Ted Cruz: No, thanks, on a contested convention

Canada Free Press ^ | 03/07/16 | Dan Calabrese

[Sean_Anthony]

Unless you want a "manifest revolt".

As I write this, Ted Cruz has just won the caucuses in Kansas and finished a pretty good overall Saturday in which he inched to within 83 delegates of Donald Trump in the nomination race. The count now stands at 378 for Trump and 295 for Cruz, with Rubio still lagging way behind at 123 and John Kasich barely registering at 34.

Strategically, that might explain why Cruz is the only Trump rival who is rejecting any notion of a contested convention to take the nomination away from Trump - if it comes to that. When Cruz says the only real way to beat Trump is to beat him at the ballot box, the numbers tell you pretty clearly that he’s the only candidate who has any chance of doing that.

But that doesn’t mean Cruz is insincere. It’s hard to argue substantively with a word of this:

[datura]

When will Ted renounce Romney’s involvement and comments beyond this?

Until then, he’s working for their agenda.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

This constant talk of a brokered convention is absolute nonsense being constantly repeated in the news media. Brokered conventions, smoke filled rooms, and backroom horse trading at national party conventions ended about 100 years ago. We will most likely have a nominee even before the California primary in June. We will probably know who the nominee will before the end of this month.

[McCarthysGhost]

If Cruz has no hope of winning after March 15 and he stays in, he is absolutely for a brokered convention. End of story.

[Jeff Head]

Numbers and Analysis...after Sat and Sun votes (including Puerto Rico):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3406207/posts

[winner3000]

Thank you Ted for not joining those who want to defeat Trump by stabbing him in the back. Thank you for sticking to the fair rules of the game even if you end up losing it.

I just hope at the end of the day Trump and Ted join forces. I don’t think either one will be able to win in the general without at least the supporters of the other, if not the other as the VP candidate.

[VanDeKoik]

Nope.

Just enough of the fake tough talk to keep his base, not enough to not “keep his options open”.

[Huskrrrr]

Possibly because a brokered convention would result in Trump running as an independent. Yeah I know, he promised not to.

[datura]

Exactly.

[dynoman]

Here's some interesting reading for whatever it's worth. Certainly not anything different than what we see posted about Trump over and over and over;

Bloody Kansas (written before the KS caucus) http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/bloody-kansas.html?m=1

The Power Behind Ted Cruz Election Fraud http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-power-behind-ted-cruz-election-fraud.html?m=1

Ted Cruz is Scared (very thought provoking) http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/ted-cruz-is-scared.html?m=1

Proof of Ted Cruz Vote Fraud in Kansas and Maine http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/03/proof-of-ted-cruz-vote-fraud-in-kansas.html?m=1

Read and think about it for a second. Not that it matters now...

If true there will be less of it in the primary states, especially the open primary states and ones that require ID.

Jeff Roe is from Kansas City. He’s a sleezebag. So was the guy Ted fired, and so is the guy that replaced him - busted for hiring illegal aliens - twice.

There’s no doubt Jeff is well versed in gutter politics.

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“It was Mr. Roe who hired Mr. Tyler to be the Cruz campaign’s spokesman. (In an interview this month, Mr. Tyler said he had “learned a lot” from Mr. Roe. “Jeff wins,” Mr. Tyler said, adding, “I don’t think anything we’ve done is underhanded or deceptive or anything like that.”)

But back home, Mr. Roe’s allies and opponents alike have seen a familiar imprint in the Cruz campaign’s recent exploits, which have included a Photoshopped image of Mr. Rubio and the misleading suggestion, on the night of the Iowa caucuses, that Ben Carson was leaving the race.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/us/politics/ted-cruz-campaign-manager-jeff-roe.html?_r=0

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All been done before by Jeff Roe. Then there is this;

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"Political consultant Jeff Roe, who is based in Kansas City, is Ted Cruz's campaign manager — and the architect of the Texas senator's surprising first-place finish.

Roe is hardly a household name even amongst the political chattering class. (He has less than 6,000 Twitter followers.) Locally, he's most famous for commissioning the mean-spirited ad that upset State Auditor Tom Schweich and may have factored into his suicide, at least according to former U.S. Senator John Danforth, who blasted "politics that has gone so hideously wrong" in his funeral oration. Roe has been labeled "the Karl Rove of Missouri" — and the people calling him that don't consider it a compliment.

But as last night's results proved, he knows what he's doing. Cruz didn't just hold off all the other candidates vying for Iowa's large block of conservative voters. He did it even while beating Donald Trump. It was a wild, complicated race, and you have to respect the guy who figured out how to propel any candidate, much less one who's thoroughly loathed by everyone he meets, to victory.

In an interview with Chris Wallace a few weeks ago, Roe discussed a few secrets to his success — namely, a simple message and strong branding. Roe comes across as intensely analytical. He doesn't just know how long the average voter looks at a mailer (17 seconds); he knows how long he wants you to look at one touting Cruz (45 seconds). "When we communicate with the voter, we want it to be simple, clear and reinforce our candidate's brand," he says. For Cruz, that was "strong Christian conservative leader."

A recent New York Times Magazine piece delved more deeply into how Roe & Co. made those words resonate for Cruz, who'd hitherto been identified mostly as a conservative, not necessarily a Christian. Writes Robert Draper,

"One morning early in January, in the lobby of a public library in Onawa, Iowa, I listened to Cruz’s campaign manager, Jeff Roe, as he explained a central challenge of his previous few months. ‘‘Prior to March 23,’’ Roe said, ‘‘if you were to word-cloud ‘Ted Cruz,’ which we do every day — take all the Google mentions and Internet searches, dump them into a file and form a cloud — you can’t find ‘evangelical.’ ’’ In other words, voters were largely unaware of the Tea Party firebrand’s religious faith. To convince evangelicals that Ted Cruz was the ‘‘righteous’’ candidate, Roe told me, his team needed to sell him as such, from the very beginning: ‘‘Regardless of what you’ve got in the bank, you’d better determine the narrative of the campaign, and show that’s who we are, every day."

Last night's results suggest that effort worked beautifully.

Yes, Iowa is unusually dominated by evangelicals, and yes, if Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum are any indication, Cruz faces an uphill battle to get the Republican nomination, much less win a single state. But we have to hand it to Roe. Never before has a candidate that so many Americans find this intensely annoying managed to make it this far."

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/02/02/missouris-own-jeff-roe-was-the-wind-beneath-ted-cruzs-iowa-wings

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Nothing like this is coming out about the Trump or Kasich campaigns. If there was anything like this going on with Trump the media would be screaming it from the rooftops.

[Jim W N]

The GOP is very screwed up right now, and it has a lot more to do with Donald Trump.

That's right. It has to do with career politicians who are the real problem with the increase in the size and unconstitutionality of government. I'm coming to the conclusion that career politicians are per se corrupt because their political career is more important to them than the good of America and the American People. The more power for them, the better, but the worse for America and the American People.

D.C needs a steady influx of non-politician statesmen who love America and love freedom from government. One way of to accomplish this is a constitutional amendment requiring term-limits. I think it's time.

[dynoman]

Trump talked about that at his March 5 press conference, it’s a must watch. It’s around 5:36 in the video.

Donald Trump Full Press Conference in West Palm Beach, FL (3-5-16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWZHgZ5L004&feature=player_detailpage#t=336

[patriot08]

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The much talked about and wished for 2nd American Revolution among those here and other places is here!
Donald started it and is leading it.
He is the ONLY one with guts enough to defy PC and say what needed to be said.
We have been ignored, lied to and betrayed too long by corrupt politicians.
Donald is owned by nobody. He’s financing his own campaign.
Donald is our voice!
Don’t let him down.

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[dynoman]

Check out post 10 and this;

[zerosix]

I disagree that he, Cruz, should drop out after 3/15 "if he has no hope of winning" especially if it's clear that Trump won't have any clear path to get the needed votes before the Convention.

Of course if it is probable that Trump will get over the top but I think that the 15th of March is too early, even though the RNC has made the contest "front loaded!"

[Sacajaweau]

BS...He'll take everything he can get.

As he said in his 1988 video....His aspirations are: "Money, power...to rule the world."

[Lady Heron]

If Cruz has no hope of winning after March 15 and he stays in, he is absolutely for a brokered convention. End of story.

No, he absolutely would want to be VP. It is as if people have not paid attention to politics before.

[jstaff]

You forgot to add the “lie of omission” thingy. Without that we don’t know for sure it’s really you.

[dynoman]

Now you make it about me when it is NOT about me. And I know why.

[jstaff]

Same cut and paste twice on the same thread? Did you think we missed it the first time?