In Cleveland, Trump may need Cruz more than Cruz needs him

Austin American-Statesman ^ | Jonathan Tilove

[Innovative]

If Cruz has any decency, he will support Trump. Otherwise Cruz will be digging his own grave. He can go back to Cuba and maybe get a job as a dog catcher there.

[mrsmith]

Horrible analysis.
What few right wing voters Cruz can cost Trump will be more than made up by moderate voters who oppose Cruz. And Cruz’s antipathy will protect Trump from leftist attacks as “too conservative”.

But Cruz knows all this, and the author knows he knows.
This is just agitprop.

Cruz wants and will get a prominent role at the convention and will make the best use of it for the Party- which is also the best use for him and the country.

[deport]

Pure Clickbait from Austin. I fully expect Ted to support the nominee,
that’s what he said he’d do.

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I think Cruz will do that at the end of the convention or shortly afterward. Cruz is
going to the convention to try and get somethings included in the platform as I see it.
Whether he’ll be sucessful I have no idea but I really think that is why he’s not
released his delegates. I know they are basically bound for the first vote but after
I think he’ll announce to support Trump. JMO.

[DoughtyOne]

Trump needs Ted Cruz about as much as he needs colon cancer.

This little diatribe expresses what I see Ted and his supporters being for the party.

“Cruz should maintain his sterling conservative brand and stay far away from the Trump train and its inevitable wreckage,” said CNN contributor Amanda Carpenter, Cruz’s former communications director in the Senate. “Even if Trump wins the White House, he’ll have done it in a low-down, dirty way that no one with any integrity should be proud to endorse.”

Sore Losers.

"...low down dirty way..."

Good freakin grief, what a bunch of a.h.s.

Ted was one of the most disruptive underhanded guys I've seen run for the party nomination.

Every few days, there's more from the guy. If his followers think Ted has a political future, they're not paying attention. He will NEVER get a vote from me, and I'm not the only person who thinks along those lines.

Tead will never win higher office...

Trump will.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Cruz is for his own ambition not for the party. He loves the constitution and should be a Supreme Judge.

Well, either that or a Mountie. Eh?

[Hawthorn]

>> I fully expect Ted to support the nominee, that’s what he said he’d do <<

Sure. He can just say, “I support the nominee,” and then do nothing else other than sit on his hands or go into seclusion.

[DoughtyOne]

Trump has a 40 year career as a real estate magnate worth billions. None the less, the darlings of agitprop can’t take a pass on referencing him as nothing more than a reality TV star.

What pathetic little people.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’m chortling. Cruz is a loser who will have no influence at the convention if he is even let in the door. At one time Cruz may have had cards to play but he fumbled so badly its over for him. Trump does not need him.

[Tucker39]

Amanda Carpenter sez....
Is Amanda one of the FIVE Cruz playmates that NE pictured a few months ago?

Anyhow......the idea that after all his lying, twisting and misquoting, Cruz retains his “sterling” conservative bona fides, is ROFLMAO ridiculous. The man has become a legend in his own mind.

[MeanWestTexan]

Outside the false echo chamber of free republic, Cruz remains extremely popular with movement conservatives.

They may hold their nose and vote for trump, but he’s on his own financially and door to door.

[conservative98]

Hey, Mark. Why did you say no doubt? This article is hogwash. And when are you going to start backing Trump like you used to?

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3435194/posts

[I-ambush]

That’s absurd. Cruz is 45 years old, and though Trumpsters want to deny it, a much shrewder politician than Trump could ever be. If not for the wall-to-wall coverage of Trump’s every crazy utterance, and decision by the media to ignore Cruz, the outcome would be much different.

[proust]

This article is a weird throwback to that short window of time when some thought Cruz was actually relevant. I’m amazed anyone still thinks that way. Cruz self-immolated like a monk covered in gasoline.

[jospehm20]

Ted Bush is simply pathetic. I hope he loses in 2018.

[Donglalinger]

Lots of pot smoking in Austin,correct?

[batterycommander]

Never trust the opinions out of the socialist republic of Austin.

[HotHunt]

Boy, these people sure do ride "high horses".

And they need to "get down off their high horses", as my mom used to tell me, and back the nominee for the "good of the party" they claim to be for. Otherwise, the GOP risks losing another election to a Marxist democRAT in the fall.

This fight is no longer about Cruz versus Trump. This is now about Trump against the barbarians at the gate clamoring to get in for a third bite at the "Let's see-how-much-more-we-can-destroy-America" apple.

Check your bruised egos at the door, lick your painful wounds and swallow the castor oil. Life's not all about having your way all the time. Let's pull together to beat the Left and win in November.

[The Iceman Cometh]

That’s absurd. Cruz is 45 years old, and though Trumpsters want to deny it, a much shrewder politician than Trump could ever be

It's Cruz's politics and general lack of character that doomed him.

The country doesn't want a 'politician' anymore.

[batterycommander]

Just another G.D. weasel lawyer, twisting the truth.

[Innovative]

““I think Cruz’s theme will be to say, `You’re the nominee, but I’m the party”

Cruz is NOT the party. The people of the party selected Trump, by having voted for him.

Cruz is just an ambitious, egotistical opportunist who doesn’t care about party or country, only himself. He is also stupid — he seems to think he will have another chance, if Hillary gets elected.

Conservatives need to ask themselves, do they really want Cruz as their standard-bearer?