Joe: Cruz staffer firing tells me a lot

Newsmax ^ | 2/23/2016 | Joe Scarborough

[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."

[GilGil]

The problem here is not Ted Cruz. It is that senators have never ever made good candidates or good presidents and Cruz is a senator and not a good executive. Every senator without exception has always been a horrible candidate or president. All you have to do is look at the list: Obama,Clinton,McCain,Graham,Rubio. They are all terrible. Cruz should go be a governor for a while. That would help him a lot.

[dynoman]

Cruz made his bed with lies, half truths, misrepresentations, hiring people like Jeff Roe - and not he’s sleeping in it.

Sad from the guy who wrote” A Time For Truth”.

He committed political suicide.

[HarleyLady27]

I just got word to go to detonate.com....the article there said that Cruz DID NOT fire Rick Tyler...so who’s lying this time?

[4rcane]

Good vs Bad Executive, knowing when to fire or hire someone
Check out Trump’s The Apprentice for lessons

[ObamahatesPACoal]

Trump will win 40 states, Cruz wins 10 states.

Rubio loses the 2018 Florida Gub race.

[TornadoAlley3]

I have no idea but Cruz has certainly apologized more than any candidate ever during a campaign.

[WENDLE]

fox has become very hostile to Trump. Msnbc has seen a chance to be fair to Trump and raise viewership. Last week they were up 28%. WE are going to annihilate the GOPe. The Gope is FOX.!! Move to Joe on MSNBC!!

[HarleyLady27]

Also, politico headline: by detonitenews.com

[4rcane]

Cruz and is “apology tour” campaign

[sarasotarepublican]

If you are Trump supporters, I suggest you tune in Morning Joe. I hit the forward tab when they go off message. So far,it’s all been good. After the election is over, NO MORE Morning Joe.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

JFK.

[HarleyLady27]

I can not find any link on this, so I’m going to say don’t believe this...until politico or some other news comes out...

[RginTN]

did trump pay scarborogh to write this

[bigbob]

Cruz did not just wake up Monday morning thinking, Hey I’m going to fire Rick Tyler today. When he took $10 million each from the Wilks brothers, Robert Mercer, et al he is beholden to some mighty powerful interests. When they say jump, he says “how high”.

[buwaya]

They’re just sucking you in.
After May-June they will hate Trump.

[GilGil]

I read that one of Cruz’ donors told him to stop attacking Rubio and to start going after Trump. The Cruz donors do indeed say jump and he says how hi!

[proust]

So much for “principled.”

[Karl Spooner]

[nclaurel]

The campaign finance article there is scary!

[KevinB]

Does anybody care what Scarborough thinks? That said, I’m a Cruz supporter and I think it’s over for him. I would love to see Trump pick Cruz as his running mate or nominate him to the Supreme Court, but I think that relationship is probably permanently tainted.