I retract all my previous declarations to the contrary – Senator Ted Cruz should stay in this campaign all the way through the National Republican Convention. Ted Cruz has the money, the organization, and the conservative support to fight all the way to the end; and that is precisely what he should do.
I don’t care if Rubio does find a way to buy enough endorsements from enough liberal, squishy, backstabbing establishment hacks in order to pull off a slight delegate lead by March 14th. Stopping Donald Trump is not important enough to fall in line behind a candidate like Senator Marco Rubio.
I retract all previous statements indicating that conservatives should rally around Rubio to defeat Donald Trump, if Ted Cruz loses Super Tuesday and falls behind Marco Rubio in delegates after March 8th,. I don’t care if Senator Rubio and Senator Cruz split votes, handing Donald Trump State after State after State. Marco Rubio has lied repeatedly about his record and about his opponents record throughout the campaign. Marco Rubio has reached out to the worst of the worst establishment hacks and billionaire corporatists, just to claw his way into an almost tie for second place.
How much more of his soul he has left to sell and just how many more corporatist, donor-class, elitists want to purchase a piece of that transcendental Rubio Pie, I do not know. What I do know, is that his campaign now is the battle flag for everything conservatives, constitutionalists, and libertarians have fought against for the last decade; and I’ll be damned, if for electoral expediency and fear of the fascist in chief, Donald Trump, I’ll lend one breath of my support to his cause.
I have, for months, been trying to ignore donor after donor, endorsement after endorsement, from enemies of the liberty movement falling into Rubio’s lap. Donald Trump, I’d tell myself, is simply too dangerous to worry about the Establishment’s new love affair with Rubio.
In fact, last night, while speaking to the 99th TEA Party, I argued that if Marco Rubio is now the establishment’s choice for President, then the TEA Party has already won! The establishment is backing one of our own! I believed it when I said it. I felt that it was true. I hoped that Marco Rubio was merely opportunistic, was playing the establishment, and was not selling out to them.
Then I awake this morning to the news that Henry Barbour, the nephew of notorious republican plodder Haley Barbour, had endorsed Senator Marco Rubio. I simply couldn’t take it. Henry Barbour is famous for one thing and one thing only: persuading black Democrats in urban centers to vote for Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, through the most disgusting and nefarious race baiting campaign ever devised by a republican reprobate and directed at conservative constitutionalist candidate Chris McDaniel, who looked to defeat Cochran outright.
It worked.
But… I’ll never forget The Muck in Mississippi.
Marco bailed on CPAC, on the Conservative Convention in South Carolina, and on just about every promise he ever made to the conservatives he represents in the great State of Florida. How could I not see more clearly that he had completely sold us out? Obviously, blinded by my repulsion to Donald Trump and horror at the rise of authoritarian populism within the Republican Party, I simply did not see what I did not want to see.
Senator Marco Rubio has committed himself completely to the establishment wing of the Republican Party, to the Chamber of Commerce, and to the entirety of the corrupt Corporatist class.
I know that by stating this I am helping Donald Trump. I know that if Cruz refuses to get out of the race, he could also be seen as helping Donald Trump. However, what is the point in defeating Donald Trump if the alternative is Marco Rubio?
The hysteria of Trump supporters who claim that Ted Cruz is owned by Goldman Sachs, while Trump owes hundreds of millions of dollars to dozens of North American banks was laughable. That Donald Trump and his supporters recognized only Ted Cruz posed a threat to their national coup d’etat has caused them to focus all of their irrational fury on Senator Cruz. Meanwhile, Senator Rubio now builds the largest and most corrupt corporatist campaign army in the race. The only thing that would make Senator Cruz dropping out of the race worth it, is to see the looks on the faces of Trump Supporters when the Republican Establishment crushes their messiah at the last second. However, as satisfying as that would be to watch, it isn’t worth it.
Ted Cruz should stay in the race and he should try to win. As more and more pseudo-conservatives step out of their sheep skin and into their wolf costumes, the harder it gets for Senator Cruz to see a path to victory. Thus, it is the path we don’t see into which we must place our hopes.
We should not deprive conservatives in any State of the opportunity to vote for a true conservative. We should not ask any state to choose between Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. That is simply cruel and unusual punishment. If Ted Cruz fails to win his party’s nomination for President, he should at the very least demonstrate that at no point will he bow to the old powers and influence of the Republican Establishment, nor shrink in the face of aggressively anti-constitutional populist movements, no matter how popular they might be.
If Senator Rubio would like to drop out and turn this into a two candidate race, let him do so now. If not, then a three candidate race it will be, and should be until the end.
Originally published on PendletonPenn.com
22 comments
This election cycle started out with such promise. I thought that Trump’s addition would provide another viable option. Now we are faced with the prospect of having a megalomaniac with sky-high negatives as the Republican standard bearer. The dream has become a nightmare.
You said it.
The voters are deciding who will be our next president and really don’t care what you think as evident by the high voter turnout and huge wins for Trump.
Those negatives must be from liberals and those in a full panic mode of Trump winning.
Nope, general opinion poll. Trump’s negatives, with 63% of respondents holding a negative opinion of him, were one point higher than Bill Cosby’s, which was 62%.
A rapist is better liked than Trump. As is Al Sharpton, a notorious tax cheat who is tacitly responsible for several deaths.
Yes, Donna. That is our concern. The VOTERS have a highly negative opinion of Trump … a far cry from the exalted opinion that he has of himself.
Corey Stewart and Brian Schoneman both agree that Mr. Trump will be the nominee. Should Ted fight the party’s will and give it to amnesty Marcobot?
What happens if Rubio and Trump end up being the only choices. 8/
The members of Congress endorsing Sen. Ted Cruz have a conservative rating of better than B. Both the endorsers of Rubio and Kasich have conservative ratings of F. If you will listen to Mark Levin, whom I consider to be a dyed-in-the-wool conservative and Constitutional scholar, you will learn of all the irresponsible charges made by Rubio against Cruz as well as those made by Turmp.
Well-said. It is time for conservatives to put on their thinking-caps.
We all started out with high hopes for Rubio but we now know without a doubt that he is total GOP Establishment and pro-Amnesty – he has proven already that he cannot be relied upon to stick to his word when he gets elected to the office for which he is campaigning. In addition to everything else, he cast the 60th vote for TPA (Obamatrade), and he supports Big Government cronyism via ethanol subsidies – which indicates a lack of principle that should be quite troubling since cronyism and Government being involved where it should not be is one of the major drivers of our current horrible situation.
Many conservatives and Tea Party folks and Christians jumped behind Donald Trump because (in this primary season) he says what they have been yearning to hear – but on 80-90% of the most important issues (Amnesty and ISIS excepted) – INCLUDING OBAMACARE, he is absolutely not aligned with conservatism or Tea Party principles or Christian values.
The only principled Tea Party candidate (and Tea Party = limited government, anti-cronyism, equality under law, limited Federal spending, fair taxation, protection of property rights, protection of free speech and religious liberty, and opposition to socialism) in this race is Ted Cruz. And he has proven it by going to Washington and doing (*gasp!*) exactly what he said he would do when he was campaigning for the Senate in Texas.
PERIOD!
Furthermore, unlike Rubio and Trump, Cruz has not (to my knowledge) responded in kind by engaging in false personal accusations against the other candidates. Presidential.
agree with this article 100% Washington doesn’t want Trump, but thinks they can work with him. the one they REALLY don’t want is Cruz. I say, that’s the one to send. If not doable, then Trump.
Finally Steven you get it! No matter what the elitist throw we DO NOT capitulate! We do not hold our nose and just take whatever they give. As constitutional conservatives we hold the line.
“If not us who, if not now when”?
If the establishment refuse to “get it “, then they allow Trump to burn it to the ground (reference from your previous post).
I have no problem admitting when I’m wrong. 🙂 I’m just glad it happens so seldom lol.
No one is perfect – least of all The Donald. Cruz simply comes across as a pedantic moralizer, who, as a result, will have very little cross over appeal. Marco Rubio lies about his positions WRT illegal immigration. The good news for all of these three flawed candidates is that Hilary is an incredibly weak and wounded o0pponent. She lacks ZERO appeal to young white voters who will simply stay home or gamble on the Donald or Marco come election day.
Hillary can’t get young people (necessary for her to win) and Bernie can’t get african-americans and old people (his people) necessary to win. The Democrats are screwed no matter who wins.
I really do believe the Democrats are screwed this time around.
They’ve taken a beating in two elections, but because their President stayed in office the frustration that conservatives have had since as far back as the beginning of the TEA party has only increased.
Sanders, let’s face it, is a non-starter in a general election, there’s no way that guy wins. Clinton, does anyone trust this woman, even Democrats ?
I think we (conservatives) might finally win one.
Cruz has demonstrated he doesn’t have the integrity to stay in the race with all f his deceptive tactics which are now catching up to him and causing him to lose votes.
Rubio has told so many lies out in the public forum about his record that he is having a difficult time remembering which lie he told to which group he told it to.
Finally, I know as a Trump supporter and volunteer that the folks supporting Trump are a cross section of the electorate. Many women like myself are supporting Trump as well as Hispanics and Africam Americans.
The press is not reporting this info but the results of the caucus and primary races are indicating wide spread support for Trump.
The Crz and Rubio supporters can remain in denial about Trmp’s success but the election results reflect Trump’s appeal and strength.
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Denial? Like denying that Trump has the highest unfavorable ratings amongst all of the candidates? That he is the weakest general election candidate?
Here is something for you to read Eric.http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/24/political-science-professor-odds-of-president-trump-range-between-97-and-99/
You sure you aren’t the Donald, Donna W? Here we are pointing to data and you’re ignoring that in favor of the implausible claims of some random person who doesn’t offer anything to back them up.
You’re simply fantasizing if you think the results in the 4 states that have voted so far show that Trump has appeal and strength. Trump is getting a plurality of the fraction of registered/self-identified Republicans that has voted in the primaries/caucuses so far. It is true that there’s very little solid evidence at this point about the general election. But the results so far seem far less convincing about his ultimate potential than his high unfavorables generally (even among solid conservatives who hate Hillary).
While you are in denial of Trumps successes I already made over 200 calls in aone and half hours to voters in Va.
It is a inconvenient truth for those who oppose Trump that he is winning.
So continue to fantasize David that Teump is not winning and I will continue to operate in the real world.
Of course Trump is winning. I, unlike you (and the Donald), pay attention to facts. Try again on reading & understanding my comment.