I thought it was an attempt to both sound the way Reagan did in 1976, and avoid sounding like Nixon in 1962.
It will be interesting to hear how Kasich handles his campaign suspension speech in a few hours.
I noticed a lot of Ronald Reagan’s concession speech in 1976, but didn’t catch a Shakespeare vibe to it.
Oh, noes...first American President/Michael Douglas, now Shakespeare?
I have one question for Cruz have you stopped beating your wife ?
Even though earlier I was a Cruz supporter...I urged him to suspend after NY and am all in for a Trump victory.
I respect Cruz backing away from the abyss last night and suspending his campaign. I think it caught a lot of people by surprise.
But it was exactly what he needed to do, and he rightly admitted that it was the people whose vote made that clear.
Those GOP folks who will either not vote...or some of those indicating that they may vote for Hillary instead...IMHO, they are doing a HUGE disservice to this nation, and to their own children and grandchildren.
If Trump will do the principle points he has espoused and detailed on his website, America will turn around and be a far better place heading in a far better direction than what any Dem/DNC, or GOPe candidate would ever make happen.
Some of us have wondered if he’s on the high end of the autism spectrum, and recalling part of that speech would play into that.
No. I did not catch anything Shakespearean about it all. Methinks someone wants to seem pretentious and smart in making that comment, but instead comes across as smarmy.
I don’t know about that but I thought that Cruz’s speech was a class act. It was a great speech and the right thing to do.
It was a VERY good “suspension” speech and it certainly had a sense of nobility about it. Cruz is certainly not going to give up his fight to save the Constitution and the Republic.
I hate to see ugly comments being directed at you such as the one in post 9 above —they are totally uncalled for.
Shakespearean? Did Cruz use the words “hark”, “hear-ye”, “knave”, or “forsooth”?
Let me be the next in a long line to say “That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more: it is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” And then he hit his wife, twice.
Oh, lighten up, Francis.
Alas, poor Theodore, I knew him well.
Saint Crispin’s Day speech? Did he hold his manhood cheap?
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in ‘Dancing With the Stars,’
but in ourselves, that we are such sheeple.”
It was a typical political exit speech. Full of words and phrases and nothingness. Same speech has been spoken for years. Results, zero. The nation has slowly but surely been travelling a path of degeneration for years. And, unless and until someone who can walk the path of truth and decency instead of talking meaningless and politically correct words the road to destruction will continue. Is Trump that someone? Do not know, but none of the others are.
This part sounded familiar.
My campaign should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a loss.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps Like me pace from day to day
To the last whispered syllable of my speech,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
I’m but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Maybe ST.Crispins when he was campaigning during the last few days but certainly not during the ‘concession’ speech
Parting is such sweet sorrow......
The overdone lemonade stand story wasn’t too Shakespearean.
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It was too long, overly dramatic, and missed the key point of acknowledgine the winner and being a gracious loser, if that’s what you mean.