Posted on 07/20/2016 5:12:26 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas
Or will Theodore's future political career take a header off the stage?
‘“...video of CRUZ and his crowd booing Trump’s plane!”’
Are you serious....this was your exact quote.
If he repents... I won’t have to.
Perhaps, but that is not what “Windflier” stated.
A lie is a lie and we get enough of that from the left.
It wasn’t my original comment. I pasted it in from another thead and gave a hat tip to Freeper Pinkbell.
I highly doubt that Pink meant to implicate Cruz in that shockingly bad behavior. Probably just misspoke.
Just listening to him right now. He is a little to happy a loser. Makes me wonder what he was promised.
Yes, of course he will endorse. To do less than full-throated cheering endorsement is political suicide. I know he’s smart enough to see that. And I’m sure he and Trump have discussed the strategy of keeping people guessing so the drama and relief will be of the highest pitch. (and get the MSM off Melania’s speech?)
Frankly, btw, I wouldn’t care if they never got off that speech. Every time I see Mrs. Trump and Mrs. Frump side by side, I have to laugh at all the moments of naked flattery of Mrs. F these last 8 years
Care to walk that back, lol?
I stand corrected..... I thought he would man up and endorse Trump....
He’s more of a scumball than I imagined....and I have a great imagination....
He’s dead to me totally...forget future election, I Wouldn’t even want him as an appointee in any administration.....
Yes, of course he will endorse.
Care to walk that back, lol?
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Oh, dear Lord, yes. I had such high expectations for Sen. Cruz. Supported him early on. Wavered bc of the pledge not being honored.
Yes, I was wrong. Sen Cruz is not an honorable man. DJT does bring out the real nature of the den of weasels, doesn’t he?
I’m not ashamed of my optimism. I’m ashamed of Sen. Cruz.
It didn’t sound like an endorsement. However, he did say “vote up and down the ticket” for liberty and freedom. In technical terms, that’s an endorsement of every Republican candidate.
I think it will soon be forgotten and for a while, so will Ted Cruz. His future depends on what happens in November and beyond. Either a Clinton win or a bad experience with Trump (something I don’t foresee personally) works in his favor. A good Trump presidency followed by a second term pushes his future ambitions to 2024. So this speech may be a sort of compromise between endorsement and something more overtly negative that he could use as a “told ya so” — in other words, he just repeated his own set of principles and left it at that.
In a way, it’s a subtle message to Trump — measure up to these principles, and you will succeed. I’m not sure if it’s that simple, but he has a point, Trump as a newcomer to politics has yet to set much of a track record on questions of constitutional law. His objectives are good, but can he reach them through constitutional means?
Ted Cruz probably had a speech more suited to a law school than a party convention. He watered it down and made some points that may come back into circulation down the road. Or a Reaganesque presidency could bury them under many layers of irrelevance.
Actually, here’s a thought completely out of left field — do you suppose maybe the speech was meant to sound so non-partisan (in terms of Trump) that it would ease the path towards Trump nominating Cruz to the Supreme Court?
Democrats would of course be opposed, but he’s taken one major weapon out of their hands, namely, “you can’t nominate such a blatant partisan of your administration to the politically neutral Supreme Court.”
Perhaps this tone was struck with some agreement after all.
You’re probably right. But with the uniparty, you never know.
The globalists won’t go quietly, and Ted appears to be their standard bearer on the right.
Who knows, maybe Hillary will pick him for her VP. Clinton and Ted’s wife have Goldman Sacs in common. I imagine Ted’s wife was at one of those speeches Hillary got paid a boatload of money for about forty five minutes of her time who transcripts are classified.
Apparently, she didn’t keep them on her server.... That we know of.
I supported Cruz over Trump in the primaries (because of his opposition to the political establishment over the years), but am disappointed that he didn’t go further in supporting Trump. He made some points about the issues that will help Trump, but his non-specific comment (”Vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution) wasn’t good enough. He didn’t have to say “I endorse Donald Trump”, but should have said something similar to what Wisconsin’s governor Walker said — “Let me be clear: a vote for anyone other than Donald Trump in November is a vote for Hillary Clinton”.
Gingrich has just referred to Cruz’s comment, and pointed out that some persons in the convention may have misinterpreted it, and that there’s no doubt that Trump should be trusted over Hillary to be faithful to the Constitution. I don’t know whether this follow-up by Gingrich was set up ahead of time to allow Cruz to avoid explicitly endorsing Trump (and thereby avoid antagonizing those among his supporters who oppose that), and still have Trump derive considerable benefit from it. In any case, I’m going to support Trump — not only because I support at least some of his positions — but because as Walker said, “a vote for anyone other than Donald Trump in November is a vote for Hillary Clinton”.
Well, no big buts I guess. Instead of a shifty endorsement, he did a shifty non-endorsement.
**** He painted himself into a corner because of his ambition. Let’s see if he can get out of it *****
BS
He exposed himself as a self serving POS and not very good at hiding it
You’re giving Cruz way too much latitude......
It was a petty self-serving ego-maniacal speech.....
Gingrich tried to spin and put lipstick on that pig....
Trump both encouraged and welcomed Cruz to speak without edit.....Cruz had a great opportunity and blew it....
This says volumes about Trump....Cruz is dead in the Republican Party....
My vote... header off the political stage permanently.
> You’re giving Cruz way too much latitude......
Actually I agree that my word “disappointed” was too weak. “Disgusted” better describes how I feel. I can understand why Cruz would retain an animosity toward Trump for some of the things he said about Cruz’s family, not to mention about himself. This is no time, though, to put hurt feelings over the welfare of the country. A patriot wouldn’t do that. In fact, an ordinary decent person wouldn’t do that. I’m disgusted with Cruz.
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