Posted on 04/29/2016 9:30:57 AM PDT by detective
Before Silly Season began on FR, the inference would have been that the GOPe does not like him.
We ALL have seen Cruz backstabbing in action!!! He WILL now stab PENCE in the back screaming on the trail that Pence ENDORSED him NOT the truth about just voting for him!!! Pence stepped in a BIG pile of cow dung by just NOT keeping quiet!!!! This vote WILL cost him his election, he WAS spinning like a top!!! TYPICAL POLITICIAN!!!! The voters ARE SICK TO DEATH of TYPICAL POLITICIANS!!!!
I have yet to see an example of how Cruz has wronged any RINO through lies by Cruz, and not by the RINO.
And I’m a Trump supporter.
Jeb and Neil Bush, Romney, Lindsey Graham and the big money PACs all support Cruz.
“Jeb and Neil Bush, Romney, Lindsey Graham and the big money PACs all support Cruz.”
Does that include former Speaker Boehner and Senate Majority leader McConell? They are, or were the actual Republican congressional leaders of the establishment, the decision makers, the ones in power. So, where does that put us, on their side or what? The men who through their own duplicity and lack of leadership precipitated this revolt against themselves, the republican established hierarchy, now seemingly support Trump. Clearly, nothing is clear now. Wait a bit, this mess will change again.
The people who say they dislike and distrust Cruz for the most part do not endorse any of the current presidential candidates. I think that is why they want a brokered/contested convention.
I am not aware of anyone in the GOPe who has endorsed Trump but there might be.
Good point.
Can Trump somehow bring the party together amidst all this invective and self defeating silliness? He will have to, or join McCain, Romney, Dole, Ford, Goldwater, Taft, and Wilke in that ignominious club of second placers that have failed in their bids for power. I shudder to think of a President Hillary Clinton, and I hope you do too.
And now the GOPe loves him and FR hates him. I get it.
In 1980, the arguments were very similar. All the experts said Reagan would be like Barry Goldwater and destroy the Republican Party. The GOP establishment ran John Anderson, a popular moderate Republican, as a third party candidate.
Polls in 1980 showed Reagan losing to Carter by over 30 points. The media almost unanimously supported Carter. Reagan was derided as a B movie actor who was not qualified to be president.
The polls tightened but on the say of the election the experts said the election was “too close to call.”
Reagan won in a landslide.
“Reagan won in a landslide.”
Yes he did. He brought the party together, by choosing Bush as his running mate among other very smart moves. Can Trump do the same? When will he start? Soon, I hope.
We can only go by what we've seen from him and his campaign, and what he has said with his own voice.
Ted Cruz has shown his naked opportunism and lack of principles so many times during this campaign, there's no longer any debate about it.
Cruz has shown himself to be Machiavellian in his decision making, disingenuous, and dishonest.
Almost this entire community supported Ted Cruz initially, but he has steadily alienated a good 80% or more of the membership.
That didn't happen in a vacuum, and it certainly didn't happen just because of Donald Trump.
Ted Cruz has lost the support of GOP voters, and the reasons for that fact are myriad and cannot be dismissed.
Ted Cruz is not a viable national candidate, as has become clear with his weak showing in the Northeast as well as his supposed "bastion" of support in the South. Additionally, Cruz has performed abysmally in the states which are traditionally considered "swing states".
Ted Cruz does not merit, nor will he receive under any circumstances, the GOP nomination.
I'm sorry if that fact upsets you, but it remains a fact. It's time to unify the party behind the obvious nominee. Anything else is sheer folly.
Vote Trump
“.. Just ask Kasich about Lyin’ Ted.”
I said it before, and I’ll say it again, in my opinion, Cruz and wife are the Republican version of “Bill and Hillary”.
Not necessarily. We can also go by the opinions of others without bothering to actually do any real research or talk to the man himself.
I wish Trump and Senator Cruz had been able to work more closely together. I hope Trump is able to work with everyone and the party comes together.
I think there is a part of the Republican Party that wants to lose the election. They sabotaged Sarah Palin in 2008 when McCain and Palin were ahead. Romney should have won easily in 2012 but he refused to articulate the issues and seemed to lose on purpose.
I think they wanted Jeb! to be the designated loser to Clinton this time.
It was only after Jeb! dropped out that the Republicans began their internal attacks on Trump and began the infighting and backstabbing. It was as if they wanted to weaken Trump so that he could not win the general election.
As for Bush in 1980, he went on to sabotage Reagan and his agenda. Bush's people worked with the media to undermine Reagan. Bush tried to purge the party of conservatives.
Arlen Specter joined the Democrats and tried to destroy Pat Toomey. There is a part of the Republican party that despises the voters and hates America. They only want to help the Democrats and the left.
Let me restate. I got to watch how he behaved and what he did. I changed my opinion based on that
Only if you think someone supported by Jeb and Neil Bush, Romney, Lindsey Graham and the big Washington PACs is an outsider.
Look, if you think that the consensus of this community was arrived at without each and every one of us seeing Ted Cruz for ourselves, and deciding that he wasn't the best choice, then suit yourself.
The reason I don't support Ted Cruz is because of his sleazy tactics, his dishonest representations, his jumping into bed with the GOPe, and his terrible performance among the electorate, to name only a few.
Ted Cruz has had every chance to make his case, and he has failed to do so. He has made the opposite case. He is not suited to be President.
And, furthermore, some of his votes themselves have undermined his conservative credentials. Two specific ones I can think of are the Corker Bill, and absolutely inexplicably, his vote to give 0bama TPA on the TPP, and his subsequent flipping on the TPP itself.
Cruz had every opportunity to don the "outsider" or "anti-establishment" mantle, and instead he did just the opposite: he got cozy with the GOPe, hired Neil Bush to his finance team, and picked up endorsements from the traitor Mitt Romney, John McCain, Lindsay Graham, etc.
In short, Ted Cruz did everything possible to associate himself with the "NeverTrump" movement.
Cruz chose poorly, and in doing so, cemented his insider status, and his willingness to help preserve the DC cartel.
Ted Cruz's remaining conservative positions overlap heavily with those of Donald Trump, who has shown real leadership in the face of an all-out effort launched by an unholy alliance of the Left, Media, GOPe, and "me too" Cruz campaign to demonize a man who passionately loves his country and wants to help make it great again.
And what does Cruz want for this nation?
Apparently, Ted Cruz plans on limping into the GOP convention with, at best, about 700 delegates or so.
And then what's he going to do somehow, magically? He's going to steal seize the nomination from Donald Trump, displacing the party's clear frontrunner. Of course, this can only happen with the help of the GOPe.
Then what? This is the most ridiculous part: after swiping the nomination, Cruz will:
It would be laughable if it wasn't so dangerous.
Ted Cruz appears fully willing to sacrifice his own party, and even the country, on the altar of his own blind personal ambition.
Ted Cruz's egotism and malignant narcissism make Donald Trump's ostensible character deficits pale in comparison.
If Donald Trump is good enough for Senator Jeff Sessions, who is a close friend of Ted Cruz's, then he's good enough for me. There has to be a reason someone like Sessions prefers Donald Trump.
The Revolution is ON!
Vote Trump
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