Credit to Pookie18
Posted on 04/19/2016 11:49:04 AM PDT by pgyanke
Credit to Pookie18
I don't know about you but I'm sick and tired of this election season. FR has turned into a bickering board of bitter bubbleheads, it seems. Where we used to see Ted Cruz as a principled conservative... we now attack anyone who likes him as a "Cruzite" or "Cruzombie"... what happened?
First, there was the attack against him that he played dirty tricks in Iowa by relaying an MSM message that Carson was leaving the race. What would you do? If you are in a popularity contest against multiple opponents, wouldn't you make sure that the votes of an ideological brother weren't wasted on a failed effort? It's a logical reasoning... and you don't have days to debate it in committee, you have minutes and seconds before votes are tallied. That Cruz apologized at all for this news media-inspired fiasco shows him to be the bigger man.
Then what? He's following the rules and gathering delegates? I thought we wanted someone who knows how the game is played and can win elections... silly me. The Trump supporters don't seem to realize that DT is not the closer he claims to be. He is riding a wave of populism but is losing on the rules because he is disorganized and unprepared.
Saying all of this doesn't mean I am anti-Trump... I am anti-Dem whether the Dem is Hillary, Bernie, or Biden. Doesn't matter to me. If Trump is the eventual nominee, he will get my vote to stop the Dem machine's destruction of our great country.
In the primary, though, I want the most conservative in the race who has shown he knows how to win. That man is Ted Cruz. Why he is slimed on a conservative board is beyond me... and it saddens me. Maybe he isn't your guy... fine. Why does he have to be slimed? If he does manage to pull out an upset... what have you accomplished but hurting our best chance for conservative restoration in this country?
Something bright and sparkling came along.
>> Where we used to see Ted Cruz as a principled conservative...what happened?
Nothing happened. “We” still see Ted that way. Depends on the cohort you have chosen to adopt.
Perhaps we just like Trump better.
Something low down happened in Iowa by the way Ben Carson acted. Shocked me the guy did it, but ends seems to justify means it seems
LOL! +1
FR has been taken over by a bunch of delusional progressive populists. They’re all following the bouncing ball.
Four voters for Cruz this morning in NYC.
One of the poll workers tried to dirty trick me and say that the location was for democrats only! I quickly went back to the poll ( after having visited an alternate polling location) and voted.
SQUIRREL!!
Kool-aid comes in many flavors.
TDS is running rampant, and emotions are running high on both sides.
I just hope Trump, if he is the nominee, is able to win, and then follows through and does at least most of what he’s running on. I have zero concerns about Cruz doing the right thing.
I have no problem with that. That's healthy. I've been more than a little disgusted, though, with those who go full vitriol on Cruz... on FR of all places.
Took the words right or of my mouth. Soon we will all be friends again. Routing for Cruz to beat Hillary.
Yep. That’s it in a nutshell.
Liking Trump better is one thing.
But damning Cruz to hell with nasty words and imagery ... is something completely different.
I think it’s been his two month anti-trump tirade that’s a complete turn off. If he only ignored trump and spoke issues, he’d be better off. He tried to be the Rubio candidate who was all negative but forgot he dropped out due to the negative hits on trump. The other problem with Cruz is he does very poorly when people vote. He lost all the swing states and is on target to lose the entire east coast but Maine. That’s not good.
“... what happened?”
They believe the MSM.
Oh Cruz’ cult church speaks in tongues And Cruz has been anointed to spread the wealth. HE CANT LOSE.
I started out leaning Cruz, but willing to consider Carson. Carson quickly took himself out of the running, but it took longer for me to abandon Cruz. First, the Goldman stuff came out, and I started backing away. Then, when it came out his family was making over a million a year, but the ‘good Christians’ couldn’t spare a dime to donate to their church, it was time for me to move on.
Jeff Roe
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