Posted on 05/04/2016 9:36:16 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
Last night and then again this morning I was watching clips of Ted Cruz's speech where he announced he was leaving the Republican Campaign.
Upon reflection listening to this thing I was struck by how Cruz seemed to have lifted parts of Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth's St. Crispin's Day Speech and made it about him. It was kind of funny when I thought about it.
I thought it was an attempt to both sound the way Reagan did in 1976, and avoid sounding like Nixon in 1962.
It will be interesting to hear how Kasich handles his campaign suspension speech in a few hours.
I noticed a lot of Ronald Reagan’s concession speech in 1976, but didn’t catch a Shakespeare vibe to it.
Oh, noes...first American President/Michael Douglas, now Shakespeare?
I have one question for Cruz have you stopped beating your wife ?
Even though earlier I was a Cruz supporter...I urged him to suspend after NY and am all in for a Trump victory.
I respect Cruz backing away from the abyss last night and suspending his campaign. I think it caught a lot of people by surprise.
But it was exactly what he needed to do, and he rightly admitted that it was the people whose vote made that clear.
Those GOP folks who will either not vote...or some of those indicating that they may vote for Hillary instead...IMHO, they are doing a HUGE disservice to this nation, and to their own children and grandchildren.
If Trump will do the principle points he has espoused and detailed on his website, America will turn around and be a far better place heading in a far better direction than what any Dem/DNC, or GOPe candidate would ever make happen.
Some of us have wondered if he’s on the high end of the autism spectrum, and recalling part of that speech would play into that.
Jon Gabriel: “Kasich wants to spend more time lecturing his family.”
;)
No. I did not catch anything Shakespearean about it all. Methinks someone wants to seem pretentious and smart in making that comment, but instead comes across as smarmy.
I don’t know about that but I thought that Cruz’s speech was a class act. It was a great speech and the right thing to do.
Listening to again this morning I just seem to get that vibe.
The Band of Brothers thing.
Maybe it was just me.
Apparently not, considering the “fist and elbow” video from yesterday.
It was a VERY good “suspension” speech and it certainly had a sense of nobility about it. Cruz is certainly not going to give up his fight to save the Constitution and the Republic.
I hate to see ugly comments being directed at you such as the one in post 9 above —they are totally uncalled for.
Bump your comment.
Agreed. Voted for Cruz, happy to support Trump. There’s a lot to not like, but if we don’t get the federal spending under control (like slashed 50% overnight), those issues won’t matter as we descend into utter chaos.
Shakespearean? Did Cruz use the words “hark”, “hear-ye”, “knave”, or “forsooth”?
The missing factor was not being as gracious toward Trump as Trump was to him. But he did the right thing for the nation and deserves credit for that. Hopefully he supports a defeat of Hillary and works hard for the People in the senate for his remaining years there.
He might as well have, it was that kind of speech.
Or did he say “Cor blimey!”?
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