Posted on 02/28/2016 12:44:49 PM PST by Kaslin
When this election started in what seems like a lifetime ago, I was contacted by the Bush people. After all, I had been a supporter of Bush 43 and one of his appointees. I expressed my concern that I thought it was bad for the country to have another election between a Clinton and a Bush. The world has changed dramatically since then to say the least. We now are facing a presidential election between a congenital liar and an egomaniacal opportunist. The person who can stop that is Ted Cruz by getting out of the race now.
A Ted Cruz supporter will immediately react and say why not have Rubio get out of the race. That is because Cruz just came in third in two states (South Carolina and Nevada) where he should have done much better based on the composition of the electorate. He is facing down the primaries in the South where he could lose every state except Texas and have nowhere to go. If he does that he will have brought Donald Trump that much closer to being the Republican nominee and make it that much less likely that Rubio can overtake Trump.
Cruz supporters are not very favorable to Marco Rubio. They believe he is not conservative enough. They are upset with Rubio's attempt to settle our broken immigration system. That was certainly a mistake, and Rubio has admitted it. He now knows the two things that have to be done before anything else is secure our Southern border and establish a comprehensive system to track foreigners entering and over-staying their visas. Then the other aspects of the immigration system can be properly addressed.
As unsettled as Cruz and his supporters may be with Rubio, they are off the boards in their distaste for Trump. They may think Rubio is insufficiently conservative, but they know that Trump is barely a Republican and a wild card on most public policy issues. Cruz must shutter at the idea of Trump choosing the person to replace Cruz's favorite Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Cruz must be quivering at the idea of a presidential debate between Clinton and Trump. The biggest activity that viewers will have is to keep a competitive count of how many times each candidate invokes the pronoun "I." It is hard to envision two politicians on one stage that are more self-centered than Clinton and Trump. They rarely invoke the word we (You know "We the People') in any commentaries they make. The only American politician that can compete with these two is our current president who thinks he owns the armed forces and the White House.
There are a couple things we know about Ted Cruz. He is a committed American. The idea of either Clinton or Trump becoming president must be totally abhorrent to him. Second, he is a conservative Republican. Envisioning either Clinton or Trump becoming president must drive him crazy. Neither is a conservative and, though Trump is running as a Republican, neither is a Republican. Cruz has to be fearing either of these people following in the footsteps of Obama.
Cruz needs to not only get out of the race; he must immediately endorse Marco Rubio. He should go out on the campaign trail and make sure that his legions of supporters vote for who would be the only remaining actual Republican in the race and the only one assured of winning in November against Hillary.
Yes, Trump can beat Clinton. I have said that for a long time. But he could just as easily lose. There are many Republicans who would never vote for Trump. Who among Cruz's supporters and Republicans of all stripes would not despair at the idea of the Congenital Liar becoming president? Imagine a continuation of another four or eight years of the dismal Obama era which Clinton promises.
Cruz would be much better suited as Attorney General or even imagine Cruz filling the gigantic shoes of Scalia on the High Court. None of that would happen with the Congenital Liar in the White House.
This race is not over despite the talking heads alluding to that. It is not over even if Trump wins big on Tuesday. It is over when someone secures a majority of the delegates to the convention that will nominate the candidate for president.
The fate of the Republic is in your hands, Mr. Cruz. Do the right thing. Save your country.
“No, the majority isn’t. He hasn’t gotten over 50% of the vote anywhere.”
Ha! So predictable. I actually phrased my question the way I did, in hopes that you’d come back with that weak rejoinder.
Face facts, friend. More Republican voters are going with Trump than any other candidate. By a mile. Cruz and Rubio’s votes, delegate count, and polling numbers just barely equal Trump’s.
And they’re not going to catch up to him at this point. After Tuesday, it’s all over, but for the crying.
Cruz should drop out and let the mad hatter run? In every poll Clinton kicks Trumps ass. South Carolina allowed democrats to vote in our primaries. Could that be why Trumpolini won?
One thing that jumped out at me was the “I” thing.
I’ve never once heard Trumps say “I am going to make America great again”
Here's a shovel; you may now begin excavating.
He's doing the right thing; trying to save our country by making sure the republicans don't put forward a phony or an amnesty pimp as their nominee.
Man, smell the fear leaking from my screen.
Between the Cruz Glue Sniffers and the Whorubio prostitutes I can’t tell which are worse.
Oh no we’re gonna get wiped out.....
Read the GOPe plan to rig the primary below and you’ll understand the full court press against Cruz.
“Trying to save our country” by holding a petty grudge, you mean. Why would he have spoken up for Rubio? Only to spite Trump. Not to try to reduce the amnesty danger.
“Good tagline”
Thanks. I stole it from a Treeper (conservative treehouse).
Someone is trying to tag him with the label of liar - which is false slander on Mr Cruz by Internet trolls and operatives for his opponents
What does Cruz lie about ?
I have yet to see him lie about anything substantial
I’ve had a couple of robocalls polling and the way the questions are done, you can tell they’re trying to push Rubio.
At the point where they’ve narrowed it down to Kasich or Rubio? I didn’t respond and they hung up.
Well one fear I would recommend is the fear of God.
Cruz can’t go trumpeting how devout he is one moment, and acting just as down and dirty as Trump the next, and expect God to smile on it!
Now God is forgiving and once Cruz ceases the monkey business and puts his hand back in the hand of the Man from Galilee, then he’s yet going to do well. God is that way.
But God isn’t just going to call bitter, sweet. People may be such fools. God isn’t.
If Cruz followed Bush in getting out, Trump momentum would bulldoze rubio into the pavement.
Your logic is frankly nonsensical. So the same media who for years has bashed repeatedly Ted Cruz as the guy who shut down government? The same Cruz who the GOPe hates with every fiber of their being? That the Cruz you refer to? The same Cruz who party leaders McLame, Gramnesty, McButthole, and every RINO cannot wait to get in front of a camera and shoot him down publicly? That the Cruz you reference? The one who has single handedly taken on the establishment at every turn and who has the most conservative record on the hill? That Cruz?
Just because your guy has an EXTREMELY long history of liberal leanings, financial backing, verbal support of doesn’t mean you can run away behind Cruz ad say it’s that guy, it’s him right there!
You like other Trumpettes can hide, obsfucate and shield the truth all you wish. However true conservatives have been onto that game since long before Barry.
Hope and change 2.0 is in the air and you’ve been swept up in it. This conservative will not under any circumstances vote for a liberal...ill sit home thanks
Oh, just things like Trump’s health care proposals. Little bitty things like that, where a lie would damn Trump against conservative standards more than the truth. No biggie.
Sounds like the same ones that called me.
No, he did not, but we know where his sympathies lie when the time comes.
Cruz jumped the shark when he endorsed Rubio (and that, without even quitting).
lol you mad bro?
Excellent point, but they don't get it because their head is stuck up their derrieres.
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