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Bizarre, isn't it?  Just recently it's become really virulent.

Maybe that has to do with the people on social media burning their red hats and admitting they should've supported Cruz.

I think they are going ballistic because their backs are against to wall, trying to defend the undefendable.  If I was in that boat (trying to defend DJT), I'd be pissed too.
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Someone call the institution, and bring the white binding vests.

The sound of Trump chucking those campaign promises into the trash can is very...unsettling.

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I think they are going ballistic because their backs are against to wall, trying to defend the undefendable.  If I was in that boat (trying to defend DJT), I'd be pissed too.

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Yup, that's it exactly.

I don't understand why they're trying to defend someone who used them and lied to them.   If someone did that to me, I'd be done with them. 

Whatever, I guess.


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Yup, that's it exactly.

I don't understand why they're trying to defend someone who used them and lied to them.   If someone did that to me, I'd be done with them. 

Whatever, I guess.

Stockholm syndrome?

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So are you willing to admit you were wrong to say John Corlyn was Tx AG when Cruz was Solicitor General? Any conversation we might have starts with you admitting I was right and you were wrong.

Dude I gave up on trying to have conversation with you LONG ago!

And NO you are not right! It was none other than John Cornyn who made the decision not to defend the case!
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Ben Shapiro retweeted the Wall Street Journal's report that Trump will not pull out of the Paris climate accord.

More red hats hit the fire, and Ted Cruz girds up to absorb the fallout...

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Ben Shapiro retweeted the Wall Street Journal's report that Trump will not pull out of the Paris climate accord.

More red hats hit the fire, and Ted Cruz girds up to absorb the fallout...

Sorry, but our TBR Trumplet contingent says that the WSJ is fake news.   :silly:
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Ben Shapiro retweeted the Wall Street Journal's report that Trump will not pull out of the Paris climate accord.

More red hats hit the fire, and Ted Cruz girds up to absorb the fallout...

Unfortunately that seems to be the way it works around here.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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Unfortunately that seems to be the way it works around here.

Excellent observation.  Every time DJT takes a heat for a left turn, a hit piece on Cruz happens.

These Orange Briefers are getting as predictable as a TOS Freepathon
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Sorry, but our TBR Trumplet contingent says that the WSJ is fake news.   :silly:

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Oh, my mistake, lol.

Yet @jpsb had no problem going with a Daily Kos/Mother Jones smear against Cruz.

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Excellent observation.  Every time DJT takes a heat for a left turn, a hit piece on Cruz happens.

These Orange Briefers are getting as predictable as a TOS Freepathon

It's damned hard for any objective person to not notice!  Just sayin!
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You seem to be a bit confused AGAIN!

Yes he was Solicitor General of Texas at the time and worked for a man named John Cornyn who was Attorney General then and it was he who refused to allow his office to defend the case!

Incorrect:

Ted Cruz. ... Cruz served as Solicitor General of Texas, from 2003 to 2008, appointed by Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott. He was the first Hispanic, and the longest-serving, Solicitor General in Texas history.

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Oh the irony.  Remember in June of 2016, when you said that those not supporting Trump were the same as alQaeda and ISIS?

You got f'n gall, calling me a personal attacker

Lol....don't take it seriously or personally.  I got accused of the same thing (making personal attacks) when I first arrived here....merely for dissing Trump.  THEY are the ones taking it personally and ergo, calling attacks against Trump "personal attacks" against them.  I call it TDDS - Trump Defensiveness Derangement Syndrome/
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Incorrect:

Ted Cruz. ... Cruz served as Solicitor General of Texas, from 2003 to 2008, appointed by Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott. He was the first Hispanic, and the longest-serving, Solicitor General in Texas history.

OK!  Did Abbott make the decision not to defend the Lawrence vs Texas Case or was that his predecessor John Cornyn? Either way it WASN"T Cruz!
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I think they are going ballistic because their backs are against to wall,  .../

The only ones going ballistic are the Cruz supporters.   

The obsessive need to continue to pit the Senator against the President and refight battles with the President's supporters is self-defeating @catfish1957  Your boat simply isn't able to power itself on its own, so you'd be wise to stop insulting would be allies.

Here's the reality:  Ted Cruz is neither saint nor sinner.  He is a career politician; and as such Cruz's actions will always serve his ambitions.  The best you can rationally hope for is that his interests intersect frequently with yours.  This is the total magic of Ted Cruz.   :shrug:



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OK!  Did Abbott make the decision not to defend the Lawrence vs Texas Case or was that his predecessor John Cornyn? Either way it WASN"T Cruz!

The case was Lawrence vs TEXAS.

Are you telling me the solicitor General of Texas could not have walked into the AG office and said "I want to represent Texas in Lawrence vs TEXAS case. Really? The biggest most important gay mafia case ever? I am not buying that. Cruz and Abbett took a pass and because of that we have open homosexuals in our military, same sex marriage, etc. Harris county asked Cruz/Abbett to help with the case, crickets.

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The case was Lawrence vs TEXAS.

Are you telling me the solicitor General of Texas could not have walked into the AG office and said "I want to represent Texas in Lawrence vs TEXAS case. Really? The biggest most important gay mafia case ever? I am not buying that. Cruz and Abbett took a pass and because of that we have open homosexuals in our military, same sex marriage, etc. Harris county asked Cruz/Abbett to help with the case, crickets.

Yep!  That's exactly what I'm telling you!
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The only ones going ballistic are the Cruz supporters.   

The obsessive need to continue to pit the Senator against the President and refight battles with the President's supporters is self-defeating @catfish1957  Your boat simply isn't able to power itself on its own, so you'd be wise to stop insulting would be allies.

Here's the reality:  Ted Cruz is neither saint nor sinner.  He is a career politician; and as such Cruz's actions will always serve his ambitions.  The best you can rationally hope for is that his interests intersect frequently with yours.  This is the total magic of Ted Cruz.   :shrug:

Here is what I can tell you about Ted Cruz as a politician!  Thus far he has done in office EXACTLY what he said he would do while campaigning for that office!  That stands in stark contrast to your Beau Trump!
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Yep!  That's exactly what I'm telling you!

Well then I guess you will buy any old excuse lying Ted comes up with.

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The Senators do little to nothing, that means Cotton, Lee, Cruz, Paul, all of them.  Cruz has set himself up to be the Conservatives Conservative yet, it is a fairly public veneer, he has not had to actually do things such as any of the governors who ran like Perry or Walker.  Already, we are seeing Cruz put up on his high horse; and a lot of folks otherwise, are too good to vote for the nominee.

The problem is that unlike the governors you mention, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, et al are a small minority in a much larger group,the vast majority of which don't give a flying fig about the voters who elected them. But take a look at the legislation Ted Cruz has sponsored and co-sponsored and his votes on legislation sponsored by others.  He has done his best to represent the people who voted for him. If that legislation failed, the blame belongs to the liberal Republican crooks, not to Ted Cruz and his allies. 

As for being too good to vote for the nominee -- hogwash.  It's not a matter of being "too good."   I for one would have been happy to vote for the nominee if I thought in good conscience he was right for the job.  But  IMO, neither Trump nor Hillary was right for the job.  I am not going to vote for anyone I think is a lying, cheating, incompetent scumbag.   Contrary to what you and others might think, we have more than just two choices in an election. And I think you are going to see in future elections, more and more people are going to look beyond those two choices. You can blame Trump and his rabid supporters for that.  Whatever happens -- even if it turns out to be complete Democrat rule in 2020 -- Trump and his worshipers will own it.


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Well then I guess you will buy any old excuse lying Ted comes up with.

Unlike you, I KNOW Ted Cruz and would trust him with my life!  There are very few men on this planet I would say that about!

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The case was Lawrence vs TEXAS.

Are you telling me the solicitor General of Texas could not have walked into the AG office and said "I want to represent Texas in Lawrence vs TEXAS case. Really? The biggest most important gay mafia case ever? I am not buying that. Cruz and Abbett took a pass and because of that we have open homosexuals in our military, same sex marriage, etc. Harris county asked Cruz/Abbett to help with the case, crickets.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they've been telling you now, for about 2 pages, that it wasn't up to Cruz, nor would it be up to anyone in the Solicitor General position to go against the AG wishes. But you go ahead with your Cruz hate, nothing will change your mind, and it's entertaining.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure they've been telling you now, for about 2 pages, that it wasn't up to Cruz, nor would it be up to anyone in the Solicitor General position to go against the AG wishes. But you go ahead with your Cruz hate, nothing will change your mind, and it's entertaining.

Cruz had a chance to stop the homosexual agenda and he did nothing. And that is the bottom line on Ted Cruz.

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@catfish1957

Yup, that's it exactly.

I don't understand why they're trying to defend someone who used them and lied to them.   If someone did that to me, I'd be done with them. 

Whatever, I guess.

Don't forget that Trump himself pretty much called them thoughtless and stupid when he said he could shoot someone and they would still support him.

Unfortunately, he seems to have been right about them, and we're seeing it at work....   **nononono*

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