Posted on 07/21/2016 12:11:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: By the way, folks, here's another just a little throwaway question. Does it surprise you that somebody saying "vote your conscience" would be booed practically out of an arena? Vote your conscience. Boo! Vote your conscience. Boo! Leave! Get out! I mean, I know I'm not including context here, but just stop and think of this for a second. Cruz's message is vote your conscience, and all hell rained down on him.
Now, the context is that vote your conscience, I know, happens to be a rallying cry for many of the Never Trumpers. And further context is that vote your conscience could be code language for how in the world can you possibly vote for this guy Trump if you have a conscience? And it's obviously, I think, what a lot of people thought Cruz meant, and that's why the boos. But just without any context, somebody says vote your conscience and gets booed.
Here's where I think Cruz could have done better. And, look, armchair quarterbacking, morning-after hindsight's always cheap and easy, but I think it's an important point. Last night Cruz complained that freedom was under assault. And he's right. It wasn't a complaint; it was a warning; it was an acknowledgment. But what he didn't do is make the clear difference that a Clinton and Trump presidency would make to freedom itself and to the Constitution itself.
It wasn't until this morning, under intense questioning from the Texas delegation that Cruz said he wasn't gonna vote for Hillary. He didn't say that last night. He left it for implication, or inference. I think had he drawn this comparison, he acknowledged that there's no contest between Trump and Hillary when it comes to voting to preserve and expand freedom, he didn't explicitly do that. Hillary Clinton's a clear and present danger to the Constitution. And Cruz, a lot of speakers made the point last night, but Cruz didn't. Not expressly.
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RUSH: Now, Cruz was asked about his pledge. They all took the pledge on the same stage last August to support the eventually nominee. And they asked Cruz about that, the Texas delegation. And he said that that day was "abrogated" when this became personal. "The day that pledge was abrogated was the day this became personal." He says, "I'm not gonna get into criticizing or attacking Donald Trump, but I'm just going to give you this response.
"I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father." And he mentioned this a couple of other times and used the words, "I'm not gonna be a puppy dog here in servitude to a guy accuses my dad of assisting in the JFK assassination." And again, in saying that, it just takes everything that Cruz said the night before in his speech off the table. We eventually got the big reveal.
Everybody said, "Gee, what's that? What's going on? What the hell here?"
All this in-depth analysis, and it boils down to that.
Some of the in-depth analysis was, you know, there's a lot of Never Trumpers out there, and the Never Trumpers, they're a loyal bunch, and Cruz wants to be considered the leader. Cruz wants to be the guy. He wants to be the guy that's considered the number one, consistent Never Trumper. And that's who he was playing to last night, at the expense of party loyalty. The Texas delegation was not happy.
Now he goes into the wilderness, like Westbrook Pegler.
Yes, Texans are already looking for a candidate to primary out the Canadian.
Ted Cruz-I’m the new Nixon. Pretty catchy I like it.
It could have been so easy, Ted:
“While I do not appreciate the manner in which Mr. Trump campaigned against me in the primary, the voters have spoken, and I fully support our party’s nominee.”
Now there's a blast from the past.
Or just not get up there at all. Stay home like John Kasich or Jeb Bush.
Cruz is done
He can join Trudeau’s cabinet.
Cruz’s performance last night was all about 2020. He stayed as long as he could in front of the cameras and lights all for the sake of 2020. His appearance had nothing to do with the 2016 election except possibly he wouldn’t mind seeing the election thrown to Hillary if he thought that would increase his chances in 2020.
There are certain people I will automatically turn off when they appear on TV. Cruz is now one of them. I used to think maybe he was OK. But as of now, I can’t stand the guy, at least as far as his political aspirations or public persona goes. When he talks, his words sound tinny and hollow to me - nothing solid, no ring of authenticity. Last night was no exception.
I just read a short biography on Benedict Arnold. What came through was a fatal flaw that Arnold’s personal ambition was more important than the lofty goals he was supposed to be fighting for. That’s Ted Cruz. Cruz supposedly stands for constitutional freedom but he’s shown me he puts his own political ambition and future first. In that sense, Ted Cruz is a Benedict Arnold as far as I’m concerned.
Someone said Cruz thinks he’s Reagan in 1976. Apparently his dad and apparently Cruz himself, think that Cruz has some sort of Divine Right to become President. I think they’re both nut jobs.
It was the Rubio super pack that let that out about Heidie it was not Trump...
Why are there FBI and CIA pictures of Oswald and Ted dad in pictures in Dallas Texas?
Why are his records sealed?
Why did he know and lied to everyone in Texas about his Canadian birth certificate until the Dallas Newspaper put it out, ‘Oh I didn't know I had ‘duel’ citizenship’ yes he did, his college friends came out and told us he had bragged about this fact when he was in college...
Why did he lie about having extra martial affairs, why that is no crime by far, he denied it and Amanda Carpenter came out and confirmed it...probably IMO why Heidie was found by the side of the road by the Police...
She still is by his side, some will admire her for that, but I don't....if your not treated as the Woman, Wife, Mother as you should be, why stick around...and that includes respect on both sides...
These are just some of the ‘small’ reasons why he is worthless, and yes if I lived in Texas I would ask for him to be removed from the Senate seat...
I am voting for the ‘tyranny’ that is running against Mike Lee, I don't like ‘tyrannies’ but I don't like Mike Lee even more...he fell by the way of the ‘water in Washington D.C.’ and I will not be a part of it...
True. The ol’e “if you don’t have anything nice to say...”
Not necessarily. Cruz is still relatively young and like Richard M. Nixon—who everyone thought was politically finished after his loss to Pat Brown in the California gubernatorial election in 1962 but made a spectacular comeback to win the Presidency in 1968—Cruz will learn from this experience and maybe 8-10 years from now, become a viable Presidential candidate again.
Hillary’s got a job for him. But if Hillary wins, Goldman Sachs will treat his wife so good that he won’t need a career.
ooooh but if he’d stayed home he couldn’t have pulled his ego-Messianic “I am here to save the world and you poor bozos don’t get it!”
Ted Cruz is an egomaniac, views himself as the next Ronald Reagan, and could not resist trying to tear up the convention and lose the 2016 race in order to further his political ambitions.
“Vote you Conscience” from someone who won’t honor his oath. Think about it.
Never heard of him before.
Wikipedia says this:
Pegler, a Roman Catholic, married Julia Harpman, a onetime New York Daily News crime reporter, who was from a Jewish family in Tennessee.[1] Later he married his secretary Maude Wettje.
I wonder how Julia and Maude got along.
Typical Flush Limpbar , giving Cruz cover.
From the moment I first watched him speak a few years back, I didn’t like him. At first, I thought it was just his creepy looks.
I thought, well hopefully he is a man of his word regarding the fight of the American People and for the constitution.
Finally last night, this SOB congratulated Donald Trump on securing the Nomination, nearly four months after the jerk dropped out.
Ted is pure SLIME.
I thought Rush had the depth of knowledge to compare Cruz’s behavior to Rockefeller’s in ‘64 after Goldwater beat him.
The parallels are exact.
If Cruz gets as rich as Rockefeller he may come back.
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