Apparently Ted Cruz broke his word and refused to endorse the winner of the GOP presidential nomination last night.
He did so in a prime-time televised speech to the convention.
Trump knew about this well ahead of time, and didn’t bar Cruz from speaking.
“No big deal.” That’s Trump.
It calls to mind another convention betrayal.
In 1992, sitting Vice President Dan Quayle addressed the GOP convention.
George H.W. Bush’s henchmen did not like Quayle and they detested the party’s pro-life platform plank.
So they cut the pro-life passages from Quayle’s teleprompter text – undoubtedly under instruction from the vile plutocrat James Baker (Bush was probably looking at his watch).
Nobody else noticed until Quayle mentioned it later. OMG! – he had written those passages himself, so he included them when he delivered his remarks while the teleprompters went haywire.
For the rest of the speech he ignored the teleprompters.
Now: forget the issues — compare the characters.
Cruz betrays Trump – with Trump’s permission. “No big deal.”
Petulant and peevish, Bush/Baker betray Quayle and his pro-life supporters without whom Bush would have been toast in 1988 (which is why he chose Quayle in the first place).
Both Bushes – 41 and 43 – are mice. Interesting how they both needed manipulators – Baker and Cheney, truly masterful and malevolent apparatchiks – to pull the strings.
(and Jeb? He couldn’t even squeak.)
Trump the confident, generous gentleman. Bush the bitter bozo (who, like Cruz, broke his signal promise himself: “read my lips”).
“As ye are in small things so shall ye be in great things.”
10:19 am on July 21, 2016
