Before the campaign started for the 2016 election, each of the people running had to sign a pledge and they all did.  That pledge was to bind the party and to support whoever ended being the nominee which was concluded by the WILL OF THE PEOPLES’ VOTES.

Now weeks before the convention, we now know the persons who have broken their promise and will not support the will of the people.

That tells me something – that they are liars and signed their name to that pledge under false pretenses.  The people who have gone against their word so far are:  Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Lindsey Graham, and Jeb Bush.  All of the other candidates who have gone against their word are sore losers.

Sometimes in life when things don’t go your way, you have to hold your nose and do right by your signature and promise.  Or, it means your signature did not amount to a hill of beans.  Why would anyone want any of those four as representatives in our government in the future because you can’t trust them and you never will  – once they go against their own word – they are true politicians whose promise doesn’t mean a thing.

I do not want to hear a speech from any of the four at the convention  because what they say will only just leave saw dust on the floor of the convention hall.

They are done in my eyes and I will never vote for any of them.

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For Ted Cruz, is giving a convention speech worth backing Trump?

(Nothing will help Ted Cruz as far as I am concerned.  He has proved during the campaign that he is not an American by the way he cheated during the campaign.  Just a typical lawyer who is using that part of his lawyer class room tactics that teaches lawyers how to manipulate the truth to win under any circumstance.  He will not get my vote in the future. He has burned my vote in Texas!  We will see what kind of man and person he is.)

By Gromer Jeffers Jr
Published: 28 June 2016 02:44 PM

Updated: 28 June 2016 04:48 PM

Donald Trump has issued Ted Cruz an ultimatum: Endorse me or forget about giving a speech at July’s Republican convention.

The presumptive Republican nominee told The New York Times that he was getting out in front of potential convention insurrectionists. He said: “If there’s no endorsement, then I would not invite them to speak.”

That puts Cruz in a tough situation. He’s essentially the runner-up to Trump in the Republican race, going into the convention with 559 loyal delegates.

A speaking slot at the convention would give him the opportunity to pay tribute to his supporters, tout his impressive but unsuccessful campaign and set himself up for another run for the White House in four or eight years.

History is full of second-place finishers tipping their cap to the eventual nominee. In 1976, after a bruising fight for the GOP nomination, Ronald Reagan conceded and endorsed President Gerald Ford. He later spoke at the gathering in Kansas City, thrilling his supporters and laying the foundation for his successful 1980 presidential bid.

Even Ted Kennedy, who challenged President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 Democratic primaries, had to grin and bear it during a convention speech.

Not giving Cruz a prime slot, and the absence of his endorsement, would display a lack of unity within the Republican Party.

It’s possible that Cruz could get the chance to speak, most likely outside of prime time, regardless of what Trump says. Under the current rules, if his name is put in nomination for president, he could get the chance to address delegates during that process. The new rules for the convention will be addressed in July.
The unity efforts of the past don’t compare to what’s going on in the Republican Party today, and the decisions leaders like Cruz have to make about backing Trump.

In the past I’ve written both about the need for Republicans to rally around their nominee. In my view, they have waited too long. The GOP needed a united front once Trump routed Cruz on Super Tuesday and immediately afterward.

Hillary Clinton has a head start that could result in an easy victory, especially if she’s able to define Trump as unfit for the presidency before he gets out of the gate.

Yet, there’s still time for the New York billionaire, and it would help if folks like Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich backed him.

But as I wrote earlier, Cruz is unlikely to back Trump, even if it means forfeiting a convention speech. Cruz sees himself as the champion of the conservative movement. He wants to be part of the lineage of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.

When Trump implodes — and Cruz is on record saying that he will — Cruz can make the argument that the party should have nominated him instead.

Cruz is playing the long game. He doesn’t want his chances in 2020 or beyond to be tainted by an insincere endorsement of Trump, the man he said is the only Republican in the world who can’t beat Hillary Clinton.

But there is the chance that Trump could win. He shocked the political world by seizing the GOP presidential nomination, so he shouldn’t be counted out against Clinton.

Like many Republicans who don’t like Trump, Cruz has limited options.

Does he dance at Trump’s party, stand along the wall or skip it entirely?

Sometimes tough speeches are designed not to prop up the winner but rally the defeated.

Cruz should consider what Kennedy told delegates at the 1980 Democratic convention in perhaps his most famous line: “For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”

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