I can answer that. As a former Cruz supporter (TX Senate, 2016 Primary), I am massively disappointed that this preening twit didn't man up and choose the right option (there were two) regarding the convention - 1) take the stage and honor your pledge to support the nominee
A pledge to vote for someone is and should NEVER BE UNCONDITIONAL.
Suppose one pledges to support candidate X in the general and then later, this same candidate was discovered to have murdered someone ( as Trump like to say when he joked about shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and still not losing support ), are you still duty bound to honor your pledge?
Trump showed his character when he slandered Ted Cruz's family and repeatedly implied that his father was party to the assassination of JFK ( he repeated it even after the GOP convention ). I wonder how you can endorse someone who did this to you and NEVER apologized or withdrew the slander.
or 2) stay home. What he did was come into someone's party and make an a$$ of himself.
Ted Cruz was asked to speak at the RNC convention and the text of his speech was GIVEN to the RNC and read by Trump and his team in advance. He also told them before the speech that they would be no outward endorsement.
He came because he was invited, not because he crashed the party.
The fact that he came and congratulated Trump in his speech is already a sign of his graciousness despite Trump's personal attacks against his wife and father.
And his "vote your conscience" bit was a weasel message, an anti-endorsement in effect. It just gave a troubling insight into his TRUE character, which piles up on other troubling things exposed in the campaign (the Beck-related association is prime example).
Nope, it was an exhortation to the party to vote for the person who would fight for freedom, conservatism and the constitution.
Let me ask you this -- WHAT's WRONG WITH THAT?
Should that not be an occasion for the Republicans to AFFIRM the message?
Now, if Trump is really for freedom, conservatism and the constitution, I wonder why they booed Ted Cruz? Unless of course, deep in their hearts they know that their candidate is NOT for these things....
The boo's instead of applause tells me a lot of what the Republican party has become -- essentially Democrats lite.