Posted on 07/20/2016 7:12:38 PM PDT by Mariner
SENATOR TED CRUZ REFUSED TO ENDORSE TRUMP AT RNC—
WOULD NOT ENDORSE TRUMP—
TOLD REPUBLICANS TO VOTE THEIR CONSCIENCE!!!
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Yes, a lot of revisionism going on here!
Yes Cruz is done, just that he did do some damage by providing Hitlery some ammo—vote your conscience, etc...Cruz is scum tho and will never ever be President!!!!
>Cruz told people NOT to stay home in November, and to vote for candidates that would uphold the constitution. The Trump team could have taken that in a positive way, as close to an endorsement as Cruz culs come. it would have been a net positive for everyone, and a unifying gesture. Instead, they laid a trap for Cruz, with the intent of embarassing him and damaging him politically.
He was warned by Manafort they’d boo him but he didn’t believe it. Trump handled him a laso and Cruz chose to hang himself with it instead of hitching himself to Trump.
All Cruz’s worst wounds are self inflicted and this is the final one of his short career. He could have been VP then President in 8 years. Instead he threw it all away out pride and ambition.
Maybe that's where the Lucifer nickname originated.
Instead, they laid a trap for Cruz, with the intent of embarassing him and damaging him politically.
This was a set-up, pure and simple. You could see it in the surprise in Cruz’ face.
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So you are defending Cruz now?!?!?!
“Yes, a lot of revisionism going on here!”
Yep, they’re grasping at straws.
Did that upset any of you as badly as it did me?
Was a early and strong supporter of Ted Cruz but always had concerns that he was driven by burning ambition rather than his professed strong principals.
The stress of the Primary season has proven he is simply an arrogant, unprincipled and supremely ambitious political poseur.
There is a saying , “The Lord, he uses the good ones and the bad ones use the Lord”
I wondered which side Ted Cruz came down on and he just showed us that he falls into the second category.
The good news is that Cruz's ill advised over reach just destroyed the #NeverTrump movement just like Dallas gutted #BlackLIvesMatter as a political movement.
The Establishment Cruz soulmates like Bush , Kaisch, McCain, Graham who stayed home have to be feeling very depressed because the hand writing is on the wall that they have been measured and found wanting. They are looking very small and will be consigned to the dust bin of history.
These are losers have placed selfish ambition and personal pride above the good of the country. They fought a scorched earth rear guard action and salted the earth and poisoned all wells behind them so they deserve to be scorned, marginalized and driven out of the party
Ronald Reagan did the same thing when he won the power struggle with Country Club Republicans in the 1970s
I don’t know if this was Cruz’s way of letting people know that he’s done with politics, but I think he’s finished whether he wants to be or not. I was a Cruz supporter. He should have endorsed Trump. If Trump loses this election, I won’t be supporting Cruz in 2020. But actually, I don’t think Cruz will be running in 2020. He damaged himself beyond repair tonight.
I’m not defending nor attacking anyone. I’m not one of those here that latches on to a candidate like it’s some sort of religion.
I’m just pointing out what I observed tonight, which was mean and vindictive behavior, and definitely not in the best interest of the country.
I’m not going anywhere. I was here long before you stumbled on the scene, and I’ll still be here in November. Let’s see what you’ve got to say then.
You guys really show your insecurity. I post an observation, and universally I’ve received nothing but grade school insults.
We don’t worship Trump. We want to hire him. We would never hire a self-destructive putz such as cruzhole.
He was warned by Manafort they’d boo him but he didn’t believe it.Right, that's why the Trump insiders had to walk and encourage people to boo. And why there weren't any boos when he made the statement you folks are so up-in-arms about, but only later after the whips had a chance to stir things up.
What’s up with the cruznadian fixation to compare their enemies to grade-school children?
Now that’s a peculiar insecurity right there.
Vote Trump or say #nevertrump.
I’m not suggesting anyone “hire” Cruz. What I’m saying is that the Trump team made an extremely dumb choice this evening (dumb that is if their intention is to win in November). They chose “get even” over “unify”.
What needed to happen this week, and quite frankly it should already have been done, is to unify the base so that Trump can focus on reaching out to others.
they just don’t get it.. We don’t need them.
1) I’m not a “Cruznadian”
2) Trump isn’t my enemy.
3) Calling people names is grade school behavior. Most of us outgrew that long ago.
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