Posted on 07/20/2016 2:55:37 PM PDT by Mariner
CLEVELAND — For the first time in 36 years, there was a vote on the floor of a party’s nominating convention this past Monday that actually held an element of suspense.
In the hour or so ahead of a vote in which insurgents were attempting to reset the convention rules, Republican National Committee operatives circulated the floor and the back halls of Quicken Loans Arena, buttonholing delegates to argue why they should retract support for the motion, and getting them to sign their names to withdrawal forms. Trump aides, by contrast, bullied delegates with vague and ineffective threats.
In one corner of the arena floor, near CNN’s broadcast booth, delegates from the District of Columbia listened to appeals from high-ranking RNC officials.
The RNC’s argument to the D.C. delegates boiled down to this: A vote for the rules reset would open the door to Ted Cruz becoming the GOP’s nominee four years from now.
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See Jones, Jim.
You're a real laugh, you know that? You were just as puffed up about Cruz all during the primary, assuring everyone you talked to, that he'd be the nominee.
You were dead wrong. Not by a little, but by a country mile. You're still wrong about Saint Teduardo.
At this point I wouldn’t vote for Cruz as dog catcher. Not sure time is going to change that assessment.
Cruz has been torching bridges everywhere, IMHO.
Well, except perhaps with the globalists.
[I seriously doubt there will be an election in 2020.]
I agree. I hope we can make it to an election >>>this<<< year. /yeah I wear some tinfoil
And I hope Hildabeast loses.
Don’t take my post as any way supportive of Cryin’ Ted. I found out this campaign that the reason he is hated by everybody in Washington is not because he’s an outsider, but because he’s just a personally unlikeable, loathsome little creep.
This guarantees IF he gets re-elected to Senate in 2018, he has no plans to serve his term.
This is YUGE ammunition for his primary opponent.
Ted needs to worry about 2018 first.
He has a yuuuuge hole to dig out of at home.
And you believe the New York Times??? That’s what I thought....by the way, welcome back from being banned...again...
Cruz was my close second. He’s making me a “never Cruzer”
Shoot, he was pimpin’ Cruz as the eventual nominee not even 2 months ago.
Windflier is too busy “setting other Freepers straight” to “bet on the results” of a senate election in Texas in 2018.
Others are too busy excoriating Cruz and fellow Freepers who do not agree with their assessment to remember how abominably Trump treated him during the campaign or to note how incredibly obnoxiously Kasich is currently treating Trump.
Trump is our nominee. God willing, he will be our next POTUS. Who’s publicly disrespecting Trump - Cruz? OR Kasich and Jeb Bush?
Oh. I thought you were replying to our resident Cruzbot.
Thanks.
BFD
Your threats make me laugh.
Lyin’ Ted Cruz is a liar. He singed the pledge to back the RNC nominee and he won’t.
Oddly enough, I agree. But it doesn't reflect well on Cruz supporters. Respect is earned, at least not lost; and Cruz supporters have no place to hide.
Plenty of time. He ought to be able to clear up his NBC status by then. /S
Just post this here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3451265/posts
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/20/ted-cruz-reunion-rally-upstaged-by-donald-trumps-plane/
With the crowd chanting “Twenty-twenty” in reference to another Cruz presidential campaign in the unspoken assumption that Mr. Trump will lose to Hillary Clinton, Mr. Cruz left them with an exhortation that they not forget which side of the 2016 campaign they chose.
Citing a scene from the movie “Patton,” Mr. Cruz made clear to his supporters that backing him over Mr. Trump was the correct choice that will serve them well in the future.
“Every one of us who was part of this, when we’re old and gray and our grandkids ask, ‘Where were you in the great one, the great battle?’ We will be able to say to our grandkids, ‘I wasn’t shoveling crap in Louisiana.’ ”
It’s all about Ted.
That’s one major thing he has in common with BJ Clinton... they both wanted to become President since childhood.
That’s another plus in Trump’s column. He didn’t want to be President since childhood. He wanted to be a wildly successful businessman, and he succeeded.
The only people truly qualified to be President are people who aimed higher than that, and hit their target.
Trump might not run again ..he is giving up a lot. If he can right the ship he might let pence takeover
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