I predict you will be axed before Trump is:
Posted on 05/09/2016 9:39:07 AM PDT by usafa92
House Speaker Paul Ryan opened the door Monday to stepping down as Republican convention chairman if asked by presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, whom Ryan has declined to endorse.
Ryan first made the comments during a meeting with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Christian Schneider tweeted: “.@SpeakerRyan on whether he'd step down as convention chair if Trump asks: I'll do whatever he asks me to do.”
Asked about the reported comments, a spokeswoman for Ryan confirmed to Fox News: “That is his position, yes.”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Smart move by Ryan!
If Trump wants a ‘good’ convention he can’t kick Ryan out. It would cause great contention.
Trump was effectively stuck with him anyway, this cements it- giving Ryan a tiny bit more leeway.
They wait in vain.
YES...the Cruz disease is terminal...they are such losers.
Is the Congress back in session? just wondering why Cruz hasn’t returned to the job that he collects a pay check from, after all he is no longer running for POTUS, or at least he told us he wasn’t..
so why hasn’t he returned to his job???
The voters in Texas need to find a replacement for him, seems he doesn’t really want that job.
TOMORROW IS SUPER TUESDAY FOR, WEST VIRGINIA AND NEBRASKA...LETS GO VOTERS AND PUT TRUMP CLOSER TO HIS NEEDED 1237..AND BEGIN A SERIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST THAT CROOK HILLARY. WISH THE FBI WOULD GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER AND CLEAN HER CLOCK...BERN AND JOAN ARE WAITING TOO..
Sorry I don’t have my rubber stamp out.
I don’t vote that way.
“Vote for Trump, he’s a winnah.”
Unfortunately, it’s pretty obvious that a lot of GOPers voted for who they thought was going to be the “winner” in this election.
However, my idea of a “winner” is someone a candidate who shows strong belief in the Constitution and true conservative values.
We’re about to find out whether the proposition that Trump is the “most electable” is actually true.
30%+? You mean the 27.5% who voted for Cruz. Your candidate received slightly over one quarter of the GOP primary vote so far (it will go down).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016
So sorry to disagree: Everything as stated in the Declaration of Independence is at stake in this election if Hillary is elected.
No one can tell me that Hillary has ever promoted life, liberty, or happiness beyond her own.
A freedom loving American has a duty to oppose Hillary. Trump is all we have. No Republican Congress as composed will ever give Hillary a fight.
Trump maybe a imperfect conservative or a politically incorrect liberal depending on your view. He is without a doubt a man of means that does not need to put himself and his family in physical danger by seeking the presidency.
I can only conclude by this that he loves this Country beyond his own personal and family safety.
Cruz people put away your fear and animosity. Stand with Americans that fight the lunacy and evil of the left.
To hate Trump is to hate those of us who see Trump as a vehicle to put America back on a path of righteousness.
If Trump betrays us he will be scorned as no man since Benedict Arnold has been scorned. But if Hillary wins there is no hope and the blood of ourselves, children, and grandchildren will be spilt in civil strife and overseas wars for generations to come.
I loved Ted Cruz as soon as I saw him. When he announced he was running for president I was thrilled and sent him money regularly. I listened to him through U-Tube and loved his one on one interviews, he never let any interviewer pin him a corner and I loved that. When he spoke to a crowd it was a different story. I listened to several of his speeches to audiences and he was loud, animated and wildly enthusiastic. He preached as if the crowd was enthusiastically responding. They weren't, they were sitting there, clapping occasionally and watching a performance that was not appropriate to the size and enthusiasm of the crowd. I had trouble watching him because it seems that he was preaching even though there were no mention of anything religious. I remember being concerned that he was not connecting to the crowd and that was going to be a problem. But I continued to send him money.
The stated positions that Cruz espoused were at least 95% of what I believed in. He was closer to my beliefs than anyone has ever been, at least as good or better than Reagan. I still love what he said he would do.
The wheels started to come off his bus for me just before the first of the year. I was getting fund raising emails from him at least once or as many as three times a day. Each was filled with hysteria and they went something like this:
You gotta send me money, you just gotta! If you don't send me money I'm gonna die, you're gonna die, the country is gonna die, the planet and solar system is gonna die! YOU GOTTA SEND ME MONEY!! If you still don't send me money your dog will poop on the floor!
I may exaggerate but not by much but I sent him money. Two days later he had filed his FEC report and bragged that he raised more money than anyone else and had eleven million in the bank. I felt used and deceived and I stopped sending him money. That email was not honest and he was using his donors improperly. I requested to be removed from his lists and thankfully he did (which is to his credit).
I admired that Cruz believed and followed Reagan's 11th commandment. I can't begin to tell you how disappointed that I was when he started slinging mud as much as anyone else. I had been watching U-Tube videos of Trump rallies once or twice a week for a long time and then I saw how Cruz would misquote Trump and often would flat out lie about what I saw Trump say. It wasn't a onetime thing, it became more frequent and there wasn't one grain of truth about what Cruz said about what Trump said. I lost all respect for Cruz and I'm sorry that I ever sent him a dime.
Then it dawned on me what the problem was. He is a lawyer and I vehemently hate lawyers. I have been professionally exposed to at least a hundred lawyers when I was in business. Some on the other side some on mine (yeah right). I have been screwed every which way but Sunday and I hate them all. Cruz is a lawyer and I should have hated him from the start. I was fooled by what I heard and ignored what was clearly in front of me.
Trump is not as conservative as what Cruz espoused, but I will still get about 50% of what I want. If the wall is built and the illegals are sent out of the country I will be ecstatic and it will all be worth it.
All my life I have voted for politicians and have been screwed each time. Over and over I have done the same thing and got the same result. Republican or Democrat, they each have taken the wrong direction.
This time I am going to vote for an outsider, an outsider that knows how to fight and fight to win. All other politicians hate him and that is one of the best things I can think of.
I have rambled in this reply but Trump will give me half of what I want. I will take a half a loaf instead of starvation. I will not sit on the sidelines and dream of having a feast, it just won't happen.
It's sad but true. This is exactly when Ted Cruz began to lose me as well. He flat out lied about Trump's statements and positions. I wish it weren't true. It seems to me like this behavior coincided with when Cruz allied himself wit the GOPe, although I'm not absolutely sure.
Cruz was damned if he did, and damned if he didn't, I guess, because he was behind, but in a situation like that, Cruz should have taken the honest approach, instead of jumping on the character assassination bandwagon and savaging the frontrunner.
Fortunately the People saw right through Cruz's change in tactics, and didn't buy into the constant, vicious demonization of Donald Trump that was coming from every direction.
Donald Trump won fair and square, and had to overcome a massive, unprecedented unholy alliance composed of the Left, Media, GOPe, and the Cruz and Kasich campaigns.
What a fighter Donald Trump is! And what a winner!
I pray that enough Americans can see the truth and Trump can close the deal in November against Crooked Hillary.
Vote Trump
I don't think that he was damned if he did or didn't. He still had a future in politics and at his age he could run again anytime within the next twenty years or more. I will not forget how he acted during this primary and will not ever support him again.
As far as I can see he damned himself permanently.
Hey, hey I figured you for a zot by now. I see you are repeating material. Skating that thin zot line gets tedious. There are only so many ways to go with anti Trump messaging and still stay between the zots er dots. But good good luck with it. :-)
You think she’s bad, check out #214 - we’re being called Nazis. I thought these people were either being kicked out or told to get with the program.
Horse crap.
Unprecedented opposition deserves an unprecedented response. And frankly, Cruzlims DESERVE to be out in the cold for the way they've conducted themselves since this campaign got started; not Cruz himself, but his supporters here on FreeRepublic.
You’re a disgrace to this forum.
Sound like a bunch of Occupy/BLM drama queens, don't they?
They just can't understand why the dog tried to bite them every time they kicked it.
My frustration is that these people are still getting away with it here. And they seem to be popping up from no where. I’m sorry but calling people ‘nazis’ should be a banning offense. I’m sick of these people. They need to get over their drooling Cruz affection or go elsewhere.
Would it make it any easier for you to know it's not about Cruz, and they'll weed themselves out eventually?
It's nothing more than frustrated conceit, and the failure of reality to endorse their "insight."
For that, "you" must be punished.
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