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Ted Cruz contemplates the unthinkable
Politico ^ | 7/18/2016 | Glenn Thrush

Posted on 07/18/2016 4:08:07 PM PDT by orchestra

Still smarting from his loss in the primary, Cruz says he’ll use his convention speech to outline his own vision of the Republican Party’s future. But will he endorse?

One of these days, and maybe soon, Ted Cruz just might have to endorse Donald Trump.

But he’ll never concede Trump could have beaten him in a fair fight — and he’ll never accept that Trump’s me-first philosophy represents a sustainable future for the GOP. Above all, Cruz wants to use the big stage in Cleveland to present a non-Trump alternative vision for his party’s future, one rooted in constitutional conservative principles and competent campaign management modeled, oddly enough, on Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 White House runs.

“In this election I am where a great many voters are, which is that I am listening and watching and coming to a decision,” Cruz, the highest-profile Trump holdout heading into this week’s convention, told me when I asked him if he intended to throw his support behind the former reality TV star imminently.

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: cheatercruz; cruz; deportcruz; liarcruz; losercruz; narcissism; scumsuckingswine; ted; tedcruz; theocracy; votethiefcruz; whinercruz
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To: miss marmelstein

Better yet. Send him back to Canada.


21 posted on 07/18/2016 4:15:18 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: Jim 0216
Benedict Cruz


22 posted on 07/18/2016 4:15:55 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: orchestra

23 posted on 07/18/2016 4:16:45 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Raycpa

Yes. He’s destroyed himself and it’s sad. His ego overrode his reasoning.


24 posted on 07/18/2016 4:17:03 PM PDT by Ray76 (The evil effect of Obergefell is to deprive the people of rule of law & subject us to tyranny!)
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To: lodi90

Cruz will never be POTUS - never .


25 posted on 07/18/2016 4:17:18 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: orchestra

This nominating convention is not about Ted Cruz.

It is about Donald J Trump.


26 posted on 07/18/2016 4:17:20 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: orchestra

Utterly revolting comments from Cruz. He still fighting the primary battles. Pathetic.


27 posted on 07/18/2016 4:17:57 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: orchestra

Do any of these aholes plan on keeping their pledge to support the nominee?


28 posted on 07/18/2016 4:18:38 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: miss marmelstein
He needs to be sent back to the Senate or more realistically, to the backwaters of Texas.

Even more realistically, send him back to where his parents came from.

29 posted on 07/18/2016 4:18:56 PM PDT by jimbug
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To: orchestra
Cruz himself doesn’t exude bitterness or regret — he literally calls himself a “happy warrior” — but he has a deeply jaundiced view of the process that ended with him suspending his campaign after Trump’s big victory in the Indiana primary in May. He sees collusion, if not an outright conspiracy, between the reality TV candidate and the titans of cable news: Their goal, he told me, was to elevate a hard-to-elect Republican nominee while shoving aside more appealing candidates like himself.

This gem right here. Ted really believes this.

30 posted on 07/18/2016 4:19:08 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: Abby4116

I don’t want him in the USA. Go back to Canada or Cuba but leave the USA!


31 posted on 07/18/2016 4:19:49 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Trump, or no more republicans)
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To: miss marmelstein
"He needs to be cut. He needs to be sent back to the Senate or more realistically, to the backwaters of Texas."

Deport him to Canada...... or Cuba if he prefers.

32 posted on 07/18/2016 4:19:53 PM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Hugin

Good point, Trump has never given any indication that he is running for President out of selfish motives or ego. He fought like someone who loves this country dearly. Now Ted Cruz is another matter indeed.


33 posted on 07/18/2016 4:20:02 PM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: orchestra
I HOPE TRUMP HAS SOMEONE HE TRUSTS AT THE READY TO CUT CRUZ' MICROPHONE!
34 posted on 07/18/2016 4:20:08 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: TigerClaws

So you want to reward him with a lifetime appointment with all the perks and benefits?


35 posted on 07/18/2016 4:20:13 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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To: lodi90

If he endorses him, that’s what we’ll get. Ted wants him to lose because, as you said, he wants to run in 2020 as the Reagan hero. Forget it, Ted.


36 posted on 07/18/2016 4:20:46 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: orchestra

Offer the Canadian a speaking slot from the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza.


37 posted on 07/18/2016 4:21:05 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: orchestra

Cruz is not a leader. He is a spoiler. He is dead to me.


38 posted on 07/18/2016 4:21:29 PM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: Abby4116

“I, for one, DO NOT want him anywhere near the Supreme Court.”

Why?


39 posted on 07/18/2016 4:21:45 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Jim 0216
Look at Cruz's resume. He's always been a Bush dynasty guy, from GWBs first run for President. It does seem there was a favorite son strategy where all the crybabies would win their home states, then give their delegates to Jeb.

Cruz is delusional. An honest fight? Cruz would not have gotten anywhere if he hadn't drafted off Trump early on to gain traction.

To think that early on I contributed a few dollars to the Cruz. But greater Freeper hearts and minds than mine were fooled, too.

40 posted on 07/18/2016 4:21:56 PM PDT by grania
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