Very disappointing.
I was going to vote for him, but now will not.
He had a tremendous opportunity and came off like a hack.
Lawyers are taught to argue and that is what they do.
Leaders unify.
Lots of GOPe machine folks still post here, so don’t waste your breath on people who refuse to see what is right in front of their eyes.
They have an agenda and reason won’t work. It’s all good, though. After Trump wins, the party hacks are put out to pasture.
Nope. Just donated more $.
And if Trump had shot one of them you all would probably think he was justified. Keep drinking the Kool-Aid and kiss the country good-bye.
I used to be a Cruz/Trump supporter. While my concerns regarding Teddy Cruz started already earlier, this was the last straw. It revealed that Cruz is not at all smart and leans left.
What recently switched me over to Trump is when Cruz proved he is a Bush family lackie.
Yes! I will never vote for any of the stooges. They all took cheap shots.
Hillary? Cruz? Rubio? Kasich? Dems? GOPe?
Principles?
He’s proven himself to be uniparty - teaming up with the marxists, muslims and black racists on the left when politically expedient.
I used to say I am for Trump, but if he loses I hope Cruz wins. No more. Ted is over the top creepy.
I still support Cruz.
I actually voted for Cruz in the Texas primary although I’ve always preferred Trump’s moxie.
Too bad he carried the state, he’s now been thoroughly corrupted by the GOPe since he’s seen as the only alternative to Trump.
No, Trump will be a general election disaster of McGovern like proportions.
The riots in Chicago were obviously not his fault, but he has brought nothing but bullying, petty insults, invective, childishness, lies, conspiracy mongering, etc, to the GOP primary. He is a poison that is just going to have to work its way through the system. Worse, Trump isn’t even a conservative - he just harnesses the anger in the base for his own ends.
Cruz, on the other hand, IS an actual conservative with a real conservative track record. Cruz at least has a chance to beat Shrillery, Trump would get slaughtered.
Realize that FR is an echo chamber where Trump supporters can discuss, yell, vent and snipe to their heart’s content. They are cocooned in a safe environment of like minded souls who can forget that Trump’s negative ratings within the party are the lowest for any front runner in modern times. His rhetoric, for better or ill has alienated and driven away much support he would have otherwise gained. But then without this tough guy anti PC rhetoric he may never had gotten traction coming out of the starting gate in the first place.
My natural and immediate reaction to the events in the last twenty four hours is to rush to defend Trump from the liberal hordes. But thinking further I had to ask myself what is our end game and how do we get there? This is the moment where Cruz can expand his base, change hearts and minds and diminish the anti Christian sentiments arrayed against him.
I love Donald for being the first voice coming out of the wilderness populated with our effete cowardly representatives who refused to push back against the leftists. And now that Donald has kicked the cultural marxists in the teeth with the movement we’ve been waiting for I do not believe he’s the one to get us to the promised land. He’s our Moses. Ted Cruz is our Joshua. Youth and stealth!
Was Cruz supporter. AM DONE WITH CRUZ. Tuesday in the panhandle of Florida I will be voting for Donald Trump. The GOP needs to die a quick death. We need to get on with transforming the party into the Independent party. Give the rinos to the Democrat party where they have been in the closet all along.
I AM DONE.
I support Ted Cruz
No, but the way Trump handled his campaign manager’s attack on Michelle Fields has made me even more enthusiastic about making sure Trump loses the nomination.
Cruz fired his campaign spokesman for saying something bad about Marco Rubio. Trump’s campaign manager bruises a female reporter in an unprovoked attack and Trump sweeps it under the table like Hillary Clinton with one of Bill’s victims. Disgusting but predictable from the biggest big government statist to run for President in our lifetimes.
I realize this will not be a popular position, but my support of mr. Cruz has not changed. For the very simple reason that what he said was true the multiple statements by both mr. Trump and members of his campaign about punching beating and the such like of people who do not agree with them has set a standard a low standard of discourse that has for all intents and purposes provided the excuse the agitators had to show up.
I will condemn harshly the protesters for what they did but their actions reflect on their half of the spectrum. As a person running as a Republican or at least for Republican candidacy mr. Trump claims to represent my half of the political Spectrum and as such I feel we have a right to hold him to a higher standard than that of the American left who has no morals to speak of.
I would also like to point out that had this happened at rally for any other candidate I can easily see Trump followers proclaiming it as attempt at a reichstag like fire event. Or claiming a false flag or some other conspiracy nonsense , I have noticed more and more the similarities between the hardcore Trump follower and the 9/11 truther in that both groups will happily claim that anyone who disagrees with them is paid provocateur. In fact I would be surprised if it least one of them doesn’t claim I am a shill of some kind.
Far too often I am reminded of the quotation that a fanatic is one that redoubled his efforts while losing sight of his goal , the goal is a more responsive and constitutional government not to just burn it all down which seems to be far too often what Trump followers happily claim here on what used to be Free Republic but may well be renamed Trump Republic and be done with it. Transcribed with Google Voice
He was disgusting. He, Obama, Hillary, etc all went with the rioting mob shutting down someone speech, as -being- free speech.
I cant believe a year ago I thought he understood the constitution.
I will still vote for whichever one, between Trump and Cruz, wins the primary, because I can’t bear even 4 more years of leftist destruction, but his remarks have definitely disillusioned me about Cruz in a way which nothing he had said or done before had done.
But I will still vote for either one in the general. I will NOT contribute, by not voting, to the leftist juggernaut continuing its roll.
Kasich and Rubio are another matter, but I don’t think I’m going to have to make a choice as hard as that, regarding them, pray God.
I am for Trump. Cruz WAS the only other candidate I might’ve been able to support. If not for POTUS, then SCOTUS, etc. Now, I’d like him to lose his Senate seat too. He and Kasich are GOPe to the core, and Kasich is just more obvious. I wonder how regretful Cruz and Kasich may feel today after their embarassingly arrogant strategic blunder with each of them pointing their opportunistic fingers at Trump per the Chicago fiasco. That is, the proof just keeps coming - as if it was needed - showing how moveon.org and Bernie Sanders orchestrated this lovely event of communists, racists, illegals, mooch parasites, terrorists, Ayers, MSM and just ,in general, complete Aholes. Even Rubio was halfway honest in his assessment. Hell, even Hillary was less opportunistic than Cruz. Cruz has done all he can to paint himself as an outsider based mostly on the fact that Congress doesn’t like him, but he is now exposed entirely as an insider all the way. I really thought he was smarter than this, but he is instead apparent another puppet taking advice from the likes of some of my favorite betrayers of the voters - Rove, Magic underwear Mitt and Creepy Neil Bush. I guess both Cruz and Kasich believe if either of them were a frontrunner, then these so-called protests would not occur at their rallys. Apparently, Cruz and Kasich are against freedom of speech, since a protest is one thing, but disruptive racist violent thuggery is another thing altogether.
Over the last couple weeks I’ve gone from undecided to leaning towards Cruz because I felt he was more conservative. I’m back to undecided. When conservatives are physically assaulted by leftist brownshirts, all of the candidates should unify behind the victims, not make excuses for the attackers.