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Cruz declines to back Trump as nominee
The Washington Examiner ^ | 3/29/2016 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 03/29/2016 7:31:50 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Sen. Ted Cruz refused to say Tuesday whether he would still back Donald Trump if the GOP presidential front-runner wins their party’s nomination, backing away from a firm pledge he made earlier in the campaign.

Mr. Cruz, whose coziness with Mr. Trump last year had pundits saying they were in the middle of a bromance, said that faded once the billionaire businessman began to turn nasty, and particularly in recent days when Mr. Trump has said he would go after Mr. Cruz’s wife.

“I’m not an easy person to tick off, but when you go after my wife, when you go after my daughters, that does it,” Mr. Cruz said at a town hall hosted by CNN in Wisconsin Tuesday night.

He accused Mr. Trump of being behind a thinly sourced story last week in the National Enquirer tabloid that reported Mr. Cruz had engaged in affairs with a handful of women. The story aggregated rumors, and the only named source was Roger Stone, an adviser to Mr. Trump, who said: “These stories have been swirling around Cruz for some time. I believe where there is smoke there is fire.”

Mr. Cruz also backed away from the pledge all of the candidates took last year to back the eventual nominee no matter who it is. Mr. Cruz ducked repeated direct challenges by CNN host Anderson Cooper to take a firm stand, saying instead that his goal now is to make sure he doesn’t face that choice.

“The answer to that is to beat him at the ballot box,” Mr. Cruz said.

Mr. Cooper, though, said Mr. Trump had made controversial statements about women and minorities last year, even as Mr. Cruz was praising him: “Sounds like you were engaged in a love fest,” Mr. Cooper said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adultery; bfac; cheatercruz; cruztheliar; liarcruz; lyindonald; nevertrustcruz; sleazydonald; trumpsleaze
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To: napscoordinator

Even More than 40 states !


81 posted on 03/29/2016 8:41:20 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: West Texas Chuck
Look around you Hoss, who has the nastiest, rudest most hateful posts around here.

It ain’t the Cruz peeps. We only respond in kind. I have seen dozens of innocent threads that got sidetracked by Trump haters.

Show me where I am wrong here.

If you are talking about FR, I would say there is an even amount of hate going both ways. I've been around here since 1998 and I can NEVER remember a time when it was this bad. In the end we will BOTH be asking ourselves what happened. Why did Hillary win. The finger pointing is all we will have left. Sad.

82 posted on 03/29/2016 8:41:31 PM PDT by teletech
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To: West Texas Chuck

What a joke. You creeps applauded Cruz for supporting BLM and other thugs. And that is one of many. The biggest laugh is Cruz losing 8 out of 9 contests.


83 posted on 03/29/2016 8:41:59 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

@Realjmannarino @realDonaldTrump @MELANIATRUMP How could they try to hit Melania? She treated Teds girls with love pic.twitter.com/dOmDtdE7sA— Citizens for Trump (@TimeforTruth16) March 24, 2016

84 posted on 03/29/2016 8:42:14 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Jane Long
Thanks Jane !

I keep trying to educate the political naifs, but they are blind and de3af to reality and my posts.

85 posted on 03/29/2016 8:42:58 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: napscoordinator

You creeps?

You people are dooming our beautiful country with your snotty attitudes, and all the way to the bottom you are still running your mouths.

I give up, for tonight. I will live to torment you knuckleheads another day.

Buy ‘em books and send ‘em to school and they eat the teacher.


86 posted on 03/29/2016 8:43:57 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (OBAMA: Fundamentally Twerking America)
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To: CA Conservative

Show me how Trump went after Hidey? By saying he’d spill the beans? Ooooh. That’s a terrible thing to say, um, attack with.


87 posted on 03/29/2016 8:44:04 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: nopardons

True. These Cruz lovers are frustrating.


88 posted on 03/29/2016 8:44:25 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: CA Conservative

Not to mention....you’re seem to be the one having delusions. You do realize the cRuz supporting PAC ‘went after’ Melania first, right?


89 posted on 03/29/2016 8:45:05 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: CA Conservative
Post Trump's TWEETS about Cruz's daughters!

I'll wait...go find Trump trashing his girls and post them!

Also post the negative tweets ( that's words;diddums! ) that Trump has used "against" Heidi.

90 posted on 03/29/2016 8:45:05 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: PghBaldy
Cruz cares so much for his family, he refused to say he never cheated on Heidi.

He wouldn't have to answer such a ridiculous question had it not been for Trump planting the smear with his Pecker buddy at the National Enquirer, tweeting out when and where you can read his disgusting hit piece, suggesting that the NE is a credible news source, and then sending his demonic surrogates out to the press to continue the smear.

Don't you just love progressive candidates?

91 posted on 03/29/2016 8:45:13 PM PDT by Kandy Atz ("Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want for bread.")
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To: West Texas Chuck

Goodnight. You should not give up just because the heat gets hot. I understand currently we support different candidates but stick it out. Nothing to lose. You are strong enough. You are a conservative afterall.


92 posted on 03/29/2016 8:47:00 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: West Texas Chuck
You and your ilk keep posting that LIE !

Many of the worst posts, now DELETED, have been made by Cruzites!

And NO, you don't "just respond in kind"; that's yet another damned LIE!

Would you like me to ping you to Cruz supporters' posts, that disprove your post? Just say so.

93 posted on 03/29/2016 8:48:19 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

You’re doing the Lord’s work, that’s for sure.

The enemy is doing his level best to keep the scales upon their eyes.


94 posted on 03/29/2016 8:48:42 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: JPX2011
It starts with the individual who allows themselves to become emotionally invested in a candidate. The individual whose contribution to political dialogue is to say, "Boom" as if some glorious smack down occurred.

And maybe it did. But the point is the individual has become addicted to such emotional rhetoric believing it is a salve for their soul. Validation via sound bite.

But like with any addict the dosage required to get the same high increases with time so they are compelled to find their validation in more and more outrageous statements. And like an addict, denying that there is any sort of problem. Eventually turning their emotional instability on people who question the efficacy of the rhetoric.

That's where the hatred comes from.

So really nothing has changed. We went through the same thing in 2012 and here we are again in 2016 only it's much worse. We are on the brink of the total destruction of the GOP. With all those words, you must be a doctor of something or other.

95 posted on 03/29/2016 8:48:52 PM PDT by teletech
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To: napscoordinator

They are beyond “frustrating’. :-(


96 posted on 03/29/2016 8:49:17 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Jane Long
You do realize the cRuz supporting PAC ‘went after’ Melania first, right?

Still delusional - it has been documented quite extensively that the PAC that did the ad is not associated in any way with the Cruz campaign. But since that doesn't fit your alternate reality, you pretend the fact doesn't exist.

97 posted on 03/29/2016 8:52:30 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: West Texas Chuck
That's a delusion of yours! Ted is NOT "principled" nor is he much of a "CONSERVATIVE"! You're just a gullible child, who is parroting an untrue meme and you don't even realize it.

Glub, glub, glub....you are drowning in CRUZ-Aide.

No, it is YOU and your ilk who are the cut off your nose to spite your collective faces, who have dug your heels in re Cruz. He might even be worse of an amateur that Obama; actually.

But obviously NOTHING is going to wake you from your coma.

98 posted on 03/29/2016 8:56:13 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: West Texas Chuck
America IS doomed, since there are people like YOU who vote!

Trump has gotten far MORE than 30%!

99 posted on 03/29/2016 8:57:45 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Ted’s a mess!


100 posted on 03/29/2016 8:58:47 PM PDT by proust (Texans for Trump!)
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