Posted on 07/21/2016 3:47:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Katie wrote about Sen. Ted Cruz’s address at the Republican National Convention in which received a standing ovation when he took the podium, but later walked off stage amidst boos and jeers. It was brutal. Cruz didn’t endorse Trump last night, which drew the ire of the delegates and attendees. National Review’s Eliana Johnson reported earlier on Wednesday that Cruz had no intention of endorsing Trump, instead looking to the 2020 election. Cruz said that the party must unite, though Republicans should vote their conscience. It was not good.
The whole arena is booing Ted Cruz, who did not expressly endorse Donald Trump tonight. So much for party unity.— Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) July 21, 2016
Now, we have The Washington Post reporting that after the speech, Cruz was denied entry into billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s donor suite:
Ted Cruz was turned away from entering Sheldon Adelson's suite in the arena after the speech, @danabashCNN reports— Steve Brusk (@stevebruskCNN) July 21, 2016
Billionaires Sheldon and Miriam Adelson refused to let the senator from Texas enter their donor suite after his controversial address, according to a person familiar with the circumstances. CNN first reported the episode.
Cruz once said that he may not be the guy you want to have a beer with, but he’d be the man who takes you home at the end of the night. Well, now he’s the man who’s in that position because he wasn’t invited to the party. The Texas senator sees himself as a conservative rampart against a rising progressive tide. He’s made being an uncompromising conservative his brand. So, in a way, not endorsing Trump because he’s not a conservative Republican falls in line with that mindset. Moreover, again, we all knew Cruz was going to do this. So, is he still staying true to his brand? Well, it’s sort of hard to say he is exactly doing that when he shamelessly cuddled up to the billionaire last December, calling him “terrific.” In the end, Trump won.
The Establishment's only hope: Trump & me in a cage match.
Sorry to disappoint -- @realDonaldTrump is terrific. #DealWithIt— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 11, 2015
Oh, and another sign that Cruz was probably not going to endorse Trump dates back to his May 1 appearance on Meet The Press, where host Chuck Todd asked the Texas senator if Trump were to become the nominee, would he endorse him. Cruz gave a 772-word non-answer. Why? Well, he thought he was going to beat Trump of course.
Former Pennsylvania Rick Santorum criticized Cruz for going back on the party pledged to support the eventual nominee. So, I’m sure this incident compliments the “Lyin’ Ted” moniker the Trump camp attached to the Texas senator like a barnacle.
Is this political suicide? Frank Luntz’s focus group says otherwise. It’s too soon to know, but if last night was Cruz laying the first building block to a 2020 run–it was a total fiasco.
Luntz asks focus group for show of hands if they liked that Cruz refused to endorse Trump tonight pic.twitter.com/Qw2xqJohpl— Jon Passantino (@passantino) July 21, 2016
Cruz is doing to Heidi what algore did to Tipper .... killing her.
Ashley Goldman Cruz: "I endorse my fellow RAT and ObamaTRADE supporter, Hillary Clinton."
Not interested. Go back to your whores Ted. They need you.
Adelson must have taken Ted’s advice and voted his conscience.
Cruz should not have pledged to endorse the winner if he could only support “conservatives.”
I would guess this means Cruz wouldn’t have endorsed Jeb, right?
So who will run against Cruz in the primaries in two years?
Ted Cruz is so fundamentally dishonest, his shadow actually corkscrews when he walks. ;)
Harvard boy Cruz..who is supposed to be so smart..just alienated 14 million voters that will blame him if Trump loses.His career is over
It’s possible that Cruz did more to unify the GOP than he intended. His self-serving performance is being pretty much universally condemned.
Twirling for Conscience.
Vote your conscience Ted said, over and over.
Conscience vote to unbind delegates was rejected.
Ted blew it.
I supported Ted but this was classless.
>It’s possible that Cruz did more to unify the GOP than he intended. His self-serving performance is being pretty much universally condemned.
He did indeed. Trump is a master of what’s called owning the downside. In this case he made sure that he benefited from either Cruz endorsing or not endorsing him. He would have benefited more if Cruz had endorsed him but winning a little is better than not winning.
I’ve seen his supporters brag how Cruz won’t be tarnished after Trump gets defeated and will be next in line for 2020 which is laughable because they don’t take into account their never Trump movement along with this unprecedented refuse to support from certain people in the party will be blamed and Trump’s 14 million supporters can then return the favor and never support any of them.
David Dewhurst again? He won’t have to spend so much this time against Cruz like last election as Cruz did himself in. This is normally a safe Republican seat but Cruz might have thrown it into play for the dems to take.
I originally supported Cruz, met him in Mo. Valley Iowa and genuinely liked and supported him as I truly believe he was the lone conservative in the bunch. I have not watched his RNC speech but from what I know, I’m disappointed he couldn’t mention something that he mentioned in the debates which was, anyone on the stage is better than Hillary.
He could have given an indirect endorsement and made it a win win for everyone. Now he looks like the others and trying to position himself for 2020.
Ted hurt himself last night. I won’t say I will never support him, but I am not currently interested in listening to him.
I will vote for Trump in November and might vote for his reelection in primaries in 2020 if I am still around and if he runs for reelection.
One thing that turned me off about Cruz was his voice, which I found very unpleasant
I have been watching all the speeches of the convention on C-SPAN and will do so again this evening. I won’t watch the rat’s convention.
amen
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