Many conservatives are furious at Senator Ted Cruz for his flip-flop endorsement of Donald Trump. Sean Hannity, on the other hand, has placed a big, wet rhetorical kiss on Trump’s lips.
As The Washington Post noted, Cruz’s refusal to endorse Trump at the Republican National Convention “got him booed offstage, but won him respect on the right.” That respect just withered. The Post wrote:
“Profoundly sad day for me,” [Glenn] Beck wrote. “Disappointment does not begin to describe. Maybe it is time to go to the mountains for a while.”
Other conservatives who had refused to endorse Trump spent the afternoon asking what they’d seen in Cruz. “I think Ted Cruz endorsing Trump at this point plays to the caricature that he is self-interested, not really principled,” wrote Erick Erickson, a conservative commentator who had just published a well-received essay on why he still rejected Trump. “Hate it for him.” An hour later, he amended his remarks: “It does become almost impossible to claim ‘self-interested Ted’ is a caricature after this.”
Steve Deace, an influential Iowa radio host who campaigned for Cruz, spent Friday afternoon tweeting that he had just seen “the worst political miscalculation of my lifetime,” and a genuine, personal disappointment.
But just as Cruz “forgot” that he was “not in the habit of supporting someone who attacks my wife and attacks my father,” because Trump had smeared Heidi Cruz’s looks and suggested Cruz’s father was involved in the JFK assassination; and just as Trump “forgot” that he didn’t want Cruz’s endorsement and was now “greatly honored” to have it; so did Sean Hannity “forget” his attacks on Cruz for staying in the GOP primary (and potentially harming Trump) and having helped validate Trump’s smear of Cruz’s father.
Media Matters caught Hannity rewriting history on his radio show yesterday:
SEAN HANNITY(HOST): I’ve always had a caveat for Ted. I’ve always said I liked Ted Cruz I think Ted would come around. And it’s not that Ted Cruz more than anybody else probably, would have had a more legitimate reason to oppose Trump certainly more than Bush, certainly more than Lindsey Graham, certainly more than John Kasich for crying out loud. But I’ll read you his statement, and I want to say that I’ve always liked Ted Cruz, always. I love the guy as a person. I think he is—one of the reasons he did so well in this campaign is because that he is a solid constitutional conservative. But he was also hated by the establishment.
Listen to Hannity's self-serving lies below, from the September 23, 2016 The Sean Hannity Show.
Conservatives have awoken to the fact that this old hawk was never a conservative. He is a sellout, self-serving fraud out for himself. Many conservatives have distanced themselves from this Long Island Lolito. That is the good news.
The Stop Hannity Express says this old hawk was humiliated before the masses when the Foxies told the world he would not be allowed to appear in future Trumpster political ads. Everyone laughed at his old azz after he was scolded by the suits. We are still laughing.
The Express has one wish: to see Hannocchio behind bars in federal prison.
NOTE TO HANNITY
Ha, ha! The Foxies put you in your place. Everyone was laughing at you being scolded in public. We will bring this up on other talk radio shows, over and over again.
I had some friends over for lunch today and one of them complained about a bad headache that he attributed to a strange noise. Turns out it was a battery-powered ultrasound device that’s supposed to dissuade stray cats from using my yard as a toilet. My friend was fine as soon as the device was turned off. Although only he was affected, he thinks that musicians and lovers of music may be particularly sensitive to ultrasound bombardment. My gut feeling is that Hillary is more likely to fall into that category and also that the Trumpsters are more likely to have a dirty tricks department.
I hope the guys prepping the debate hall are aware that this sort of device should not be present.
I know I’ll be looking carefully at Hillary’s body language as soon as she starts answering questions.
And, whenever he’s caught buying off politicians, be they sitting AGs, or now, Cruz?
I’m reminded of that great scene from The Godfather.
Sollozzo: Bene, Don Corleone. I need a man who has powerful friends. I need a million dollars in cash. I need, Don Corleone, all of those politicians that you carry around in your pocket, like so many nickels and dimes.
But, Trump isn’t Vito. He’s not even Michael. He’s more like Sonny. The “Bad Don” who’s big mouth and hot temper set him up for being machine gunned at a tollbooth on the causeway. Maybe with a little of Don Ciccio (from GF II), thrown in for good measure. Of course, that may only be wishful thinking on my part, considering how he met his end.
Trump doesn’t want to be President. The pay is too low. He’s just staying in it to siphon off as much cash as possible before November. What’s the rent for his Trump Tower campaign headquarters running at, now that the campaign is paying it? Then, after the election, he’ll continue to fundraise to pay off all the loans he made to himself. A typical Mafia racket. Brilliant, actually, as there is little chance he’ll get busted.
A racket, as were his six bankruptcy filings. From which, he walked away with billions.
In mob parlance, each was a classic “bust out.” But, not small time, which is more usual in the criminal world. He had lots of highly paid lawyers, so he could use the legal system and, in each case, move the merchandise out the back door, before burning the place down.
He probably picked up the technique from his gangster “associates” in the septic tank that is the Atlantic City gambling business. A cesspool in which he swam, with a lifejacket provided by his bought off politician buddy Governor Christie.
How many other scams he’s pulled off? Who knows? But, I’ll bet there is a paper trail out there.
Now, let’s see those tax returns.
Ted lasted for 4 months. You can give him credit for that.
I don’t like Glenn Beck’s crackpot conspiracy-laden political views but at least he’s seeing Ted Cruz for the calculating, slimy political grifter he is.
