Why else would all these Establishment failures be endorsing him for President? Good day all. Senator Ted Cruz has made a name for himself by really pissing off the GOP(e) types in the United States Senate, up to and including calling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar.
The Establishment Republicans have been going after Cruz for years, and when he started running for the Republican Presidential nomination, they doubled down on attacking him. Now, all those people are playing kissy face with Cruz. What’s changed? In two words, Donald Trump. Here are some of the details from the Washington Times:
Former Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush endorsed erstwhile rival Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday, giving Mr. Cruz a further boost just hours after he posted a resounding victory in Utah’s caucuses with a stunning 69 percent of the vote.
Notice that no mention was made regarding Ted Cruz’s crushing defeat by Donald Trump in Arizona, which had more delegates to award? Funny that.
Mr. Bush, who dropped his own bid last month, said Mr. Cruz is a “consistent and principled conservative” and that he gives Republicans their best chance to stop front-runner Donald Trump and capture the White House in November.
First, Juan! Bush wouldn’t know a conservative if one came up and kicked him in his nonexistent testicles. Cruz is what many call a conservative, and for many people he is the second choice after Donald Trump. Or he was until recently.
“For the sake of our party and country, we must move to overcome the divisiveness and vulgarity Donald Trump has brought into the political arena, or we will certainly lose our chance to defeat the Democratic nominee and reverse President Obama’s failed policies,” Mr. Bush said.
Allow me to provide a translation for you, courtesy of Mel Brooks.
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Yep, the GOP(e) knows that if Trump wins the nomination and the general election, all the Establishment types are going to be out in the cold, looking for real jobs.
The former Florida governor’s backing is the latest sign that establishment Republicans, long wary of Mr. Cruz, consider him the lesser danger to themselves and their party than Mr. Trump. Mr. Bush joins other former presidential candidates Sen. Lindsey Graham, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and businesswoman Carly Fiorina in backing Mr. Cruz.
Wow! A veritable Who’s Who of RINO’s, political and business failures. Perry alone has failed miserably in two attempts at the White House. Granted he was the Governor of Texas and Cruz is the Senator from Texas, which is one reason he would be expected to endorse him. Juan! Bush? Yeah, nothing like getting the endorsement of someone so thoroughly rejected by everyone.
“What we’re seeing is that old Reagan coalition coming together,” Mr. Cruz said at a campaign stop in New York City. “Across the spectrum, Republicans are uniting. Independents are uniting, libertarians are uniting, Democrats who are tired of what we’re doing are uniting.”
Well, Cruz is partially correct. There is a new broad based coalition growing, but it isn’t backing you. It looks like they’re all going for Trump.
Mr. Graham, a South Carolina Republican who has battled Mr. Cruz in the Senate, has openly acknowledged that the Texan wasn’t his first choice. But Mr. Graham said he is now the only one left who can stop Mr. Trump.
Lindsey “Oh look! A new fabric store!” Graham? Someone who has constantly belittled Cruz? Someone who actually though it would be a good idea if Cruz was assassinated?
Earlier this year, Mr. Graham said that choosing between a Cruz nomination and a Trump nomination is “like being shot or poisoned.” At a recent press dinner in Washington, Mr. Graham also joked that if someone killed Mr. Cruz on the floor of the U.S. Senate and the trial were held there, nobody would vote for a conviction.
“That really was a first for me,” Mr. Cruz joked Wednesday. “I’d never before had an event hosted by someone who three weeks earlier publicly called for my murder.”
Ted Cruz may think these endorsements will help him, and they might help a little. However, he’s failing to see the bigger picture which is to stop Donald Trump at all costs. The plan here is to force a brokered convention. If Cruz manages to keep Trump from getting the nomination on the first ballot, he’s going to find out just how much his new “Friends” really support him.
Bluntly, if it goes that way, a brokered convention, the GOP(e) will toss Cruz over the side with Trump and put a RINO loser in like Mittens Romney or Paul Ryan with an outside possibility of the Hunchback of Ohio, John Kasich. There is no way in Hell they will really allow Cruz to run and possibly win the election. As we’ve seen in the past, the GOP(e) is perfectly fine with being in second place, as long as they continue to get their goodies.
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I too believe their motives are ulterior. But believe they may think they can push him over the top to get the delegates and then the R’s lose again. I have serious doubts that Cruz can win the national especially when the claws come out and someone sues him over his NBC status. Also he can’t win a debate with the vay jay. He’ll debate like mitt. And I am not feeling like pulling the lever for him is the right thing anymore. His reaction to the violence at the Trump rally was very donkey like. And refusing to condemn the ad attacking Trumps wife, especially when Trump spoke against the attack on Cruz’ children was just wrong.