Posted on 02/23/2016 5:16:48 PM PST by GilGil
"Ted Cruz's campaign is over," and it ended after Donald Trump beat him among evangelicals in South Carolina on Saturday, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough declared Tuesday morning.
"It ended in South Carolina when Donald Trump beat Ted Cruz among evangelicals after coming out in support of Planned Parenthood," the former lawmaker said on his "Morning Joe" talk show.
"Ted Cruz's campaign is over. Mark it down. He is not going to win the nomination. He may win Texas. It's over."
It wasn't just the South Carolina race that ended the Texas senator's campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, said Scarborough, but other incidents as well, including his decision on Monday to fire national spokesman Rick Tyler, who made a social media post of a video claiming that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio suggested to a Cruz staffer who was reading the Bible there "aren't many answers in it."
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Bill Clinton was a governor.
I have not defended Cruz nor attacked trump here. My beef is with the butthurt trumpeters screaming lie,lie,lie....about everybody but their guy. I’m just calling for integrity.
I’d think that would be what we all want.
And dyno has demonstrated himself to be one of the preeminent hypocritical hacks with zero integrity.
It hurts fox. Im down with that.
They want Ted to take out Trump so Rubio can slide up the middle unscathed
Okay, I finally found the opinion piece about Tyler being fired. Apparently Cruz’s asking for a resignation does not translate as a firing to some. Most of us would know to pack up our personal belongings and head for the nearest employment website/office/ads if we were asked to resign. Then it’s speculated that Tyler was merely demoted. No evidence, mind you, just tossing possibilities out into cyberspace.
What happened to basing our arguments or opinions on facts?
Newt won Georgia
Get lost Joe, nothing like a turncoat.
So did Palin.
He has been pounded on the head from Rubio and trump both at the same time. As an aside, if all the other candidates had attacked trump all at the same time he probably would have gotten damaged also. He would have spent all his time at the podium on defense and the accusations, no matter how meaningless, will take its toll.
Fair enough.
I wonder what the Texas numbers are for the GOP race.
And there you have it. Enough 'spirit filled' people saw through Cruz and it wasn't just the growing revelation that he was not the person he claimed to be. Trump was the only true outsider who was strong and precise on the issues, and folks believed his conversion into a Paladin, a Galahad.
That’s the problem, we don’t know...
So Democrat Cross-Overs in an open primary had nothing to do with it? Wow, you really are willfully deceived!
When you lie about someone’s current position on an issue, it is a lie. When you contextually twist words to change the meaning of something. That is also a lie. If Cruz wanted to run ads claiming that Trump changed positions since he was a private citizen, fair game. But, other than that, a lie is a lie is a lie.
.@MikeEmanuelFox: "@tedcruz has to be worried that the allegations of lying & dirty tricks will have an impact..." pic.twitter.com/7PMRcmwXwC— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 24, 2016
Is it possible to be willfully dumb? If so, that's you. I said 'spirit filled', as in Evangelicals. Enough of them chose Trump, not Cruz. I suggest you read the ongoing demographics about how Cruz cannot carry his own church.
Exactly. Lie of omission.
“Also known as a continuing misrepresentation, a lie by omission occurs when an important fact is left out in order to foster a misconception. Lying by omission includes failures to correct pre-existing misconceptions.”
Trump is doing as well as McCain and Romney in the primary. I bet he performs as well as they did in the General.
Hillary Clinton thanks you for your support.
Didn’t challenge any of that, now did I. That is not the point. Oh hell Im not typing it all again. Go reread my comments to entropy12.
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