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.
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Cruz has lied about absolutely nothing.
Just looking at who opposes Cruz shows all we need to know.
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I don’t think its as bad as that.
there are still more voting against Trump than are voting for him, so not everyone is in favor of burning their own house down to kill the mice.
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>> The majority of Republican primary voters are choosing Trump <<
Love it! The new Trumpistic arithmetic!
The point is that while you were running your mouth about Trump people, you have a clear example that you acknowledge seeing, of Cruz/Rubio people doing the same thing.
I'm sure you looked, but couldn't find any posts from me.
I'm sure I never attempted to saddle Trump with it, so I didn't have to wiggle out of anything. Those who did were wrong.
I'm calling out specific Trump douche-nozzles, such as yourself.
The GOPe has spoken.
And therefore you are going to go down the same road?
Donald may have mastered you more than you think, if you do.
TPA/TPP I agree I hated that he backed that. He did listen to his constituents though (eventually) and then turned against it. But I bet Reagan would have backed it as President (but I still don’t like it).
What is the corker bill?
Goldman Sachs is not an issue. Reagan took loans and money from all kinds of people. His position was they are signing up for HIS agenda not the other way around.
He did kill the gang of 8 with the poison bill and that’s when I started liking him (a lot). I remember this time and that’s when I really started to notice Cruz. For that he gets extra cred with me. But Trump at that same time was giving money to democrats to that was using that money to push amnesty and H1B visas. So if immigration is your thing...then Cruz is the best. Plus he’s completely against amnesty. If anyone cut in line they never get to come back. Trump will allow them back in through a yuge door.
Imagine if theme parks did that? If you get caught cutting in line you just go to the back of the line. Hell everyone would cut then because worse case is you go to the back of the line where you would have been anyway.
Rick Scott needs to become Cruz’s VP pick.
Good bye Rubio.
Go Cruz !
It isn't difficult to figure that out. Neither Cruz nor Rubio want a liberal Democrat as the GOP Presidential nominee. Yet for some unknown reason, many here at this formerly Conservative website do.
Based on what? Cruz fought against the Gang of Eight bill. And there is zero evidence of any quid pro quo between Goldman Sachs and Cruz. Even the assertion that Goldman Sachs supports the Gang of Eight bill is a complete fabrication. Enough with the lies already.
When did Cruz ever do that?
Cruz is only an outsider to people who ignore pretty much everything about him and his wife. He is the GOP establishment designated outsider.
If Rubio drops out Cruz could take all TX delegates.
I must have not done well in math but I haven’t seen any of the primaries in which Trump produced of 51% of the vote margin did I miss something because the majority of people still vote against Trump
Cruz voters will not back Rubio.
Cruz has one state, Trump leads in both delegates and states 3
There’s a magic little tool today called Google.
Put in “Cruz” and “devout.” It actually finds things on topic!
I’m 66 years old a veteran,not mad just sad for a country That has gone certifiably INSANE.
I have Grandchildren that will never know what it’s truly like to live in a free country,I pray to God they will not have to suffer horrors the rest of the world has suffered when the crap hits the fan
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