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.
This begs the question: If Cruz teamed up with Trump, would ClownGlenn go all stabby on Ted?
Thank you Glenn. You can go back to crying now.
I bet if Trump had never ran, Beck and others wouldn't even lift a finger for Rafael.
Totally sad and pathetic.
Stick with that meme, it’s really working for you.
This only confirms Beck’s mental disorder.
I think it's AWESOME the way that Stu Anglicized his original name to avoid ridicule:
Pretty sure his paternal family name is "Buggery"...
Glenn is the only person he thinks he is relevant.
Who cares what that mental misfit bleats. Beck is in dire need of institutionalization for his mental illness. He’s always been slightly whacked, now he’s just off the deep end. It might be his medical issues or it might just be some neurological degenerative disease.
I heard Beck collects his surgically removed Hemorrhoids. I don’t know, that just seems over the top to me...
Not even Cruz/Trump? This is absurd. This show a hatred of Trump more than he is pro Cruz
Where are you in that collection? LOL
Sorry, Cruz will not be appearing on anyone’s ballots in 2016 after the primaries. No matter how many “what if” articles you post.
(Except for the most devout of you who will write him in as an act of loyalty to Ted or defiance to the party bosses after they nominate anyone else -after Ted has fulfilled his duty to them.)
But whatevez. I won't stop you from posting your beloved Cruz articles.
I wonder about the sanity of any person who cares what Glen Beck thinks about anything.
Cruz would be an idiot to get on the ticket with Trump.
Glenn is waiting for the perfect conservative candidate to come along, then he will go all out to support him.
Stabby will vote for whichever of the five voices in his head is in control on election day. :-)
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