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    Cam/ronGabrielle Bluestone
    7/21/16 1:08pm

    To Ted’s credit (never thought I’d write that), he was quite open about his refusal to endorse Trump at the Texas Delegation’s breakfast this morning, despite the pressure. He does have some huevos.

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      levarienCam/ron
      7/21/16 1:10pm

      It’s calculated bravado. He’s hoping for the same electoral crushing that Democrats are, so that he can position himself for 2020.

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      Mortal DictataCam/ron
      7/21/16 1:10pm

      But let’s be honest saying that about Ted is like going ‘Well Hitler did build some nice motorways and led the way in smoking bans’ or ‘Well Stalin did pioneer the idea of photo-editing’.

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    RobNYCGabrielle Bluestone
    7/21/16 1:16pm

    So far the RNC convention has been great. The first two days all anyone talked about was plagiarism and now Ted Cruz just took a dump on Trump’s very classy RNC convention. It’s further demoralized Christie as if that was possible at this point. I mean all we need is Trump to go on an unhinged tirade tonight to complete this dumpster fire.

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      ReburnsABurningReturnsRobNYC
      7/21/16 1:23pm

      Right? We’ve had a good solid buildup.

      We had Melania with her plagiarism.

      We had Ted doing the sorts of things that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have done in a very long time at a convention.

      One the one hand, those are going to be pretty hard to top.

      On the other hand, this is Donald Trump we’re talking about here. I’m sure he’ll find a way.

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      ThePriceofEggsinMaltaRobNYC
      7/21/16 1:33pm

      all we need is Trump to go on an unhinged tirade tonight to complete this dumpster fire.

      I’m praying that someone—someone in the Clinton camp, a celebrity, somebody important and very visible—has a slew of insults or whatnot locked and loaded for this afternoon and evening. I want a big story to break about somebody insulting or belittling Trump. Somebody needs to bait the trap.

      If the Trump campaign was competent (heh), they’d have him locked in an isolation chamber right up until the moment he walks on stage.

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    philaDLJGabrielle Bluestone
    7/21/16 1:15pm

    I am no fan of Ted Cruz or his nightmarish ultraconservative platform on which he will run and lose in 2020. But I sure as hell respect Ted Cruz after last night.

    Trump is the man who has just about everything. But the one thing he can’t have is Cruz’s endorsement, and there’s nothing he can say or do to get it.

    He can talk all he likes about how it was “selfish” or how he “broke a pledge”, but there’s nothing Trump can accuse Cruz of doing that he himself has not done ten times over.

    Keeping Trump from something he dearly wants is a rare thing, and it is to be applauded every time it happens, no matter what my personal feelings are on the person who does it.

    I’d say we must all do our parts to keep Trump out of the White House, but let’s be honest here: he doesn’t really want that. What he wanted was for Cruz to bend the knee. And he fucking didn’t.

    If I ever run into Sen. Cruz in person, the Chunky Soup is on me.

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      EatTheCheeseNicholsonphilaDLJ
      7/21/16 1:22pm

      It doesn’t make me necessarily respect him more, it makes me a little more terrified of the prospect of Cruz in power, exactly because he seems to believe the shit he says. People like Ryan or Christie, for example, say insane shit, but it is pretty obviously just political posturing. Trump says insane shit, but it seems to be because he’s on a regimen of bath salts and McDonalds all day every day. I can deal with that - politicians of all stripes are opportunists, it’s understandable. But Cruz - that motherfucker truly believes the batshit insane crap he says. And that is much more terrifying.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokephilaDLJ
      7/21/16 1:23pm

      Ted Cruz will be the first up against the wall because of this, so that does take some huevos rancheros.

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    igotwordsGabrielle Bluestone
    7/21/16 1:21pm

    When Ted Cruz is the voice of reason and honesty within the GOP you know we’ve reached peak insanity.

    Ted Cruz is a horrible human being with literally no morals, but give him this, it took some guts to essentially go out in front of country and the world and moon Trump at his own convention.

    Christie, Rubio, GOP et al, take note... lick Trumps’ boots and history will not be kind to you.

    Remember what happened to all the yes men around Hitler?

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      ninjaginigotwords
      7/21/16 2:06pm

      I’ve been hate-reading NRO and RedState for the past few weeks, and one thing that all the commenters share in common is their belief that Cruz is the most moral and ethical God-fearing Christian on the face of the planet. These are the self-described “true conservatives”. The man can do no wrong, as far as they are concerned.

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      twainmaneigotwords
      7/21/16 3:40pm

      You believe Cruz is dangerous because he takes the words of Jesus, a man with as much or more historical credibility as Julius Caesar, literally. But you seem to forget that those closest to that Gospel of Christ - as Cruz is - are the exact opposite crowd from the opportunists (e.g.: Trump) and co-opters of his word, those that take that man who went selflessly to a cross and make him a man of violence and oppression. Remember, on those particular issues - such as gay marriage - Cruz has never intended to change the marriage laws of states that have been democratically legislated (e.g.: New York), but only to uphold the Constitution and the rights of other states to maintain (by virtue of the 10th amendment) their own laws. Theocracy and aggression, like there is in theological and historical Islam, has no foundation in the Gospel. After all, what did Christ do? He let himself die. Wake up!!

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    det-devil-ailsGabrielle Bluestone
    7/21/16 1:11pm

    hehheh... Sarah Palin, of all people, has proclaimed Ted Cruz’s political career officially over.

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      DammitPamdet-devil-ails
      7/21/16 1:15pm

      Takes one to know one.

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      RobNYCdet-devil-ails
      7/21/16 1:18pm

      That means he will most definitely survive this.

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    MattGabrielle Bluestone
    7/21/16 1:15pm

    We should begin a Kickstarter with the express purpose of hiring live musicians to follow Christie around playing the ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ theme, non-stop for the rest of his life.

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      Low Information BoaterMatt
      7/21/16 1:26pm

      Jeff Garlin has to play him in HBO's Gamechanger 2: The Donalding.

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      MattLow Information Boater
      7/21/16 1:31pm

      If Jeff Garlin dies and leaves this world without portraying Christie in some fashion it will be a damned shame.

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    Dave Gabrielle Bluestone
    7/21/16 1:11pm

    Ugh. now I am thinking about Christie’s balls: small, pruned and stained with marinara. Thanks for that Gabrielle.

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      EvenBaggierTrousers5Dave
      7/21/16 1:16pm

      What’s that you say? You want visual proof? Oh, ok, here ya go...

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeEvenBaggierTrousers5
      7/21/16 1:20pm

      Maybe his FUPA is just one giant testicle.

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    VanNostrandGabrielle Bluestone
    7/21/16 1:47pm

    Is there an article about Trump’s comments on NATO coming? Because that is one of the most mind-boggling things I’ve heard this entire election season.

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      e.nonVanNostrand
      7/21/16 1:58pm

      and it’s barely even mentioned on msnbc... it’s all ted all the time.. you know what else isn’t being talked about — turkey. and all of those nuclear weapons that are in that country... as erdogan shitcans generals and hollows the educational system... for a start. oh, and apparently cut the power to the military base that those weapons are housed at.

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    Dinosaurs and Nachos, girlfriend!Gabrielle Bluestone
    7/21/16 3:05pm

    What is so, so lovely about this is that Trump v. Cruz has exposed the flaw in the Republican party that nobody even knew existed until now. Four years ago, the Democrat’s biggest weakness was that the party is simply too diverse and can’t cater to every single interest or every person’s particular priority. Even Bernie and Hillary’s fight for the nomination exposed this “flaw” if you can call it that.

    But everyone acts like the Republicans are united in this sort of ideological purity. Oh sure, there were some questions after the Tea Partiers came to power but the fight then was over quantifying the purity of your ideology, not questioning what should even be included in it.

    The fact that a non-religious guy who used to say he was pro-choice or has always maintained he was against the Iraq War (except briefly when he wasn’t) clinched the Republican nominations shows that it is not about ideology any more for a great number of Republican voters. The ones who are still clinging to the ideology are losing, and badly. They relied on a base of racism to earn them votes but the racists got impatient waiting for them to fully and publicly embrace that particular party plank.

    So we have the racist faction (Trump supporters), the Christian faction (Cruz supporters), and the establishment trickle-down, small government guys (.....uh, Jeb? supporters?) and which one is the real Republican party? Trump has the most votes, the trickle-down guys seem to have mostly given up this election (dialing Paul Ryan, please pick up Paul Ryan) and the Christians are just waiting for 2020 I guess. Except I don’t know if Cruz has realized the amount of overlap in the Christian/racist categories and that most of those people will pick racist over Christian, given the choice.

    And now the Democrats get to use their “flaw” as an advantage. Oh, you like your taxes low? Well, there are Democrats who also believe that taxes should be low-maybe not as low as you would like but let’s debate to see how close we can get those numbers versus OH MY GOD TRUMP JUST NUKED HAWAII. Dems don’t need the racists and should never try to cater to them but that’s okay. Everyone else can come to our party and be grownups about governing, recognizing that our disagreements over the details are far smaller than they could be.

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      CryptidGabrielle Bluestone
      7/21/16 2:23pm

      Now that Ted Cruz has successfully baited the entire Republican delegation to boo him for saying “vote your conscience,” I might have to stop calling him an idiot. He took a principled stand for transparently mercenary reasons; he expressed bottomless petulance without a single specific insult; and he made a circumspect non-endorsement play in the press as a towering bitch-slap.

      Nothing in his speech is particularly transgressive, but Trump’s friends in the party are talking like Cruz took a long, loud shit on their stage. If Cruz had done something more renegade, if he had voiced a single criticism instead of simply holding back praise, then the trick would not work. The most infuriating trick Cruz knows is to claim the high-ground, with impeccable rhetorical caution, yet without even trying to conceal his shitty unstated motives.

      For years, his speeches have made be unspeakably angry. Now that he’s turned on his own party, his passive-aggression has maddened the Trump delegates in a way that I suspect actual backbone would not and could not.

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