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Offline austingirl

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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #600 on: July 21, 2016, 02:00:15 am »
Cruz was great. No endorsement of lyin' Donald.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #601 on: July 21, 2016, 02:00:25 am »
Quote from: AbaraXas on July 21, 2016, 01:57:48 am
Trump just walked in upstaging Cruz.

I knew it. He couldn't let that great speech take his limelight.

RIP Republican Party- you did this to yourself- you just showed populism is more important than values. You booed saying to vote for your values and the Constitution-- how vile has that become?

The narcissist strikes again.

I swear, that man is downright evil.  He has a small child's neediness, and an adult level of sinfulness.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #602 on: July 21, 2016, 02:00:32 am »
Quote from: RAT Patrol on July 21, 2016, 01:56:19 am
That is a foundational principle.  People who boo are anti-American and anti-Constitution.  They want to return to a monarchy I guess.

They even booed when he said 'vote to defend the Constitution'.

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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #603 on: July 21, 2016, 02:00:56 am »
Trump people are rude and crude. Even the orange baboon upstaged Cruz. Cruz should come out tomorrow and endorse the constitution party.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #604 on: July 21, 2016, 02:00:57 am »
Quote from: Jazzhead on July 21, 2016, 01:58:21 am
VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE,  UP AND DOWN THE TICKET.

Brilliant speech, TC. 

Amazing how the crowd is reacting.  It's like a boil ready to blow.

He won't mention Trump by name.

He began his speech congratulating Trump   He did not endorse   I think that was the right decision and one heck of a speech   It was very Petty of Trump to interrupt the speech but totally in character
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #605 on: July 21, 2016, 02:01:11 am »
Trump kiddie saying, "He's done this all before in the real world... with his own money..."

*cough* bullsh!t *cough*

Trump is so highly leveraged on every deal he makes. Then he stiffs the little contractor when the deal is mismanaged and goes sideways.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #606 on: July 21, 2016, 02:01:25 am »
Well played by Cruz.

If Trump had a brain, the call would be, "Ted, what I gotta do to get you on board?"
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #607 on: July 21, 2016, 02:01:54 am »
Quote from: RetBobbyMI on July 21, 2016, 02:00:56 am
Trump people are rude and crude. Even the orange baboon upstaged Cruz. Cruz should come out tomorrow and endorse the constitution party.

After tonight our divorce is final.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #608 on: July 21, 2016, 02:01:54 am »
What a prized jackass of a presidential candidate. So lacking in confidence that he had to walk in on the end of Cruz's speech.
« Last Edit: July 21, 2016, 02:02:25 am by Bunny Watson »
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #609 on: July 21, 2016, 02:02:07 am »


Oh, yeah, Cruz is the conservative, Trump is the liberal, why was Cruz so buddy buddy with Trump for all of that time.

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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #610 on: July 21, 2016, 02:02:21 am »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on July 21, 2016, 01:58:57 am
My neighbor has a Texas flag hanging in his yard.

He and his wife just moved up from Texas.

Texans are sure proud of being Texans !!  Good for your neighbor!!
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #611 on: July 21, 2016, 02:02:36 am »
Quote from: AbaraXas on July 21, 2016, 01:57:48 am
Trump just walked in upstaging Cruz.

I knew it. He couldn't let that great speech take his limelight.

RIP Republican Party- you did this to yourself- you just showed populism is more important than values. You booed saying to vote for your values and the Constitution-- how vile has that become?

Trump is an A-HOLE!  What a shameful display from him and the NY delegation.

Cruz gave a fantastic, uplifting speech!  Oh, what could have been!

The entire Trump family is vile, IMO.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #612 on: July 21, 2016, 02:02:43 am »

Thank you Ted.

Folks, we just saw the President  America Deserves.

What a radiant difference between the choice presented today.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #613 on: July 21, 2016, 02:03:16 am »
Quote from: Texas Yellow Rose on July 21, 2016, 02:02:21 am
Texans are sure proud of being Texans !!  Good for your neighbor!!

I wish you guys had waves. I'd be there tomorrow.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #614 on: July 21, 2016, 02:03:17 am »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 21, 2016, 12:48:18 am
I would think it would be gracious to not mention DT in the speech.

Which is EXACTLY what happened!  Thank God!

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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #615 on: July 21, 2016, 02:04:16 am »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 21, 2016, 01:59:08 am
Ah, those New York values!

Just what I was thinking.

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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #616 on: July 21, 2016, 02:04:32 am »
Cruz comes out and lays out the platform: nothing but cheers.

Cruz refuses to endorse Trump: near-riot ensues.

Typical of the Republican Party today; all talk, no action.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #617 on: July 21, 2016, 02:04:43 am »
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I'm not sure just what Cruz should say tonight.   He knows he's got a future,  obviously more so if Trump loses.   But he can't just come out against Trump, like a "civilian" like me can.   I think the best approach is to make a serious philosophical defense of conservatism itself.  Let everyone make up their minds about what to do with the information.    But the GOP and the nation really needs, at this point in time,  a serous, concise and convincing apologia for liberty and opportunity-centric government.  Like Reagan did back in the sixties.   

Let Cruz hit a pitch in his wheelhouse and shine a light on what Our Side favors,  Trump or no Trump.

Trump gave just the speech I said he would!

Brilliant, and it was just the sort of thing that could unite the party -  that is, if the Trumpsters would let it. 

Why can't they lance the boil, even in victory?


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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #618 on: July 21, 2016, 02:05:01 am »
"Trump people are rude and crude. Even the orange baboon upstaged Cruz. Cruz should come out tomorrow and endorse the constitution party."

That's bunk, the Cruzers have been bullies making means pirited personal attacks on others but cry when the website owner told them off.  They can get off their high horses, it looks like their campaign got pretty dirty to with all of those mailers that looked official and so on.

Don't let the door hit ya on the way out, loyalty is another thing, Trump won the Evangelical South, people don't want to deal with facts. Cruz was buddy buddy with Trump to for the longest time.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #619 on: July 21, 2016, 02:05:02 am »
Quote from: austingirl on July 21, 2016, 02:00:15 am
Cruz was great. No endorsement of lyin' Donald.

Yet he did not say a single negative thing at all about Trump. He even congratulated him at the end.

That they booed him saying 'vote your values, vote for the Constitution, God Bless America' is almost like a Rorschach Test on how many in the hall view things. If it isn't about Trump, it is bad, very bad (to use Trump lingo)..

This just confirmed to me more than ever that there is a big block of people I don't want to have any political power- that used to be relegated to Democrats, but I just added about half the Republican party in it too. They don't stand for our values, they stand for the game.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #620 on: July 21, 2016, 02:05:14 am »
Quote from: skeeter on July 21, 2016, 02:01:54 am
After tonight our divorce is final.

Yep, the lines are drawn.

And I will vote my conscience.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #621 on: July 21, 2016, 02:05:20 am »
Best....speech....ever!   I am so proud of Ted Cruz and so proud that he's a Texan and proud to be a Texan tonite.  That is one fine statesman right there. 

All class.  Which is a trait that others can't get next to.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #622 on: July 21, 2016, 02:05:29 am »
Quote from: AbaraXas on July 21, 2016, 02:00:32 am
They even booed when he said 'vote to defend the Constitution'.

Which is why any real Conservative will want nothing to do with the Republican Party or Trump.

Yet this cabal has the nerve to call US traitors because we will not tow the party line or vote their "nominee".  The party that now BOO's talk of defending the Constitution.

Democrats v Republicans - not a damn dime's worth of difference.

Trump v Hilary - one and the same, with Trump being actually worse than the Mao Pantsuit.
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #623 on: July 21, 2016, 02:05:34 am »
Quote from: TomSea on July 21, 2016, 02:02:07 am


Oh, yeah, Cruz is the conservative, Trump is the liberal, why was Cruz so buddy buddy with Trump for all of that time.


That is a good question ;)
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Re: OPEN LIVE CONVENTION THREAD - WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
« Reply #624 on: July 21, 2016, 02:05:55 am »
Quote from: skeeter on July 21, 2016, 02:03:16 am
I wish you guys had waves. I'd be there tomorrow.

We do!  We have waves in the Gulf.  When I went to high school, the two opposing cliques were the surfers vs. the cowboys.  There were hippies too, but not many and we all sort of ignored them.
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