Posted on 01/19/2016 10:31:18 AM PST by TBBT
This makes me think it is Palin who's going to endorse Trump today and that Team Cruz knows it. Otherwise Rick Tyler would have answered this question differently, in spokesman-ese. You know how it goes: "Oh, listen, I'm not going to speculate about who's endorsing who. Ted Cruz admires Governor Palin, she and Ted Cruz have been allies since he joined the Senate, but endorsements aren't going to win this race. Iowans are going to decide based on who has the better record standing up to the Washington cartel and that's obviously Senator Cruz." He doesn't say that. What he's doing here is a sort of "prebuttal" -- surely, surely, an icon of populist conservatism like Sarah Palin isn't about to throw in with the biggest RINO in the race, a guy who was busy praising Barack Obama in the media on the very day that the tea party was born. If her endorsement's still in play for Cruz, why would Tyler antagonize her by saying backing Trump would be a blow to her credibility instead of saying something flattering instead? He must know something.
Leon Wolf's own "prebuttal" is less diplomatic than Tyler's:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
“Disgusting and shameful.”
Cry me a river. No More GOPe.
Nominate a pub who can actually win.
Cruz can’t.
Again, if Palin ends up endorsing Trump today, I will find myself in disagreement with Cruz on ONE POINT at least -- I will no longer be a "big fan" of Palin. I will, however, admire Cruz's class.
You sounded just like Yosemite Sam just then.
Absolutely!
So instead you do the equivalent of a gorilla puffing up his chest and pounding it, screaming at the top of his lungs.
In short, all you have to respond with is bluster and hot air.
Just like your candidate. If the guy wins and proceeds on the path that you are so desperate to ignore seeing, you WILL be responsible for that destruction just the same. Because unlike your graphic says ("You ain't NOTHIN'!!!") you ARE something. You are apparently something stupid enough to vote against your own interests and to urge others to do the same. Enough of those "somethings" for Trump, and we're looking at a very left-leaning moderate "Republican" in the White House. And YOU will be to blame because you are somethin'.
Ted Cruz @tedcruz 2 minutes ago
I love @SarahPalinUSA Without her support, I wouldn’t be in the Senate. Regardless of what she does in 2016, I will always be a big fan.
You’d better fire your spokesman then. Today.
See, you yourself is showing me , how nasty are Cruz supporters, they are just following Cruz nastiness.
You want to "win" a rotten lemon because the rotten lime the Democrats will be running is theoretically worse.
Winning is ONLY of use when what you win is worth something. If you win a useless piece of crap, then you have "won" a sucker's bet.
Perhaps you think it is "nasty" to point out, with HARD PROOF, that someone is a liar.
Is that the case?
After slapped by Bristol Palin, now he can praise Sarah.
[You sounded just like Yosemite Sam just then.]
That’s the best you could come up with??
What “nasty” words of mine? POST THEM. Put your money where your mouth is.
It ain't the first time either
Ping!
Behavior, tone, meanness
My mother hits harder than that!
No, WORDS. If you’re going to make an allegation, then either back it up with PROOF or have the moderator remove your false charge posts.
Anybody with any conservative credibility knows who Phyllis Schlafly.
She is the MOTHER of the CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT!
How old are you and when did you start claiming to be conservative?
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