The entire arena waited
breathlessly, and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas acted like he was fighting the
Mexicans at the Alamo.
And Trump had no wall.
Cruz was booed off the stage
when he did not endorse Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for president.
The closest he came was:
“Please:
don’t stay home in November. If you love our country, and love your children as
much as I know that you do, vote your conscience.”
The
TV pundits said Cruz would lose his evangelical base and give up any chance to
ever be president if he endorsed Trump.
Cruz
lived up to his reputation of not giving a damn what other politicians and the
media think of him.
“Unpleasant,”
was the description of Cruz by one commentator. Another commentator said Cruz
was given time to endorse Trump and he had misused it. But Matthews then added,
“they gave him the time.”
Politico said: “Ted Cruz refused to endorse Donald
Trump in daring and dramatic fashion on Wednesday, telling delegates to ‘vote
your conscience' in a 20-minute snub that played out in slow-motion on national
television.
‘We deserve leaders who stand for principle, who unite us all
behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love,” Cruz said. “That is the
standard we should expect from everybody.”
It should have been expected at a convention that has been
disrupted by other major news events, ranging from murders of police to a
speech in which Trump’s wife, Melania, was caught plagiarizing the words of Michelle Obama. It proved that he was willing cross party lines.
For 24 hours the Trump campaign refused to admit its error, but
finally conceded an error was made. To some it appeared they had thrown the
native Slovakian speaker under the bus.
The media consensus was that the Trump campaign was not ready for
prime time.
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