[gusopol3]

Selling out is a kind of deal.

[DoughtyOne]

Are you selling out? Just curios.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

“Selling out is a kind of deal.”

Yep. Cruz selling out is a kind of deal.

[Lisbon1940]

BOHICA.

[Publius]

This isn’t selling out. This is kiss-and-make-up and heading off disunity at the pass.

[ctdonath2]

So is realizing who you have to work with to get things done, and persuading them to facilitate your goals.

Hence my biggest problem with my preferred candidate: Cruz has the doctrine exactly right, but no experience making it work short of government shutdown (which is a fair/desirable option but unlikely to work out well in practice).

Trump isn’t perfect, but he’ll get more good done by far.

[Robert DeLong]

When you are meeting the establishment from a position of power it is not selling out. However, when you bring on establishment to be an integral part of your campaign with the clear intention of stopping the frontrunner for your own gain, that is a sellout. Big difference.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Something you have personal experience with?

[Kenny]

Did you think Trump would never talk to these people again. He needs the party to pull together to beat Hillary. He doesn’t need to follow their orders though like Cruz or Kasich.

[entropy12]

Ted Cruz is selling his soul to Mitt Romney, Neil Bush, Lindsey Graham. You have no problem with that?

[Neu Pragmatist]

Selling out ..Like Cruz and every other Repub ? ...it will be Trump’s way or the highway ...

[silverleaf]

Meeting with members of Congress is not selling out
It is a rather important part of preparing to be the GOP candidate for president and moving beyond being treated like the antichrist
And giving the ones who are patriots the opportunity to accept the vote of the people instead of hand wringing and scheming

[nopardons]

Cruz sold out; Trump is going to explain to the yahoos that they’re either with him, or out on their collective rears!

[GLDNGUN]

Are you Cruzers (whoever of you this applies to) really going to pretend that Trump's meeting with these GOP officials is no different than what Cruz has done? Either (A) you lack basic skills of discernment or (B) you KNOW it's vastly different but want to hope that you can paint them as the same color and hope nobody else has basic skills of discernment. Either way, you make yourselves look pretty sad and pathetic.

One person (Cruz) is meeting and working with the GOP-e for the SOLE purpose of destroying the GOP frontrunner and likely nominee. I will repeat that. Cruz is meeting and working with the GOP-e for the SOLE purpose of destroying the GOP frontrunner and likely nominee.

While it may benefit Ted Cruz (he thinks), it does not benefit the republican party, the voters or ultimately the country.

Is Donald Trump having conversations and meetings with GOP officials and office holders for the sole purpose of destroying one of their own?

No. Not even close.

Trump is meeting with them for the sole purpose of unifying the party for the general election to BEAT THE DEMOCRATS (remember when Republicans actually liked doing that sort of thing?) and for governing when he is President.

This benefits the party and ultimately the country.

See the difference between the two, kids?

Ted Cruz is pretty sad and pathetic himself, playing the game he is with Romney, Graham, and the Bushes. They can't stand him, yet they are willing to cozy up to him to use him as a weapon against Trump. Is it because they want to see Cruz became President? HA! What a joke! They just want to use him as an ends to a mean - keeping Trump from getting the nomination. The very second they accomplish that goal, they will throw him away like last week's garbage.

Look at Mitt Romney. He flies off to Ohio and campaigns with his "buddy" Kasich. "Oh, what a great guy Kasich is! Why he would make an excellent President! Vote for Kasich!" Kasich wins Ohio. Mittsion Accomplished. Time to drop Kasich like hot potato. Now Romney tells everyone to vote for Cruz in Utah. Kasich is ticked because he thought Mitt really meant it. LOL Now, he feels like a used tramp the morning after.

Now, they are simply trying to use Cruz in the same exact way. They don't want Kasich. They don't want Cruz. They want to pick for YOU. For US. Whether it be Jeb or Mitt or Ryan or whoever, they know what is better for you than you do. They are using Ted Cruz to that end. And Ted Cruz can't get enough of it. When they kick him to the curb the moment they no longer need him and they prop up whoever it is they really want, will poor Ted play the part of the jilted lover like Kasich has? Will he pretend to be flabbergasted at their double-cross?

WILL YOU?

Either Ted Cruz is too stupid to realize it, OR he knows exactly what they are doing and he doesn't care. Either he is dumb as a rock and blind as a bat OR he has such a lust for power that he is a willing partner in the attempted political assassination of the GOP front runner and likely nominee on the outside chance that it might benefit HIM in some way.

Can you think of anything more selfish?

One final question for you Cruzers. IF Ted Cruz were the leading nominee at this point, do you think the GOP-e would be colluding with Trump to knock Cruz off the perch? Do you think Trump would allow himself to be used in such a way?

The answers are NO and HELL NO.