Posted on 04/13/2016 7:51:48 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Sen. Ted Cruz’s hopes for winning the Republican presidential nomination outright have faded, and he has shifted to a strategy of gaming the rules, angling to send enough double-agent delegates to the July convention to snatch victory from front-runner Donald Trump.
It’s a major reversal for Mr. Cruz, who just weeks ago insisted he would win the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention. But major wins in Utah, Wisconsin and Colorado have not closed the gap, with a series of East Coast primaries looming.
Now the best option for the senator from Texas is trench warfare at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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And you. Unless you're telling me you were anti-Cruz from 2012 thru 2015.
Not my fault you don't have the courage to see this thing through. You abandoned the principled conservative with backbone for a desert mirage. Trump makes you feel good. And that's all he will ever do for you.
Exactly.
I don’t know how anyone can say all this is gonna endear the populace
In a general election.
You Cruz bots can say all you want that “these are the rules”. Yeah they are. Rules passed by what, 110 specially picked people from each
State and territory? The sun is being shown on what a joke the system is.
Cruz is massaging the system like a true insider/establishment politician.
It’s shouldn’t be a surprise to all of us. He should know the rules.
HES BEEN IN POLITICS HIS ENTIRE LIFE!
Just don’t pretend like this would motivate people to all of a sudden
be pumped to vote for him. His scum baggery is in full display.
You don’t have a clue, do you???
OK...The “establishment elite” isn’t about rich people...
It’s the “political elites”...The GOPe, the liberal socialist democrats that sit back, make “politispeak” to hear themselves talk and wring out the system to continue the status quo and keep their cushy positions...
The status quo did NOT make Trump a billionaire and it doesn’t “protect” his billions...He does that himself and that’s a big reason he decided to run for the presidency...
He sees what is happening to this country and as the country goes down, so does his businesses...
Man, you ARE naive.....
Cruz is not an honorable man, and I believe that he is even more ruthless than Hillary.
So if Trump can’t reach the magic number on the first ballot then it will be Ted Turn and he will win!!!
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What, exactly, will he have won?
Right! When are Republicans going to recognize that Cruz is a Republican Obama? Maybe it’s time we voters held business contributors responsible for the politicians they buy offices for. We should start by boycotting Obama’s business supporters. If Cruz uses underhanded ways to get the nomination we should boycott his supporters.
I’d imagine cruz still owes each one of the women he was with their $10 fee.
no, I just haven’t sucked down the kool aid. you’re one of the suckers that is born every minute.
Cruz is the boogeyman hiding behind a Bush.
Balderdash! The status quo didn't make Donald Trump a billionaire: some seed money and a ton of hard work on Donald Trump's part did.
You sound like 0bama "if you've got a business, you didn't build that"...
No, I was for Trump OR Cruz until a few weeks ago when he decided to kneel down to the GOPe “establishment elites”...He has gone to bed with them and now he is beholden to them...
That is as plain as day...
If you can’t see that from what has transpired over the last few weeks, then you are in denial....
No, it isn’t kindergarten. It’s FRAUD. Plain and simple.
The litmus test is in the form of a question where candidates to be selected as delegates at state are asked to “promise they will vote for Ted Cruz on all ballots following the First Ballot”.
TRUMP delegates must lie to make the cut. Therefore, TRUMP delegates are rejected and replaced, unless they lie.
The Cruz-bots know who the establishment is.
They either don’t care that their candidate is now full on insider/establishment or they are blind.
Either way they better realize that we will never let them forget that they
Successfully helped the establishment screw us over.
Double agent delegates? LOL
Cruz is a fool.
Just go home, Ted.
that’s just an embarrassingly stupid thing to say.
jeez. enjoy worshipping your earthly deity.
He does not care. He would sacrifice his mother to get elected. I think it has something to do with his upbringing with no father to teach him honor, truth, ethics, and morality. He lacks all of these traits.
They haven’t a clue as to what could be coming....
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