During a commercial break at the #GOPDebate, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz shake hands behind Donald Trump's back. pic.twitter.com/3LhikmNcXM— Carol Costello (@CarolCNN) February 26, 2016
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Just as likely Trump will point to this as Cruz collaborating with the GOPe.
Its called campaign strategy.
Cruz isn’t choosing Rubio over Trump. He’s choosing Gang of 8 Amnesty and Obamatrade over Trump. Both happen with POTUS Rubio. Neither happen with POTUS Trump. The mask is off: Senator Principled Conservative is just fine with amnesty and Obamatrade.
I’ve said that on this forum for the last month. Cruz will play the role of the Establishment’s Judas Iscariot. Color me surprised...
More made of this than is deserving to be made. Cruz obviously wants to win. He supports no one else. Why he said he was good friends with Rubio is probably because he is a fellow senator, he has been criticized for not getting along (unfairly) and he wants all of Rubio’s supporters to go to him should Rubio back out.
Anyways, don’t think Cruz supporters all agree with this. Some do and some don’t. Some will vote for neither Trump nor Rubio. Some Trump. It varies.
Cruz is not serious about stopping illegal immigration. His support of Rubio proves that.
Cruz has zero chance of winning the nomination. Zero. No matter what happens in Texas. The only job assigned to him now is to stop Trump and elect Rubio at a brokered convention.
At this point a vote for Cruz is a vote for the GOPe and open borders.
Yes, like those posting similarly on FR; the real patriots will vote for the GOP nominee against Hillary; the odds are very high it will be Trump, with Rubio second, and Cruz a very distant third. Rubio just pawned Cruz though, so much for his principles, he was shopping around a deal for himself, another insider.
He is placing his bet with the establishment. Same thing he did with Chris McDaniel.
Cruz is a traitor.
Cruz is a “Principled Judas Iscariot”. And to further his standing with the RNC will help ‘Amnesty Cabana Boy” . What a guy.
Except for Dr. Carson, who likely is going no further, Trump is the only candidate in the race, both parties, who is not a politician. I’ve been a FReeper for a long time, and all of that time, FReepers have been BEGGING for a non-lawyer, non-politician to break the stranglehold the “political class” has had on us for decades.
One FINALLY comes along, with a great chance to destroy the lawyer-politician monopoly for good, and half the FReepers can’t contain their disgust for him.
Just makes me shake my head.
Cruz just negated any remaining doubt of whether he’s an establishment politician. LOL!
As I have pointed out about Cruz supporters for the most part it is anger over love of country. Lobbyists-controlled Cruz has been lead by his father to believe he is a king sent by God to lead and his pride is very shaken by Americans not wanting him. Now he will even side with amnesty GOPe to punish Trump for being what Americans in large numbers support.
As I always said and knew, Cruz’s career trajectory and true allegiances have always been easy to detect, if one is honest with oneself and looks at his life, and body of work.
Is is not an “outsider” nor is he “anti-establishment”. He just plays those roles on TV.
It is highly illuminating how someone about whom Lindsey Graham has commented on his [Cruz’] hypothetical murder on the Senate Floor would go without action chooses to support Gang of Eight Rubio, one who Graham would support over Trump as the ‘better choice’.
The ken required to understand the logic of this astounds me. I guess it’s my dumb ass country boy ways (as my better half calls me.)
I think Cruz thinks the most important issue facing voters is the USSC nominations. He must trust Rubio more to nominate conservative originalists than Trump. I don’t hold that against Cruz either. Personally, I don’t trust Trump or Rubio, which is why I support Ted Cruz. I also think Cruz thinks Trump supports amnesty same as Rubio, since that is the position he had always taken until going on the campaign trail.
Where do you get this "Open Borders" crap? None of the Republican candidates is in favor of "Open Borders."
Yep. Cruz is just another sleazy politician.