Cruz eyes double-agent delegates in bid to snatch GOP nomination from Trump

The Washington Times ^ | 4/13/2016 | S.A. Miller

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Sen. Ted Cruz’s hopes for winning the Republican presidential nomination outright have faded, and he has shifted to a strategy of gaming the rules, angling to send enough double-agent delegates to the July convention to snatch victory from front-runner Donald Trump.

It’s a major reversal for Mr. Cruz, who just weeks ago insisted he would win the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention. But major wins in Utah, Wisconsin and Colorado have not closed the gap, with a series of East Coast primaries looming.

Now the best option for the senator from Texas is trench warfare at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

[JPX2011]

Cruz has NO backbone, NO “principles” ( unless you’re talking about him being willing to do and say ANYTHING to get HIMSELF elected and to hell with everyone else! ), and is a FRAUD!

Five words that Trump has never uttered: Little Sisters of the Poor.

[fortheDeclaration]

Trump is going to get the number, don’t worry about it.

[fortheDeclaration]

He won’t be.

[sargon]

confusing reagan with trump is criminal ignorance, or drug induced delusion.

I'm not confusing them, bub.

I'm simply saying both had been Democrats for a long time, before they changed their views and registered as Republicans.

Got it?

Please stop with the distortions...

[JPX2011]

Wow, you are a true Cruz disciple. Trump will be more beholden to the establishment than Ted ever would? The establishment/insider way is strong in this one.

The disciple is the individual who believes that a candidate will obliterate the establishment insider way.

[nopardons]

You are the hypocrite AND blind to reality and truth!

Trump has donated to MANY GOPers, but if you insist on claiming that that isn't true, then you are clearly claiming that , as was REAGAN, WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT,as well as many GOPers , whom Trump has donated to throughout many decades.

And you are DRUNK and BLIND from all of the CRUZ-AIDE you'v e been guzzling!

[fortheDeclaration]

Cruz misses the spirit of the primaries, to let the voters decide, not the insiders.

When he has been mathematically eliminated he should stop running, not plan convention fights.

[JohnBrowdie]

the distortion is the attempt to to blur the line between ronald reagan and trump — which is precisely what you were just doing. you want to end the distortions, then quit making them.

it’s actually super simple.

[fortheDeclaration]

Cruz isn't a fighter, he is a compromiser who has sold his soul to the Establishment for the promise of the WH.

[nopardons]

Nope, just YOU and your benighted ilk!

Trump supporters will be delighted and work VERY hard to get him elected, which shall be more easy than you can imagine, should Hillary be the Dem nominee.

[JohnBrowdie]

that post was unintelligible. the bold font and CAPS LOCKING just made it worse.

[nopardons]

You’re still “kicking the gong around”, I see. Go back to sleep.

[JohnBrowdie]

at least that post seemed to be in english.

[JPX2011]

Cruz isn’t a fighter - he’s a liar, cheat and thief. HE isn’t any different than McConnell or Boehner. He even wrote the TPP bill with Paul Ryan which gives away our American sovereignty. I know Cruzbots don’t believe this, and probably won’t until we lose it - then we’ll all be in a world of hurt even after we told you so.

I didn't realize that Cruz worked for the Office of the US Trade Representative under Obama. I think you mean Michael Froman and his predecessor, Ron Kirk.

[sargon]

the distortion is the attempt to to blur the line between ronald reagan and trump — which is precisely what you were just doing. you want to end the distortions, then quit making them.

it’s actually super simple.

What's "super simple" is the realization that you're obfuscating, and have been since the first post I commented on.

Noting that both Trump and Reagan had been Democrats before they switched to the GOP is not "blurring the line": it's a simple and incontrovertible statement of fact, distorter...

[JohnBrowdie]

are you drunk? if you aren’t drunk, you may need to call EMS, because I think it’s possible that you’ve suffered a stroke.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you.

[nopardons]

REALLY? LOL

It WAS Reagan, after all, who told a younger Trump that he was just the person that should run for elective office ( yes, as a GOPer! ), because he was just the kind of person that the party and the country needed/s.

Re "criminal ignorance" is what YOU are showing, by NOT knowing Reagan's factual political history.

[nopardons]

You are damned dead WRONG’ as usual.

[fortheDeclaration]

Cruz sold out and his campaign is now simply, the anti-Trump guy.

He has shown that he has no scruples or integrity.