He lost me ....I cannot imagine supporting him in the future should he run.....I overlooked that he lost control of his campaign along the way and botched some things.....but his refusal to support the Rep. Nominee just went way too far...and this by insulting the audience he was before.....
HE would have been mush further ahead by not showing up when Trump invited him......that would have been tough enough but understandable. But to show and school the audience on how to vote showed he was out of touch with the people there.....who by the way cheered him coming in. It was just bad timing and and he was out sink with a people not in the mood for what he presented when he dropped his bomb.
I don't understand how Cruz didn't read the political climate .......he had to have known he'd not be well received without endorsing Trump.......and I don't understand how he justified this by using his wife and father as reason....especially since he's the one that said from the get go everything would be coming at him.......failing terribly to see he had become his own worst enemy when all was said and done.
Your assessment of the situation is wildly inaccurate.
Cruz's speech was brilliant. Not because he said, "The emperor has no clothes." In fact, he didn't say that. He set up Trump and the entire RNC to say it for him.
He gave a soaring speech outlining conservative principles - the things we should readily stand for and support. Then all he said is, "Support the candidate that will support these principles. Vote your conscience." (Paraphrased.)
If Team Trump and the Trumpettes were *at all* savvy they would have simply said, "What a great speech by Cruz! What a ringing endorsement of the man who *will* support the principles he laid out - Donald Trump!"
Instead, they got outraged. Trump himself turned back into his petulant man-child and started in on the Rafael-Oswald link again. Seriously.
The collective voice of the GOP establishment and their nominee all proclaimed with one unanimous voice, "The emperor has no clothes! Trump does not represent our principles. He is not aligned with our conscience!"
Cruz is the one who set the trap. Trumpettes walked willingly into it. It reminds me 100% of this other trap he purposefully set:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ZVihACwQ0He was the keynote speaker at that event. He designed his speech knowing full-well how the crowd would react. He was prepared when they did. He showed the world that the emperor had no clothes. The convention speech was not very different except he left it to the GOPe to out themselves.
And they did.
They all fell right for it.
And when Trump loses, and Reince is ousted as a result, the GOPe will be left wondering where they went wrong. They can look back at this moment and know the truth.
