Since Jim has started giving pro-Cruz spammers forum vacations, I’ve noticed that the few Cruzbots left have really toned down. Oh, they still snipe and so forth, but they are much less nasty about it.
The really nasty ones, you can always include Jim Robinson in your reply to them, and he might give them a forum vacation.
It is nice to discuss the specifics of what we expect from Trump, instead of having to deal with Cruzbots claiming Trump is an anti-semitic woman-hating progressive.
Any thoughts?
yeah...personally, I’m all in for Trump, but if you want to ‘lessen the invective’, a good start would be to drop ‘Lyin Ted’ and call him ‘Mr. Cruz’...
just a thought...
I’m curious to know who some of the “Cruzbots” are that have been banned.
Yes.
How about we start to build a few bridges and welcome Cruz supporters back into the fold? The campaign is not over and it's not time for premature exaltation. Pretty obvious - but not guaranteed - that Trump will be the candidate. So let's show a little magnanimity. Especially for fellow Freepers, some of whom have a lot of emotional investment in Cruz.
They are just sad and pathetic at this point. Almost like they know it’s pointless, but they still think they are more virtuous and pure than everyone else, and they get off on posting articles that border on being delusional North Korea level propaganda.
Just look at the recent photo of a Cruz rally where only a tiny group showed up, and that’s what I picture these people as.
Me too
Go Trump!
Ted Cruz, go back to the Senate and finish the job you were elected to do by the people of Texas.
Yes - why don’t you and everyone else post positives about your candidates instead of lobbying childish invectives like ‘Lyin Ted’ or ‘little Marco’? When will you start carrying on adult conversations? Or would you like to stay on a 4th grade level, and restrict it to your ‘like minded friends’?
There was meant to be an end to it by decree here. But I guess not everyone got the message. After Indiana it should drop off further. And I’d expect it to completely cease once Trump hits the magic number.
Yeah attack Hillary (or whomever gets the nomination if she is indicted ). We will need Cruz in the Senate. The democrats know that rule and never attack each other. Don’t poison the well.
Any thoughts ?
So you are for surpressing free association...?
Maybe if Trump posters stopped calling Cruz supporters “Cruzlims” if would lower the bar some...
I am sure you can understand how completely offensive that is...but hey, the ends justify the means...
If you can't speak worshipfully about Donald Trump, just shut up.
Yes.
We must shout anyone with an opposing viewpoint into silence.
Only the official party line can be tolerated.
At this point the pro-cruzers know it’s all but over for their guy.
He has no way to win the nomination outright, and any deal making where he ends up the nominee after a second or third ballot will only anger the Trump base and they will stay home in November...which elects Killery
This strategy to force a contested convention is a fools errand and needs to stop. Cruz needs to wind down his campaign, congratulate Trump and try to salvage his reputation.
What some here don’t realize is some are paid disruptors. Their goal is to not persuade people but to get them to stop coming to this site, to make it as nasty as possible.
Some here play into this by going toe to toe with them.
You are funny about blood pressure if you think you are the only one. I imagine we all have had our moments.
While I have never posted on Free Republic, I have been a Cruz supporter. But now it has gone on too long and I am happy with Trump. He can’t be worse than Hillary and maybe a lot better. It will soon be over and no one will deny Trump the nomination I’m sure.
Cruz supporters are beginning to see the light. Winning by hook or crook isn’t the American way. In America majority wins. That’s the way we do things here.
I finally unfriended some Cruzbot (former Rubiobot) on my Facebook the other day. I’d known the guy for years, but he was one of these who just mindlessly reposted any and all anti-Trump articles, no matter what the source or how ridiculous. He reposted some article about Trump being sued for supposedly holding some girl “as a sex slave” back in 1994 (why she would have waited 22 years until he was running for the presidency, I think we could all surmise). I just finally reached the point where this guy was so ridiculous, I couldn’t justify having him polluting my friends list anymore.
I try to maintain the policy you suggest, always, as a general matter. Posts that aim to incite are just noise in an already too noisy forum.
Whenever one of them does as you pointed out, they show who the die-hard Cruz folks are and we get to rebut them.
It's easy to have a lapse and deem something that is un-Constitutional is right because it seems to make sense in the heat of the moment - remember, there is no "Noble Cause" clause in the Constitution....
Whenever one of them does as you pointed out, they show who the die-hard Cruz folks are and we get to rebut them.
It's easy to have a lapse and deem something that is un-Constitutional is right because it seems to make sense in the heat of the moment - remember, there is no "Noble Cause" clause in the Constitution....either you believe in it or you don't. It never promised lack of friction - in fact it guaranteed our right to cause friction.