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Cruz Feeling 'Pretty Darn Good' About Romney's Backing
NBC News ^ | 3/19/16 | NBC News

Posted on 03/19/2016 8:23:55 AM PDT by jimbo123

Ted Cruz openly welcomed the backing of Mitt Romney on Friday afternoon, telling reporters at a press conference on the Arizona-Mexico border that Romney's decision is "pretty darn good."

"Listen, in my book, when someone says I'm voting for you and I encourage everyone else to vote for you, that's pretty darn good," Cruz said, also responding to the absence of an official endorsement by the GOP's 2012 nominee. "And I'll take that - and take that happily."

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To: Windflier

Yeah.

That TPA vote didn’t set off alarm bells for me personally, though I thought it was odd how he first voted for TPA then against TPA.

I rationalized that one away in my mind, but obviously if you have to rationalize something, there’s a problem.

But the Corker Bill vote cannot be rationalized at all. His explanation for it is pure Bovine Scatology.

That vote, and other things since then, especially things in his campaign, illustrate that he is not who he says he is.


81 posted on 03/19/2016 10:35:57 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
I never had any respect for this Canadian fraud Cruz who has done nothing but betray America with the Corker bill , TPA etc.

Cruz is a pathological liar . His name is not even ever “Ted”
. The name on his Canadian birth certificate is “Rafael Edward Cruz” nowehre is there any Ted, lie 1 “My name is Ted”

2. Lie 2 “ I'm an American” No he's a Canadian.

Hey Rafael,
You may have fooled a lot of Americans imitating your preacher dad but not this American,

Go back to Canada you charlatan Rafael Cruz

82 posted on 03/19/2016 10:42:51 AM PDT by Democrat_media ( Only Trump will stop TPP and China and the sociaProof that Cruzlist illegals' invasion of the USA!)
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To: jimbo123

We’re told how principled Cruz is yet he is happy that there are a group of people using his name in an attempt to get an open convention. Romney isn’t endorsing Cruz, he’s saying vote for Cruz to block Trump so we can have an open convention.


83 posted on 03/19/2016 10:47:25 AM PDT by douginthearmy
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To: 20yearsofinternet; tirednvirginia; PJBankard; stephenjohnbanker; Lakeshark; DoughtyOne; ...
LOL, and the mods obliged you! :D
I’m dying laughing over here.


LOL, you see my fellow Trump supporter and FRiend, you have just now illustrated the difference between we who support Trump, and the angry and disillusioned Cruz supporters who can't believe (and many can't admit) that their great conservative hope has turned into just another great pseudo-conservative DOPE.

Over here in the Trump camp, we take things seriously to be sure, but we also are able to laugh about the increasingly insane situations that confront us, and confront our candidate. WE have our eye on the prize, which is to not only see Trump win the nomination, but to defy the naysayers, whip whatever sorry 'RAT is nominated, and assume the Presidency in January next year and start turning this train wreck of the past 8 years around, get us back on the rails, and indeed: "Make America Great Again".

That whole concept of restoring our Nation to our past greatness, of returning to a true "America First" philosophy, is what drives us, and is what drives Donald Trump.

The Cruz supporters (most of them) want the same thing, they want America to be great again too, but they ONLY want America to be great again if it is by the hands and direction of Senator Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz, who would be the first Canadian born President of the United States IF he were able to win the nomination and the general election.

And he can't do it.
84 posted on 03/19/2016 10:49:23 AM PDT by mkjessup (If we guess when Glenn Beck gets Baker Acted, what do we win for a prize?)
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To: mkjessup
What was your post #3?

Baaaaad Mikey probably showed up......

:-)

85 posted on 03/19/2016 10:54:51 AM PDT by Lakeshark (One time Cruz supporter who now prefers Trump. Yes, there are good reasons.)
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To: Qiviut

You are saying Cruz should just roll over and tell Trump ok you can have it? Why would he do that? You give the impression you think Trump should have it just because he wants it. Not have to fight for it like they all do. Trump thinks he is best for the country. Ted thinks he is best for the country. It is up to them to make it or not.


86 posted on 03/19/2016 11:04:43 AM PDT by buckeye49
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To: mkjessup

Yep...

“:^)


87 posted on 03/19/2016 11:43:33 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: BobL
What I can’t understand is WHY THE HURRY. He’s young...he has many more elections he could run in. Just makes no sense to get so worked up.

One simple reason. A Cruz Presidency would "fix" Obama's legacy for future historians. If the NWO/CFR Globalists had been able to elect Cruz, the "racist birther slander" against Obama would be moot.

Historians would say that Cruz, a white man, born in Canada, was elected when hateful Republicans said Obama, only accused of being born in Kenya, was ineligible. Thus proving Republicans are racist.

The precedent would have been set to bring in a most vile candidate born anywhere else in the world (Saudi Arabia, Iran, China?) to tear us apart.

88 posted on 03/19/2016 11:58:35 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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To: jimbo123

89 posted on 03/19/2016 12:06:12 PM PDT by Ray76 (Judge Roy Moore for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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To: cowboyway
I'm assuming that you, and the other Trumpets, do not want Romney, any of the GOPe, or any Cruz supporter to vote for Trump if he's the nominee. Is this a correct assumption?

I personally don't care who the last three Cruz supporters vote for.

If you are suggesting that you still support Ted Cruz, ask your therapist why you still seem to be so delusional.

90 posted on 03/19/2016 12:06:43 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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To: Lakeshark
What was your post #3?
Baaaaad Mikey probably showed up......


It was a picture of Trump in the boxing ring after knocking out Cruz, in the interest of not upsetting all those fans of Ted, I asked the mod to remove it ;)

It's been getting crazy out here, eh? lol
91 posted on 03/19/2016 12:08:53 PM PDT by mkjessup (If we guess when Glenn Beck gets Baker Acted, what do we win for a prize?)
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To: BobL
What I can’t understand is WHY THE HURRY. He’s young...he has many more elections he could run in. Just makes no sense to get so worked up.

Good question. I guess Ted's more or less like the other 20 people who decided to run. Open shots at the presidency don't come around that often and politicians don't know where they'll be in eight years.

In Ted's case, he's always been a young man in a hurry, and he hasn't exactly been making friends in the Senate, so the White House looked like a good next move. It must have looked that way at the time. A year ago, few predicted that Donald Trump would stay in the race and be winning.

92 posted on 03/19/2016 12:11:36 PM PDT by x
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To: jimbo123

Why did Donald Trump give $600,000 to Mitch McConnell ‘stop the Tea Party fund?’


93 posted on 03/19/2016 12:35:13 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: jimbo123

So Ted Cruz should tell a supporter to go get on the plane and go home like Trump did to Christie?

Or move him away from the microphone like Trump did to Ben Carson?

We welcome all voters for Ted Cruz, I don’t care how crazy they are.


94 posted on 03/19/2016 12:37:07 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: NTHockey

If the worst happens and Trump is the nominee, you can bet he will welcome all the people you currently call losers to the fold.

He will be begging for their votes and so will you trumpers.

But you’ve been so dam mean that you may have driven away potential voters.


95 posted on 03/19/2016 12:39:16 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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96 posted on 03/19/2016 12:39:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: georgiarat
GOP-democrat
97 posted on 03/19/2016 12:44:09 PM PDT by Chrysoprase
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To: DoughtyOne

I wouldn’t do that, Doughty, I hate Hillary more.

But until Donald Trump has the nomination actually clutched in his short fingers, I will continue to point out reasons why I don’t think he should be the nominee.


98 posted on 03/19/2016 12:47:27 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: altura

I know you are well meaning...

Look, Trump backs a lot of what you want, and in your heart you know it. You would vote for him. There are plenty of reasons to, and you know that too.

I am trying to tell folks that we have a guy who wants what we want, has the fire in the belly, and the gravitas to see them put into motion.

By supporting Cruz beyond this point, people are more and more enabling the GOPe to bring this thing to a floor fight.

Trump will never be nominated from the floor of the convention in an open convention setting.

Do you have any idea what kind of damage you and your fellow travelers are doing, by endangering a Trump victory before the convention?

You are helping to destroy the likelihood we will get anything we want over the next four years.

Guys that are bigger than life don’t come along very often. 1980 to 2016. That’s 36 years. That’s a little more than a generation.

If we blow this chance to get a man like Trump in, we won’t have another one. Our nation will be gone, even if we install people like GW. We are that far gone.

So I actually beg you folks to wake the hell up.

You are actually contributing to the destruction of our nation, all in the name of Ted Cruz, who the GOPe do not want much more than they want Trump.

Terms like foolish are insightful, but there is not better word to use here.

Folks have said they want the things Trump has presented as his platform. They have said they wanted it for decades. Now they are helping to make sure those things never come to pass.

You folks have to wake up.

Our nation hangs in the balance, and the next few months are all we have.

You simply have to drop the Cruz pipe-dream and help make sure we can reach the goal.

Otherwise our very existence here will have been one great big lie.

We didn’t really want what we said we did, more than we wanted to back a man that simply cannot win the delegates needed at this point.

Folks, you need to wake up.


99 posted on 03/19/2016 12:58:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: altura; John W

There’s been plenty of “mean” to go around here. It wasn’t necessary; because I think we are all against the Establishment. It is the Establishment that is dividing us.

Cruz is doing his bit to divide us, by getting in bed with Romney (who already has three favorites in the race - Cruz, Kasich and Ryan). But all are welcome to vote Trump when he gets the nomination.


100 posted on 03/19/2016 2:29:39 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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