For objective viewers, it was the most rousing speech of the Republican National Convention (RNC). Ted Cruz held the stage for over twenty minutes, enunciating his vision of “Freedom” for Conservative America. The hall resounded with cheers, Texans waved their white hats, a crescendo of hallelujah animated the delegates. It was political theatre at its highest pitch. And then the apex arrived – the moment when the Republican senator from Texas, the defeated opponent of Donald J. Trump – would mouth his endorsement. Cruz let the crowd wait a few seconds. A grim determination covered his face as he said the unthinkable: “Vote your conscience.”
Vote your conscience – the penultimate act of a citizen of a free society – in a millisecond became the symbol of gross betrayal. The once-exuberant delegates flashed their hate yet again at the Quicken Loans Convention Center. Boos. Thumbs-down gestures. A hail of hate like armor-piercing bullets. Cruz gave a sickly smile, awarded sarcastic kudos to the New York delegation, finished with his God Blesses and left the stage as the backdrop went black.
The GOP nominee, who’d entered the auditorium moments before, emerged in a halo of spotlight. But not before the cameras caught he and his family at the moment the Vote Your Conscience clause flew out of his rival’s mouth like a solid right hook. Make that an undercut. Make that a Dana White style take-down.
To those listening, please don’t stay home in November. If you love our country, stand and speak and vote your conscience #RNCinCLE
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 21, 2016
I do not like Ted Cruz or his policies. But last night, I gave the guy kudos. Little Marco caved. Fat Boy Chris Christie caved. The Speaker of the House caved. Each and all throwing their lot with insanity. But Rafael Cruz just said “No.”
Sure, his un-endorsement was political maneuvering. Yes, he’s got his eye on 2020. But so does Marco Rubio. And likely, a whole bunch of others who’re aping their commitment to Trump. Yes, Cruz took The Pledge. Yes, he’s treated like a pariah by party elite on both sides of the aisle – even before he dared to un-endorse. And yes, scores of Republicans now spit on him, including the delegates who were cheering him on for twenty minutes last night.
But Cruz did something that can only be called remarkable. He stole the show. His 23 minutes onstage brought down the house, and probably the Senate and the Presidency as well.
Cruz let the nation see that the GOP is a crock pot of emotionally driven clones whose love can become hate in a digital instant.
Cruz demonstrated that insults to person and family by the “Family Values” candidate are not just unacceptable but unforgivable.
But mostly, Cruz gave an inside look at the fragile thing called the Republican Party. When we hear that hellish chorus of invective directed his way, we are witnessing an entity held together by veins of vitriol. We are seeing its crumbling infrastructure. There is no center, no core, no unifying emblem other than hate. All other is flim-flam and flashpoints.
“No big deal,” tweeted Donald J. Trump, picking himself up and brushing away the pain.
Cruz delivered a right hook and scored a TKO. Just a few rounds remain in this fight. The Donald and his party of sycophants are in the struggle of their political life. All bets are off.
More information.
More reasons to not vote for Trump and his plans
on how he’ll “run” American.
1. Trump wants an isolationist United States.
2. Trump doesn’t speak out against Assad in Syria,
who Putin is helping.
3. Trump wants to walk away from NATO, leaving
Europe to Putin as far as influence goes.
4. Trump owes millions to Russia in loans. Russia is
heavily invested in Trump Enterprises.
5. Paul Manafort, Trumps campaign manager
worked as consultant to ex Ukranian President
Viktor Yanukovych.
6. Yanukovych was granted asylum from Putin
after being driven from power in Ukraine.
7. Manafort was hired to clean up Yanukovych’s
image in Russia, just like he’s attempting to do with
Trump.
8. Trump’s tax returns would likely show his
connections to and dependence on Russia and
Putin.
9. Trump refuses to produce his tax returns
because “It will hurt my campaign”.
what the hell kind of reckless megalomaniac are
Republicans supporting here? This is serious stuff
that needs an immediate and thorough
investigation by the FBI as well as the
responsibility of Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC
investigative reporters. The entire backbone of the
nation could at risk of being broken under a
Trump regime.
10. Trumps debt load has grown dramatically over
the last year, from $350 million to $630 million. His
liquid assets have also decreased. Trump has been
blackballed by all major US banks.
11. Post-bankruptcy Trump has been highly reliant on money from Russia. He has relied on Russian investors to buy their properties around the world.
12. Trumps Soho project was the hit with a series of
lawsuits claiming fraud against investors.
Emerging out of that litigation however was news
about secret financing for the project from Russia
and Kazakhstan. Most attention about the project
has focused on the ties to the Russian criminal
underworld.“The project occasionally received unexplained
infusions of cash from accounts in Kazakhstan and
Russia.”
13. Trumps campaign manager and top advisor.
Paul Manafort spent most of the last decade as top
campaign and communications advisor for Viktor
Yanukovych, the pro-Russian Ukrainian Prime
Minister and then President whose ouster in 2014
led to the on-going crisis and proxy war in Ukraine.
Yanukovych was and remains a close Putin ally.
14. Trump’s foreign policy advisor on Russia and
Europe is Carter Page, a man whose entire
professional career has revolved around
investments in Russia and who has deep and
continuing financial and employment ties to
Gazprom. You can’t be involved with Gazprom
without being wholly in alignment with Putin’s
policies.
15. Over the course of the last year, Putin has
aligned all Russian state controlled media behind
Trump. Trump has repeatedly praised Putin, not
only in the abstract but often for the authoritarian
policies and patterns of government which have
most soured his reputation around the world.
Trump is planning on walking away from NATO,
refusing to back NATO
members in the Ukraine in the event of Russian
invasion, and suggests very strongly that Trump
may have in fact pulled off the biggest deal of his
life, by selling out the United States of America in
order to eliminate his Russian debt.
Trump has recently told the public that he would
“negotiate down” debt to China and elsewhere,
making deals which would crash the world
economy. A deal with Putin to reduce or eliminate
his personal debt sounds exactly like something
Trump would do. He regularly brags on how he uses
the system for financial gain as he rips off
others to bolster his personal wealth.
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