Did Gingrich not see that Ted Cruz meant there are 4 candidates to chose from, including the Green Party and the Libertarian party?

Think you missed the point of Ted Cruz’s speech.

It was to confirm and back TRUMP for president It was at the GOP convention not the “everybody” convention.

I thought much the same thing when I first heard it and perhaps he purposely left it vague; plausible deniability and all that but I finally decided that what he was saying was that there are republicans on the down the ticket running for many other offices so, even if you (like him) cannot bring yourself to vote for Trump you should at least go and vote for all of these other actual Christians.

I listened to Ted Cruz’s speech, live, in it’s entirety.

The point was not that there are 4 candidates.
The point was that Donald Trump has failed to earn the vote of Republican voters.
Rhetoric, bombast, and pandering do not make a candidate.
A candidate should have policy, principles, and concrete plans.

Shouldn’t Trump have produced a blueprint for The Wall, after a year of talking about it? He’s really really rich.
He’s supposedly a construction builder.
Why not set someone to doing a preliminary blueprint of The Wall.

He proposed deporting 17,000 (yes, that’s seventeen thousand) Mexican immigrants per day for 12–18 months.
Show me the infrastructure we’ll build to do that, and the economics on how that’s cheaper than legalizing part of those immigrants, deporting the rest.

Ted Cruz and I are polar opposites in politics.
But I appreciate Cruz calling his party’s candidate out on the lack of specifics.
Cruz: “You’ve given me no reason to support you, and every reason to hate you.”

Cruz’s speech makes a lot more sense when we keep in mind that “vote your conscience” has basically been the rallying cry of the Never Trump movement. The movement has justified itself as one born out of conscience. It tried to push a conscience clause to allow delegates to vote for whomever they thought best (and not for the candidate they were pledged to vote for). And it has asked people to focus on down-ticket races instead of the presidential election if Trump is the candidate. Cruz’s speech was the height of dog whistle politics, and that fact was not lost on the Trump supporters in the audience (which is why they booed).

I can honestly say that these two men must’ve been given a couple of extra swirlies apiece while growing up. It is interesting how they are Both now, so far away from ever being even considered in the run for the presidency, that even Sponge Bob Squarepants stands a better chance on the ticket.
Newt has some events coming up to where I believe that his suddenly vocal thoughts about his fellow party members in this election where made because he agreed to step forward as a party voice-piece in order to garner some ’ you owe me ‘s for the future.
We’ll have to see.

At least technically speaking, no candidate is going to have more regard for the Constitution than one representing Libertarians.

@SavoirFaire is right on the money.

@rojo great post
@ibstubro I see your point. I don’t understand the last statement.
@msh and @SecondHandStoke I’m thinking about your posts.

Explain in greater detail @flo ?