From this source:
I’ve backed Cruz, and I’m going to continue to back Cruz, but here’s what I’m going to do. As a result of what the Trump supporters have attempted here, particularly Roger Stone, I am not voting for Donald Trump. Period. … And if anybody has a problem with that, Donald Trump, you can talk to Roger Stone. These bully, dirty tricks, Nixonian tactics, they’re only going to backfire. They’re only going to backfire. So, count me as never Trump. There’s been too much of this folks, way too much of this. The crap in the National Enquirer against Ted Cruz, the attacks on Michelle Fields, I mean, I can go right through the list, too much, too much, too much. At some point, you’ve got to stand up to it.Audio HERE.
And if they piss me off one more time, I’m going to urge millions and millions of you, should he get the nomination, not to vote for him either.
Also worth noting:
Mark Levin reverses course on the #NeverTrump faction of the Republican party days after he castigated the group as asinine frauds who are not real conservatives.
BTW, Bill Kristol is ALSO now saying he is never saying never.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good measure of just how frightening Hillary is.
However, I can tell you for CERTAIN I CANNOT, am UNABLE to vote for Cruz for any reason whatsoever.
You all know why.
My reading and listening list gets smaller by the day. I figure by November I'll only have 3 or 4 people to read.
ReplyDeleteHis thinking poor Michelle was attacked knocks his credibility to about zero.
Adrienne,
ReplyDeleteMy reading and listening list gets smaller by the day.
No kidding!
This primary season is destroying friendships, too.
Epa,
ReplyDeleteI think that I've figured out Ted Cruz and why it is that the more people see him, the less they like him.
He has Aspergers -- mixed in with Papa Rafael's theology, of course.
AoW -- I determined quite some months ago not to talk about this race with friends this year. These are folks I've been close to for 35+ years. They're family and I want to keep it that way. So we stick to wine whiskey and song.
ReplyDeleteCo-workers, however...
Adrienne, it's strange but mine is getting larger.
ReplyDelete1)With Bernie SCREWED-the only candidate running whose policy MIGHT help American workers at all levels is TRUMP, who on trade has the SAME position
2)Places like HuffPo have now actually COME OUT AGAINST COMMON CORE and other strange end of days scenarios
3)Inside so called conservatives (as well as GOPe) have BY FUNCTION more in common right now with with WS Dems than they do with actual Americans who work for a living ..many of these folks have been (as in UNIONS) traditional D voters who are now UP VOTE SWAYING
MR-we live in/near a college town, U Maine, and some/many people in our congregation are professors, etc.
ReplyDeleteSome>many think Trump supporters are some kind of phenomena from the ancient Visigoths
However when I begin asking if they want a border which can prevent bad people from coming here at will, and if they think free trade is a success...
They have a hard time distinguishing those who want to stop ILLEGAL immigration from those who have no trouble with actual immigration
They also have a knee jerk response to the idea of "FREE TRADE" as a conservative ideological measure of C purity; they personally don't like it.
The think Trump a racist but have no idea how many 1,000s of any race/gender have been promoted by and in Trump orgs to mid-upper management based solely on merit. This question creates confusion.
They TRULY believe redistributed taxes are actual charity, but literally could not believe the USA's private citizens gave $370bn to charity last year.
They claim they know NO Trump supporters.
There's one guy who was a union exec from NY in the ILGWU who GETS IT. You can imagine what free trade did to them. 'Look for the Union Label'. Everything I tried to translate for some of these folks about WHY people support Trump, he agreed with, and he's for Bernie.
It's weird for most of them because they don't know what to make of me and never did. I worked civil rights in 60's, but push 2A. I donate, and donate services, but want to rid us of the IRS. I have a "WHO IS JOHN GALT?" bumper sticker, but they know I ran a corp division which after paying tribute to mama corp, I ran for benefit of its workers.
They also all work for the state (U Maine, right?), and think the economy is ok. They cite our NAVY boys getting returned in 48 hours by the Iranians as FP success.
When I was elected to the board 11 years ago there was one dissenting vote. It was BECAUSE this person suspected I was out of sync with the 'welcoming' mission of our temple, then I knew who she was by her face when I authored the motion to support gay marriage within the congregation, as a religious ceremony. She is gay. Vote was unanimous.
IMHO-many who are of this self identified elite CANNOT recognize true libertarian conservatism, and can't de-friend me because of it, and THEY can't understand why what THEY suspect is a conservative will not de-friend them.
Of course, this is rural Maine, and everyone is totally weird and therefore more tolerant of other weirdos.
Always follow the money first:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/13/a-right-wing-group-s-400k-purchase-of-mark-levin-s-book-sets-off-a-ruckus.html
Here is the deal, in one of Trump's speeches yesterday he targeted the owner of the Chicago Cubs. After that he said, people have interests that you don't know about.
Markie the barking poodle, has an inflated readership stat based on the bulk purchase of his books. Markie is also a classic narcissist. "I'm going to urge millions and millions..." Using voice magnification platforms provides listeners, not necessarily followers.
Epa -- best thing could happen for Trump is for Bernie to bail. So many of his supporters (non-ideological college kid ones) would move to Trump. They want many of the same thing but different roads to it. I've seen a few interviews where voters said as much.
ReplyDeleteMR-totally agree. Not only that, this may turn out to be the path to 270
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the same thing
ReplyDeleteMark Levin has lost me...he thinks FOX is in the tank for Trump and THAT is just plain stupid and uninformed....
ReplyDeletehe even 'quoted' from a gal on OUTNUMBERED, saying she's pro trump, and playing the tape; I had
heard the whole show and she did say something seemingly flattering about Trump BUT then finished with something properly disparaging about him...Levin cut that part off. I've known him to be excitable and a little nutty at times but NEVER intentionally misinforming...that really bothered me....he got it TOTALLY wrong...
There is NO WAY Fields was attacked or hurt in any way...
This is going to be a nasty bunch of months till Nov. I am hoping and praying Trump turns into a dignified, civil human being.
ya, I can hope.
AND I'd vote for a ham sandwich rather than Hillary...any day of the week
Z,
ReplyDeleteI'd vote for a ham sandwich rather than Hillary...any day of the week
Pretty much!