[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

In time, Cruz will be just another tear-in-my-beer country western song...

[sparklite2]

Soon, though, Cruz will see that he has come through the hurricane of his first presidential campaign with his prospects enhanced, rather than retarded.

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Yeah, right. He has many enemies in DC.

[IronJack]

Ted Cruz was a good candidate. But the anger right now is too great for a moderate. We need a bloviating blowhard take-no-prisoners Huey Long like Donald Trump to restore us to some version of sanity. Cruz's day will come, once the ground is safe under our feet and we can embrace softer solutions.

Right now, hard time call for hard measures. Ted isn't the man for the times.

[Spirit of Liberty]

‘Retarded’.....interesting word choice.

[mrsmith]

Heck, that’s way harsh!
The advice is generally good, but it’s good for ANY Senator.

[Democrat_media]

Trump/Cruz in 2016

We have to defeat the Marxists/globalists this time or America is over. We can’t have Cruz supporters staying home by the millions on election night we need their vote to

Vote for the Wall, fortress America , vote for Freedom , a return to the 1900’s when America grew!

[Innovative]

“But whether he ever wins that higher office, he owes it to Texas to do a better job in the office he already holds.”

Exactly right.

[HarleyLady27]

Oh that poor, poor thing...how could anyone be so sad???

He had no desire to be a Senator of any State, or he would have acted like one...did he represent the Great State of Texas? No, he did everything he could to get recognized so he could run for President, I guess he seen Barky do it, so why not him? Well once bitten, you know???

We aren’t that stupid to see what he was doing...and yes I feel for the people that laid everything on the line for him, it’s gotta hurt like all get out...but next time VET your candidate, research, dig and find out things then you won’t be so disappointed when you find out they only think of themselves...

Is Trump perfect, absolutely not, but he is Trump, he made Trump, he does what Trump does and he’s the only one that will take out Trump....said by Rush Limbaugh...

There are going to be things he does and says that I won’t agree with, but I do know he loves America and the American People and Thank Goodness for that!!!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Instead of using his high office as a perch and a platform, he should use it as a tool to pass good bills that help Texans and to block bad ones.”

Our Governor, Scott Walker (R, WI...and one helluva guy) found that out the hard way, too. He’s paying off his campaign debts one used t-shirt sale at at time.

I’d like to know WHO gets a hold of these men and tells them that THEY are the Second Coming and their time is NOW!

(Those people should be shot.)

SERVE in the JOB you’ve been ELECTED to. And if you’re ANY GOOD AT IT, We The People will ‘promote’ you to a higher office in the future.

Get over yourselves, already!

[Drew68]

Instead of using his high office as a perch and a platform, he should use it as a tool to pass good bills that help Texans and to block bad ones.

This would require friends and allies in the Senate and I'm not sure Cruz has any. He burned a lot of bridges.

[PAR35]

and Cruz, having built no bridges beyond the evangelical camp

In the end, he had lost the evangelicals. He was left with the Mormons and the Jewish neoCons.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

So 2nd, any candlelight vigils going on right now?

[Fiji Hill]

Cruz should stay in the Senate, where conservatives remain badly outgunned, as that yesterday's vote on a suburb-busting scheme hatched by the Obama administration demonstrated. Although the Republicans control the chamber, the measure to defund this scheme failed 60-37. Cruz, who didn't vote, needs to get back there and rally the troops.

[Lakeshark]

He should have done all these last week, or the week before:

1. Congratulate Trump for being the nominee.
2. Unify behind him against the beast.
3. Implore his followers to do likewise.
4. Campaign strenuously for the ticket.

Afterward, he can slowly repair his conservative creds by helping to accomplish the things he holds in common with Trump's platform.

If he can swallow his pride and do those things, he might even get reelected. His future will be bright, he will have learned, he could become a great man, a great senator, and more.

[lodi90]

What now? Cruz is skipped at least one key Senate vote to lay on the beach in Mexico. What a fighter. How principled and conservative of him.

[Redwood71]

And when he comes back, he'll still be the same do nothing beltway politician the republicans have had for over 20 years. The ones that run the first time they re challenged by anything, truth or not, in the media and leave the road open for the libs to screw us further into the ground. In his case, lead, follow, or get out of the way is pertinent. But only the last one. red

[Migraine]

with his prospects enhanced, rather than retarded

That is not correct, by the way. Cruz kept talking about Trump's "ceiling", when it was Cruz who had the ceiling all along.

Cruz' ceiling is 33%, the number that will ever tolerate a purely evangelical candidate, much less a pentecostal one, in this country. I say that as a person who is both, so I'm not a sniper about it. It's just that I have realized that, since we've never had an evangelical president yet (much less a pentecostal), in the present socio-political-cultural context, the likelihood is becoming even less, not more, going forward.

[mom.mom]

Why is Cruz not suing The Enquirer for their erroneous linking of his dad to Oswald? Are we to think, therefore, it is not erroneous?

If it were my dad, I would be furious and seek legal action.

[silverleaf]

Somehow I doubt he will take the advice

[Randy Larsen]

All I hear from Cruz and his supporters is gloom, doom, and despair. Why not look at the glass half full rather than half empty and help fill the glass?