Poll: Texas Republicans prefer Donald Trump and Rick Perry to Ted Cruz

[aligncare]

What else can tRumpbots do when mean Ol Ted haunts em night and day?

That's funny you say that. #NeverTrump is famously obsessed with Trump 24/7, posting non-stop bile. He's the only subject two-dozen of you antiTrumpsters ever talk about.

You think we're obsessed with Ted Cruz?    He's a non-issue; he lost, his political future is in doubt. Not many Trump supporters ever think about defeaTED, much less are haunted by him. He's what was.

[Cripplecreek]

Trump and Perry will be distant memories in 2018 when Ted Cruz easily wins re-election

I see Ted Cruz is the keynote speaker at the Texas Tribune Festival.

https://www.texastribune.org/festival/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1471557391

[TomSea]

This is the politics section and maybe some people are interested in Rick Perry, former governor of Texas.

Maybe instead of griping here, if someone feels we can't post this, they should petition the moderator to shut it down.

We already have to read the most vile comments regularly from so-called Republicans, so-called Conservatives and Ted Crude supporters.

[skeeter]

The Trumpers just can't quit Cruz, can they...

Cruz isn't going anywhere - he will continue being the loudest voice for authentic conservatism in the Senate.

It will be funny to watch some of these pro-Trump brainstems continue to badmouth the most prominent representative for issues conservatives are suppose to care most about. Cognitive dissonance defined.

[Cripplecreek]

Cruz isn't going anywhere - he will continue being the loudest voice for authentic conservatism in the Senate.

It will be funny to watch some of these pro-Trump brainstems continue to badmouth the most prominent representative for issues conservatives are suppose to care most about. Cognitive dissonance defined.

Yup, Ted Cruz is in demand for conservative endorsements while Trumpers are butt kissing the establishment and trying to destroy Ted Cruz.

[jmyrlefuller]

That's funny you say that. #NeverTrump is famously obsessed with Trump 24/7, posting non-stop bile. He's the only subject two-dozen of you antiTrumpsters ever talk about.

You think we're obsessed with Ted Cruz?    He's a non-issue; he lost, his political future is in doubt. Not many Trump supporters ever think about defeaTED, much less are haunted by him. He's what was.

Then why are threads like this still being posted if he's so irrelevant?

Trump, last we checked, is still running for President.

[Wingnut]

Then why are threads like this still being posted if he's so irrelevant?

Trump, last we checked, is still running for President.

Ted lives Rent free in the heads of the Trumpanzee crowd.

[Longmire]

If Trump wins the chances are Rick Perry will go to work in a Trump administration.

If Trump loses, Perry just might want to take Ted Cruz on for his Senate seat.

It behooves Cruz to support Trump now in order to remove Perry as an opponent in 2018.

[skeeter]

If Trump wins the chances are Rick Perry will go to work in a Trump administration.

If Trump loses, Perry just might want to take Ted Cruz on for his Senate seat.

It behooves Cruz to support Trump now in order to remove Perry as an opponent in 2018.

If Cruz endorses Trump without a clear apology for Trump's slander then in a way it would validate Trump's tactics.

Cruz is much better served staying far away from Trump. It won't hurt him in the least.

[catfish1957]

If Trump wins the chances are Rick Perry will go to work in a Trump administration.

If Trump loses, Perry just might want to take Ted Cruz on for his Senate seat.

It behooves Cruz to support Trump now in order to remove Perry as an opponent in 2018.

Snicker.

Perry can't remember the three things he needed to do this morning. And one of them was got to the bathroom.

[Longmire]

If Cruz endorses Trump without a clear apology for Trump's slander then in a way it would validate Trump's tactics. Cruz is much better served staying far away from Trump. It won't hurt him in the least.

There's a mile of road between support and endorsement, Cruz just needs to give some sign he supports Trump's effort to stop Clinton.

He doesn't need to do much and it will become telling if he won't even take one step in Trump's direction.

-btw I agree the two should keep their distance.

[bilo]

The Trumpers just can't quit Cruz, can they...

It's just one more reason why I will never vote for Trump. Sen Cruz is one of the few Pubs who has fought for me since he was elected. Why would I vote for a vindictive little man for POTUS, who if elected would go out of his way to destroy one of the few Pubs who fights for me?

[skeeter]

There's a mile of road between support and endorsement, Cruz just needs to give some sign he supports Trump's effort to stop Clinton.

He doesn't need to do much and it will become telling if he won't even take one step in Trump's direction.

-btw I agree the two should keep their distance.

Its important to Trump that the distance between the two be shortened but it is not Cruz who needs to take the first step. Trump's ego notwithstanding, it is not Cruz's move to make.

[GtHawk]

That's funny you say that. #NeverTrump is famously obsessed with Trump 24/7, posting non-stop bile. He's the only subject two-dozen of you antiTrumpsters ever talk about.

You think we're obsessed with Ted Cruz?    He's a non-issue; he lost, his political future is in doubt. Not many Trump supporters ever think about defeaTED, much less are haunted by him. He's what was.

If Cruz is such a non issue why do sTrumpettes spend so much time searching out negative articles to attack him instead spending all their time attacking Clinton? Me thinks you protest too much.

[catfish1957]

If Cruz is such a non issue why do sTrumpettes spend so much time searching out negative articles to attack him instead spending all their time attacking Clinton? Me thinks you protest too much.

Historically the GOP POTUS candidate gets 89-94% of party base.  Trump is stuck on 80%.  I guess posting anti-Cruz articles is a way the orange cult thinks they can get back at us 20% who realize that Trump is liberal Trojan Horse, and we won't be duped like they are.

Let them keep flailing away.  It's kind of funny.

[geronl]

If Trump wins the chances are Rick Perry will go to work in a Trump administration.

If Trump loses, Perry just might want to take Ted Cruz on for his Senate seat.

It behooves Cruz to support Trump now in order to remove Perry as an opponent in 2018.

hahaha

Threats aren't going to work. Trump is an anti-conservative as it is possible to get, he and his supporters prove it every day

[txradioguy]

Perhaps the voters want to vote their conscience!

What do the polls say about Hillary v Trump in Texas?  Shouldn't we be focusing on THAT instead of continuing this obsession with Cruz?

[beandog]

Perhaps the voters want to vote their conscience!

Since tRump supporters don't appear to have a conscience, I doubt it's that.

[Silver Pines]

Perhaps the voters want to vote their conscience!

@TomSea

Tom, I'm sorry, but Cruz still isn't going to bend his knee to Trump.   You're going to have to accustom yourself to that.

[Silver Pines]

If Cruz is such a non issue why do sTrumpettes spend so much time searching out negative articles to attack him instead spending all their time attacking Clinton? Me thinks you protest too much.

@GHawk
@aligncare

For one simple reason: he refused to bend his knee to Trump, and it continues to eat them alive.