Posted on 07/21/2016 11:30:25 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Before Ted Cruz walked onto the convention stage in Cleveland, Donald Trump had a very good idea what was about to happen. Without pre-planning, or staged set-ups, Trump knew what to expect because Donald Trump has an exceptional political sense; he knows how to read his adversaries.
Throughout his life, Ted Cruz has exhibited a character of division; entirely tone-deaf to the people he encounters and leaves in his wake. Those who knew Cruz in grade school and college have talked about how Cruz’s abrasive personality made him a lonely person despite his intellect.
Toxic abrasiveness is the same reason why President George W Bush would not elevate Ted Cruz in the White House 2001-2005. Attorney Cruz was 30-years-old and arrogantly thought he should have been a candidate for Attorney General; unfortunately, no-one else did.
Years later it was toxic abrasiveness that drove candidate Ted Cruz to run for Senate in 2011 – to show those same political voices he carried a stronger political tool box than he was ever given credit for.
That same toxic abrasiveness in 2013 is what created a lonely, divisive and ineffective Senator -with zero legislative accomplishment- who announced a presidential bid only 2 years after election to the Senate. And it’s that same personality issue that creates a need for a disguise to be successful.
Donald Trump can sense these things the way most of us can sense the same given enough time around similar characters. As a consequence when Trump invited Ted Cruz to speak at the RNC Convention, he knew what was most likely going to happen. After all, it was entirely predictable.
However, by mid-afternoon yesterday any doubts about what direction Cruz was going to take were easily dispatched by looking at his actual engagements.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Toxic Ted Cruz left the stage amid a thunderous chorus of boos, having diminished himself spectacularly on the grandest political stage of them all. The entire audience, and millions of people around the world saw first hand the toxic and abrasive nature that is Ted Cruz unmasked.
I predict his career is over. He’ll hang a shingle and do personal injury and divorce (probably his own) to buy his food.
It’s like after a football playoff game and the score was 59-14. The coach of the losing team being interviewed-
and acting like there was a bad call and he was cheated out of the game. The fact was Cruz lost about 3 to 1.. I’m not getting why he is relevant at all.. In other words the winning team just scored the most points in history of the playoffs against you..sit down and STFU and get some gel for that hiney...
Nah, as a loyal establishment shill he will get a job with some large investment bank.
[It’s like after a football playoff game and the score was 59-14. The coach of the losing team being interviewed-]
Reporter- “Coach, what do think about your team’s execution?”
Coach- “Sounds like a good idea”
Cruz is an a-hole with no friends left.
“Cruz is an a-hole with no friends left.”
Come now.. He still has Glenn Beck. Right ? Beck still picks up the phone from the anointed politician of God ?
Now there's a perfect summary of the reality of the situation.
Cubanadian Hari Kari
Is #ToxicTed going to be the next big HASHTAG ?
"abrasive" would be an improvement
Cruz remind me of a lot of Silicon Valley people - @ssholes, yeah, but even more than that. It’s referred to as a “social autism” which they mostly get away with because they’re engineers. But for a politician, its amazing Cruz has gotten even this far. People like this really don’t know, nor really care, how they come across to others. They are convinced that they are superior, and that’s the end of the subject for them. Believe it or not, Steve Jobs was like Cruz. But of course unlike Cruz, Jobs won like Trump.
Naw, heidi will get him a prime position at goldman sachs.
Cruz is a PITA* to wherever he is.
*PITA Pain In The Ass
His career is over. Why am I thinking that somehow, Glen Beck, is involved in what Cruz did last night?
Ted Cruz the AV Geek was invited to the big Football party with the team and the cheerleaders and instead of acting cool and making nice he got drunk, pooped in his pants, pissed on the rug, threw up on the head cheerleader and groped the family dog.
Ted Cruz.: The new Tim Misney. Doing wills and chasing ambulances for a career.
He had lived through slavery and the Civil War, and his Sermon's title was "Righteousness Exalteth a Nation, but Sin is a Reproach to Any Nation." He retraced the history of nations and documented the Christian foundations of America's liberty. Of oaths, he declared:
"Oaths and affirmations are appeals to God, by him who makes them, that what he has said, or what he shall say, is the truth. It is the most solemn form under which one can assert or pronounce anything, and its violation is a crime of the darkest hue; one which God has declared he will punish; one that is made infamous and punishable by fine and imprisonment, by the laws of the land. Thus Christian obligation is required of every officer of the general Government, who fills any position of trust, honor or emolument. Many reports are required in the form and shape of affidavits." - Bishop and Ohio State Legislator, Benjamin W. Arnett, 1876 - Entire Address may be read at the Library of Congress)
I told friends a while ago that I see a divorce between Heidi and Toxic Ted. Just like Al and Tipper. Both Al and Ted have a lot of the same personality disorder. We shall see.
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