Posted on 04/20/2016 8:54:27 AM PDT by xzins
As Pat Buchanan says, it would be electrifying.
it would be electrifying....It would also pound the hell out of Hillary
I love Cruz, but I think we’re gonna win Texas and Oklahoma anyway. Trump/Kasich.
Cruz has become a tool of the establishment to block the citizens from electing a President who would stop The Cheap Labor Express.
He knows exactly what he is doing.
I want him no where near the ticket.
His globalist mask is completely off.
Hispanics
Religious Conservatives
He has just been fighting to win. That’s all.
Up until recently I might have accepted that as an explanation.
Today he told me I needed to get a Hillary sticker.
I’m done with this phony.
Hispanics: You’re dreaming.
Religious Conservatives: See Trump’s massive wins among evangelicals.
Gotta have Ohio, as well as placate establishment voters a bit.
Cruz is ineligible to be VP and will get destroyed by the Left.
That’s a standard comment that has been used on FR in every election I’ve seen since I became a Freeper in 1998.
“If you support _______, then you are really throwing the race to __________!”
He is just trying to win.
It has gone to court, and he’s been found legal.
“the establishment does not want him or any other outsider winning the nomination”
Obviously that goes for Trump too.
The key is that the GOPe cannot throw out the votes from the primaries after asking people to participate.
If Trump has a large lead he will get the GOPe delegates’ votes on the first ballot- at a small price.
If it’s closer he’ll get their votes on a later ballot at a higher cost.
Ted would have to nearly tie Trump for the GOPe to give him the nomination- even if they wanted him.
His ambition has overpowered any concern he may have had for the citizens or the country.
I’m not dreaming. It is an Anglo Saxon and a Hispanic.
So far as religious conservatives, I suggest you look at which states Cruz has won and reconsider.
I don’t think there’s any question that he is ambitious, but ambition isn’t a bad thing.
He fights. He fights hard....that’s one reason most folks not on his side are upset with him.
They cannot throw them out on the first ballot. I agree.
The second ballot, they have to give a lot of weight to the voters.
Once it appears the convention is deadlocked, though, it will be easy for the people to see that they need some kind of process that goes beyond the numbers of delegates.
They’ll need a tie-breaker, and that’s when the establishment will creep in.
I’m with you. This guy has become so unacceptable, so nasty, as to make himself dead to me.
Cruz has NO chance on a second ballot. His function is to force a second ballot, or rather, to give cover for having a second ballot instead of changing the rules to untie all the delegates on the first ballot. A second ballot will be used to select someone the GOPe has already decided on and that is someone who may not be even officially running.
Only state courts have ruled ... which means in those states he has been deemed eligible to run. No federal court has ruled on whether Cruz meets the qualifications to hold the office. Perhaps he is eligible, but that has not been resolved nor can it be resolved by state courts.
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