This is why Ted Cruz is so instrumental for Republicans.
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But like the 35th President’s shocking murder itself, Priebus thinks Trump’s foray into speculative journalism is all in the past.
“I admire the guts that it took, to go before a crowd that’s heavily pro-Trump”.
Republicans are united in their hatred of the Hillary Clinton, who is scheduled to pick up the Democrats’ nomination at their convention next week in Philadelphia. Or do you think he should have fallen in line and honored his pledge? Clearly a case (or a trait) of selective outrage based in moral relativism. “We need to do things differently than we have in the past”.
Ironically, Michelle Obama herself plagiarized by lifting entire phrases from Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”, and attributed them to her husband. The senator plans to run for re-election in 2018 and has hinted at a second White House run in 2020. But we don’t hear much outrage over those instances.
While addressing thousands of Veterans of Foreign Wars members Tuesday, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence criticized Democrats for not naming ISIS at the Democratic National Convention Monday night.
A campaign speechwriter claimed responsibility for the error, and offered her resignation.
Another rising star in the GOP, Iowa Sen. They like Ted Cruz, but there was no way the Adelsons were going to be the first stop after not endorsing. Some sources referred to it as “The speech of his life”. Trump would later claim he knew about Cruz’s non-endorsement two weeks ago, but his face was that of a man who had been blindsided, as if he were a contestant fired from his own reality show. “You know, tradition means a lot to me”.
As in: “And to those listening, please, don’t stay home in November. Stand and speak and vote your conscience”.
Cruz opened by congratulating Donald Trump on winning the GOP’s presidential nomination – and then didn’t mention him again for the rest of his speech. Cruz will pay for his defiance, Laykin said. Why on earth castigate him for what he didn’t say?
So what if some in the media or the GOP don’t like Cruz? The party faithful don’t see it that way. He didn’t suck it up as most loyalists did and polish presidential nominee, Donald Trump’s apple. Yet just last fall he signed a pledge to do just that.
If the party’s far-right viewpoint contradicts some of the previous views of its nominee, who has expressed support for same-sex couples and been married three times, it’s a trade Trump willingly made for the sake of party unity.
“I was embarrassed to be a Republican last night”, Brubaker said Thursday morning.
He could have done what two of Trump’s rivals did just before him, Gov. Scott Walker and senator Marco Rubio, who endorsed Trump – albeit somewhat coldly – on the national stage in front of millions of viewers globally.
Interestingly, what Cruz did was very similar to what Reagan did in 1976.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, many of these same critics of Cruz are the most vociferous in their denunciation of those who simply vote for the candidate with an “R” behind their name. Note, then-candidate Barack Obama won one of Nebraska’s five electoral votes in 2008, suggesting there are some Democrats in the eastern part of the state. Bernie Sanders tried to do it, and his attempt to overcome a well-funded, ethically suspect Hillary Clinton was beaten back by Clinton. “If you remember the 1,237 delegates, they said I would never get there, and I always felt ‘what are they talking about?'” Trump said. This does not bode well, either for the party for the foreseeable future, or for the November election. He graduated from Idaho State University with degrees in history and political science.
