Again, who is your boy?
I have only contributed to one candidate in this race... Ted Cruz.
He has sorely disappointed me and his defenders on this thread who are making excuses for his sudden switch are not helping.
He wasn’t deceived unless he is incredibly naive. He voted FOR TPA and then the SHTF from his supporters and now he has backtracked.
I got a ton of e-mails this week from Ted and Heidi begging me to contribute more. I responded to every one saying that unless he votes against TPA when it comes back he will never see another dime from me.
Well he voted against it, but if he can’t admit that he screwed up with the first vote and quit blaming it on others, then I’m still not going to give him another dime.
Right now I don’t have a candidate. With 100 people in the race, why should I choose now? My primary isn’t for another year.
Tell me 2DV, can you name a single fast tracked trade agreement that has been a net positive for We the People of the United States of America?
Just one.
2D, I’ve followed Cruz since he broke on the scene in the Senate. I waded through all the nonsense birther threads, did background study, found it was clear that Cruz is eligible to be president.
Initially, I tried to find a way around his H1B visa plan, hoping it was a poison pill offered to the gang of 8 compromise on amnesty.
Then Ted Cruz doubled down on H1B. I had been wrong. He really was supporting that mess.
I opposed on principle giving any power to Obama to do anything. As I read more about TPA, it was clear that there were trusted Senators like Sessions saying “not so fast, this has other stuff in the fine print.”
Cruz and his supporters decided that Sessions was wrong.
Then Cruz decided he was wrong and TPA 1 was bad, that he had been misled. He also came out against TPA 2. He voted against it today.
That is a chronology of events. During this period, Cruz’s numbers have dropped until he’s in 9th place of a 10 person poll that will determine if he’ll even BE in the first debate. While I think that’s a stupid plan, it nonetheless is reality. Cruz has injured himself with all this.
The numbers show it. More importantly, what I’m hearing shows it. He’s not being talked up around me where I live. I’m hearing Walker. I live in Ohio, so I also hear Kasich from people who will then smile. We know that’s not going anyplace. He’s probably campaigning for Vice President.
But make no mistake, I’ve been a Cruz supporter, and verifiably so for anyone will to do the work of checking my past posts. The same with so many others. You do not aid their returning to Cruz support by questioning their integrity when their posting history is there for you to check out.