Friday, July 22, 2016
Trump's new problem with Christians: He won't accept Ted Cruz' endorsement, but gay man Peter Thiel's is just fine
Trump, quoted here:
"If he gives it, I will not accept it," Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, said at a Friday morning press conference in Cleveland.
Mostly female social conservatives saved the Republican platform from Paul Singer surrogate Annie Dickerson
From the story here:
But the [Tony] Perkins wing was met with vocal opposition from Annie Dickerson, an adviser to billionaire GOP donor Paul Singer, who is a proponent of same-sex marriage and other issues championed by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Dickerson fumed as her socially liberal proposals went down and the socially conservative measures she opposed sailed through the subcommittee. ...
The 16-member subcommittee, made up of 13 women and three men, rejected Dickerson’s request to remove language in the platform that “salutes” states like North Carolina for passing controversial bathroom laws that critics say discriminate against transgender people.
She protested language that said the party supports “traditional marriage and the families a husband and wife create,” arguing instead for a provision that said children should be “raised in a loving and stable home.”
And she argued against having language in the platform that opposes the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage.
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Senator Dan Coats of Indiana tears into Ted Cruz
Quoted here:
“I think what people saw last night is what we have seen in the Senate. No matter how conservative you are, you never can meet Ted’s standard. He only thinks of himself, he doesn’t think about party. He’s a wrecking ball. He’s the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I’ve ever seen – and you can quote me on that."
Cynical Rush Limbaugh ends show suggesting the assertion that Ted Cruz proved last night that he deserved to be called a liar all along is just a circulating talking point
Because several callers got through making the same point today.
It couldn't be, could it, that Ted Cruz is just a liar and proved it one last time last night and everybody following this just happened to agree because they are smart enough to figure it out for themselves.
Rush Limbaugh. The new face of sneering elitism.
Rush Limbaugh justifies Ted Cruz' failure to endorse Trump by comparing it to Ted Kennedy's failure to endorse Jimmy Carter in 1980!
Rush's theatre of the absurd marches on.
I'm sure Republicans and Cruz-bots are just THRILLED that a so-called conservative plumbs the depths for acceptable in the party of scoundrels.
Rush better be careful. If he goes too deep he might bump in to Mary Jo Kopechne.
How hot is it in Grand Rapids, Michigan so far in 2016?
Mean cooling degree days through July: 423.
Actual cooling degree days in 2016 through July 19: 432.
Rush Limbaugh compares Ted Cruz to Richard Nixon, says it's still possible for Cruz to come back
Limbaugh's as crazy as Cruz.
I knew Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was a friend of mine. Ted Cruz is no Richard Nixon.
Heavy sarc.
Heavy sarc.
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| You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around any more |
Charles Hurt calls Ted Cruz a "rude political has-been"
Here.
Cruz joins John Kasich and Jeb Bush in political oblivion. Laura Ingraham this morning called what we saw last night in Cruz' failure to endorse Trump "political suicide".
By contrast people like Scott Walker and Marco Rubio have swallowed hard and backed Trump, and therefore they will live to fight again another day.
But Ted is dead.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Ted Cruz tonight: One huge disappointment
I felt like I was listening to a Senate filibuster.
That guy will never be president.
Republicans demonstrated increased unity last night as delegates previously pledged to others voted for Donald Trump
Trump, who won 1543 delegates in the primary season, received 1725 votes from the floor as states like Michigan upped their ante from the 25 bound delegates for Trump to 51. Trump increased his support by almost 12%.
Similarly Pennsylvania which had 17 votes bound for Trump and 64 total committed cast 70 for him.
Both states passed on their votes in the roll call in order to allow the New York delegation to put their favored son over the top for the nomination, showing that Michigan and Pennsylvania have New York values, too.
Ted Cruz, who won 559 delegates in the primaries and caucuses, received 475 votes from the floor, 15% fewer than he had won.
Marco Rubio, who had won 165, received 114, 31% fewer.
John Kasich, who had won 161, received 120, 25% fewer.
Ben Carson received 7, Jeb Bush 3 (previously had 4) and Rand Paul 2 (previously had 1).
It appears that 26 votes of the 2472 total delegates were not cast at all (no shows? neverTrumpers? never allocated?). No votes were cast for Fiorina or Huckabee on the floor, each of whom had won one in the primaries.
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