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.
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I think you may have something there!!!
Daddy Bush was called a uncaring wimp and vilified by the Clintons. W was called a retard and vilified by Hillary. And yet there good friends. Only in DC.
Amen, Jim. Couldn’t say it better.
Teds new Yellow Pages advertisement.
Didn’t Eugene J. McCarthy wait until October 1968 to endorse HHH?
-PJ
And on the campaign trail, I might add.
The man has shown his true colors. Unfortunately, some people seem willing to completely overlook all that we've seen of his real character.
It would be nice to see him do it. Let Romney, Kasich, and the Bushes be the main holdouts.
R. Perry is expected to challenge Cruz for the Senate in the 2018 primary.
Check any new med you got.
It should be done privately. Not publicly. And it’s probably already been done. See post 158 above. Good analysis.
Exactly.
Maybe the unpopular Bushes gave the popular Clintons “permission” to ridicule them.
Much as I dislike the guy-he actually is an American citizen-but if he wants to get a law license in Canada, move back there and open his office, that is fine with me-we have so many ambulance chasing lawyers in the state that every other ad aired during local news, Fox channel-or on Telemundo-is for some personal injury shark’s office promising to work for you-we really don’t need any more of those-and Ted sounds just like one of them...
Some of the McCarthy backers may have been involved in the riots at the Chicago convention, but I don’t think too many probably were.
I cannot see Cruz being named to anything by Trump.
The question is: If Trump is the president and Cruz is a U.S. Senator, then how do they deal with each other in a way that works out for both of them?
Either way, I don't think it makes much difference to the outcome of the race, or to the future of Ted's political career.
I honestly don't care what Ted Cruz does, going forward. He's dead to me.
signed,
Former Donating Cruz Supporter
Couldn’t agree more Jim
Too late, Ted.
Any endorsement now would simply prove that you have been just been reading the polls.
Everyone knows you have no honor, we saw your political suicide on live TV.
Rick Perry will have no problem against you in the primary, if you even bother to show up. I think you won’t.
Goldman Sachs may offer you a small field office, I hear Nebraska is nice. Closer to Canada.
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