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