Your right it was vetted. He said all the right things, congratulated Trump, cannot elect Hillary, ...etc. He was sandbagged by Trump. Gingrich read his speech and tried to clarify. It was clearly a Trump hit cause Cruz didn’t bend over and kiss his a$$ like Christie and others. Trump and his supporters demand submission.
LOL u r so silly
No one put words into his mouth. The only one who sandbagged Cruz was Cruz himself. He did not have the simple decency to endorse his own Party’s candidate for president of the United States against Hillary Clinton. Again, he decided to do that all by himself. He has no one to blame for the reaction but himself. Ted Cruz just ended any hope of higher office, and he will be rather lucky to even be reelected.
I used to like the guy, quite a lot. I proudly voted to put him into office, though I am not so sure that I would even like him to be my Senator anymore.
Cruz played the exact same shtick Nelson Rockefeller pulled at the convention after Goldwater beat him in ‘64.
Die-hard Cruz supporters have the wrong role models.
Well, honoring a written pledge is not the same as kissing someone’s behind. You have to swallow your pride and do it.
He didn’t. He is a dishonorable oath breaker because of it.
One example of how to do it right is the Viking Rollo, when he was demanded to kiss Charlemagne’s foot (or some French king) as sign of fealty to stop a war and keep his conquered lands in Normandy.
Rollo walked to the King, who was sitting, grabbed the King’s foot and lifted it all the way up to his lips to kiss it, at the same time tilting the king’s chair and making the King fall backwards.
Job done. The king’s foot was kissed, and he came through without losing his self-respect or the respect of his followers.
But he DID keep his promise and kissed the King’s foot, without coming through as a weasel. It resulted in a lasting peace.
They are ways to keep your self-respect and not break a pledge at the same time, too bad Cruz could not find one.