Posted on 07/19/2016 11:45:20 PM PDT by Pinkbell
CNN had two different people on who said Ted Cruz will not be endorsing Cruz in his speech. The one reporter said that Ted Cruz anticipates running for President in 2020 if Trump loses and wants to show his sympathies with the Never Trump movement who has supported him.
This is just as I feared when Ted was asked to speak. Trump was kind enough to ask him, but I worried that Ted would use this speech to pad his own resume, to preach to his base, to audition for 2020. Ted should not be permitted to use this speech for his own ambitions.
Ted Cruz has allowed the Never Trump movement, with many of the members (at least the ones I see on Twitter) as Cruz supporters, to fester. He allowed the division and the attempts to free the delegates, ignoring the will of the people. That chaos on the floor the other day? Led by Cruz allies/delegates!
Ted Cruz has refused to honor a pledge that he signed, that he would have expected Trump to honor. Ted knows that his endorsement may encourage some of his supporters to vote for Trump. Ted also knows it might push some of his supporters away, the ones who would call it a betrayal. Ted is staying with the ones who would call it a betrayal.
If Ted is a true conservative, 4 years of Hillary and her stacking the court would be unthinkable. If Ted is a true Republican, he would want a Republican to win. It seems he is putting his political ambitions first. It's good for Ted Cruz (in his mind) if Trump doesn't win, but it's certainly not good for our country. I don't think it will be good for Ted either. He just doesn't realize now that 14 million Trump voters won't forget how he conducted himself.
Ted's spot should be revoked in an ideal world. Unfortunately, I think the media fallout if Trump revokes and party division with Cruz supporters who are reluctantly voting for Trump would be a problem at this point. He'll be allowed to speak, and I think he should have never been offered the slot.
Maybe CNN has absolutely blown this and will have egg on their face tomorrow. Maybe their sources will be wrong or maybe Ted will change his mind. If Ted does endorse Trump, I think opinions on him would improve.
Now Cruz, jump back into your unflushed toilet!
I’m pretty sure that as of yesterday morning, Cruz intended not to endorse Trump. I’m also pretty sure that if he changed his mind, he hasn’t told that many people and probably hasn’t phoned up CNN and told them.
So the question is: has he changes his mind?
Well, what would make him change his mind in the space of one day?
I have an answer for that: Christie.
How could anyone with an ounce of conservative spirit in their body watch Christie last night and consider doing anything to help hillary?
We shall see what we shall see, but if Cruz endorses Trump, I bet Christie had something to do with it.
Christie deserves a seat on the Supreme Court.
Cruz should not be allowed to speak if he will not endorse the nominee.
“I wont wast my time listening to Cruz. He has nothing to say that I want to hear.”
Well, I’m a Texian. And, I voted for Cruz for senator and for Prez in the primaries. But, he lost and now I’m supporting Trump. I think Cruz has fallen into Bill Kristols and Mike Lee’s trap. And, is allowing himself to be used in a failed and flawed attempted palace coup. Cruz needs to wake up or he will be out of his senate job if he’s not careful....
Cruz base of support was small and is even smaller now. He lost every group he was supposed to lead. He's made a complete political and personal fool of himself. Who wants or respects a person that keeps insisting on relevance long after they have been defeated, rejected, and shown to be an outright liar. Lyn' Ted has no present and no future.
As I have noted elsewhere on FR, I'll donate to his Democratic opponent if that is what it takes to see him kicked out of the Senate. He, especially, and Cantor and McConnell need to be dumped, dumped hard. Trump is the instrument of that party purge--either support him or be tossed.
You misspelled "Ryan"...
Yep, thanks! Still looking for my caffeine this morning. Cruz, RYAN, and McConnell.
I hope you mean in the primaries.
Oh yeah I can believe it.
I will not be listening to Cruz tonight.
Christie’s speech last night was why I preferred him over Pence. I had visions of the VP debate that won’t be. The cherry on the cake would have been Christie vs. Warren. Chris Christie has to be given AG in my opinion.
How many are there, though?
I don’t think they amount to much.
I also think they’re not enough of them, certainly, in battleground states where their vote will matter.
In any case, stop courting them. They’ve made their choice. There’s not enough bending over backwards Trump can do to win them, so ignore them.
Teddy is a malignant narcissist much like the current occupant of the white house.
Teddy is all about Teddy. I doubt that he has the ability to suck it up. He believes his own lies. His widdle ego got hurt when it turned out that he wasn’t going to be The One.
This is a person who appears to be unable to see the folly of his own ways and as such, is not someone who should be in public office.
I hope he makes his speech all about him. The more of a twit he is now, the easier he’ll be to defeat in 2018.
I thought they should have ensured that as well. I truly believe Trump was trying to mend fences, but Ted might kick him in the back like he did after Chicago when he blamed Trump for inciting the violence.
Maybe Ted will surprise us and prove everyone wrong. It’s tough to imagine a speech (don’t know how long it will be maybe 10 min. or so) where he manages to dance around the party’s nominee. We can hope he surprises us. Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan were able to give endorsements. They weren’t thrilled, but they did it. Cruz needs to do the same.
I think Pence is the right choice for many reasons, one of which is Christie is more valuable as AG, or SCOTUS.
He might if Trump is unpopular. If Trump is a good President, it would be pointless.
Curious how we trust the MSM when they tell us lies we want to hear. But we don’t trust them when they tell us truths we don’t want to hear.
Response to post #45.
Those are the people who love their pride and their false idol more than America and they are IMO worse than Democrats. Democrats are often the non thinking who vote as their parents and grandparents did. These anti Trump are people who once could see that our nation does not benefit by Democrat lies and leadership but still voluntarily choose or enable those who would lead us to socialism. They are the lowest form of life!
If he does not endorse Donald Trump in his speech tonight, it is the end of Cruz’s political career.
The people of TX are not stupid.
they know what is at stake in this election.
They will vote for Trump.
If Cruz is this self-centered and obtuse, he belongs nowhere near the halls of power.
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