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Ted Cruz Speech Ruins
The Trump Party
Donald Trump may have gotten the best of “Lyin’ Ted” during the GOP primaries, but Ted Cruz had the last laugh with the slick primetime speech he delivered to the Republican National Convention Wednesday night.
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Ted was invited to speak at the RNC to prove that Donald Trump is indeed a uniter and the party is 100% unified behind their nominee — except it didn’t quite turn out that way. Early in his remarks, Ted Cruz congratulated Trump for winning the Republican nomination…and then never mentioned his name again!
Cruz wound through his lengthy remarks by discussing conservatism, the recent shooting attacks against police and more. Then, just as Trump supporters were getting antsy, Ted went in for the kill.
“If you love our country and love your children as much as I know that you do, stand, and speak, and vote your conscience,” Cruz said. “Vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.”
His words were no accident. Â Ted didn’t say “vote for Trump.” Â He said “vote your conscience,” prompting a sea of boos from the crowd mixed with actual Trump supporters and those who were at least willing to pretend they were too in the name of party unity.
At that point, Ted’s clever attempt to sabotage the Trump party was interrupted by “The Donald” himself, who emerged from backstage and started waving to the crowd so as to steal his former rival’s thunder. However, Cruz was undeterred and delivered the remainder of his remarks calmly, as boos rained down on him from every angle and Trump did everything in his power to draw the attention to himself and away from Ted on the stage.
Needless to say, it was one of the more tense and exciting moments of a very dull week.
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Following his remarks, Ted Cruz was grinning like a Cheshire cat and happily headed up to a Republican donor suite, where he was met with even more boos, shouts and angry jeers. In fact, one attendee had to be physically restrained from nearly engaging in fisticuffs with Cruz. Â Additionally, Mrs. Cruz needed to be escorted out of the building due to concerns for her safety. The scene was ugly and embarrassing, and it publicly aired the dirty laundry of the Republicans for all the world to see.
Clearly, Ted Cruz believes Donald Trump will lose in November and wants to set himself up as the conservative frontrunner for 2020. Â However, Trump and his cronies were having none of it. Â In fact, Trump’s flunkie main hit man, Chris Christie, found the nearest news cameras to immediately denounce Ted’s speech.
“I think it was awful. And quite frankly, I think it was something selfish,” Christie told CNN’s Dana Bash. “He signed a pledge. And it’s his job to keep his word. I think it was too cute and I think you saw at the end of the speech that the crowd was waiting for him to do the right thing and realized that he wasn’t going to do it.”
“None of us should be sitting here worrying about 2020. We have a race to win in 2016,” Christie added.
The Cruz mutiny and failure to tow the line and pretend he was on the Trump bandwagon should come as no surprise to anyone, particularly after the brutal insults and outrageous innuendo Trump made against Ted’s wife and father. During the primaries, Trump alluded to the senior Cruz being involved in the JFK assassination.  He also threatened Ted that he would “spill the beans about your wife,” insinuating there was some dark secret about Heidi Cruz he could reveal to the world.  He didn’t.
Still, Ted Cruz had his moment of glory. Â He was able to deliver the type of speech he likely would have had he won the nomination. Â He was able to successfully paint himself as the protector of conservatism amidst the alternate world of Donald Trump. He was able to launch his 2020 presidential aspirations during a primetime speech in front of millions. He was able to completely overshadow the rollout of Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, since everyone was left talking about Ted’s speech instead of Mike’s. Â And he was able to ruin Trump’s nomination party and embarrass him in front of all of his guests.
For one very bold political moment, Ted Cruz took the phrase “You reap what you sow” and stuck it to Trump one last time.  For Cruz, it was well worth it!
Thanks for this DJ. Except for the first night (when I watched 15-20 minutes of it) I haven't watched anymore. But I've kept up with what's happening via recaps on CNN and MSNBC and social media.. Okay ….so this Repub convention brings to my mind the following 2 thoughts (I'll keep it brief). First: I remember, as a young child (age 5 or 6 ) being awakened in the night by the alarmed voice of my mother downstairs as she watched the "Special Report" (today's version of Breaking News) on television. A passenger train had derailed somewhere in the world sending a number of people (including children) plunging to their deaths as the train went off track down a steep slope into a body of water. As my mother was on the phone with my grandmother discussing the horrific event, she hadn't noticed that I had sneaked downstairs and eased… Read more »