Ted Cruz most likely to be nominee.

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[JJHLH1]

Campaign fundamentals matter. Months before Ted Cruz declared he was running for President, he was outlining a path to victory in private meetings with skeptical conservatives. I know very few who came out of those meetings still doubting Cruz could win. Cruz has been methodically and systematically sticking to the path he mapped out. He has met turbulent and unforeseen circumstances and approached them from the strategy his team mapped out prior to Cruz’s entry into the race, which is another campaign fundamental. His approach has not been flying by the seat of his paths; his team has put in the effort to build up an army of support; they have put in amazing time trying to figure out how to connect to voters increasingly unplugged; and I think right now it leaves him best positioned for the nomination.

[JJHLH1]

We will find out soon enough who is right. Trump’s strongest supporters are registered Democrats. Cruz has a strong ground game. Let the voting begin!

[kiltie65]

John Bolton as Secretary of State would be a great choice. Would love to see him there, or another position, with a Republican administration.

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I’m sitting in a deli in NYC right now and I can tell you that a vast majority of those you named will vote for the dem over the repub every time. They are union people and they will not change decades of straight party line voting for Trump or anybody else. This gets back to my contention that the bizarre messianic Trump supporters are imaging magical powers that The Donald just does not have. He won’t get the union vote, like he won’t get the black vote. He won’t win 50 states. He won’t win NY. He’s only a mere mortal, despite the supernatural hair color.

[Godebert]

8 U.S. Code § 1401 - Nationals and citizens of United States at birth

The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:

Nationals and Citizens are the keywords. Congress only has the power of naturalization. They can NOT define a natural born Citizen and did not in any of the U.S. codes you have listed. Natural Law, not positive or man's law, defines who are the natural born Citizens.

[IChing]

Well I certainly don’t want to go too far with the optimism but he’s already had the Teamsters express interest in getting on board with him, and at least one major police union has endorsed him:

FOX News: Teamsters Vote Unanimously To Withhold Endorsement, Want To Sit Down With Trump

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/09/30/fox_news_teamsters_vote_unanimously_to_withhold_endorsement_want_to_sit_down_with_trump.html

Some very big unions are refusing to back the Sea Hag:

Trump Leading by 27% in Union Stronghold as Teamsters Want Meeting and Unions Abandon Hillary

http://conservativeintel.com/2015/10/01/tumpleadingasteamsterswantmeeting/

Major New England Police Union Endorses Trump

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/11/major-new-england-police-union-endorses-trump/#ixzz3wa5QCyCq

[IChing]

...you were saying...?

[Crusher138]

I voted for the first time in 1980. It was my distinct pleasure to vote for Ronald Reagan for President.

At the time there were many of both parties that wanted to write Reagan off as a stupid B-Movie actor who was SO divisive that he could NEVER be elected President.

While Trump is no Reagan (I cannot say that often enough) there are a fair amount of similarities. Both had/have backgrounds in entertainment. Both had/have Democrat histories. Both had/have changes in positions from liberal to conservative over their life.

Up until the votes were counted, pundits predicted a Carter landslide. The left never saw it coming.

I believe it is VERY possible that Trump could be elected in a Reagan-like landslide.

[editor-surveyor]

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Spamming, trolling BS!

Big graphics hide deceptive intent every time.
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Unions do this every election cycle. They flirt with gullible GOP candidates who are willing to talk about giving them more of our money. This forces the Dems to come up with a little extra taste of the public funds. There are only two ways to get a union endorsement - a public promise of huge concessions or deliver a smaller sum off the books to the union leadership. And the endorsements are theater. The rank and file votes Democratic in huge numbers. Every time.

[editor-surveyor]

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Save the squirming.

Trump knows he has been overtaken by a more qualified, and more legitimate candidate.

Its time for him to be gracious instead of childish.
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[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I know Ted. Nice guy, but he’s terrible.

You know, I’ve never heard him say that he wants to make America great again. Really. I haven’t.

So what does that tell you? Some people say it’s because he wants to make America worse.

Look, I’M not saying that. But some people are. And you know, that’s something Cruz is going to have to deal with.

It’s probably best that I bring it up now before the Democrats do.

I say it because he’s a good guy. And I want to help him. But he’s terrible.

— Trump (next week)

[editor-surveyor]

  "Cruz will easily dispatch Hillary in the general."

    This is the salient point of this election.

[editor-surveyor]

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You definitely have Trump’s number.

[IChing]

Oh, overtaken. I see. LOL

Reuters rolling poll has Trump at 41.7%, Cruz at 13.7%.

[Godebert]

Spamming, trolling BS! Big graphics hide deceptive intent every time.

You f$%#ing traitor! That graphic is our DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. You should be thrown off Freerepublic immediately.

[Godebert]

Learn to use some html.

[silverleaf]

how much of the minority, “independent” and and democrat vote has Cruz pulled in his Texaselections?

No GOP candidate can win the presidential election with just GOP votes. Too many of the GOP just stay home if they don’t get their one issue candidate

[heshtesh]

Why? You got the message!

[editor-surveyor]

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You attempt to use our Declaration to frame a lie.

[Godebert]

I don't think I've ever pinged an admin-moderator in the 16 plus years I've been on Freerepublic. I'm considering making an exception to your reply #168.

Note the reference to Natural Law in the first sentence of our Declaration of Independence.

It is crystal clear that the Founding Fathers used the Natural Law definition of 'natural born Citizen' when they wrote Article II. By invoking "The Laws of Nature and Nature's God" the 56 signers of the Declaration incorporated a legal standard of freedom into the forms of government that would follow.

President John Quincy Adams, writing in 1839, looked back at the founding period and recognized the true meaning of the Declaration's reliance on the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." He observed that the American people's "charter was the Declaration of Independence. Their rights, the natural rights of mankind. Their government, such as should be instituted by the people, under the solemn mutual pledges of perpetual union, founded on the self-evident truth's proclaimed in the Declaration."

The Constitution, Vattel, and “Natural Born Citizen”: What Our Framers Knew

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.

MINOR V. HAPPERSETT IS BINDING PRECEDENT AS TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFINITION OF A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

The Harvard Law Review Article Taken Apart Piece by Piece and Utterly Destroyed

Citizenship Terms Used in the U.S. Constitution - The 5 Terms Defined & Some Legal Reference to Same

"The citizenship of no man could be previous to the declaration of independence, and, as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776."....David Ramsay, 1789.

A Dissertation on Manner of Acquiring Character & Privileges of Citizen of U.S.-by David Ramsay-1789

The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)

The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: The True Foundation of American Law

Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 20 - Use of The Law of Nations by the Constitutional Convention