Cruz got his revenge for Trumps treatment of his Wife & Father

[Funtatlaguy]

Well done, Lyin Ted. Well done!😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

[femmocrat]

1. He made a point of mentioning both his wife and his father.

Said his father was there tonight. (And came from Cuba with $100 stuffed in his pants?)

I only heard him mention trump once, at the beginning when he congratulated him for winning the nomination.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. It was beautiful.

If ur a Democrat!😄

[femmocrat]

3. I enjoyed it tremendously.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

34. K&R Us progressives like it too. Recently, someone accused me of being a "Socialist"

I took the remark as a compliment. To provoke my right-wing father, I read the Communist Manifesto, when I was 13 and then went around saying "Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lost but your chains!" Had I known the international crime-lord would eventually rob our nation, I'd have said, "You have nothing to lose but your Cheneys."

[Texasgal]

4. LOL! I only stayed up for THIS!

Poor Cruz... he was just seething!

ROFLMAO!

[tallahasseedem]

5. The only thing he has done right!

I LOVE it!!!

[trueblue2007]

49. Cruz has only one this one thing right. put Rump in his place.

[jimlup]

6. Perhaps the only time in the history of politics I will say

Well done Senator Cruz! Seriously, my opinion of him just moved up a notch. (Not that it was much above dog shit to begin with but still...)

[Raine]

8. Mine too, it was thing of beauty, bwahahaha! nt

[wildeyed]

16. He was loving it too.

It's like the story about the scorpion and the frog where the scorpion asks the frog the carry it across the river and then stings it 1/2 way across because that is a scorpion's nature. Well Ted the Scorpion just stung Donald the Frog and now they will both drown.

Anyone who follows politics knows that Cruz is like that too. Disloyalty is not a new thing for him. He is a total shitbag, but it is fun when he is shitbagging his own party

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Bwahahahahahaahaha

Never thought I would approve of anything that odd shaped head dude did, but there you go.

[Photographer]

9. I saw this coming a mile away. Trump had rocks in his head to think Cruz would give him a

reach-around after the shit he pulled about Cruz's family.

[CanonRay]

10. Trump finally met someone as slimy as he is.

[Ilsa]

11. Who was stupid enough to set this speech up?

Amateurs and Incompetents!

[pinboy3niner]

17. Trump took credit in a tweet tonight

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump · 8 minutes ago

Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn't honor the pledge! I saw his speech two hours early but let him speak anyway. No big deal!

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump?lang=en

[keithbvadu2]

23. Wonder what other GOP candidates will honor their pledge?

Jebbie?
Little Marco?
Carly?

Christie and Carson will stop licking Trump's boots long enough for sure even after Trump ridiculed them right down into the dirt.

[cwydro]

32. Wow.

This guy is incapable of shame...or for that matter. any self awareness.

[Gabi Hayes]

12. is this the Karma train going to the rountable, turning around, and heading back

for a collision with the trump express?

[NBachers]

13. At least he used his own words

[SunSeeker]

21. LOL

[AllyCat]

31. Hahaha!

[Elmergantry]

14. Hope he thought it was worth it.

He's finished in Republican politics.

[StraightRazor]

18. Why?...

Most Republicans (certainly the establishment) are disgusted by Trump, most refusing to even attend the convention, and those being vetted for VP ran away as fast as they could. Hell, I think he's crazy but I applaud his actions tonight.

It would seem that Cruz would be a hero after standing up that jackass and the thugs in that arena.

Just curious why you think his political career is 'finished'.

[Elmergantry]

35. Because he stabbed the Republican nominee in the back

The "base", as opposed to the "establishment", wont forget this.

[StraightRazor]

37. True, but the 'base' of Republican support for Trump is only around 40%...

the rest think he's repulsive and a con man. Cruz will be fine - Hell, he won Texas over Trumps 'base', so he's even secure there.

[Elmergantry]

41. actually i think trump benefits from this.

Gets sympathy from those who may not care much for trump but dont like what cruz did. Rally round trump is the result

Trump knew cruz was going to say what he did.

Reminds me of reality show drama. I guess trump is
Applying that experience he has in that arena.

[StraightRazor]

43. Absolutely some validity to that viewpoint...

and you may be right, but overall I think this will hurt more than help him. Especially with Cruz continuing to talk today about how he isn't going to be a 'puppy' and just do what he's told, that he stands for Republican values and Trump simply does not so he cannot therefore endorse the jackass for President - I think he may help some others in his party wake up a little and realize that you can in fact stand up to Trump and his bullying campaign - or at the very least show that they are nothing but an disorganized, idiotic paper tiger.

Only time will tell which way things break - either way, I am over the moon with excitement that this RNC has become what will probably turn out to be the biggest clusterfuck in American politics and Trump will lose even more bigly to a much more qualified woman in November.

[Elmergantry]

44. Yep time time will tell..

This is certainly one crazy election cycle.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

20. He's making a wager that Trump will lose

Cruz and Ben Sasse have basically staked their careers on the likelihood that Trump loses. If Hillary Clinton wins, the GOP is poised to tear itself apart. Bad news: what looks likely to emerge will be fascist. Cruz will be poised to lead that new party.

[Elmergantry]

42. yep nt

[Warren DeMontague]

48. Oh No!

Nope, double checked and... don't care.

[wheniwasincongress]

15. Cruz's wife had to be escorted off the floor by security

wonder if it got scary for her. Surrounded by booing people, smacked and elbowed in the face, Trump making fun of her (normal, pretty) looks, Trump bringing up her depression past, being Ted's wife... She has to be one the people who have had this presidential run the hardest

[napkinz]

19. if Trump could be duped by Cruz, how can we trust him in handling Putin!

[Ilsa]

33. I have a hunch Trump's handlers would be forced

to keep him away from the 3D chess board if Putin was around. Don the Con's ability to strategize is probably limited to two steps.

[roamer65]

22. For Trumpf, this will be a primary all the way to November.

Cruz, Bu$h and Romney are going to turn it into a Rethug demolition derby.

I see Johnson-Weld in the 20 percent range very soon.

We are seeing the first shots of the Rethuglican civil war.

[63splitwindow]

25. PLEASSSSSSE...

[63splitwindow]

24. It took the over the top rancid Don the Con to make Cruz do something right. nt

[greiner3]

26. Makes me wonder if any other speaker might do a Cruz

[MFM008]

27. he was double crossed

by a better double crosser than himself.
I bet John Boehner shot his television.

[chillfactor]

28. and I loved every minute of it!

The speech was a thing of beauty.

[UnFettered]

29. Well done indeed

I am going to enjoy messing with the local Trumpkins about this ! I bet there going to be good and stirred up.

[UCmeNdc]

30. Cruz is looking ahead to 2020

He needs Don the Con Trump to lose. Then Cruz is ahead of the GOP pack for 2020. Cruz will look like a hero to the GOP with his performance at this 2016 convention.

[malaise]

36. Ahead of what

Cruz is history - they will destroy him - most of them hate him already

[Tommy_Carcetti]

38. No honor amongst assholes.

It's beautiful to watch it all go down though.

[StevieM]

39. It seems like Trump set him up. Trump knew he wasn't going to endorse in advance.

He had whip organizations on the floor telling people when to boo.

I don't think Trump was caught off guard. I think this is what he was expecting.

[Takket]

40. It is ironic that the media is all over Cruz for not endorsing Trump

After all the horrible things Cruz has said and done that the media treats as perfectly normal, it took not endorsing Trump to raise their ire.

[Bucky]

47. Youre a liar, your wife is ugly, your dad killed JFK...

Now why won't you endorse me?

[Elmergantry]

45. Cruz did this for Cruz

and no one else. I too believe he is looking at 2020. Cant stand the guy.. "oily" is the first word that comes to mind...

[Bucky]

46. he's hoping either to be the nominee in 2020 or...

...to have too high a profile to be disappeared into one of President Trump's reeducation camps