Posted on 04/07/2016 8:03:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Via Breitbart and the Right Scoop, you can grumble about this if you’re #NeverTrump but we all understand, I think, that the vast, vast majority of the party will come around to his position by November, right? Don’t get me wrong, stalwart anti-Trumpers may have the numbers to fatally damage Trump’s chances even if they’re just five percent of the electorate. But that’s probably what they’ll be — five percent, not a third of the party despite how much fun it is to ooh and ahh over numbers like that. Never underestimate the power of partisanship, especially when you’ve got a Democrat as unlikable as Hillary topping the other ticket.
And even if five percent of Republicans do end up as #NeverTrumpers, that’s not necessarily a death sentence for Trump’s campaign. Why? Because some segment of Bernie fans claim that they’re #NeverHillary:
One out of four Sanders supporters– 25 percent – say they would not back Clinton in a general election if she became the Democratic nominee for president, while just 69 percent say they would support her, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
By comparison, Clinton supporters are considerably more open to supporting Sanders should he overtake her large lead in delegates and win the nomination. Just 14 percent of Clinton supporters would shun him in the general election, while 79 percent would support him, the poll found.
What’s the actual number of Sanders supporters who’d sit out an election with either Trump or Cruz, both of whom will be painted by Democrats as unprecedented threats to the republic, as GOP nominee? Two percent? Remember all the Hillary fans who vowed after 2008’s bitter primary to loss to Obama that they’d never vote for him for president? How’d that work out?
Anyway, click the image to listen to a preview of what conservative media’s apt to sound like this fall if Trump seals the deal in Cleveland. Levin has endorsed Cruz and has fiercely criticized Trump over the past few months (even over the Michelle Fields incident, which is unusual in major conservative media) but he’s prepared to set that aside in the name of beating Clinton. I wonder where Glenn Beck, Trump’s most strident critic in conservative talk radio dating back to last year, is on that. If anyone’s going to carry the #NeverTrump banner to the bitter end, it’s him.
Too late fake one.
You’ve screwed the Canadian pooch for so long and hard now you’re career is finished.
Finally, some sanity. I was wondering when someone in the media was going to poll the Sanders supporters and come up with the #NeverHillary number. I believe it will offset the #NeverTrump number, because there are more Dems than Repubs in the country.
Your boy Cruz was just on O’Reilly criticizing Trump for being a successful businessman. Sounds like something Hillary and Bernie would say about Trump.
It isn’t Levin’s hatred of Trump that is the problem, it’s that he has made it nearly impossible for his many followers who over the years have placed their faith in Levin’s opinions to vote for Trump or anyone else when Cruz fails — which is a near certainty.
Levin and EVERYONE in the GOP has gone ridiculous this year, in their overwhelming partisanship against their strongest candidate in an entire generation.
Cruz please realize you are on the verge of ruining the GOP and giving the presidency to Hillary.
For real. 2ndDivisionVet you are a good guy and I respect you a great deal.
But you are wrong to support this guy the way you are. He won’t win if nominated, and he probably won’t even be nominated.
He is not a winning candidate. He, and you, and just devoting an inordinate amount of your time and your energy, to destroying the one candidate who can turn things around for America.
You are wrong, this time.
Big time.
Cruz was just on O’Reilly criticizing Trump for being a successful businessman.
Sounds like something Hillary and Bernie would say about Trump.
Good gosh....tell me you heard cRuz wrong.
Unreal.
Mark Levin, as editor of the conservative review, allows Amanda Carpenter to publish black lists of people who support Trump.
So it’s way beyond just not supporting Trump, but also going and permanently blacklisting his supporters.
We are so happy that we learned about the Casper Mattress before he went all Cruzadian on us! This has to be part of the “Great Delusion” of the End Times! W can pray that the Tediban comes to its senses.
BOOM!
Nailed it. The “don’t blame me” disclaimer won’t hunt Levin.
Now Levin wants a truce? Nope, screw him and all Cruz supporters! I’m sick of listening to their crap.
Mark Levin can kiss my rosey red a$$ and Cruz can wish he got the same invitation!
It isn’t Levin’s hatred of Trump that is the problem, it’s that he has made it nearly impossible for his many followers who over the years have placed their faith in Levin’s opinions to vote for Trump or anyone else when Cruz fails — which is a near certainty.
LOL. This is priceless from the Great One. Classic Levin. On Monday he’s “attacking from the left” and calling Trump “Nixonian” again. On Thursday he’s spinning in the opposite direction. His credibility is gone. I no longer put merit in anything he says including the Article 5 convention stuff. He’s got his own agenda and he will push it.
I’m a Cruz supporter.
The key is DEATH TO THE UNIPARTY!
Cruz can do that with conservatism, and the Uniparty selling him the rope.
Trump can do that with populism, which will randomly undo much of the Uniparty’s power.
So I’m okay with either of them, so long as Ryan (or his ilk) LOSE.
Keep it together, folks. The key has always been:
DEATH TO THE UNIPARTY!
With all due respect I don't know what this means, though it does sound profound.
2nd that ...
Levin has gone demented
Wait... just a couple weeks ago Levin was a fool to be assigned to the dustbin of history. Now, “finally some sanity”. You Trumpkins have my head spinnin’. How are we supposed to unite with “the will of the people” if the people can’t decide what’s right? Or is it just right if you happen to agree with it at that particular moment? Does the Trump train run on rails of situational ethics?
Just askin’...
BOOM!
Nailed it. The “don’t blame me” disclaimer won’t hunt Levin.
Yep. After MONTHS of Cruz campaign infomercials and endless smears of “Nixonian” Trump. Not going to buy this CYA from Levin.
Peter King, Geraldo Rivera and Rudy Giuliani are heroes today.
Yeah, sure Mark. Throw molatov cocktails until the general, but then we’ll pretend that nothing burned, right? You’ll just walk back from that limb you went out on, right? Horse hockey.
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