Posted on 07/21/2016 10:54:21 AM PDT by progunner
Edited on 07/21/2016 11:24:08 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
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.
I’m sorry, I just can’t accept the argument that Cruz is an idiot....
Maybe you have a typo?
I am embarrassed for my state. What a disgrace this man has become.
Yup. Yeb is in hiding where he can’t get hurt.
Yeah I really dont think people sitting at home really care if Ted Cruz endorsed Trump or not..endorsements really dont matter..heck even Bernie Sanders half ass endorsed Hillary Clinton and his supporters still wont vote for her(They will vote for Jill Stein instead) so the Dems have their own issues..what matters is what Trump says TONIGHT that will be the start of this campaign..and of course the debates
Maybe and probably. Any sense that I had wanted to see him again in a public capacity has been fully extinguished. I can’t stand the guy, at least in his public persona.
I thought cruz had already left Cleveland to go back to Texas to meet with his whores there. He loves the whores and he knows that Heidi won’t be able to figure out that he is still diddlin’ many, many whores.
It was a Cruz too far and rather than the doom of Trump, the Trump of Doom for Cruz.
If he had been smart, he would have made nice with the Trump forces, played a useful role, and positioned himself for a run in 2024 after two Trump terms, or even in 2020 if Trump decided one was enough.
But no, he decided to roll the dice that either Hillary would win and stink up the joint, or that Trump would have a terrible four years. I don’t think Trump could have a terrible four years, although I don’t doubt that it will be a very confrontational period, even so, Cruz wants to confront a lot of the same forces.
Hell, Cruz even endorsed the wall.
That was the strangest part of it, together with seeking the billionaire’s favor and being refused it.
The words alone carry some merit, but context is everything and this was like giving the Sermon on the Mount at the Grand Mosque of Mecca. It was like hijacking a plane, and jumping without a parachute or the cash. It was like ... most other things Ted Cruz has done since he lost his way somewhere between Iowa and New Hampshire.
He could have been a player but now, I can’t see him recovering more than 10 or 20 per cent of his support base. Even if Trump, let’s say, does make a mess and violates the constitution, people in the conservative movement are going to say, Ted, you should have stayed with us and used your influence for good from within. So it’s loss-loss and there’s no spin that will work, of course people would cut him some slack on the insults but he got down and dirty too.
But now that this came and went, my suggestion is, declare a moratorium on post-mortems and get seriously into the real challenge which is how to defeat the Democrats, the media and the elites all in one fell swoop. It’s not going to be easy. A 55-45 plurality is required just to defeat the fraud and the dead come to life vote.
Right, but here’s the deal. We all need to do what we have to do, but Trump will win this year and 2020 shouldn’t be a problem if Trump is half as good in his first term as I think he will be, like Reagan was.
The BIG issue we should all be thinking about is what will it take to get the right guy in 2024 who will finish the job and dismantle most of the unconstitutional federal government and reinstate the Constitution as the Supreme law of the Land and ONLY legal bulwark of political freedom against federal tyranny.
Short of that, The Trump Movement, like the Reagan Revolution, will amount to a mere eight-year speed bump on the Highway to Hell.
If he wishes to stay in politics he can endorse Trump sooner or later.
In Newt Gingrich's convention speech, Newt wisely gave Cruz an out by explaining how Cruz actually did endorse Trump with his “vote your conscience” and held up that fig leaf for Cruz to grasp.
All Cruz needs to do is reach out and grab the fig leaf Newt held up for him and “clarify” his endorsement of Trump with minimal damage to his political career and minimal loss of dignity and humiliation.
If Cruz remains obstinate, he will eventually be forced to go crawling on his knees to publicly beg Trump to accept his endorsement and his apology to save what is left of his political career.
He probably will not be savvy enough to grasp the fig leaf so generously offered to him by Newt Gingrich.
Don't expect Cruz to take the easy out for the good of the country and the Republican Party.
As Paul Manafort has observed, even after Ted Cruz has finally managed to hammer the absolute last nail in his own coffin, Cruz steadfastly refuses to realize and accept that he is in the coffin, much less take the necessary measures to extricate himself from his own self nailed coffin.
This is a fatal and dangerous personality flaw for an man who wishes to President of the United States, Leader of the Free World and Commander In Chief of a Super Power military with his finger on the nuclear button.
How about being servile to your own word?
Got any substantive evidence of that? That’s a pretty severe slam on his moral character.
Cruz made three calculations last night:
1) Trump will win, but will fail;
2) Or Hillary will win;
3) He will still be a senator in 2020.
I suspect he’s drawing to an inside straight.
DO NOT feel embarrassed Annie,,,, take it as a "heads-up and a "blessing in disguise"
It’s pretty close to being a certifiable nut job, really. I’ve seen it before and it is not pretty.
Cruz has no shot at ever holding a national office. Krauthammer’s statement was right on!
Hey, at least Glenn Beck is still behind him. Glenn had said if Cruz endorses Trump for President he doesn't believe there is anyone in Washington he can trust anymore.
All I can say is you two BFF's enjoy each other. Soon that is all either of you will have left.
Cruz should have honored his pledge. He obviously has forgotten Christ’s command to forgive.
Cruz has turned me into a former Cruz supporter,
I too think it’s time for him to be out of politics.
After his performance over this nomination process, and now even beyond, he’s proven himself unfit to lead. He has also proven he can’t follow. That pretty much makes him useless to us.
I came to believe that Ted was not who he wanted us to believe he was. We, myself included, were fooled by him. Over time, you can’t sustain falsehoods. The truth will out.
It has.
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