Looks good on him.
Posted on 03/01/2016 11:54:05 PM PST by lodi90
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) says the Republican Party may be forced to support presidential hopeful Ted Cruz in order to stop front-runner Donald Trump.
"You know Ted Cruz is not my favorite, by any means,” Graham, who dropped his own bid for the White House in December, said in an interview with CBS. “But we may be in a position where we have to rally around Ted Cruz as the only way to stop Donald Trump, and I'm not so sure that would work.” His comments came with Super Tuesday results indicating Trump would win as many as eight states. They also came a week after Graham joked, “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.”
Graham has been a tough critic of both Trump or Cruz. He once said that choosing between the two would be "like being shot or poisoned. I think you get the same result, whether it's quick or it takes a long time."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Tried to tell your GOPe losers that a month ago. But you had to ride Jebbie the Hut and Foam Boy all the way to the bitter end. You could feed starving Venezuelans with the campaign cash you suckers have wasted.
Oh, good grief. Trump said AGAIN tonight that he would oppose Federal funding for PP if they continue with abortions. What more do you want? State that he will literally burn them (PP) at the stake?
Are there real, substantive questions Trump has not been asked or addressed? You bet. But I have yet to see any rabid Cruz supporters ask them.
I cannot recall when a candidate whose positions I mostly like has done more, and whose supporters have done more, to drive me away...
Imagine SainTed's cognitive dissonance when he summoned to awaken the body of Christ, and Linda appears...
In response, ted will definitely need to strap on the armor of God.
Great story! I like to point out to people who are against Trump- if Trump wasn’t running what do they think would have happened? Most likely Rubio would have been the nominee and Hillary would have cleaned his clock in the debates like she did to Rick Lazio when she was running for the senate. She would have made him look like an inexperienced little boy and we would have had 8 years of a Hillary Presidency.
If Cruz Can Take Over All But The Trump-Won Delegates So Far, He Would Have More (Vanity) [duh and double duh]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3404063/posts
Newt Gingrich: Wake Up, Republicans – It’s Either Trump or Clinton
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3404050/posts
Trump Drives Republican Turnout To Record, Democrats Lack Enthusiasm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3404035/posts
I can’t picture Cruz winning a national election. I can easily picture DT winning it.
Trump's obnoxiousness is more like a chainsaw. NeverTrump.
Cruz’s association with Graham is about as close as Trump is with David Duke.
Some of the infatuation folks have of Trump is a lot like the millienial socialist have with Sanders and Muslims have with Allah.
I’ll vote Trump if he’s the nominee simply because an idiot, much like dog shxt is far superior to anything on the left.
No basis.
Cruz won 1st CLOSED primary in OK.
NeverTrump.
One thing it strikes me about that interview - and this is the case with almost all similar interviews I’ve seen - is the assumption that Trump’s appeal is based entirely on xenophobia and/or the desire for a “strong leader”.
The possibility that many people are white-hot furious over the bank bailouts, the wholesale purchase of Washington politicians, plans to raise the Social Security age whether you are physically able to work or not, and “establishment” control of policy generally just isn’t a part of establishment calculations.
Such commentators really just don’t understand (or want to understand) that for voters who see a bleak economic future for their children, “establishment” economic priorities just don’t make sense, and that to such voters the Democratic Republic and establishments appear to be two wings of the same party.
This is a problem gap that establishment just can’t bridge, because it’s the official policy is the creation of a Hereditary Economic Aristocracyby completly excluding unearned income from taxation, and then allowing it to be passed on untaxed from generation to generation.
What a lot of Trump voters understand is that the whatever its theoretical goals, the *practical* result of this policy is going to be ever-heigher concentrations of power by the “elites” in Washington, until most citizens will be left without an effective voice in government... and that THAT means bigger and bigger bank bailouts and similar government handouts to the well-connected as far as the eye can see, paid for by wage and salary earners for the benefit of a new class of untaxed citizens who can buy Washington rule-makers as required.
So it’s no wonder the the establishment does not even want to *think* about the possibility that voters might be pondering such questions.
I'll need a whole bottle of tums in November from worrying about this:
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"Did Muslim Vote In Virginia Swing Senate Control"
'The Detroit Free Press reports Muslims played a critical role in the November midterm elections.
Imam Mahdy Bray, Speaking at a Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America convention in Dearborn, highlighted the effective effort to turn out Muslim voters in Virginia:
The effort was so organized that Muslim taxi drivers in northern Virginia took the day off to ferry Muslims to the polls, said Imam Mahdy Bray, a speaker at the convention. Volunteers also made phone calls to Muslims in Virginia to urge them to vote, he said.
As a result, Democrat James Webb ousted incumbent Republican George Allen by about 9,000 votes in a race in which 50,000 Muslims went to the polls -- 47,000 of them voting for Webb, Bray said.rol?(Nov 2006)
'The Detroit Free Press reports Muslims played a critical role in the November midterm elections.
Imam Mahdy Bray, Speaking at a Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America convention in Dearborn, highlighted the effective effort to turn out Muslim voters in Virginia:
The effort was so organized that Muslim taxi drivers in northern Virginia took the day off to ferry Muslims to the polls, said Imam Mahdy Bray, a speaker at the convention. Volunteers also made phone calls to Muslims in Virginia to urge them to vote, he said.
As a result, Democrat James Webb ousted incumbent Republican George Allen by about 9,000 votes in a race in which 50,000 Muslims went to the polls -- 47,000 of them voting for Webb, Bray said.
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For my money Senator Allen gets all the credit for running a losing campaign. Nevertheless, if 96 percent of Muslims are going to vote Democratic, that would make them a more reliable Democratic constituency than African Americans. Democrats consistently receive only about 90 percent of African American votes.
A little Conan humor....
Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Mongol General: Wrong! Trump! What is best in life?
Trump: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women as you take all the delegates.
Mongol General: That is good! That is good.
There are a lot of mixed signals with Cruz. He portrays himself as an outsider and yet if you look beneath the surface, there are indications that this just isn’t true. On the other hand, until the last couple of weeks, the GOPe have been openly disdainful of Cruz.
How can that all be made to square? One possible explanation is that, while Cruz’s GOPe colleagues dislike him, they don’t dislike him because he’s an outsider, but rather, because, in his ambition, he’s attempted to skirt the GOPe hierarchy and create his own direct path to the establishment donor class.
This angers RINO’s like McConnell and Graham because they know that, while he publicly trashes them, at heart, he’s one of them. So they hate Cruz, not because he threatens the system, but because he seeks to jump to the head of the line without showing them the proper respect they think they deserve.
But when all is said and done, they’ll back Cruz over Trump because they know Trump is the true outsider who is an existential threat to their system.
...the majority of conservatives have decided are not impediments to what Trump offers ...
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The majority of conservatives aren’t voting for Trump in the primaries.
Seems many people automatically think that Southern states and evangelicals are conservative. That is so wrong.
Many evangelicals are squishy moderates like Santorem and Huckabee. Many people in Southern states are gibmedats who don’t want conservatives taking away their easy lifestyle paid for by taxpayers’ dollars.
That is quite insightful. Not going to earn you many friends among the Cruz clan, but you have correctly analyzed the situation.
Amen to that!
Oh great. Your post proves trump is KKK.
/s tag if you are too stupid to see.
This from the loser who couldn’t beat Trump in his own state.
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