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Cruz shuns Trump, GOP unity; says 'challenges' may lie ahead
Chicago Tribune ^ | 05/14/2016 | Tribune News Service

Posted on 05/15/2016 8:50:16 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans

Ted Cruz on Saturday used his first speech since dropping out of the presidential race not to endorse Donald Trump or urge Republican unity behind him, but to maintain that core conservatives can save America.

Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, countered by deploying a top surrogate who did his best to woo skeptical Texas conservatives. Addressing thousands of cheering delegates at the Texas Republican Convention, many of whom climbed to their feet and waved red-white-and-blue "Thank You Ted!" signs, Cruz repeated some of the same promises from his defunct White House campaign, like abolishing the IRS.

"People ask, 'Are you disappointed?' Of course you're disappointed," Cruz said. But he also insisted he remains optimistic about American conservatism. "That movement is far more important than any one campaign, far more important than one candidate," Cruz said. "We may face some challenges ahead, but I am convinced that movement, the men and women gathered here, will be the remnant, will be the core of the movement pulling this country back from the abyss."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conventiondallas; cruz; cruzantitrump; lyinted; radicalcruzlims; sorecruzerholeman; tcds; texasconvention
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Thanks! You posted a superb comment recently that I really should have complimented, as well. It was about people’s need to decide for themselves whether to support or oppose the Butcheress of Bagdad. When I got to the part, “Here endeth the lesson,” I burst out laughing. The whole thing was VERY good.


141 posted on 05/16/2016 7:27:00 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Theophilus
You had me until "noble colleagues". The rest was true.

The poster who describe you as the passive aggressive troll was deadly accurate.

142 posted on 05/16/2016 8:07:11 AM PDT by Defiant (Cruz and Kasich are just wings of the GOPe. Ryan is their leader,)
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To: Theophilus

“I’m grateful to God for Ted Cruz.”

That doesn’t answer my question about which comes first, the cultist mentality or the cult leader’s manipulations, but interest in the subject begins to pall. Good riddance to false prophets.


143 posted on 05/16/2016 8:16:48 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (This year we break the Uniparty or it breaks us.)
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To: CAluvdubya
"You may be using sarcasm but to me, Cruz is indicative of one who has won a lot of participation trophies when young......."everybody's a winner, no one loses!" He can't handle losing graciously."

Not only Cruz but some of his Never Trump supporters have the same mind set.

A son of one our younger relatives, lucked out and played with 3 championship Little League baseball teams and was a key player with a great batting average over 400. He and everybody on that team worked and practiced regularily, often when the managers couldn't..

His last team was a group of Cruz's fans. They thought that they could win without the skills and desire to win. They won the first two games and lost every game after those two wins. They never improved their skills and often had mercy endings of games because they were so far behind.

The younger relative's batting average never got above 200, and he never really worked at maintaining and improving his skills. His loser team mates did the same. They showed up for games with low energy and zero skills and got their butts kicked.

Yet, every loser on that team got a participation trophy. Our younger relative seemed happy until his older sister said, "Seriously, you are not going to put a loser trophy on the rack with your real winner trophies."

He pulled his name of the participation trophy and sold it in a neighborhood garage sale. He got $10 for it. Someone bought it for their son, who never won anything.

144 posted on 05/16/2016 8:25:45 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( At 1150, Donald Trump has 87 delegates to get to the needed 1,237 as of May 10, 2016, by Jeff Head)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Very, very disappointed. All I can say. :-(


145 posted on 05/16/2016 8:29:36 AM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
For forcing me to deal with "Cruz" and "anal" both being used in the same sentence: I can never, ever forgive you. ;)

I promise not to ask then.     ;^)

146 posted on 05/16/2016 8:56:18 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: easternsky

“Okay so we know they dislike Trump, I mean DUH very obvious . But for all of them to Dis a Elder Statesman just makes you ask where is their Character and Respect. This reveals their True Character and makes you understand Why this whole Election went the way it did.”

Well said. The childishness is stunning. They are just as bad as Obamabots.


147 posted on 05/16/2016 10:37:02 AM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (Proud Islamophobe.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Thanks.


148 posted on 05/16/2016 10:37:27 AM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (Proud Islamophobe.)
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To: nikos1121

Who doesn’t.


149 posted on 05/16/2016 10:42:48 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Cruz should Marry Romney - they are both twisted kooks.


150 posted on 05/16/2016 10:45:04 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Grampa Dave

Great story, Dave.


151 posted on 05/16/2016 12:06:10 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Cruz just really is not very smart.


152 posted on 05/16/2016 1:00:48 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: csvset

That was a right and a left...


153 posted on 05/16/2016 1:03:39 PM PDT by nikos1121 (A Trump America will be like Greece's Golden Age of Pericles)
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To: csvset

That was a right and a left...


154 posted on 05/16/2016 1:03:45 PM PDT by nikos1121 (A Trump America will be like Greece's Golden Age of Pericles)
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To: Psalm 144

No King but Jesus.


155 posted on 05/16/2016 2:47:02 PM PDT by Theophilus (Always vote. Always vote your conscience. God wins every election.)
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To: nclaurel

Did I mention Trump?


156 posted on 05/16/2016 2:48:20 PM PDT by Theophilus (Always vote. Always vote your conscience. God wins every election.)
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To: bushsupporter30

I don’t think he will but we’ll see.


157 posted on 05/16/2016 2:49:26 PM PDT by Theophilus (Always vote. Always vote your conscience. God wins every election.)
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To: Lazamataz
If you keep building people up into something they're not, you'll keep being disappointed when they turn out to be just human.

If you start out recognizing that they're only human, maybe you won't be so tough on them when things don't work out.

158 posted on 05/16/2016 3:05:17 PM PDT by x
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To: Theophilus

Your nastiness is apparent.


159 posted on 05/16/2016 3:40:41 PM PDT by nclaurel
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To: Vision Thing

Lying Ted and his Cruzlims crap all over everything but Hillary and the Democrats. Remember when Lying Ted and his sycophants jumped the shark and told us to STFU and bow down to BLM and MOVEON?
Yup, so do I and that’s why he’s a POS in my book.


160 posted on 05/16/2016 3:48:27 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (#NeverHillary)
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