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"They say it was the roughest campaign ever in the history of Republican politics, but what you do is you go to sleep for a couple of days and you wake up and you honor [the pledge]," Donald Trump said. (AP Photo) Trump unloads on former GOP opponents who refuse to back him
By GABBY MORRONGIELLO (@GABRIELLAHOPE_) • 6/29/16 5:26 PM SHARE TWEET SMSMore Donald Trump railed against several of his Republican primary opponents on Wednesday night for declining to endorse him in the general election, going so far as to suggest "they should never be allowed to run for public office again."
"I have guys out there and if you really think about it, they're really sore losers," Trump told supporters during a campaign rally in Bangor, Maine.
Trump was referring to at least seven GOP presidential hopefuls who signed a loyalty pledge to support their party's presidential nominee and have since declined to do so. Such candidates include former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, businesswoman Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
"It was a rough campaign," he conceded. "They say it was the roughest campaign ever in the history of Republican politics, but what you do is you go to sleep for a couple of days and you wake up and you honor [the pledge]."
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The presumptive Republican nominee continued, claiming that he considered the pledge to be "legally binding" and assuring his supporters that he would have honored it had Kasich, Cruz or any other GOP candidate clinched the nomination instead.
"There are people I don't like or particularly respect on that stage, but I would have honored it," Trump said. "I wouldn't have gone crazy, yelling it from the loudest building."
Trump himself routinely changed his position on the pledge during the primary, threatening more than once to leave the Republican party and launch an indepedent bid.
"But you know what, we have people who haven't honored the pledge and that's a terrible thing," he told the crowd. "They signed a pledge saying they will abide, they will back the candidate of the party and now they sit back and ... they broke their word."
"In my opinion, they should never be allowed to run for public office again because what they did is disgraceful," he added.
Some of the billionaire's former opponents have said that in addition to declining to endorse Trump, they will not attend next month's GOP convention.
The government shutdown, Cantor’s defeat and the death of the gang of eight were all part of the same movement. The movement started after the elections of 2012 and primarily emanated from a handful of brave individuals. Among them, Jeff Sessions, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Jason Chavetz, Steve King and Jim Jordan. The movement centered around the idea that conservatism is not predestined to lose. Sometimes it is o.k. to fight and it may even be possible for conservatism to win.
At the time, the leadership (including Cantor) wanted to work with Obama to pass amnesty. The conservatives were instrumental in holding off amnesty FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR by convincing the moderate mushy Republicans that the media narrative was wrong. They didn’t have to go along with the leadership and commit suicide. The long march toward third world status was not inevitable. They could oppose it and save the country and not only would they not be punished by the voters, they would be rewarded. They went on the talk shows and brought their message to the people. The people listened and voted out Cantor. This proved that Sessions, Cruz, Lee, Vitter, King, Goehmert, etc.. were right. So, it was a process of brave conservatives telling other Republicans that they could stand up to Cantor and Boehner and McConnell which ultimately culminated in Cantor’s defeat.
Would Cantor ever have even been in danger if the conservatives weren’t actively fighting him in the House?
From June 30 2014...
http://www.rollcall.com/news/home/eric-cantor-defeat-a-victory-for-ted-cruz
From Politico...
“There were three tiers of meetings: The first was primarily members-only on the House side. Then communications aides from House and Senate offices met to discuss messaging tactics. Finally, there were broader staff huddles involving policy and communications hands. A couple dozen Republican offices from both ends of the Capitol regularly participated.
House members tried to meet weekly when they were in Washington, usually in King’s office but sometimes in other Hill locations to strategize their foes’ next move. When aides met, they would pore over the polling and studies available to make their case, and figure out how to loop in outside allies, such as talk-radio hosts.
Sessions and Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) were the most active senators, while Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) played supporting roles. Key House lawmakers included King and Reps. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Lamar Smith (R-Texas), John Fleming (R-La.), Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), among several others, according to lawmakers and aides involved.”
You are engaging in revisionist history by trying to wipe Cruz’s influence out of the history books. He was an instrumental part of defeating the gang of eight and the Washington Cartel which was funded by Trump.
Talk shows did NOT defeat Cantor. That is an actual psychotic POV. It was Brat and his tireless army of foot soldiers who defeated Cantor. Your narrative is as detached from reality as anything I’ve ever witnessed. Cruz didn’t campaign for Brat. He didn’t contribute money. He merely sat on the sidelines, as did Lee. How DARE you take the blood, sweat and tears of Brat and his supporters and blithely give Cruz credit for them? You’re as bad as he is: taking other people’s accomplishments and pretending they belong to Cruz. It’s an abomination.
Brat is awesome. I'm sure his people worked very hard to get him elected. However, the anti-establishment, anti-leadership, anti-incumbent, anti-Boehner, anti-Cantor environment that he was elected in did not just happen in a vacuum. Cruz and others were taking arrows for 2 years, actively fighting their own leadership, getting murdered in the press, being villainized by their own party. To simply dismiss it, is an abomination on your part.
From 2014...
http://www.rollcall.com/218/cruz-secret-meeting-for-house-conservatives-boehner-immigration-topics/
http://www.rollcall.com/218/ted-cruz-house-republicans-meet-in-secret-at-tortilla-coast/
Yes, yes, fling insults around, Cupcake. I know I started it, and I can handle it.
Gang of 8. It still passed the Senate. It was going to pass the House. It only stopped after we kicked out Cantor. Just because you make an appeal to authority by citing the words of a bunch of Cruz supporters doesn’t mean you’re right.
I ALSO know Cruzifer’s voting record. I know his support for TPP. I know that he’s a globalist. The ‘super-conservative’ voting record is nothing less than bullshitting sheep like you while he’s stabbing you in the back on the most important electoral issues.
And I know that globalism is the antithesis of conservatism, period. Nothing else matters, because if we lose on globalism, we lose on everything else.
That’s why Donald’s imperfections don’t matter. Because he’s the only nationalist in the race. Cruz is a globalist. He would happily sell our country out to China (TPP support) and let the political class become a permanent oligarchy thanks to illegal immigration destroying our electoral process (He supported it for the majority of his political career and only turned against it when it became politically inconvenient).
I’ll bet you’re not even reading my posts, mind you. Not a cultist like you. Not even addressing my points. Just spewing out Cruzie cultist talking points over and over.
That’s why all the stuff you were crying about doesn’t matter. You let Cruz or his masters in, then we lose on abortion because no conservative will ever win again. You lose on marriage. You lose on health care. You lose on religious freedom.
Of course, the Cruzlims like you don’t believe that; they think that as long as someone says the right words, then they have to slavishly lick his feet and chop the rhetorical heads off anyone who says different.
Lovely language. That is Cruz-supporter class, in a nutshell.
Whatever Cruz did failed miserably. Both Boehner and McCarthy counted the House votes, and had enough to assure passage of Amnesty. It was a done deal. Then the political world shook under the Brat seismic shift. Immediately, as in IMMEDIATELY, House members began contacting Boehner and telling him their Yes vote was now a No. Boehner tabled the Bill, and never brought it up again.
This need you have to embellish Cruz, and credit him with others’ accomplishments, is not healthy. Cruz stated that mass legalization should occur after the border was ‘secure.’ That is the reason he was the only senator to greet the foreign invaders with teddy bears and soccer balls: he wanted them all “legalized.”
Hey, dummy....
Sessions is a Trump supporter. You are right. There is no point in reading anything else you have to say.
Hey nitwit.
...
...you know what, Fantasywriter said it better than me.
You have to nitpick my posts to find one thing and then ignore everything else and that’s the only way you manage to claim victory.
You on the other hand have to cling desperately to an outright lie.
Deluded.
Did you read the links I provided which detailed "whatever Cruz did"? Along with other conservatives, he helped organize the opposition to the leadership. They provided a forum for conservatives to plot their strategy to subvert the objectives of the Washington elites...Cantor, Boehner, McConnell, Pelosi, Obama, Reid....You know, the ones that Trump donated to. That is who Cruz was helping to expose.
To claim that Brat could have defeated Cantor as easily in the atmosphere of 2012 or 2010 or 2008 is absolute idiocy on your part. Cantor hadn't been exposed as a RINO back then. Guess who helped expose him as a pro-amnesty hack?
Were you asleep from 2012 to 2014 while Cruz was helping break up the Washington Cartel's monopoly?
Were you asleep from 2012 to 2014 while Cruz was helping break up the Washington Cartel’s monopoly?
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BAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Then why did the Washington Cartel give Obama everything he wanted?
Delusional.
And Rs used to make fun of “Sore Loserman”
I would never even consider voting for any of them who didn’t keep their word. And not attending the convention is just purely adolescent. Shame on the lot of them and all who tolerate or encourage them.
I must confess, I am shocked, stunned and amazed that there is still even one person crediting Cruz with stopping amnesty. It has been a long, long time since that myth was debunked. Months and months ago I labeled it “the Myth that will not Die.” Yet it did die, very slowly but ultimately surely.
Or at least it died for 99.9 percent of those who are paying attention. Yet now we find, like a single Japanese soldier defending a small, deserted island, a lone holdout. One person who still believes, “Cruz stopped Amnesty.”
The world moves on...but not everyone moves with it.
see 335
Logical fallacy: circular reasoning.
Just because you say it’s so doesn’t mean that it is so.
If the Washington Cartel’s monopoly really WAS broken by Cruz, then why did Obama get victory after victory?
And in the case of TPP, why did Obama get victory with Cruz’s explicit support? You know, selling American sovereignty even more down the river.
As for your example, we the people, and especially the heroes in Brat’s district stopped the Gang of 8. For all his crowing about it, when the chips were down, Cruz did NOTHING. Then again, this was already pointed out to you.
You have not the slightest, vaguest idea what you’re talking about. Cantor defeated “easily”?
“EASILY”???
Why not just post, “I am totally ignorant of what it took for Brat and his dedicated army of volunteers to defeat Cantor,”? You would only be spelling out in simple language what you’ve already said in so many words.
Seriously, if you want to come on here and debate, know what the hell you are talking about.
Cruz does not support TPP. Again, you are either intentionally lying or you are very stupid.
If you are going to call a freshman Senator setting up meetings, pressuring squishy Representatives, publicly calling out the leadership of your own party, publicly supporting the positions of Brat and arguing against the positions of Cantor, etc....”NOTHING”, then you are an unappreciative fool.
Brat?
‘publicly supporting the positions of Brat’
As opposed to publicly supporting Brat, which Cruz never did.
Dave Brat is the person who defeated Cantor in Virginia’s 7th district, thereby derailing amnesty in the House.
Remember what Bush Sr. said about Ronald Reagan during his campaign...”voodoo economics.” Yet Uncle Ron picked him, and Bush accepted. Time to unify.
I didn’t say he defeated him “easily”. I said in 2012,2010,2008 it wouldn’t have been “as easy”.
Try this...
When I say, “Lead is softer than gold”, I am not actually saying that lead is soft.
When I say “cream cheese is harder than yogurt”, I am not saying that cream cheese is hard.
When I say he wouldn’t have been able to defeat Cantor “as easily” in 2012, 2010, 2008, etc... I am saying THAT HIS ELECTION DIDN’T TAKE PLACE IN A VACUUM AND THAT OTHER PEOPLE HELPED SET THE STAGE FOR HIM AND HIS ARMY OF VOLUNTEERS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THEM.
If you choose not to read the links I gave you which demonstrate what Cruz did over the 2 years prior to 2014 to rally conservatives against the leadership then I don’t know what else to tell you. You are willfully blind. The political atmosphere of 2014 was entirely different than the previous years and Ted Cruz had a hand in creating that environment whether you like it or not.
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