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.
True words
Precisely
My father always thought LBJ was involved.
Yeah. Any good man should just let his wife be attacked.
‘Clear evidence that the GOPe (including Ted, Lee, Will, Kristoll, Levin) would rather destroy this country than to save it. Traitors all.’
Let’s not forget that weasel Rich Lowery. NRO is already trying to spin this as Cruz making a bold stand.
Last night NRO was actually saying that Cruz was opposed by the “GOP establishment”. The cuckservatives are as bad as their allies on the left and their agit-prop news organs.
Trump has upset the apple cart and continues to flush out the “true conservatives”: those like PJ O’Rourke. PJ may be a 1st degree bonehead, but least he’s honest enough to say he will vote for Hillary Clinton over the GOP candidate, while Cruz continues to demurrer.
Eff `em all. Line them all against a wall and eff em all.
Just by the fact alone that LBJ got to be president isn’t enough for my suspicions. Because it wasn’t the first time a president was assassinated. However, if we couple that with the fact he formerly got us involved in Vietnam about a year later, that makes me start to wonder. It happened in his home state. His wife was a big shareholder of Bell Helicopters. Then with the Reagan assassination attempt with Bush as VP, makes me wonder a whole lot more, because the two were obviously friends and birds of the same feather . . . Then H.W.Bush makes a non-disguised NWO speech. The hits were probably made by the NWO.
Cruz has gone to the dark side because his ego runs roughshod over the rest of him - sad, pitiful, pathetic.
“Yeah. Any good man should just let his wife be attacked.”
Trump responded to a Cruz dirty trick and re-posted a tweet showing his beautiful wife next to Ted’s poor hammer.
And from the video evidence shown here, that’s a bogus excuse.
It doesn’t appear that Cruz’s wife or children even like him.
We’ve been over this time and again. If you want to keep posting this tripe, take it somewhere else.
Ted’s “vote your conscience” may be a hint at a third party GOP candidate.
If they go this route, it will guarantee 8 more years of Democrat malfeasance, corruption and outright treason..................
It’s Gary Johnson/Weld. Johnson is at 11% in one poll and only needs to get 15% to get on the debate stage.
H.W. Bush talk about peace and security, but nearly started more wars than the rest of the other President’s combined.
Yeah, Corker and TPP were very problematic, but I thought maybe Cruz was trying to make nice with McConnell to get support for his POTUS run.
Stealing that!
Great idea. Tell me when and where.
“Yeah. Any good man should just let his wife be attacked.”
OK. let’s try this one last time. Imagine Cruz’s speech went:
Friends, my family is still hurting from the primary. Some nasty personal attacks were made. But Donald and I will figure this out over time and between ourselves. For now, my Christianity and love of country implore me to forgive and endorse Donald Trump without hesitation.
Big resume enhancer.
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