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Cruz supporters alarmed by possible Trump endorsement
Washington Examiner ^ | September 22, 2016 | By DAVID M. DRUCKER

Posted on 09/22/2016 12:25:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

Ted Cruz supporters were alarmed Wednesday at suggestions that he was on the verge of endorsing Donald Trump.

They worry that the Texas senator could squander his brand as a fighter — and goodwill earned among many through his stubborn refusal to back his party's nominee — if he caves with nothing to show for it.

Cruz has held out on the grounds that Trump is insufficiently conservative, and because Trump attacked his wife and father down the stretch of their heated battle for the Republican nomination.

The senator even took the extraordinary step of declining to endorse Trump during a televised, prime time speech delivered from the stage of the New York businessman's own nominating convention.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016endorsements; 2016gopprimary; cruz; cruz2016; elections; endorsement; trump
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To: Jim Robinson

“Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.”

Interesting comment, given Cruz’s actions these last months.


261 posted on 09/22/2016 3:50:19 PM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: bushwon

Relax and breathe. You said you didn’t know where the leadership stood. My comment was meant to suggest we know where they stood. I think and have encouraged people to contact their congress critters

We are on the same side here


262 posted on 09/22/2016 3:51:20 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: SunshinesStormySummerSon

“He made a promise to support, he didn’t take an oath to make an endorsement.”

That’s called quibbling: an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
But who cares?


263 posted on 09/22/2016 3:52:10 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: bushwon

What resistance. I have not seen anything that even looks like resistance

And your final statement sounds so Glenn beck it is pathetic


264 posted on 09/22/2016 3:52:42 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Other than Eric Erickson (who came to Cruz much less enthusiastically than ant-Trump and Beck) can anyone name a single Cruz supporter who cares who Cruz endorses? We former Cruz supporters are into issues, not personalities.


265 posted on 09/22/2016 3:57:19 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: Tucker39

“What sort of “supporter” is it who would prefer their candidate welsh on a pledge to support the Party’s nominee and be a lying weasel, than to step up, honor his pledge, and at least have THAT scrap of honor to stand on if he ever seeks office again. He now has NONE.”

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The kind of supporter that posts here (most of them former Freepers) : http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,226251.msg1063564/topicseen.html#msg1063564


266 posted on 09/22/2016 4:04:23 PM PDT by alicewonders
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To: Nifster

So just what have YOU done??? I mean besides cut down my efforts on an internet forum.

Glenn Beck? Sure whatever...
Don’t reply back to me I don’t need your negativity.


267 posted on 09/22/2016 4:04:46 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Election is about National Sovereignty, Liberty, and Freedom for future generations)
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To: alicewonders; All
The kind of supporter that posts here (most of them former Freepers) : http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,226251.msg1063564/topicseen.html#msg1063564

Wow! What a dump... look at post # 7 in that thread: http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,226251.msg1063726.html#msg1063726

268 posted on 09/22/2016 4:08:55 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: Jim Robinson
Mister Cruz has totally ticked-off many, many of his former supporters by his childish refusal to unreservedly endorse the GOP BASE'S nomination.

His chance of ever getting the nom was once not bad, but now it's not possible.

Were he to endorse Cruz/Pence (without any petulant, snarky comments or whining), it might help Mister Cruz, but it would not unring the awful bell of his disgraceful convention performance.

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269 posted on 09/22/2016 4:08:59 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Anyone who chooses to put themselves in the way of God in such a manner, without prejudice as to whom addressed.”

You didn’t answer my question simply and directly. I’m not even sure what your reply means, whether it’s directed at me personally, or what.

Forget I even asked.


270 posted on 09/22/2016 4:12:02 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: zzeeman

“Wow! What a dump... look at post # 7 in that thread: http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,226251.msg1063726.html#msg1063726";

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I can see why many of them got zotted - what a nasty bunch!


271 posted on 09/22/2016 4:12:36 PM PDT by alicewonders
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To: castlegreyskull

You and your bar. I can barely drive to a MD much less a bar. What I wrote is a fact that every officer knows plus most men who have any honor. Cruz is an attorney and he signed the legally binding agreement. You are a smart ass.


272 posted on 09/22/2016 4:16:40 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Nifster

I dislike Toxic Ted. A lot. TT isn’t an immediate problem to us. The witch is. We need to deal with the immediate problem.


273 posted on 09/22/2016 4:17:51 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Make phone calls. Knock on doors. Write letters. Or wake to a nightmare in November)
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To: alicewonders
I can see why many of them got zotted - what a nasty bunch!

A nasty bunch that can't just walk away.... they have to disparage Jim and FReepers whenever they get a chance. What a sick bunch.

274 posted on 09/22/2016 4:17:54 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: bushwon

I haven’t cut down your efforts. Do you even read what is posted? I have already stated what I have and continue to do

You really need to take a deep breath and chill because your anger has confused you


275 posted on 09/22/2016 4:18:07 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Jim Robinson

Even if he does he can still ESAD. IMO


276 posted on 09/22/2016 4:19:34 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: RKBA Democrat

Agreed


277 posted on 09/22/2016 4:20:18 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: free_life
Look at post #266 in this thread.... a nasty bunch congregating.
278 posted on 09/22/2016 4:22:09 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: M Kehoe

Ooops, I stuttered.

Hickup.

5.56mm


279 posted on 09/22/2016 4:24:22 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: WENDLE
I don’t care what Cruz does or doesn’t do any more.

I agree. His smug performance at the convention sealed his fate.

It will take a whole lot of Atta boys to make up for that giant Oh Crap Moment, when he went out of his way, to smear the nominee.

Talk about being politically deaf.

280 posted on 09/22/2016 4:38:51 PM PDT by Dustoff45 (We are down to the Super Bowl of politics - Winner take all)
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