Automatic disqualifier.
That is unacceptable: we need EVERYBODY on our side to unite to have any hope of defeating THEM.
Most likely, Trump will get to 1237 before the convention: at this point, it would be a blessing. I supported Cruz and voted for him in the PA primary, but IN NO WAY will I withhold my vote from Trump if he becomes the nominee. I just hope more of get on board the #NeverHillary train now, and vow to support either one of our guys.
I was accused of being a "Cruzbot" for exposing one of the anti-Cruz postings as "tabloid trash" (Don't search for it, the admins agreed and removed the article). Never mind that a quick search of my previous posts would show that I also defended Trump against false claims.
But I'm not going for that "my way or the highway" stuff. Whoever wins has my vote in November.
There's the tell.
It's always somewhere, they can't help it. You just have to look carefully.
Because he’s a fraudulent creep.
I first began to turn against Cruz when he held up the Bible to justify his nomination. I don’t like politicians who take the Lord’s name in vain.
When Ted Cruz lost Arizona to Trump (clearly) then got the delegates to flip, he negated the voices of the people.
Now the Cruz people shrug and say, ‘that’s politics’, but here’s the way that I see it.
Cruz is a lawyer. He’s the slimy defense attorney who gets a known molester back on the streets on a technicality. He’s the icy prosecutor who takes away an old lady’s house because she didn’t mow her lawn.
Technically, legal.
But not moral. Not honorable. He goes for personal gain, not genuine justice.
This is how he’s played the entire election. Technically legal... but dishonorable and going against the spirit of American politics.
That’s sleezy. That’s ‘Washington business as usual’. He’s done everything that he can to smother the voice of the people. To get the nomination by hook or by crook.
On a personal note.
My son died on April 9th. Voting for Trump in the AZ primary was one of his last meaningful acts on this earth and he was so happy to be part of that victory.
Cruz just erased that act with backroom dealings. Behind closed doors. He did it in the most underhanded way possible.
Might be legal, but there is no honor in his ‘victory’.
Ted Cruz is the lowest example of a despised lawyer and that’s all he is. He is every scummy lawyer joke personified. He’s a terrible human being.
It’s a very important election and we need to beat Hillary.
Cruz cannot get the delegates even if he wins every primary from this point on and he knows it.
He’s got to be hoping for a brokered election which means he has some feeling he can ‘get’ the delegates, which makes me think backroom dealings.
But when it comes to the election itself the people are far more voting for Trump. Meaning Cruz if he was the nominee after ‘getting’ delegates to vote him as one, would lose to Clinton.
He needs to think of the country and get out so we can concentrate on winning in November.
You don’t really think those attacking Cruz are conservatives, do you? The Democrats are voting for Trump, a Democrat, and taking over the GOP so Hillary will win in Nov. It is a brilliant strategy, based on the indisputable fact that many voters are stupider than geese.
Some of us were already a bit put off by his actions, when he announced that he was throwing his hat into the presidential primaries. And once they began in earnest, we began to find out the truth about Ted; none of it good!
The Cruz supporters began to trash, bash, and have an all out war against Trump, the minute he announced and then went after his supporters. Trump supporters ignored this garbage for many months, but then around last December, we had just had it and began to fight back.
THERE IS NO WAY THAT CRUZ WILL BE THE NOMINEE, NOR SHALL HE EVER BE PRESIDENT, NOW !
It is long past time for everyone to back the GOP nominee, who is Trump and stop with the WAR!
Ted Cruz pretended to "stand up for" conservative causes, but those pretenses turned out to be just for show. He allowed TPP and TPA to pass; he allowed the Iran deal to go through; etc.; but he pretended to be for the American people while stabbing us in the back.
Ted Cruz pretended to be a US citizen, then he pretended he didn't know he was a Canadian citizen; then claimed dual citizenship (not possible from his year of birth). Then he pretended he was eligible to run for president of the USA (even though he previously acknowledged that a natural born citizen is one born in the country to parents who are both US citizens). Ted Cruz KNOWS that he is not eligible to hold the presidency, and possibly not eligible to hold his current Senate seat.
I don't care how well someone pretends. I will not support a pretender. I will not support any foreign agent, or any globalist anti-American agent, or any other person who cannot put their oath to the US Constitution, or the interests of the American people, above their own agenda, or their donors' interests, or their freaky religion, or the interests of globalist manipulators, or anything else.
Ted Cruz not only lost my support for his political ambitions. I would like to see him tried for espionage, or sabotage, or treason, or fraud, or all the above; then properly convicted; and then finely hanged. Nothing personal. This globalist destruction of the USA must stop, and the only way to stop it is to properly punish it.
Thank you, well said!
The vicious attacks on Cruz, the genuine conservative in the race, is the reason I hardly visit FR much anymore.
If Cruz is the nominee, I will still vote for him, but I will not crawl over broken glass to do so. I have problems with Trump, too, but for now, he has my support and i would be willing to walk over a small patch of broken safety glass in my Redwings to vote for him.
“Why have so many here on FR turned on Ted Cruz in such a vicious way?”
Not everyone has been vicious, but the cumulative and continuing disgust at Ted Cruz’s sleazy and dishonest words and tactics turned lots of people off. We got to take the measure of the man and some of his supporters and it caused us to dislike him. We have also grown weary of all the Baghdad Bob-type pronouncements from the pundit class regarding Cruz winning and Trump losing in the delegate race and in the polls, when the opposite is clearly the case.
Automatic disqualifier.
All our family members are Texans, Republicans and Conservative. We all actively campaigned for Cruz as our Senator to replace Kay Bailey so that we would finally have at least one Conservative Senator in our state. We will also campaign actively for his re-election as Senator should he choose to run.
However, we would prefer that Trump be the Presidential nominee in November and our dream team was Trump/Cruz for a whole bunch of reasons. The name of the game is no Democrat in the White House.
OTOH, we did not vote for Cornyn or Pete Olson last time around, will not vote for Olson in November and refuse to ever vote for Cornyn again ever. We can do better than re-elect RINO’s.
Cruz lost it with his ‘Playing by the rules’, and the “Want some cheese with that Whine” crap. That was a big middle finger to the Trump voters, he is now reaping the Whirlwind he sowed.
Because the writings on the wall. sCruz should have dropped out long ago. Certainly after last week’s primaries. When it became obvious that Kasich had no path to nomination, sCruz called for him to drop out. Now that sCruz has been mathematically eliminated, he is staying in, because he is nothing more than a slimy lawyer/politician, and that’s what’s wrong with America.
I applaud you for asking - it’s not always easy to ask where we (or someone we support) went wrong.
Keep in mind I am not American, but I follow things very closely, maybe more so than many Americans. Here’s what I experienced....
I was a Cruz supporter when he first started out. I watched him and Trump fairly regularly. I started to get a little weirded out by his voice, his very odd way of speaking (I like plain people who just talk). He sounded very superior and arrogant. I started to think he was a little on the weird side, and I realized very quickly that the left would make him a laughing stock faster than you can say Seven Mountain Dominion.
What really made me think he was a phony, slimy weasel was what he did to Dr. Carson. When he tried to apologize to Dr. Carson, I thought that was unreal. I thought he should have dropped out of the race back then. He clearly orchestrated that whole mess, and if Dr. Carson forgave him for his LYING and cheating, well, he’s a better person than me, and INFINITELY better than Cruz. As if an apology would suffice when you stole votes from a good, honest person. Toss in the lying about the loans from Goldman Sachs, the Bush connections.....sneaky.
After that, every time I listened to him it was with my eyes opened, and now I think he’s a phony, slimy, lawyer/politician. I also think he’s unstable. I think he thinks that the presidency is HIS, and he’ll do whatever it takes to get there.
Sorry if that sounds harsh, but he really gives me the creeps. Just look at the interview where 3 different interviewers got totally rattled and ticked off at him for his pompous way of NOT answering questions, or just going on and on and on and on, in a very rude and obnoxious way, driving them nuts (Chuck Todd, Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity). He’s no debating champ - he’s just so freaking infuriating that everyone throws up their arms and leaves to get away from him.
I didn’t even pay attention to any of the gossip about affairs. He could be husband and father of the year - he’s still a weasel.
Because he doesn’t know when to keep quiet.