Top GOP donors slam Ted Cruz for convention snub

[TomCADem]

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON — Two of Sen. Ted Cruz’s biggest financial backers on Saturday sharply criticized the Texas senator for not endorsing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the Republican National Convention.

Hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah, issued a rare public statement, slamming Cruz, who suggested during his convention appearance that Republicans “vote their conscience.”

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In a statement, the Mercers said: Last summer and again this year, Senator Ted Cruz pledged to support the candidacy of the nominee of the Republican Party whomever that nominee might be. We are profoundly disappointed that on Wednesday night he chose to disregard this pledge.

The Democratic Party will soon choose as their nominee a candidate who would repeal both the First and Second Amendments of the Bill of Rights, a nominee who would remake the Supreme Court in her own image. We need "all hands on deck" to ensure that Mr. Trump prevails. Unfortunately, Senator Cruz has chosen to remain in his bunk below, a decision both regrettable and revealing.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/07/23/top-gop-donors-slam-ted-cruz-convention-snub/87494326/

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This is too funny. Ted Cruz who over extended his right wing purity schtick too far, and thought that he could just piss on the votes of millions of Republicans and be hailed as some sort of principled hero. I guess it is understandable that he believed that his whole gimmick of throwing fellow Republicans under the bus as not being pure and right wing enough would continue to work, since it has worked for him for so long. But, instead, after running a Hillary hate-fest, Republican voters were not in the mood to reward Ted Cruz's me-first, tantrum at the RNC.

Also, the hypocrisy of justifying walking away from his pledge, because Trump was mean to his wife and his father did not even convince his rabid followers given the type of attacks that Ted Cruz delighted in making on others.

[Warpy]

1. He's betting Trump will get trounced

and this was his first campaign move for 2020.

[TeamPooka]

2. If Cruz's example keeps any GOP people home on election day I'll be happy. nt

[Skittles]

3. he won't

no one gives a damn what Ted Cruz thinks

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Maybe Trump's example will keep some GOP people home on election day.

And that might help in the House and Senate.

Cruz is a sideshow. or, "was" a sideshow.

[safeinOhio]

4. That is today, but

if Trump loses or big or, heaven forbid, he gets elected and screws everything up, those that oppose him today will be the only viable repubs to survive. This is the risks they are willing to take.

[Bob Loblaw]

5. I have to admit

I'm going to miss the First Amendment.

[Lucky Luciano]

6. I know Rebekah Mercer referenced in the article.

Wow...and Robert Mercer initially backed Cruz with $11 million.

I went to high school with Rebekah Mercer and her sisters....when they were still middle class. Definitely smart girls...a shame to see the family become right wing extremists after the pioneering work her brilliant, but evidently evil, father did that led him to become a billionaire late in life. At age 47 in 1993 Jim Simons recruited him to Renaissance Technologies to use the speech recognition and natural language processing techniques he invented while working at IBM to have computers read documents and trade off of what he could make the computers understand. He initially threw away Simons's recruitment letter, but reconsidered when he realized how hard it was for him to put his daughters through Stanford and Duke.

I guess he thought he was a temporarily embarrassed millionaire who finally got what he deserved and is thrilled as shit to piss on the rest of the world. Robert mercer is among the worst of the worst - worse than the Kochs.