Should have had Ted speak on Monday when no one was really watching yet.

Pence is a solid dude. I like him.

 

His speech has been very effective, between him and Newt, I may have to reconsider my vote for Johnson.

 

This guy is a real winner:

 

You sign a pledge you live by that. If your so hurt about what he said about your wife after your super pac threw dirt on his wife, confront him like a man and tell him so.

 

You can't have it both ways. #soreloser

I thought that back during the debates Trump never agreed that he would support the R candidate if he did not get the nomination. Can anyone remember if that's correct?

 

If my memory serves me he basically had to be bullied into saying he wouldn't run as a 3rd party if he lost.

Ted Cruz Takes Heat From Texas Republican Delegates | The Texas Tribune

 

CLEVELAND — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz faced a livid — and yet admiring — Texas delegation on the final day of the Republican National Convention, only 12 hours after Donald Trump loyalists in the convention booed the junior senator off the stage.

 

In a standing room-only Texas GOP delegation breakfast Thursday morning, Cruz defended his refusal to endorse the GOP nominee Wednesday evening.

 

"I am not in the habit of supporting people who have attacked my wife and attacked my father," said Cruz, who was greeted at the breakfast by both raucous cheers and visceral questions.

 

Cruz told Texas Republicans he would not vote for Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, and he discouraged Texans from writing in his name in November.

 

But many in the crowd were unsatisfied with his explanations for not endorsing Trump.

 

One woman emotionally asked him why he would not honor a pledge he made early in the primary campaign, promising to support the eventual GOP nominee.

 

Cruz told her that he fully intended to follow through on that promise.

 

"The day that was abrogated was the day this became personal," he said. "I'm not going to get into criticizing or attacking Donald Trump."

 

"And that pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go slander and attack Heidi, then I'm not going nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father. "

 

Cruz then signaled to a man in the back of the room.

 

"I will note, sir, you're making crying signs in the back," he said. "I will note, sir, that you might have a similar view if someone were attacking your wife. I hope you would."

 

Cruz was alluding to the bitter final weeks of the primary fight, when Trump essentially declared Heidi Cruz unattractive on Twitter and floated a conspiracy theory that Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, was complicit in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

 

Rafael Cruz was in the crowd Thursday morning.

 

"This is not a game. This is not politics," Cruz added. "Right and wrong matters. We have not abandoned who we are in this country."

 

Kudos to the bold.

I would in no way vote for Ted Cruz ever. But he earned a tiny bit of respect from me. You say the stuff Mr. Trump did about my father or woman and I would act the same, if not worse, than Mr. Cruz.

 

Bravo to him for being a man and standing up for his wife and father!

This guy is a real winner:

 

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Someone refresh my memory. Isn't Pence the guy that was at the forefront of the Indiana initiative that would allow businesses to discriminate against gays/lesbians?

^I'd say the amateur move was letting him speak when it was crystal clear he wasn't ever going to endorse Trump.

Agreed, the RNC are a bunch of morons for putting him up there.

Agreed, the RNC are a bunch of morons for putting him up there.

 

Goes back to my point in post 353.

Someone refresh my memory. Isn't Pence the guy that was at the forefront of the Indiana initiative that would allow businesses to discriminate against gays/lesbians?

Winner, winner.

Someone refresh my memory. Isn't Pence the guy that was at the forefront of the Indiana initiative that would allow businesses to discriminate against gays/lesbians?

Don't forget that he also tried to fund "conversion therapy".

Mike Pence on the issues:

 

• Congress should oppose any effort to put gay and lesbian relationships on an equal legal status with heterosexual marriage.

 

• Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexual’s as a "discreet and insular minority" entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities.

 

• Congress should support the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus. Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.

You sign a pledge you live by that. If your so hurt about what he said about your wife after your super pac thru dirt on his wife, confront him like a man and tell him so.

 

You can't have it both ways. #soreloser

 

Ahhh..And the bastion of keeping their word is....Trump?! :lol:

Mike Pence on the issues:

 

• Congress should oppose any effort to put gay and lesbian relationships on an equal legal status with heterosexual marriage.

 

• Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexual’s as a "discreet and insular minority" entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities.

 

• Congress should support the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus. Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.

 

Real swell guy...

Ahhh..And the bastion of keeping their word is....Trump?! :lol:

 

Had Trump lost and pulled that stunt at the Cruz convention I'd be saying the same thing.

 

In a nut shell Cruz proved what a career politician acts like last night. Cruz like so many others on both sides, need to quit get a real job and quit living off me.