I will not vote for Cruz, noway, Jeb bush endorsed him. Dole, McCain, Romney, I’m done with the establishment clowns. Cruz is to stupid to realize he’s being used to get to a brokered convention, either that or he’s all for it. Thus, he’s an establishment enabler or plain stupid, probably both, he won’t get my vote period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorsements_for_the_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016
Who has endorsed Donald Trump?
[I marked some of the endorsements that I consider problematic, but I don’t hold them against Trump]
U.S. Senators
Current
Jeff Sessions of Alabama
Former
***** Scott Brown of Massachusetts *****
U.S. Representatives
Current
Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania (previously endorsed Rick Santorum)
***** Chris Collins of New York (previously endorsed Jeb Bush) *****
Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee
Renee Ellmers of North Carolina
Duncan D. Hunter of California
Tom Marino of Pennsylvania
Tom Reed of New York
Former
Virgil Goode of Virginia (also Constitutional Party presidential nominee in 2012)
Bob Livingston of Louisiana, candidate in the 1987 Louisiana gubernatorial election
Doug Ose of California
State Governors
Current
***** Chris Christie, New Jersey (former 2016 presidential candidate) *****
***** Paul LePage, Maine (previously endorsed Chris Christie) *****
Rick Scott, Florida
Territorial Governors
Ralph Torres, Northern Mariana Islands
Former
Jan Brewer, Arizona
Sarah Palin, Alaska (also nominee for Vice President in 2008)
Newspapers/Magazines
Conservative Action Report, South Carolina-based newsletter
National Enquirer, supermarket tabloid
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As for Cruz being stupid. No. He is brilliant, perhaps the smartest person I have ever met in politics, and I’ve talked extensively with more than half of the current and recent US Senators and most of the recent republican presidential candidates. All for being used? Yes. He thinks he can turn it around on the establishment once he gets to the convention with enough pledged delegates. Perhaps this year he’s right and the establishment will lose control even beyond the first round of voting, but I doubt it. That’s why I am supporting Trump; he’s the only candidate who has a real chance to win on the first ballot.