The GOP's utterly embarrassing capitulation to Donald Trump, in 1 photo

Frederick Foresight said:
Indeed. Refer to Ted Cruz for details.
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Lawyers fees are certainly going to bankrupt this ring kisser.

Trump believes it is not his 'call' to help Rudy Giuliani with his legal expenses: report

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On Wednesday, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said that former President Donald Trump believes it is not his "call" to help his longtime ally and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani with his legal expenses now that he is under federal investigation.
 
Frederick Foresight said:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/05/politics/donald-trump-ted-cruz-mar-a-lago/index.html

Sen. Ted Cruz trekked down to Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night to have dinner with Donald Trump.

How do I know? The Texas Republican senator tweeted an all-smiles picture of himself with the former President and this caption:

"Had a great dinner tonight with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago. He's in great spirits! We spent the evening talking about working together to re-take the House & Senate in 2022."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1389759331470659586

He's in great spirits! Good to know!

What Cruz is doing here isn't complicated. He wants to run for president in 2024 -- particularly if Trump himself takes a pass on the contest. And Cruz is smart enough to know that, at least at the moment, the path to the Republican nomination goes directly through Mar-a-Lago. As in, there is a zero percent chance of winning if Trump is actively opposed to you doing so. If Trump says something nice about you publicly, so much the better!

That Cruz feels the need to kiss the ring -- and make it VERY public that he is doing so -- after everything Trump has said about him (and his loved ones) speaks to the depths of capitulation (and obsequiousness) that even the ostensible future leaders of the party (like Cruz) are willing to stoop to in order to please the former president.

What, again, has Trump said about Cruz?

Well, he said that Cruz stole the Iowa caucuses. He suggested that Cruz's father was somehow involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He even insinuated that Cruz's wife, Heidi, was unattractive. And who could forget that Trump bestowed the nickname "Lyin' Ted" on Cruz. ("Lyin' Ted holds the Bible high, puts the Bible down and then he lies," Trump said repeatedly on the campaign trail in 2016.)

And then there's what Cruz has said about Trump.

He called Trump a "pathological liar," "utterly amoral, "a narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen" and "a serial philanderer." He suggested that Trump may have ties to the Mafia. He said that "if I were in my car and getting ready to reverse and saw Donald in the backup camera, I'm not confident which pedal I'd push." He told Trump to "leave Heidi the hell alone." And last but not least, Cruz pointedly refused to endorse Trump in a primetime speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

Now, politics can be an ugly business, especially at the presidential level. And Cruz (and Trump) defenders will no doubt engage in a bit of whataboutism by noting that then-Sen. Kamala Harris savaged Joe Biden during the 2020 Democratic primaries over his opposition to busing to integrate schools.

Which was harsh -- and left some hard feelings that took a months for some in both camps to get over!

But there's a big difference between going after a past policy position held by a politician and suggesting his wife is ugly. Or that his dad somehow played a role in the assassination of an American president. Or that you hide behind your religion while lying constantly.

Those sorts of attacks feel, to me at least, like the sort of stuff you don't get over. Because they are totally outside the bounds of normal political hits, in that they are so deeply personal.

That Cruz is not only willing to put all of that behind him (or tuck it away somewhere in the back of his mind) but also to celebrate Trump -- Cruz floated the idea of arguing the ridiculous Texas election fraud case in front of the Supreme Court -- is, frankly, astounding.

It's also a testament to the depths of Cruz's ambition and the death grip that the 45th President of the United States still exerts on the GOP.
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Your analysis is off because of your bias. It can also show great character, high road high minded-ness. You could easily be framing actual forgiveness, for the furtherance of common enough ideology, in an overly dark, and ugly frame. You could just as easily say he is interested in VP role before Trump officially selects DeSantos, and for all the right reasons. It was Cruz, after all, who was sportsmanship enough to play Kimmel one v one basketball.
 
Dude... find better people to look up to than Cruz and Trump. Trump never apologized to Cruz for what he said and Cruz never said he was wrong about what he said about trump.

When trump won, Cruz realized he needed to suck up to stay relevant and in power so he sold out his family for his party leader. There is no forgiveness because trump throws everybody under the bus eventually.

There is nothing to admire in this pair at all...
 
Good1 said:
Your analysis is off because of your bias. It can also show great character, high road high minded-ness. You could easily be framing actual forgiveness, for the furtherance of common enough ideology, in an overly dark, and ugly frame. You could just as easily say he is interested in VP role before Trump officially selects DeSantos, and for all the right reasons. It was Cruz, after all, who was sportsmanship enough to play Kimmel one v one basketball.
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I didn't write the piece, I just posted it. Did you read it? All of it?
 
The whole Stefanik thing is pretty good evidence of capitulation, too.

"Liz Cheney is a true conservative. She has better ratings across the board. Elise was a moderate and a Trump skeptic who realized she had to pivot to Trump -- and she did," said one prominent conservative activist who was granted anonymity to speak more freely. "Elise satisfies the litmus test that she is pro-Trump. And that's all that counts these days in our coalition. And I think we are a coalition, not a party today, because there are plenty of the Trump folks, the MAGA folks who are not true Republicans."

As Trump loyalty trumps ideology, conservatives hold their noses for Stefanik
 
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