Posted on 07/21/2016 12:11:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: By the way, folks, here's another just a little throwaway question. Does it surprise you that somebody saying "vote your conscience" would be booed practically out of an arena? Vote your conscience. Boo! Vote your conscience. Boo! Leave! Get out! I mean, I know I'm not including context here, but just stop and think of this for a second. Cruz's message is vote your conscience, and all hell rained down on him.
Now, the context is that vote your conscience, I know, happens to be a rallying cry for many of the Never Trumpers. And further context is that vote your conscience could be code language for how in the world can you possibly vote for this guy Trump if you have a conscience? And it's obviously, I think, what a lot of people thought Cruz meant, and that's why the boos. But just without any context, somebody says vote your conscience and gets booed.
Here's where I think Cruz could have done better. And, look, armchair quarterbacking, morning-after hindsight's always cheap and easy, but I think it's an important point. Last night Cruz complained that freedom was under assault. And he's right. It wasn't a complaint; it was a warning; it was an acknowledgment. But what he didn't do is make the clear difference that a Clinton and Trump presidency would make to freedom itself and to the Constitution itself.
It wasn't until this morning, under intense questioning from the Texas delegation that Cruz said he wasn't gonna vote for Hillary. He didn't say that last night. He left it for implication, or inference. I think had he drawn this comparison, he acknowledged that there's no contest between Trump and Hillary when it comes to voting to preserve and expand freedom, he didn't explicitly do that. Hillary Clinton's a clear and present danger to the Constitution. And Cruz, a lot of speakers made the point last night, but Cruz didn't. Not expressly.
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RUSH: Now, Cruz was asked about his pledge. They all took the pledge on the same stage last August to support the eventually nominee. And they asked Cruz about that, the Texas delegation. And he said that that day was "abrogated" when this became personal. "The day that pledge was abrogated was the day this became personal." He says, "I'm not gonna get into criticizing or attacking Donald Trump, but I'm just going to give you this response.
"I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father." And he mentioned this a couple of other times and used the words, "I'm not gonna be a puppy dog here in servitude to a guy accuses my dad of assisting in the JFK assassination." And again, in saying that, it just takes everything that Cruz said the night before in his speech off the table. We eventually got the big reveal.
Everybody said, "Gee, what's that? What's going on? What the hell here?"
All this in-depth analysis, and it boils down to that.
Some of the in-depth analysis was, you know, there's a lot of Never Trumpers out there, and the Never Trumpers, they're a loyal bunch, and Cruz wants to be considered the leader. Cruz wants to be the guy. He wants to be the guy that's considered the number one, consistent Never Trumper. And that's who he was playing to last night, at the expense of party loyalty. The Texas delegation was not happy.
Rafael won’t be eligible in 8-10 years, or EVER.
I've read the books Nixon wrote from the 1980's on and they are very insightful and brilliant on foreign policy especially. (By the way, I've read stories that Nixon was a superb poker player and during his stint in the US Navy during World War II, his winnings from playing poker were often sent back to financially help his mother.) His final book, Beyond Peace, was just brilliant in his insights on the state of the world.
As someone whose mother made me a news and political "junkie" at an extremely young age, I can tell you all about Nixon's political history, in detail. He WAS brilliant and yes, his books, which he DID write, are AMAZING!
Teddy imagines that he is Reagan and maybe also Nixon, when he is SO unlike both men, it's shocking. He has NO common sense, no political skills at all, and no vision at all....NONE! Neither does he know anything at all about geopolitics.
“Cruz will learn from this experience and maybe 8-10 years from now, become a viable Presidential candidate again.”
Won’t happen. He won’t be anymore eligible in 8-10 years than he is now.
He can be as viable as he wants to democrats, queers, lesbians, black lives (don’t) matter assholes, and anybody else he can get to listen to him.
I started out this election cycle strongly supporting Cruz, now the only yes vote he will ever get from me is the one where he puts a gun to his head and asks if he should pull the trigger.
Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Felito?
Great points.
Yes, Nixon swallowed a lot tougher stuff than Ted has been asked to swallow.
Nixon was also a very astute political study. He knew what he needed to do to be a better candidate, and he worked on it.
Ted does just the opposite as if it is all owed to him.
I agree with your thoughts completely.
President Nixon was hounded, by the AMERICAN COMMIES, FELLOW TRAVELERS, and PINKOS, from the time he was battling and beat Helen Gahagen Douglas for the Senate seat from California. They were unrelenting! And it was the CHECKERS SPEECH, when he said "I AM NOT A CROOK", while he was VEEP, which nobody seems to know now and claim that he said during WATERGATE, which he did NOT!
He said that, because he was being tarred with accepting expensive gifts, which unlike almost ALL pols, at that time did. In that speech, he said that all he had accepted was a puppy, named CHECKERS. I believed him when he said it and still do!
Yes, Teddy is the complete antithesis of Reagan and Nixon, whom he claims to be like, FALSELY!
And Nixon, besides beating Kennedy, was OUSTED, tricked, about Watergate. It was a scam. He was the victim. They set him up, forced him to say certain things that later led to his having to resign. Those Bush guys got rid of their second President.
I have new respect for Nixon lately. He didn’t do ANYTHING anywhere near what goes on today since Poppy Herbert Walker was in the WH.
I had all the Ike and Dick buttons. When Chet & David's men climbed the ladders to change the numbers to reflect Cook County graveyards eking out a win for JFK, I began my political education.Ted Cruz laid back and hid in Donald Trump's shadow. Trump cleared the brush--and the Bush.
When there were two, Ted Cruz revealed himself to be in short pants on the school playground. His PAC attacked Melania--and like Eddie Haskell, he proved he can dish it out but can't take it.
We were in the Nixon library in '98. There's a section of the Berlin Wall, and lifelike sculptures of the world leaders Nixon engaged.
There will never be a Cruz library--perhaps some rimshots on South Park.
Now we are engaged in a contest to determine whether America continues as a Constitutional Republic or a Saudi colony.
There are only two choices, Ted--and you ain't one of 'em.
Let divine providence continue to preserve the Republic.
Karma will match every man with his consequence.
Rush is a weiner. There is no defending Cruz or debating it. Cruz is a lying, selfish, weasely phony.
“Cruz is not now nor will he ever be a ‘natural born’ US citizen.”
That’s an immutable fact. And however many years he lays back in the weeds—it’s like the guy called a `drunk’ by his date:
He responds: “In the morning I’ll be (hic) sober but you’ll still be ugly.” Cruz isn’t going to become anymore NBC or any less ugly.
And it isn’t 1962. We don’t have to go to the library and research microfilm, take notes, laboriously draft a letter to the editor which no one reads. In 2023, or whenever, we find what we’re reading now in 0.00054 seconds, post it then it’s on Drudge and dozens of blogs.
Thank you algore for inventing the interweb. Cruz is kaput. We dodged a bullet.
and yet no one has died
I think the problem with that theory is that he’ll look and sound even sleazier when he’s a decade older.
I started out supporting Cruz. What turned me was the realization that (IMO) Cruz revealed himself to be a globalist, GOPe in disingenuous disguise.
What moved me Trumps direction was his “put America(ns) first positions. I have no doubts Trump will frustrate the living daylights out of some of you that support him today. His view of the world is from Manhattan as opposed to an evangelical viewpoint. I’m sure he’ll do things I don’t agree with. However, what I am confident he won’t do is sell ours and our counties interest to the highest bidder like Bonny and Clyde Clinton will.
I think Trump - Donald and Evanka - will knock the hide off the ball tonight. I think minimum 5% bounce.
**Is It Curtains for Cruz’s Career?**
YES!!!
Thanks for the additional comments. I had not known the “I am not a crook came from the Checkers speech.
It’s always a pleasure to talk to folks who get it.
Take care.
I never lost my appreciation for Nixon. I saw what the media and the Left were trying to do to our troops in Vietnam, so they had no credibility with me.
Woodward and Bernstein were both a bunch of liars.
When Clinton was deep in his many scandals, Woodward said he didn’t investigate him like Nixon, because there was not even close the sort of scandals surrounding Clinton.
What a liar.
But you got him now over that ly’n scumbag so suck it down and swallow!GO PERRY!! GO PERRY!! PERRY SAW THE LIGHT!!
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