John Boehner backs Donald Trump

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of course he does....they ALL will.

John Boehner backs Donald Trump, thanks God Cruz didn't win

Las Vegas (CNN)John Boehner supports Donald Trump -- just not any of his policies.

"Donald Trump is the nominee, whether people like it or not," the former House speaker, during a question-and-answer session at a hedge fund conference in Las Vegas, told attendees Thursday. Boehner, an Ohio Republican, made clear he would support the nominee.

But that doesn¹t mean Boehner supports what Trump is pitching on the campaign trail. Asked, rapid fire, whether he supported Trump's proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S., his proposal to build a wall on the border of Mexico and the New York billionaire¹s plan to aggressively use tariffs to attack foreign trade competitors, Boehner repeatedly answered with one word: "No."

He also said Trump¹s foreign policy stance, laid out in a speech two weeks ago, didn't align with his views. Still, Boehner said, "Anybody who doesn't think Donald Trump can win, just watch."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/12/politics/john-boehner-backs-donald-trump/index.html

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1. No one listened to Boehner when he was speaker, why should they now? nt

[callous taoboy]

2. Thank you. Saved me some time.

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11. :D nt

[Brother Buzz]

3. Woohoo, free green fees for life!

[0rganism]

4. the orange men gotta stick together, ya know?

if you're orange, you gotta hold out for your fellow orange peeps. don't let the orangeness fade from American politics!

[KamaAina]

5. An all-orange ticket?

[KamaAina]

6. "thanks God Cruz didn't win"?

But isn't God the one who told Cruz to run?

[spanone]

7. confusin', ain't it?

[Wounded Bear]

8. Oompah Loompahs bow to a different God...

[KamaAina]

9. Thread win!

[Miles Archer]

10. He's gonna be swallowing that bitter pill for the rest of his life.

For the record, only extreme evangelicals high-five each other when someone says "God told me to run for President." Although in this case, Cruz didn't completely win them over, because he's pretty much a head louse walking erect.

Nope, your average run-of-the-mill Christian hears a guy like Cruz make that kind of statement and does an immediate face-palm.

How Ted Cruz Lost the Evangelical Vote
And how it could spell disaster for his campaign on Super Tuesday.
By Elizabeth Bruenig
February 24, 2016

https://newrepublic.com/article/130422/ted-cruz-lost-evangelical-vote

According to Lydia Bean, author of The Politics of Evangelical Identity, the campaign’s first mistake was imagining evangelicals as a unified bloc during primary season. “I don’t think it’s particularly unusual or significant that evangelicals aren’t uniting,” Bean says. “I think what this shows is that evangelicals are fractured in general.” Bean points out that evangelicals differ not only in their politics—with some identifying as more conservative and others as more moderate—but in their religiosity.

“Evangelicals who don’t go to church very much but identify as Christian, with Christian nationalistic rhetoric, but aren’t very well formed or advised by Christian community leaders—they’re going for Trump,” Bean says. “I think Ted Cruz is picking up the older, more observant people who are theologically and politically conservative, the people who actually go to church every week.” Rubio, meanwhile, “is picking up the younger, more cosmopolitan evangelicals, the Reformocon people.”

In other words, while evangelicals tend to vote as a solid Republican bloc in general elections, there are (as with any religious group) distinctions within their ranks. And while Cruz might have shaped his message to appeal to a particular subset of evangelicals, that portion simply hasn’t shown itself to be large enough to deliver on Cruz’s hopes for an evangelical blowout.

[KamaAina]

12. "because he's pretty much a head louse walking erect."