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“This isn’t just a team sport. We don’t just put on red jerseys or blue jerseys and, ‘Yaaay!’ ” Cruz said. “This is about principles and ideals. This is about standing for what we believe in.”
It was a stand that had to be taken, Cruz said, even though he and other GOP primary candidates pledged last fall to back the eventual party nominee.
“The day that was abrogated was the day this became personal,” he said. “I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.”
I fail to understand why this is so difficult for people to comprehend. They booed him because he did not keep his word. You can't talk about integrity and principles when you won't even honor a pledge that you made.
It doesn't matter how "stupid" that pledge may seem to liberals, it was made, and he did not follow through on it and keep his word.
THAT is why he was booed.
Donald denounced the pledge in March and knew that Cruz was not going to endorse him. This is a "trumped" up outrage by Donald's henchmen to take focus from Donald and put it elsewhere.
I did appreciate what Cruz did at the RNC. That took some balls. donald said some pretty nasty things about the Cruz family and I thought he did the honorable thing. Good for him I say. He does have some backbone.
Also, donald coming out and showing the thumbs up was a move...not a support or show he was a "bigger man". He is not the "bigger man"...he is a megalomaniac and his coming out from his corner was something like a dictatorship tactic.
The pledge does not apply if the candidate dishonors himself and others the way that Trump clearly did during this campaign. The expectation of this support is not without limits and Trump far exceeded those limits.
Trump disqualified himself from having any moral expectation of receiving Cruz's support. The amazing thing is how many Republicans ARE supporting this slimy dishonorable turd of a person anyway.
Trump did no such thing. Trump never dishonored himself. He attacked when he was attacked.Trump had a right when they attacked him and he did.
In the early decades of our nation, if a candidate had behaved like Donald Trump did during a contest like this, a challenge for a duel would have been made and Trump would have likely had his campaign ended with his brains splattered across a grass field somewhere.
But being a reasonable man of remarkable composure, Ted Cruz just restricted himself to not endorsing this world-class turd of a man and encouraged others to "vote their conscience." Which if it were possible to vote for Donald Trump in good conscience, would not have bothered anyone.
There is no way that Ted Cruz could have honorably endorsed Donald Trump after Donald Trump's disgracefully dishonorable behavior towards Cruz, his wife, and his father, not to mention a great many other people. And it is preposterously selfish and tribal in an almost psychotic sort of way for anyone to have expected him to do so.
He didn't endorse Trump and he should not have. Trump has nobody but himself to blame, as he earned the treatment that he got, right out in the open for everyone to see. What comes around, goes around. Trump is reaping what he has sown.
You seem to forget, Cruz made disparaging remarks about Trump's wife first, Don just struck back.
Trump is going to make a great president and you will soon have to admit how wrong you were. It's OK, we understand..
If Trump doesn't win, Cruz can forget about 2020. he's a dead man.
No matter what happens, Cruz's career is over. They are already looking for a suitable candidate to run against him in the next election, and these are his supporters... It was his supporters who were booing him the loudest.
Charles Krauthammer said it best, Cruz's speech was the longest suicide note in political history...
As one of his fellow congressmen said, he is hated by his constituents, now the rest of the world sees him for what he is, a self center, me me me person.
You seem to forget, Cruz made disparaging remarks about Trump's wife first, Don just struck back.
Trump is going to make a great president and you will soon have to admit how wrong you were. It's OK, we understand..
Cruz used his SUPER PACS to attack his opponents....went after Trump and his wife Melania and now he acts all holy and the victim when Trump beat him at his own game.
I call that a sore loser!
by the way, Trump never said Cruz's father was behind the JFK killing. He said that Cruz dad knew Lee Harvey Oswald and both were at a political event together 3 months before JFK got killed and there are pics to prove it.....that is fair game.
Cruz was bashing Trump for months that he supported liberals and socialists all his life and Trump answered well your Dad supported Lee Harvey Oswald a known communist and here is the picture to prove it.....BALL GAME!!! Cruz lost his cool in Indiana and Trump won the mental game there.
if you don't like people going after you and your family don't do it first or pay somebody else to do it and then play the victim card.
And Donald brought that tabloid trash up again today. Despicable.
You guys really don't even know what you see. First of all, Cruz insulted Donald's wife first, Donald responded..
As far as Cruz's father, Donald never accused him of having anything to do with JFK' assassination, he merely pointed out the headlines of a newspaper which showed, on the front page, a picture of Cruz Sr.
sitting at a table having lunch with Lee Harvey Oswald three days before the assassination.
That was all that was said, there were no accusations made as to papa having anything to do with the murder.
Why do lefties hate facts so much?
No matter what happens, Cruz's career is over. They are already looking for a suitable candidate to run against him in the next election, and these are his supporters... It was his supporters who were booing him the loudest.
Charles Krauthammer said it best, Cruz's speech was the longest suicide note in political history...
As one of his fellow congressmen said, he is hated by his constituents, now the rest of the world sees him for what he is, a self center, me me me person.
Who knows? Things may look different in a couple of years if Trump goes down to a big defeat. Cruz might get some belated credit from many GOP voters for not endorsing Trump.
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