Posted on 07/19/2016 11:45:20 PM PDT by Pinkbell
Ted Cruz: The ‘principled conservative’ who helped give Iran $150 billion dollars.
Oily Felito is right.
hey Ted, or team Cruz, if you’re reading this ...
... free speech advice ...
“Fellow Republicans, as you know, our great country has been brought to a very bad place by eight years of the current administration. Now we face a choice in America, to go down that same road for four more years, with a new president who might in fact be even less willing to respect the Constitution, or, to choose a new beginning and the opportunity to begin a rebuilding period, that might easily require four presidential terms to complete.
“And many of us contested this nomination because we felt that we could do better than the Democrats and give this nation that we all love so much better leadership. It was a hard fought contest. Donald Trump won that contest, and has been duly nominated. In the process, he earned more votes than any candidate has ever received in a primary season.
“I have thanked my supporters, and I am grateful for the votes that I received. But politics requires us to be good losers as well as gracious winners. For the country that I love, and that you love, and that Donald Trump loves, I will pledge my support and do whatever I can do, wherever I am asked to go, to do my part to ensure that Hillary Clinton is defeated in November. Nothing else matters, we all know this, and it is time for unity.”
(thanks, cheque to Peter O’Donnell)
You would think.
The NeverTrumpers or holdout Cruz supporters really have no excuses anymore. Their main gripe was Trump wasn't conservative enough for them (they even bought in to the left's liberal narrative of Trump, later pushed by Cruz).
Well, all they have to do is look just how conservative the party platform is. That wouldn't have happened without the people AND Donald Trump.
Ted Cruz really has no excuses if he is a true conservative and looks at the party platform. The only thing Cruz has proved so far is he has lined up with the frauds of the Republican Party.
CGato
Cruz is a CINO and out for himself ONLY! He's a damned conman with an oversized ego, for NO reason at all.
Our military is already decimated and we’d have only a sort of military under Hillary. :-(
NO way I’m going to sit out this election. Too much at stake. And Trump is a breath of fresh air, even with his flaws, which everybody has.
Politics makes ugly people out of Freepers and others. Why not extend to Cruz the same grace you extend to Trump? That’s all I’m saying. Some people are just not happy unless they are crashing and burning SOMEBODY’s life. For that matter, why was Michelle Obama’s speech terrible when she gave it but wonderful when Melania said much the same stuff? It’s all people deciding who’s in and who’s out, and everything else not mattering. It’s what the Bible calls “party spirit” - people looking for reasons to speak/think badly about others, quick to speak and slow to listen. It’s the unwillingness to listen and truly think and process facts that will doom this country in the end, and it’s just as common with Freepers as with anybody else. That’s all I’m saying.
A person has only to look at the responses to my post to see exactly what I’m talking about. I am not the enemy, but it sure feels good to try to trash me because I’m not rah-rahing all the trash-talk against Cruz here. I and my family bear in our bodies the scars from fighting the coup of 2008. A lot of people who get trashed here can say the same thing - including former candidates and other politicians as well as anonymous Freepers. But that doesn’t matter, when the chance to do some feel-good, friendly-fire trash-talk arises. Burn all the bridges you can, ‘cause you don’t need anybody else, don’t need the rest of the country in it together in order to save a once-great nation. That attitude sucks, and the selective grace/Bible talk gets old really quickly.
My sin here is extending to Cruz the same grace as I have received and extend to both Trump and Cruz.
Trump and Cruz have both broken promises. So have I and so have you. Why is Cruz the only one who isn’t allowed to change his mind? The hypocrisy here is just a little more than I can swallow with a smile.
I think it will be a non-endorsement endorsement of Trump: work hard to defeat Hillary.
The New York delegation and CNN don’t think it was an endorsement.
I look at it as an indirect endorsement. Cruz said basically this — vote up and down the Republican ticket and drive the Democrats out of office.
This would imply voting for Trump and Pence.
I know it sounded less than enthusiastic. It probably was. But there is logic behind the conclusion, so Vulcans in every state can live long and prosper by voting Trump.
A donor would know that, except for those who opt to remain anonymous, there is a page that shows the donors each quarter and others for monthly donors, those who donate $300 or more a year, etc.
You are either an anonymous donor or a non-donor.
If I'm jumping to conclusions, I apologize. If you're just blustering to hide the fact that you're a FReeloader who donates to neither FR or a candidate, I, once again, urge you to at least use this link:
I take it that your non-reply is an indication that I didn't really jump to conclusions but sized you up correctly - one who makes noise but invests nothing toward any worthwhile cause......
Here's a Ted Cruz opportunity to redeem yourself: Donate to FR
Or, you can opt to double down like he did and renounce what was left of his credibility.
No, I just make it a habit to ignore fools...
Here's a Ted Cruz opportunity to redeem yourself: Donate to FR
You're a happy little Pharisee, aren't you?
Funny to use a religious slant when shirking your own duties.
Thank you for confirming my initial impression of you.
LOL! You have also confirmed my assessment of you.
I agree I should have offered to match some FR donations in a private message so as not to cause twinges of guilt in those such as yourself.
Here's another biblical concept: He who will not work (invest of himself) should not eat (partake in what others produce/pay for).
Reply or not - I'm done wasting time with you.
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