is to be condemned.
As they saying goes; you can't reason someone out of a position that they did not arrive at with reason in the first place.
Uh oh, now you did it........Church of Trump to respond in....3....2....1....
We’re long past thinking and persuasion here at FR. Everyone should let it be, take a deep breath, and get ready for the time we have to unite to beat Hillary.
Wow, a dumb Rush caller has really changed my mind. As a low information voter, I guess I could probably overlook Cruz having the backing of the GOPe, Bush endorsements, Bush staff members, hundreds of millions in super PAC donations, Cruz blaming Trump for leftist BLM mobs, Cruz blaming terrorist attacks on Trump’s NATO comments, and the Cruz campaign plan to “patrol and secure” Christian neighborhoods.
I’M SOLD! CRUZ/BUSH 2016!
Thus my tagline...
I heard this and as usual folks will read into what he “meant”. Rush was having fun and going over the thought process....
Rush and you do exactly what he always says the left does. Assume that we’re idiots and we don’t know why we think what we think. We aren’t reasoned and our positions haven’t been thought through. Very condescending. I know what I believe completely and fully. I know why Cruz is a phony to me and i can explain it and have explained in thoroughly (If you care to know you can go over my comments). I’ve listened to Rush for years and now he tells me that I can’t come to reasoned decisions that differ from his own? Well, I’m sure if Cruz gets the nomination he’ll want people LIKE me to support him. I never will
I don’t support Cruz because he lied about not knowing he had Canadian citizenship.
That said, it doesn’t matter anymore. He lost. It’s impossible for him to win the delegates he needs.
The adverisers for the eib are asking wtf? Rush has alienated 49% of his audience. Time to put rush in the retirement home.
Not picking sides, but Cruz has a slim to no chance of winning the nomination. Slim is headed for the door.
All the arguing serves but one purpose and her name is Hillary.
To prevent duplication, please do not alter the published headline, thx.
Which as Ted told his donors was his plan all along. Coast in Donald's wake and pretend to be a friend, while Trump knocked the competition out, then attack just before the voting started. It worked to a degree, but in the end not.
“As they saying goes; you can’t reason someone out of a position that they did not arrive at with reason in the first place.”
Yeah, I heard that call. It is one of Limbaugh’s favorite ploys — get a Trump supporter on the air that is not all there and bait him and hold him up to ridicule and try to claim that that caller is typical of all Trump’s supporters.
There was a Trump supporter that was on the air very early. He made sense, so Rush would hardly allow him to make his points, kept interrupting him. But he will give this type of caller unlimited time
Not what’s wrong with what Vinny said. Cruz cut his political teeth in Washington working for W. His wife is a partner with Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs secretly funded his Senate campaign. Cruz has spent his entire career in Washington and while he talks a good game, he’s delivered nothing ever except key votes for TPP, for Corker, etc. He’s 100% establishment and the proof is in the pudding with every member of the establishment lining up behind him as opposed to Sessions, Arpaio, Palin, etc., for Trump. Trump did show up at the 1988 Republican Convention and announced himself as a Conservative Republican. Is a doctrinaire ideologue who’s spent decades in the trenches? No, he’s a New York City real estate developer, and I’m fine with that.
I consider myself an average Trump backer. I was skeptical at first, and I still have my doubts about him. But, the reason I support him is that I know exactly what we’ll get with Kasich, just more Bushism, he’ll push for amnesty, he won’t lift a finger to close the border, and he wants us to get into a war not only in the Middle East, but with North Korea as well.
As for Cruz, pretty much the same thing. I used to like him, but his alliance with Glenn Beck is a real turn off. His closeness with the Bushes, i.e., Neil Bush, the Jeb financial team, now the Jeb endorsement, no thank you. As far as I’m concerned, Bushism has to be uprooted and discarded, completely, and that includes Stealth Bushes.
Is Trump perfect, no. I don’t know exactly what he’ll do, and I’m sure I’ll be disappointed somewhere along the line, but I don’t know that for sure, so I’m willing to give someone who isn’t intimidated by the media, someone who isn’t swimming in special interest money, and someone who has actually created jobs, have a shot. I might be pleasantly surprised, and won’t be greatly disappointed. I held my nose and voted for Dole, Bush2 twice, McCain, and Romney, all of them were big fat ZEROES as far as I’m concerned.
So, Cruz supporters can call me LIV all they want, and point out Trump’s faults, but I don’t care. The only chance we have to uproot the Bushes is to get someone who isn’t a Stealth Bush.
That statement can work as easily by reversing the names. I don't hear Trump supporters like myself justifying Trump's poorer statements, but all I ever hear from Cruz supporters why it is great he has the Bush dynasty join his team or Romney support him even when Romney made clear he only wants a brokered convention.
When Cruz calls Trump supporter low information or not engaged it ok with you guys. If Trump said that about Cruz supports I would not justify it. You really fail to see how you excuse everything Cruz does that is not conservtive much less Christian.
constitutional conservative + cronyism
OR
populism without cronyism
the Constitution does not address cronyism which history demonstrates to lead to the eventual downfall of republics