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Here’s how Rubio and Cruz can still take down Trump
nypost.com ^ | March 2, 2016 | By John Podhoretz

Posted on 03/02/2016 4:53:41 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

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To: 1Old Pro

Just another in a long line of polls from all different agencies and participants showing her whupping his butt and getting us another liberal president. One that should be beaten by a 6th grader with all the baggage she is hauling in the dump truck she has to pull behind her to hold it all.


41 posted on 03/02/2016 6:31:01 AM PST by biff
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To: biff

Trumpettes don’t care...

They want their man...

Meanwhile the rest of us can see the trump train wreck coming.


42 posted on 03/02/2016 6:34:25 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“I don’t understand this obsession of “taking down Trump”. Do they think he can’t beat Hissary and Rubio or Cruz can?”

Absolutely! Either Cruz or Rubio will demolish Hillary. Cruz will take Hillary apart in the debates, and Rubio will do almost as well. All that will happen with Trump is that they will get in a mudslinging contest. When you start to make fun of her for her hair or pant suits you will alienate millions of voters. You have to remember, the entire voting universe is not in the Republican primaries. So far, Trump has about 35% committed followers, among Republicans. But his insulting style simply won’t work in the general. We need a candidate who will be tough and stand his ground, but on the issues.

The media is just salivating over the prospect of digging out all the dirt on Trump in the general. And if you think they already have, you haven’t seen anything yet! BTW, do a search on the recent articles about Hillary’s plan to take down Trump. It is quite illuminating.

Trump has been ok campaigning in a divided field. But it will be a different matter in the general.

I won’t rehearse again all the reason why those of us who support Cruz are so much against Trump. Most of the Trump followers have tuned us out from any real dialogue. There are a multitude of reasons, but this is one of them. He will take the Conservative movement down to a disastrous defeat, worse than 1964. But the difference is that in 1964 we were able to capture the party on Conservative principles. This man has no principles, other than his own power.


43 posted on 03/02/2016 6:37:06 AM PST by gbscott1954 (Why not a real Conservative?)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The beltway suburbs were Rubio’s “surge” in VA. None of those in FL. LOL. Rubio’s 2010 anti-amnesty platform & then Gang of 8 is going to bite him in the rear now. Payback time.


44 posted on 03/02/2016 6:37:22 AM PST by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: 4rcane

Cruz joining with Trump to form a ticket as VP at the convention is a much better idea.


That won’t be happening. Cruz has been called home to his beloved GOPe. Sorry.


45 posted on 03/02/2016 6:38:04 AM PST by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: mmichaels1970

However I’m not sure Rubio is ever getting out. But, admittedly as a rank amateur, I don’t see how Cruz gets the nomination as long as Rubio remains.


Rubio can and will “suspend” after he gets humiliated in FL to clear the GOPe lane for Cruz. Rubio can always jump back in later for the convention if Cruz fails, IMO.


46 posted on 03/02/2016 6:39:26 AM PST by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/mitch-mcconnell-republicans-will-drop-trump-like-a-hot-rock-if-he-wins-the-nomination/

According to the New York Times, McConnell is assuring Senate candidates running for reelection that they should feel free to run ads against Trump if they feel he is hurting their own campaigns. According to senators attending private lunches with the Majority Leader, McConnell is taking the approach that Trump will lose badly in the general election and that senators should sell themselves as a bulwark against a Hillary Clinton presidency.


47 posted on 03/02/2016 6:41:59 AM PST by zek157
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Do they think he can't beat Hissary and Rubio or Cruz can?

Yes, they think the staunch conservatives will desert Donald and the others who voted for him in the primary will be turned of by attacks on him in the general. It could happen...

48 posted on 03/02/2016 6:48:52 AM PST by nwrep
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

They flipped votes yesterday in Texas.


49 posted on 03/02/2016 7:39:44 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Helicondelta

In the wee hours this morning, CNN or FOX was claiming no one but Rubio could beat Hellary.


50 posted on 03/02/2016 7:42:47 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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