Posted on 07/21/2016 8:18:20 AM PDT by Drango
I was a Cruz guy at first, even sent him some money. I even suported Cruz for SCOTUS once I started leaning towards Trump. Not sure at what point my eyes were opened to him, but I can’t believe he has any political career left after last night. Even if, heaven forbid, Trump turned out horrible and Cruz tries an “I told you so”, Cruz was childish and went back on his word. Yes, he lost, and yes, it was ugly, but Cruz should have humbled himself and supported the nominee. Cruz is dead to me now.
I agree, Sequoyah01.
I was a Cruz supporter until Trump clinched the nomination. I have some reservations about Trump, but he will get my vote for several important reasons.
#1: He is not Hitlery. I can’t emphasize this enough!
2. He was chosen fairly by the primary voters. I would not have supported Cruz (or anyone else, especially Jeb) as the nominee if he had acquired the nomination by manipulating the rules and foisting a “party elite approved” candidate on us.
I can understand Cruz not being an enthusiastic supporter in light of attacks on his family. I think it was classless of Trump to do that. But I think that Cruz could have found a way to make amends. Trump should have asked Cruz to forgive him and Cruz should have forgiven. I admire a person who both defends his family and sticks by his principles, but not a person who is petty and vengeful. Which is Cruz? I haven’t yet read enough to tell. Or maybe the story has not played out yet.
McLame’s “fat pig” daughter is saying on “Outnumbered” that Trump should apologize to Ted Cruz for his remarks about Cruz’ wife! What a maroon!
We didn’t spend two days on her speech - the MSM did as a distraction so they did not have to cover the effective attacks on their queen.
I fully expect the MSM to use Cruz in the same fashion. Few people watch the convention so all most of America knows now is Trump’s wife is a plagiarist and Cruz did not support Trump and was booed. Sorry, that is reality for most of America.
The plagiarism accusation was stupid - the same stuff is said often (not exactly original thought is it?) and I thought she did well.
The Cruz snub was unnecessary and it is the fault of one person - Ted. Trump gave him a chance and he chose poorly detracting from some great speakers last night. I would have liked to see the two of them bury the hatchet, but it is not in the DNA of either apparently. I think Ted believed the reaction would be more favorable to him, which once again makes me question his grip on reality.
With that said, I expect Trump to light it up tonight and few will be talking about the distractions for a news cycle. Will see, but this is his big moment and I am hoping he outlines a few of his plans and covers a wide amount of territory. I think this will be the most watched speech of the campaign by the American people.
Goldman Sachs says beg Cruz & Cruz begs
... like a servile little puppy.
I bet it’s Tom Hoefling.
who was it that invited this evil freak to talk at the convention...they need to be fires
correct... that is precisely why the 17th Amendment has to be repealed....
Good summary.
“I think that Trump is secretly smiling.”
Probably. Because:
1. Ted Cruz just destroyed himself politically.
2. The Cruz failure to endorse could make Trump look more moderate in the eyes of those independents and Reagan Democrats who already hate Ted Cruz for his putative hard-core “conservatism”.
TED, if you can’t run with the BIG DOGS stay on the porch.
Best Convention Evah!
The only mature people are the kids.
Pray America wakes
More NPR lies, however. Trump did not imply that Cruz is encouraging people to vote Democrat. He did imply that Cruz is trying to nudge the electorate toward Hillary winning. That as likely could be by regularly GOP voters voting Libertarian or staying home.
I think you’re right, but he seems to think voters will run to him in 2020 against an incumbent Hillary.
That’s really irrational. I don’t see people coming around to Ted in that scenario in the GOP Primary (let alone the general election).
Best,
Vince
Limbaugh acknowledging Cruz had lied about his reasons and it was all over personal insults.
Lol Limbaugh thinks Cruz “might have chosen the wrong time and place” to make his point.
You think??
You make excellent points about attacks on family and I would not tolerate them and would handle them as they are, PERSONALLY and not publically at first.
As for the rest of Cruz, petty and vengeful about covers it.
He has ruined, roped, hung his chances for becoming anything....Trump/Pence are going to do so much for this Country that after Pence finishes his terms as POTUS, it's Donald Jr.’s time in office...
If the Bushes or Clintons think that their kids are going to get anywhere around governing our Country, they are wrong, we know the horrid behind the backs of these families that it is a disgrace to even have them inside our borders...
Cruz, Bush, Clinton, Romney they are all evil and need to step down and go on about their business, we know who we want to lead our Country into greatness this generation and the next and it is none of the above...’birds of a feather’ ‘it's who you run with that gains your reputation’....
Small minded comment.
Thought Cruz was brilliant.?
“Cruzlims all over social media saying they can never support Trump because he orchestrated the booing.”
The thing is, I strongly suspect that the vast majority of these “Cruzlims” are actually Hillary trolls being paid to sew FUD. They’ve landed en masse at putative conservative sites like conservativereview, therightscoop, redstate, etc. There’s so many of ‘em at places like those, that they’re pretty much just preaching to each other and Hillary is basically wasting her money.
We saw the exact same phenomena here at FR several weeks ago, and the only reason we’re not invested now is because JimRob kicked ‘em out and the few remaining ones like “scutter” have toned their anti-Trump rhetoric down just enough to avoid JimRob’s ire.
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