Posted on 04/08/2016 7:08:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Consider this a follow-up to Wednesday night’s post quoting Mark Levin criticizing #NeverTrumpers for wanting to hand the election to Hillary by abandoning Trump in November. Is that an attitude that’ll be universally shared in conservative media or will there be big-name holdouts? Today we get the answer. Stu Burguiere, Beck’s head writer (and the other man in the clip below), tweeted this last night, seemingly in reply to Pat Buchanan claiming that a Trump/Cruz ticket would set the country on fire:
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Burguiere put that idea to Beck on this morning’s radio show. Would Trump/Cruz be acceptable? Would Cruz/Trump be acceptable? Neither of them uses the phrase “Never Trump” but that’s the clear takeaway from what follows. Beck, after all, is not just a prominent Cruz fan but someone who’s been on the trail with Cruz, and yet, he says, he wouldn’t support a ticket with Trump on it — even if Cruz is at the top. The logic is simple: Partnering with Trump, says Beck, “would prove to me that what I thought about Ted Cruz was wrong.” Is there another major player in right-wing media who’ll break that way this fall, even with colleagues howling that to do so is to submit to Democratic rule? I can’t think of one.
Cruz/Trump is a fantasy, of course, as Trump will never agree to play beta-male to anyone. Trump/Cruz is … unlikely, but not impossible, I think. Imagine if Cruz sold it this way: I’m not joining the ticket because I’m adopting Donald Trump’s agenda, I’m joining the ticket because I want Donald Trump to adopt mine. I’m not selling out to big government, I’m accepting a position of influence in the new administration so that I can make sure they don’t sell out to big government. Wouldn’t some Cruz fans, maybe even Beck, go along with that? If the alternative is to abandon the GOP entirely to Trumpist nationalists, isn’t it better to maintain some leverage by having a principled conservative near the seat of power? Cruz knows how to finesse a position to keep different constituencies happy: Case in point, while refusing yesterday to apologize to Mitch McConnell for criticizing him in the past (populists cheer), he did make a point of praising McConnell for his opposition to Obama’s SCOTUS nominee thus far (see, he can be cordial with the establishment). Remember, for all the hype about Cruz as a rigid ideologue, he’s actually a triangulator in practice. Landing on the ticket and positioning himself as the bridge between big-government nationalists on the one hand and small-government conservatives on the other hand would give him a larger base within the party circa 2020 or 2024 than anyone else in the GOP.
If Trump pulls it out in Cleveland, I’d go as high as 30-40 percent odds that Cruz accepts an offer to become VP. The party leadership would owe him, as Trump/Cruz is their best shot at unity on the right in November, and he’d be next in line during the next presidential cycle if, as expected, Trump loses badly. And if he ends up winning? Cruz is still next in line, except now he’s vice president of the United States. Frankly, maybe those odds are too low. Click the image to watch.
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Update: A lot can change in a few days. Due in part to Trump’s and Roger Stone’s tactics, Mark Levin declared tonight in opening his show that he’s not voting for Trump this fall either.
Don’t forget—Glenn’s mommy knitted him really nice sweaters.
That counts for a lot.
I wouldn’t vote for a Trump/Cruz ticket — or a Cruz/Trump ticket.................................. LOL, this reminds me of the movie “Downfall” where the lead character says; “My Loyal Heinrich”. You just can’t trust anyone when it comes to politics, not even those who supported you. Cruz’s loyal Beck now abandons him?
Of that were true. Then he’d already be on the Trump train wreck.
Never mind. Teddy has his own train wreck...with lots of broads aboard.
R.Cruz would be an idiot regardless of whom he got on the ticket with.
So there is that.
So GB is voting for Hillary...
Thanks, GB, thanks.
I can rest easy now. Stabby the Clown has given us the Kolob message for the day.
How much cash does Ted have left to burn through?
A Trump nomination is the Rats dream and fantasy. They are probably right now producing adverts using all of the crazy things he has said. They are licking their chops.
Looks like Jake Tapper is recommending Colt .45.
He is what I always thought he was. A liberal-pandering “journalist” disguised as “objective”.
You don’t call someone a liar for six months, spread lies and trash one’s wife and ask him to be your anything. Cruz being a man of morals, principles and of steady personality will be the next POTUS. Trump will continue to twitter and trash everyone.
Not hardly. They’ll be playing Cruz not even knowing what state he’s from. Or country.
Everyone else remember when Glenn Beck, uninvited, grabbed the throttle of the Tea Party train and ran it off the tracks?
There’s a man who shouldn’t be able to walk into a room without everyone turning their backs.
Why in the world would any conservative vote for a globalist?
but...but...they were Mormons. Those people don’t drink!
Right. But Beck used to be a Catholic and Catholics do drink, party and celebrate. Now don’t you know Beck has something really wrong with him if he left a Religion like that and joined teetotalers?
I thought you were for Trump?
Well, I would vote for them either way. NEVER DEM!!!
Glen’s ego has completely taken over what was left of his brain.
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