Posted on 07/21/2016 8:22:22 AM PDT by dontreadthis
Ted Cruz walks off stage at Republican Convention to the boos of the crowd as Trump is cheered. Cruz said he couldn’t endorse Trump in good conscience for attacking his wife during the campaign. Cruz should know that when you stick your hand into a dogfight, expect to get bit.
Ted Cruz went to the Republican convention and refused to endorse Trump. I expected as much from Jeb Bush who said he would win without the TEA Party, and not only broke his word, his bond, to support the people’s choice of candidate, but is so petty that he wouldn’t even show up. I expected better from Ted Cruz. To show up and say “vote your conscience” rather than endorse the candidate chosen by the people makes him just as petty.
How this race has morphed from right to left:
This is how the people saw the election during the primaries;
Cruz Trump Bush Hillary Bernie
This is how Cruzers see the election now;
Cruz/Bush Trump/Hillary
This is how Trumpsters see the election now;
Trump Cruz/Bush Hillary
Bush, like Hillary, is a part of the Washington Establishment. The death blow to Cruz’s campaign was when he was endorsed by the establishment. If he joins with them now against Trump, how does that make Trump one with Hillary? The answer is – it does not because you are wrong. Trump’s own children speak to his character, just as Romney’s did, over all the propaganda by the DNC and GOP.
The problem with these disparate views is that there are only two candidates in this election who matter. Ted’s “vote your conscience” may be a hint at a third party GOP candidate. Trump has pulled in the Reagan Democrats, but conservative purists don’t seem to care. If they stay home or vote third party that gives this election to Hillary and they become the Ross Perot’s of 2016. If they do this then they squander all moral authority and any respect they thought they had. No one will rally to them in four years.
Trump has become the champion of the people against the Washington Establishment. Should he prove untrue to his word then primarying him in four years is justified. But if Cruzers and the Bushies sabotage him under the mantle of conservative purity, as they did to Romney in 2012 when he was their choice in 2008, and give us a third term of Obamaism, then don’t expect the rest of us to back you ever again.
The last time a billionaire businessman ran was when Ross Perot ran against the Republicans to give the election to Clinton. Perot didn’t want to be president; he just didn’t want Bush to be. Trump is not running against Republicans, he IS the Republican! He’s not running to give the election to Democrats, but to defeat them. Trump gave Cruz a thumbs up just for showing up, but that’s not enough for most.
I loved Ted Cruz. I saw him as the most intelligent, moral man in Congress. But today he let me down. He took an oath to back the candidate that was the choice of the people. He fought the good fight and even took the high road over Trump’s low road, but Trump got to Cleveland before him.
Trump didn’t win because he’s the better man who appealed to our better nature as Ted tried to do. He won because he appealed to our simplest nature. Liberals think that means he appealed to our basest nature as “haters.” But what he did was appeal to the righteous wrath of the common man in the way he could understand. Cruz lost because he thought he could win with high rhetoric and intellectual morality proving he’s not ready to fight fire with fire. When you put on the Armor of God you have to strap on a sword to go with it. The Sword of Righteousness is a flaming blade that does no good when left in its scabbard.
If conservative purists think they will save America by denying Trump and giving the election to Hillary they are sadly mistaken. This will not only be a betrayal of their fellow Republicans, it will be a betrayal of their own souls. Edmund Burke said;
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
What does it say of those good men when they know what to do but refuse? When you take sides with Washington elites and America goes down in flames, who do you think will rally to your flag? Obviously, it’s not just Democrats who are delusional.
Sore Cruzer.
I became a Trump supporter after I began following his rallies. I began to see why he was a successful businessman, and greatly appreciated his blunt analysis that America’s trade partners were screwing the USA because of USA’s incompetent “leaders.”
The nail in the coffin for me for Cruz was when Glenn started endorsing him. Note that Beck had years ago warned his Fx Noise viewers to leave the 17th Amendment alone. I knew then that Beck is a part of what is now politically known as the corrupt Washington cartel - following the money.
Pence gave his endorsement to Cruz (probably ordered to) then heavily praised Trump. Then on the day of the Indiana Primary Trump outsmarted Cruz again and jokingly insinuated that Cruz’s father was connected to LHO. He said that on that day because he knew Cruz will have an epic meltdown; which he did.
Yep, Wisconsin was when Cruz was done... the GOPe mobilized to give him WI and in that single act, he lost any credibility as an outsider who would fight for change.. that claim and storyline ended that day.... He could not claim it and have any credibility going forward.
He wasn’t going to win the thing either way, but that guaranteed the race was over, even though he won the battle.
Cruz may be a smart man, but he’s not very bright at times... Getting whole heartedly in bed with the establishment in a year where the electorate clearly was anti establishment ensured his campaign was over.
asking if it is odd that one new Lee Oswald is not insinuating anything.....But I will Why did Ted’s dad flee to Canada in November of 1963?
I wish I could go back and delete all of my FR posts, early on, that wanted this cat for POTUS. Thank God I never sent him a dime. I know someone who sent him (or his PAC) thousands of dollars, who would like to strangle him right about now.
He began to reveal himself to me, over time. The Iowa mailers, the shafting of Dr. Carson - while feigning innocence and blaming a major network! The cutthroat truly bad actors he surrounded himself with.
And his lies...oh his lies. Too many to mention. But ever the devoted Christian, you know.
Between him, Romney, and Beck they won over these gullible Utahans, who will believe literally anything their church people tell them. If they told them the earth was flat tomorrow, they would go along with it.
And the chicanery with the delegates in states that ALREADY VOTED. He didn’t exactly cover himself with glory, the holy man.
It is worth mentioning that DJT won this fair and square. There was never any hint of underhanded shenanigans. He simply took his thing directly to the people. And won.
The sheer jealousy of those vanquished is truly something to behold.
I guess the notion of taking your case to the people never occurred to them.
The death blow was when Cruz blamed Trump for the ‘rat/S0r0$ violins.
And Goldman Sachs.
Ivanka, Lara(Eric’s wife), and Tiffany look a little ticked. Can you blame them?
P.J. O’Rourke’s Pre-Rebuttal To Ted Cruz “Freedom Speech”:
“Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
It’s not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they?
That’s not freedom, that’s dependency.
It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the “right” to education, the “right” to food and housing.
Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.
And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
I am going to sound very crazy, but whatever.
LBJ and George H.W. Bush were friends. George W. Bush recalls LBJ visiting his grandfather’s mansion one Christmas. I believe LBJ had everything to do with killing JFK and I also believe that Bush was involved. Bush said he doesn’t remember where he was that day. By this line of logic, I believe LHO was affiliated with the Bushes. Also, I believe George H.W. Bush tried to kill Reagan.
I now believe that for the longest time Ted Cruz was a secret Bush disciple and that only got recently exposed with the Bushes getting involved with his campaign. Now that we a picture of what certainly looks like Cruz standing next to LHO and his proven support of Castro in college and what LHO was handing out in that picture, I now believe that George H.W. Bush knew the Cruz for a very long time. I think he did, and attempted to help lift Ted Cruz to high places as a favor to the father. To be honest, I think it is secret society bullshit which LBJ, LHO, GHW and Cruz were part of.
It is interesting that the writer who released this picture died two weeks after the Indiana primary. However, me believing that the Bush’s as cold blooded murderers and assassins, it all fits.
I don’t know whether any of that is 100% correct. I do know that a lot of it is very factual. I don’t believe in coincidences. It may well be that convoluted .
IF the commies could plot to get the DiC elected anything is possible
Clear evidence that the GOPe (including Ted, Lee, Will, Kristoll, Levin) would rather destroy this country than to save it. Traitors all.
And when he found he couldn't win that way he went to "by any means necessary."
Mitt, Jeb, Hillary and Ted: “Vote your conscience.” Ted Cruz is keeping mighty fine “principled conservative” company there. LOL.
The only things bigger than Cruz’s big fat ass is his arrogance and self-importance! We need a NEW senator from Texas the next go-round.......;(
He threw out a few Bible verses and teamed-up with Kolob Glenn. He thought that was enough.
yep - Corker Bill did it for me but that cemented it for good.
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