Posted on 05/02/2016 10:41:56 AM PDT by SatinDoll
Cruz is at it again.
In two states over the weekend Cruz's "ground game" steamrolled state conventions following losses in those state primaries, putting overwhelming majorities of delegates on the state slate that support Ted. In Arizona, for example, Cruz lost by roughly half compared to Trump; 47% to 25% (Kascich got 10% and the rest went to candidates who have dropped out.)
How does a political party manage to justify a delegate split that doesn't look like 47-25-10, roughly? Oh sure, such a result might be "legal" under the rules of the party, and further on the first ballot the delegates are all "required" to vote as pledged, but that's not the point of the exercise and Cruz knows it.
The same thing happened in Virginia.
To top it all off we have columns like this from Townhall:
Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina are a gift from God to America—perhaps our last chance to fully restore the gift of liberty He so graciously provided at our nation's founding.
A gift from God?
Oh really? May I remind you of the record Fiorina actually has when it comes to economics -- specifically, jobs? She destroyed Bell Labs and Lucent with aggressive lending practices she was neck-deep in as a sales leader, including to Winstar Communications, a company that went bankrupt in what was (up until MCI blew up) one of the largest bankruptcies in corporate history. Of course by then she was gone and it was that ridiculously-unwise financing that literally blew up the firm, destroying its jobs and leaving the literal matchsticks that remained to be sold off to Alcatel for pennies.
Then she went to HP where she fired 30,000 people with most of those jobs going to China. HP escape destruction but its stock was cut by more than half and while she claims "revenue expanded" during her tenure she bought it rather than growing it -- and by the head-count and equity price she failed to capitalize on those transactions. In short Fiorina is the worst possible person who you want in a policy position if your goal is to create jobs rather than destroy them,
If that's "God's" influence I'm forced to conclude that you and I look toward different gods -- and perhaps yours is Lucifer?
Tuesday Indiana votes and we shall see how that comes out. There's a lot of noise there in terms of the polls and the state is both an open primary and notoriously thin and hard to read. The latest poll shows Trump with a 15 point lead, one that has grown materially in the last couple of week as the Cruz "dirty tricks" machine has picked up speed.
The voters are not happy about this sort of crap -- at all -- with two thirds of the Republicans in the latest polls stating that if nobody has 1237 going into the convention the candidate with the PLURALITY should be nominated.
The GOP ought to pay damn good attention to that figure because if two thirds of registered Republicans stay home after the nomination is stolen not only will Hillary be President the party will be destroyed both in terms of vote-getting and fundraising. The GOP will quite-literally go from being a contender to a tiny minority party with no more chance of winning a Presidential contest in the future than the Libertarian party has since only electoral votes count in a Presidential contest and you will win exactly zero electoral votes with 25% of the electorate supporting you.
Ted, your fired!
Your typical two bit ‘politician’ that hasn’t got the brains that God gave a pissant...
Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina are a gift from God to America
Townhall has become such a joke.
> “The GOP ought to pay damn good attention to that figure because if two thirds of registered Republicans stay home after the nomination is stolen not only will Hillary be President the party will be destroyed both in terms of vote-getting and fundraising. The GOP will quite-literally go from being a contender to a tiny minority party with no more chance of winning a Presidential contest in the future than the Libertarian party has since only electoral votes count in a Presidential contest and you will win exactly zero electoral votes with 25% of the electorate supporting you.”
The GOPe is fine with that result because they are hedged to the other side. The goal is to make America fold in with other nations as part of ‘managed trade’ as in a central committee making decisions on which, what, who are to be ‘developed’ and invested in. The GOPe comprising Romney and the Bush Clan all want a merging of nations into single blocs.
Karl is a smart guy but he’s not articulating what their goal is here. Stopping Hillary is not even on their list. Stopping Trump is what they’re about.
My grandmother used to say the brains God gave a goose. ;)
Step 1: Let’s all post lots of negative personal comments about Ted Cruz.
Step 2: Let’s all assure ourselves that Trump has it covered because “Paul Manafort”.
Step 3: Let’s continue not learning from these events.
Even though this is a learning opportunity that could help Trump to prepare for the general election against Hillary, let’s just say “Lyin’ Ted”, “Cruz stole more delegates”, and “Cruz cheated!” and move on without learning anything. Again. Even though Cruz is one of the most reliable conservatives on almost every issue, except that he won’t withdraw from the race, the important thing is to express anger against Cruz.
There is no value in learning before the next state, or before the one after that, or the one after that, or before the general election. Even though Trump needs the Cruz voters to win, the more rude we can be about him and about his voters, the better. Cruz is the enemy, not Hillary. Right?
Are you stupid? Since you will no doubt deny that accusation, stop making up excuses for Cruz’s behavior. The GOPe is behind Cruz’s actions. He is no more conservative than Jeb Bush!
;)
Cruz is the snake Trump talks about. Cruz conservatives are acting like commies.
The press and the public of course are attracted to Cruz, he's a serious candidate having obtained a few hundred delegates and a few million votes. But no matter what his fate is from here on out, no matter how he is viewed, those factors have ZERO impact on the GOP as a whole. What will impact the GOP and RNC is how the other members act, not on how Cruz acts.
We'll know if the PTB are willing to take a hiatus from their scheduled implementation, once it is undeniable that Trump is the presumptive nominee. Will they stick to the apparant neutral, but decidedly #NeverTrump path?
Your response: "Are you stupid?"
Apparently it was not obvious, but my suggestion that attacking Cruz and his supporters (with personal attacks and as rudely as possible) is more important than beating Hillary was intended as sarcasm. Perhaps we could work on being civil with those who are more likely to prefer Trump over Hillary in November? I'm not asking everyone to be polite and respectful, that would be crazy talk, just the ones who want Trump to win in November.
Ted Cruz will NEVER be the nominee. It will be Trump or somebody else, a parachute candidate. It will never be Cruz. He is now a tool, a useful idiot. A bipartisan zombie.
You state many things in your post about Ted Cruz but fail to have learned anything about the man’s character from his actions in the Senate and the duplicitous behavior he has exhibited on the campaign trail. As someone who initially donated to him and then held out hope of a combined ticket I learned about Ted Cruz and now I wouldn’t vote for him as dog catcher.
Rather than showing us the face of God Cruz has shown us the corrupting effects of ambition and the slippery slope waiting for all those who believe the ends justify the means.
Well, you didn’t see the screaming antics of some Cruz supporters at the announcement of the results at the AZ GOP Convention. It was disgusting. And maybe you didn’t hear the complaints about Cruz people who were “helping” old Trump people to vote because they were computer illiterate and chose Cruz slates for them. There were at minimum of two such complaints. And some Cruz people were causing such a ruckus about changing rules, they were so out of order that they were calling up the Sergeant at Arms to throw them out if they continued to disrupt the meeting.
Yeah, lovely people, those Cruzies.
“Ted Cruz will NEVER be the nominee. It will be Trump or somebody else, a parachute candidate. It will never be Cruz. He is now a tool, a useful idiot. A bipartisan zombie.”
I’m keeping track of his AZ minions here, too. I’m done with the lot of them. No honour.
Despite all the talk about “the people” the actual turnout in the primaries is a kind of sample. Bernie Sanders despite his behind position is undoubtedly more popular personally than Hillary, and his supporters put their money where their mouths are.
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