Posted on 09/22/2016 12:25:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Ted Cruz supporters were alarmed Wednesday at suggestions that he was on the verge of endorsing Donald Trump.
They worry that the Texas senator could squander his brand as a fighter — and goodwill earned among many through his stubborn refusal to back his party's nominee — if he caves with nothing to show for it.
Cruz has held out on the grounds that Trump is insufficiently conservative, and because Trump attacked his wife and father down the stretch of their heated battle for the Republican nomination.
The senator even took the extraordinary step of declining to endorse Trump during a televised, prime time speech delivered from the stage of the New York businessman's own nominating convention.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Can’t wait!!!
Good point.
From the title of this thread, it appears that those who still are behind Cruz would be upset with him if he were to endorse Trump. So if that’s the case, it kind of wipes out any vote advantage he might have had. Those diehards would likely abandon Cruz but not vote for Trump. Advantage: none!
I think most people who usually vote R, but who are not voting R this year, the “NeverTrumpers” are not necessarily behind Cruz. In fact, they probably dislike Cruz more than they dislike Trump. It would be interesting to know just what numbers continue to support Cruz.
There will be joy in our hearts when Trump becomes president and no joy in DC/Mudville for 8 years.
“You obviously know zero about his track record in the senate.”
I know something about Ted’s track record in the Senate. What little he has, anyway, seeing as how (like Obama) he started running for president before he even moved into his office properly.
1. Filibustered the Obamacare bill (good).
2. Offered a ‘poison pill’ amendment to the Gang of Eight amnesty bill that would have legalized all 40 million illegal invaders.
3. Voted to end debate on TPA, which was a necessary prerequisite to passing TPP, which will kill this country if ever implemented.
4. Supported a 500% increase in H1-B visas.
That’s enough for me to see the guy was an establishment drone from the very beginning.
“I think Cruz still has an opportunity to run in 2020.”
How? He wasn’t eligible to run for president the first time around. Nothing’s going to change with that in four year’s time.
Glen Beck? That would be like mourning the loss of a melanoma.
Agreed. I’ve always tried HARD to understand that my word on an issue is VERY doable.
But you’re right. Never 100 percent.
Excellent analysis. If he does so, he needs to do it soon: absentee ballots go out on Friday in VA. 45 days.
I think he has come to realize that is the case.
He destroyed his reputation by not endorsing Trump.
The only way he can possibly recover is to endorse Trump now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3472355/posts
This is an Illinois poll, but if true and if true in other states, it could mean a lot of votes. Could make the difference in tight battleground states if Cruz would endorse and try to persuade his supporters to help save the country from going down the tubes with Hillary.
I could give a rat’s behind about his track record. Things change and the national spotlight shined on him, we’ve seen enough.
I love how Cruz supporters equate people who don’t like him with liberals. You can keep his senate record. I’ve watched Cruz plenty and I don’t trust him. His senate record has nothing to do with him being a weasely self-centered jerk. Fact - he blamed the Chicago riot on Trump. I’m done with him, he tossed in with the liberal race-baiting establishment.
“If Cruz ever wants a future in politics...”
That ship sailed at the convention.
But it wasn’t a true filibuster, was it? Neil Bush was on Cruz’s campaign...’nuff said.
boo hoo hoo. Cruz people: You think Hillary wouldn't take either topic on? Look how her team has attacked Melania, and every single one of Trump's children. You think Hillary wouldn't drag Ted's background thru the mud and then some? And that of his father, and his mother, and his father's father? You think she wouldn't bring up the same citizenship issue she did with Obama? There's more than one picture of Heidi than what Trump retweeted. And a few gals in the closet to boot. (Where's Carly?). Trump's disgressions are limited to divorce and some bookkeeping issues. (welcome to America) Does Cruz think that Hillary's slide-off like silicone background would stick any better if he were attacking it? That the press would be any more favorable to him? So, why isn't he attacking Hillary now? Or the three years he's been senator? After 3 decades of unbridled immigration, it's imperative we have a candidate that will champion legislation to chisel 'natural born citizen of a natural born father and mother' in stone - and Cruz couldn't do that without invalidating his own presidency. Vote for the Constitution. Vote Trump. Work with us.
I maintain that should Trump succeed in carrying out his agenda, he will not only be "sufficiently conservative", but will be the most conservative president in my life time. That includes Ronald Reagan. I don't know what the "true conservatives" are bitching about. Get on board and see to it that Trump succeeds!
“If he doesn’t he can say good by to his Senate seat.”
Yep, pretty much so and good. We really don’t need another “Maverick” like McCain.
The Constitution's Preamble begins with the words, "We, the People. . . ." All of its structuring of government makes it clear that that government is the creature of "We, the People," and that their Constitution is the "Supreme law of the land.""If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the Union, then they will have accomplished all, that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."George Washington, our First President, when delivering his Farewell Address, used several lines and paragraphs to warn future generations of the dangers to liberty of certain ideas and actions those generations might engage in.
A major danger Washington warned of was what he called "the danger of Party." He outlined some of the threats which might come by that route.
We may have interpreted Washington's words as pertaining strictly to that competition between current traditional Parties, Democrat and Republican.
But have we considered that his warning might apply to a future time when both Parties might have been corrupted by an ideology foreign to the ideas of liberty, as structured in their strict limitations on government power?
At such a time, may we contemplate that Washington might have advised the nation to go back to the Preamble for guidance?
If we do that, then isn't it possible to consider that, despite the Republican Party's long-held claims to Constitutional devotion in the face of liberal/progressive incursions on liberty, and when "the People," saw impending danger from those combinations of power endangering their liberty, that "the People's" supremacy over their government asserted itself in a new and different way and produced an "outsider" candidate who might disrupt the old order and force a re-examination of what Constitutional government should truly look like? Might that process, itself, be beneficial to liberty?
Certainly, more of "the People" expressed their opinions on the subject than ever before. If, constitutionally, this is a "People's" government, and if, human nature being what it always has been, "the People" participated in the decision, then who are the elected elites in both Parties to tell them that a Party's rules and guidelines can supersede their judgment?
Perhaps Cruz, trapped in a model that didn't allow for such freedom of "the People," might reconsider his notion of superimposing his judgment on that of his fellow citizens--"the People"--no matter how personally distasteful that might seem.
Might a patriot not find a way to put the shoulder to the wheel and help to guide "the People's" choice into a path that would reignite and keep bright "the lamp of liberty," for another generation?
- Justice Joseph Story - "Commentaries on the Constitution. . . ."
Will Cruz do it? Maybe in a backhanded or offhanded way, just in passing.
It's personal for Ted, and while he doesn't want to be seen as hurting the party, he also doesn't want to invest too much in Donald Trump's candidacy or go out on a limb for the guy.
As a former cruz supporter and now trump supporter, i think its a great idea for cruz to endorse trump. this endorsement gives trump the green light to pick cruz for the supreme court to replace scalia whom cruz once clerked for and this also opens a seat in the senate for gov. abbott to choose his successor in 2017 to run in 2018. I think george p. bush the son of jeb is perfect to fill that seat, he endorsed trump before the convention and it would close the womb from the primaries between trump and jeb.
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