Wednesday night Ted Cruz will take to the podium at the convention. Will he finally endorse Trump? No one seems to know. Story here.
What Will Cruz Do?
written by Jeanine Martin
July 19, 2016
54 comments
Jeanine Martin
Also known as Lovettsville Lady, I am a Republican activist in the wilds of western Loudoun County.
54 comments
So Cruz gave a rousing speech supporting conservatism and Trump supporters interpret is as an attack on their Orange Overlord.
Interesting that they (and Trump) appear to think that Cruz could not have possibly meant Trump when he urged people to not stay home and to vote for candidates “upticket and down” who they “trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution”. It is almost as if they, too, realize that Trump will not defend our freedom and be faithful to the Constitution.
Amy, it was a good speech, and could have become historically legendary, but it was at convention, not about unity, and had the usual Ted Cruz signature that people just don’t like. I think it was his Checkers speech, let’s hope this bad penny doesn’t come back.
The ‘upticket and down’ was specifically not-Republican, this was a message and code words (like the ones used by KenBeau in earlier skirmishes.)
Perhaps if you get involved and went to Republican meetings and conventions, you would hear more of the speeches and better discern what is being said and what is being meant. You could then vote for delegates and perhaps yourself one day run for national delegate.
I’m afraid ‘faithful to the constitution’ has become like the term ‘grassroots’ — kinda all things to all people. Ee’d Plebnista
Yeah, and all that booing really showed unity. right? Class act those Trumpsters.
All that booing showed a speaker at odds with the desire of the body.
https://youtu.be/nYIs_UTUd0Q
All the booing shows that Trump whips were ginning people up.
Who am I going to believe? You, or my own lying eyes (ears)?
Lying eyes is correct at least. The whips and their bullying behavior were widely reported including by Virginia delegates.
Probably Fox news doctored the tape, they love The Donald. Here’s a report from one of our VA alternates:
“…His refusal to endorse Donald Trump for President was met with thunderous boos across the convention hall, resulting in him getting boo-ed off the stage. It was an amazing occurrence to witness first-hand. I commented to my seatmates that we just observed the end of Ted Cruz’s political career. It’s one thing to give that speech to his supporters during a pep rally that was held for him yesterday afternoon. It’s quite another to give it on a national stage at the RNC convention in front of untold millions watching on TV.”
Let me guess… Trump supporter?
We are all Trump supporters now, so yes.
TV reports, columnists, attendees, my fellow Republicans, all kinda reporting the same thing. I show you clips, tell you what I saw, show you first hand testimony from people we know. You are far from Missouri on this one.
Is your position that Ted Cruz only was booed by a minority at the convention that were ginned up to do so by Trump agitators and RNC Whips who were threatening and bullying delegates?
I like a conspiracy as much as the next guy, but you’re venturing out beyond Al Bielek.
Nixon endorsed Goldwater in 1964 and then won the Presidential election 4 years later. Cruz may look at this the same way: Better to keep the doors open (I know, for once in the case of Cruz).
Funny how people who were younger contenders and are looking to the future showed up to this convention, while older ones who are unlikely to run again stayed away.
Nah, it was a political retirement speech. The only reason he was in attendance was he had hoped that his minions could have thwarted the will of the Party.
Good point, the folks that ‘Cruzed’ Goldwater didn’t share the same success as Nixon and Reagan.
Reagan didn’t endorse Ford in ’76 and won 4 years later.
Ted Cruz will give a better unity speech than Reagan in 76 (http://www.nationalcenter.org/ReaganConvention1976.html) and will work harder himself, and urge his supporters to work harder for Donald Trump than they have for Cruz. In this way he will redeem himself in the eyes of ALL the party. (Still ineligible though until AmyH amends the Constitution before 2020.)
Cruz is a class act, I think you’re right.
Apparently not
Yes, he is. http://theresurgent.com/ted-cruz-conservative-icon-delivers-speech-of-his-life-in-cleveland/ Every. word. of. that.
A) That was not a class act, clearly an act, but in no way classy.
B) I was wrong, and he decided to double-down on dumbass instead.
The funny thing is, he united the convention not so much Pro-Trump but Anti-Cruz.
Nope, wrong again. Trump and minions helped solidify many into the #nevertrump crowd. Booing is not unifying, despite what the Trumpsters want people to believe.
So it was a class act? and you agreed with me prior to the speech that Cruz would preach solidarity and unity and be like Reagan? Hardly.
Go watch the crowds again, different sources, this was not a happy reaction.
People at the convention were conveying displeasure — opposite of happy, cheering, and whistling. The sentiment of the convention from what I watched, read, heard, and am receiving is ‘He blew it’ and everybody knows.
He was politically endearing to no one.
I fear you are sadly mistaken if you are under the impression that the behavior of Beau, Ken, whatshername, and now Ted is increasing the number of #nevertrump lemmings.
I simply can’t imagine any delegate or rational voter thinking to themselves “I’m wasn’t sure that becoming a NotTrump supporter was a path to political victory, but now that I’ve heard Ted’s ‘standing on a dead cop to break his word to support the nominee’ speech, I’m all on board.”
Never Trumpers suffer from the same mental illness as Liberals, they are a pathetic lot that love only themselves. I almost feel sorry for them. The sooner we cleanse the party of them the better off we are. Anyone that believes what Cruz did was somehow noble and a man of principle is simply a lost cause. Even some of the most staunch Cruz supporters I know said that they were done and finally could see the light of what the rest of us had been saying about him.
Yes, you all have made it clear that you can win without the Cruz supporters and without any real conservatives. You don’t want our votes. Works for me! Frees up my summer and fall! I’m thinking of another trip to Europe in September, or perhaps Iceland. It’s great to not have a dog in this fight! You Trump supporters have done us a great favor. Thank you!
You are welcome. Real conservative, what a joke that term is. So glad you admit that you are selfish and taking care of you and not the country, you are even leaving the country. Please stay overseas because you certainly are not American, don’t let the Allah Snackbars get you.
Only in your delusions is Cruz ineligible.
Only until you fix the Constitution.
Guess I was wrong — he’s no Reagan after all
Here’s Mark Dice from YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8tc1gZI7kw
Lou Dobbs not too happy either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOBNn91MJxM
Oh NO! Lou Dobbs is upset! And all three people who like him care.
Booing Trumpsters, keeping it classy as they always do.
A) if it was just the trump supporters, there should be no doubt as to the ayes and the nays in days prior.
B) Classy like Ken and Beau? You think Cruz is classy in this?
C) With this kind of behavior, and this kind of response, do you think Ted could have won over America?
Once again demonstrates why he came in 3rd in Virginia and people just don’t like him.
Yeah, that’s the way to unify the party! The Trumpsters have succeeded in knocking me right off the fence. I’m with Comstock and Shaun Kenney. Strange bedfellows indeed!
Yeah, right, fence.
Just as it’s extremely to trust anything that Lyin’ Ted has to say now, it’s equally difficult to believe that #NeverAnyones would change their spots.
Comstock and Kenney are going to be on the other side of the fence of anyone other than their self-serving choice.
There is no great shame in not being Republican, it is an acquired affliction.
It just makes it more difficult to forward a conservative agenda when compatriots blinded by a narcissistic politician choose self-exile.
The purpose of politics is not to satisfy the interests of individuals
living now. It is to preserve a social order which addresses the needs
of generations past, present and future
It’s not about Cruz, it’s all about Trump. He’s the nominee and the reason many like Barbara Comstock can’t support the Republican nominee. It’s Trump, and his supporters, who turn people away from the Republican party.
This topic was ‘What Will Cruz Do?’ Both you and I thought he would do the Classy thing and give a speech that would be Epic. He instead gave a speech solidifying his ‘Lyin Ted’ brand. The code words, the smirks, the total disregard for the audience and why they were there. It was a hero or the goat moment and he got bleat.
Not to mention he submitted one speech to be vetted and then changed it when he was on stage. Yeah, Lying Ted is the perfect name for him.
Only the whining cry babies can’t support Trump. You people will go down in history as the sorest losers ever. Apparently your parents weren’t around to teach you life doesn’t always give you what you want.
And yet again more repetition of lying Donald’s lying rhetoric.
LMAO! You and Shaun Kenney, now that is a match made in heaven.
And he’s no populist either. Quite the opposite.
What he is is a Constitutional conservative. I heartily approve.
He is neither and indeed quite the opposite as well. He is contraindicated by Article II and clearly does not respect established and traditional practices.
Things you write on a copy of the Constitution in crayon are not actually part of the Constitution.
It’s not your fault. You and a whole bunch of others tried really hard, against reason and odds, but he’s going to do what he’s going to do. There will be other, better, conservatives to support and believe in, and Donald Trump has given us the opportunity to find them and raise them.
Reagan did exactly what Cruz did… he extolled conservative values and failed to endorse Ford. That was the right thing to do and hurt him in 1980 not at all.
You know, when I refer to, and provide supporting material, you’re supposed to review, comprehend and consider it. You are saying that Ronald Reagan’s impromptu speech here: http://www.nationalcenter.org/ReaganConvention1976.html is the same as Ted Cruz speech last night?
Reagan endorsed Ford, worked and campaigned for Ford harder than he ran his own race and instructed his supporters to do the same.
You really should read up and learn about what went down in 1980.
Ted would truly have to be Grandpa Munster to come back from last night’s political death.
At no point in that speech did Reagan endorse. He never campaigned for Ford either despite Ford’s pleas that he do so.
That’s the marvelous thing about these intertubes, anyone can post anything and pretend it’s fact. Again I urge you to study up on your history and talk to some of the people involved back then. Reagan went anywhere the Ford Campaign told him to and stood down where instructed as well. We were directed to vehemently support the nominee and show them what party unity really was.
You watched Ted Cruz retirement speech last night and I urge you to read/watch/listen to Reagan’s _impromptu_ speech at the 76 convention. Night and Day.
Your bitterness and misplaced zeal blind you to political realities. Please get well soon.
Per the Reagan historians, and contemporaneous newspaper articles, no he did not. No amount of you claiming the Reagan endorsed will put the words :”I endorse Gerald Ford for President” or “I urge you to vote for Gerald Ford” OR “I intend to vote for Gerald Ford” into the speech you linked (which I had already read).
Reagan did not endorse and, although he did campaign for other Republicans around the country, HE DID NOT campaign for Ford.
I guess it all comes down to what the meaning of ‘endorse’ is. All I know is what I was told by returning delegates/alternates in 76, was instructed to do by my party bosses, and what was again confirmed by Reagan Staffers/Operatives in 79 and 80. I’ve also looked up references at the various presidential libraries and am satisfied that I am, as usual, right.
Ted Cruz is more done than a dead parrot. You are not a Republican, you don’t seem to have helped with the choice of our candidates and nominees, and are a very enthusiastic and fawning Cruz buff.
All political parties wax and wane and have standard bearers and luminaries that are often flashes in the pan.
After you’ve healed, I strongly suggest you get involved with the local party, attend a convention or two, vote for some delegates and participate with your heart AND your head.
I’m going to let you off the hook with your efforts to amend the Constitution to enable Ted Cruz to become eligible — after last night, there’s really no point in doing so anymore.
“I guess it all comes down to what the meaning of ‘endorse’ is.”
Who are you, Bill Clinton? We are not parsing words here as they have specific meanings already.
Bingo!
I hope not… it is not necessary and Cruz’s first loyalty should remain to the conservative cause.