Agreed. You have to be able to vote for either candidate no matter who you’ve supported in the primary. In a nutshell, a can of orange juice is better than Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.
Wise enough to warrant repeating.
Well said
Cruz is a fraud and has thrown his lot in with the GOPe. The fact that they back him is enough to never vote for him. It’s Trump by ballot or write-in for me.
Any freaking body but clinton or sanders.
Makes a lot of sense, but the only thing that bugs me, and I have said for quite a while, either Trump or Cruz, is that Cruz has seemed to lay down with the establishment over the past few weeks...That concerns me...
“As a stout, constitutionally minded conservative I am, of course, a Cruz supporter.”
I can’t vote for either of them(as neither is a conservative)...but in what world (now that we are eight months in where you should have been paying attention) Is Cruz a Constitutional Conservative??
What issues has he crusaded on and advanced during the campaign? the guy is an ineligible, establishment, Goldman Sachs hack.
Cruz is supported by a bunch of Texans who are now working with the GOPe.
That is an overgeneralization, but there is some truth in that as well. They are not completely motivated by the presidency, but as well, but the wrongs which have happened historically against Texas, and I agree there are things which Texas is correctly miffed about.
But Cruz won’t win the presidency. He just won’t. Texas needs to back off on this, and get with Donald Trump to resoundingly defeat democrats for the presidency.
There are other ways to deal with the past. Now is not the time. Americans of all types (even Texans) need to stand up now for ourselves, against the corporations which are selling out our country.
Good post.
But it’s not Trump/Cruz hate-porn so don’t expect many replies.
Can’t believe how filled FR is with partisan idiocy.
I voted for Cruz (and still would) but will gladly vote Trump in November if he is the nominee.
Thank you. I wish every post on FR these days was this thoughtful (and thought provoking).
I know you think that posts like this one are simply pro-Trump, anti Cruz but trust me, it’s no.
Ted Cruz has absolutely joined with the GOP to defeat Trump. They are providing money, their infrastructure, and the party apparatus to reach their goal. If they can deny Trump 1237, they may let Cruz run because it won’t make any difference in the end. Cruz would lose and they’re ok with Hillary.
But my guess is they want to be sure they have someone who’s going to successfully push TPP and even if Cruz were to win and even if he’s obligated to the establishment of that win, he doesn’t have sway with enough fence-sitters to guarantee TPP. So my guess is they’d dump him and get their own guy.
Here’s the dirty little secret. The establishment can’t beat Trump, he’s proven that. But they can beat Cruz without breaking a sweat. So a vote for Cruz is a vote for the establishment. The only way to stop them is Trump.
Interesting analysis, makes some valid ponts, but it’s a vanity and as such, I think it belongs in Bloggers and Personal, or General, Chat, but not in News, Editorial, etc,
AM, please review it.
Thanks.
Perhaps you could change your screen name from wgflyer to wgnout?
Trump or Cruz
I can go for that but I’m a Trump supporter first.
If Trump doesn’t get the win outright and Cruz, because of his delegate work, gets it on the second or third vote - well, I can live with that also.
But if the GOPe aces out both Trump and Cruz and puts in a slicky boy I’ll curse Cruz’s name till the day I die.
Its Trump or no one for me.
The party has left the working man and need to be tought a lesson on who makes this country work.
If that screws Repubs on the down ballet so be it.
Never SCruz ! I once thought he was the guy. He's shown himself to be a slimeball just like the rest.
If I were the sole deciding vote Hillary/Cruz? I’d stay home.
Although I once would have voted for Cruz, I’m now never-Cruz.
It’s Trump or nobody.
All my life I have voted conservative, and almost always I have been betrayed by the GOP. I want a major revolution within the GOP. I will not support a candidate that the GOP considers acceptable. At this point in time that is Cruz — I won’t support Cruz.
Well said!
Thanks but Cruz is not "working" establishment" rules. He's being propelled along BY the establishment which is actively helping him in order to stop Trump. Cruz isn't some delegate Svengali who is going around the establishment and beating them at their own game. He's their tool.