Posted on 03/10/2016 8:00:08 AM PST by reaganaut1
Be of good cheer. Ted Cruz can win the Republican presidential nomination and the presidency.
With the DC Presidential Preference and Delegate Selection Convention scheduled for this weekend, it’s time for me to make my selection and lay my cards on the table. I choose Ted Cruz.
For many conservatives and Republicans, this is a moment of distress and pessimism. The prospect of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president raises the specter of an electoral disaster that allows Hillary Clinton to entrench permanently all of President Obama’s policies. Notwithstanding the enthusiasm of Trump’s followers, many of them new voters and new Republicans, Trump remains unacceptable to the larger part of the electorate. I doubt this problem can be overcome by November. On the contrary, I believe Trump’s negatives will grow.
Even should Trump be elected, I have no confidence that he will govern as a conservative. Trump’s supporters like to say that no other issue matters if we lose our country through the continuation of our de facto open-borders immigration policy. Unfortunately, it’s equally true to say that no other issue matters if we lose our Constitution through the consolidation of an activist liberal Supreme Court. I have no confidence that Donald Trump will appoint the sort of justices who would save the court from liberal judicial activism. For that matter, I have no confidence that Trump will pursue a genuinely conservative immigration policy.
I don’t deny that Trump could win the Republican nomination, but I believe that result is far from certain. Only one man can stop Trump now, and that is Ted Cruz. Perhaps more important, I do not believe that a Republican ticket led by Cruz is destined to lose in November, bringing the congressional ticket down with him.
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Another National Reviewer with his head in the sand.
Not with what he has been doing lstely
I was on pins and needles wondering if he'd come out for Trump.
He didn’t even get 50% in his home state. Bush got 88%.
OMGOSH...I’ve never seen or read anything as stupid as this article...yep proves it....the ‘establishment Cruz’ has it all in the bag....
If he does some Democrat will take him to court and tie him in knots over the birther issue.
More GOPe talk and now praising their “new” good buddy Ted Cruz. Sorry pal, but a bunch of people are waking up to who Cruz is and he isn’t the outsider he claims to be. If you guys at NR are praising someone I know not to vote for that person.
Maybe he can take the south like Sherman did..
Why did not Cruz stop ObamaTRADE’s vote?
Because he knew it was SECRET, and his wife, and the “loans”.
Yea,that most worthless Democrat of all,Grayson.
Cruz will likely lose to Hillary. Cruz is a conservative ideologue who will lose all the blue states and all the purple states.
Trump is a populist with conservative leanings who will draw in millions of Reagan Democrats. He’ll wipe the floor with Hillary.
Ted Cruz’s victory in his home state of Texas, dubbed huge by many in the media, was the worst showing by a Republican candidate in a home state since 1913.
About as impressive as Glenn Beck’s ratings.
Ted Cruz just said that, because I am leaning toward Trump, that I am a “low information” and “un-engaged” voter.
While I would have been happy to support Cruz had Trump not won the nomination, that won’t be happening now.
Some people are born to deceive and some people are born to be deceived. The Cruz campaign is full of both kinds of peoples.
This article was written while the author listened to “When You Wish Upon a Star!”
I do not believe that a Republican ticket led by Cruz is destined to lose in November
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Cruz is NOT likeable. The only candidate more unlikeable than he is Hillary.
[full disclosure - Cruz supporter]
Possible, yes
Likely, no
I originally projected that Trump would go into the convention with 1,300 delegates, enough for the nomination. I have not seen anything to move me off of that prediction.
The only way this happens is if the GOPe swallows their pride and votes conservative. Since they have no history of doing so, and in fact their history shows voting AGAINST conservatives, I highly doubt that they will hold their nose and support Cruz.
Right, Donald Trump who has generated such excitement in this race, who has brought in new people by the millions, whose participation in the televised republican debates brought the network(s) millions of dollars in ad revenues, and huge audience, who draws crowds in the tens of thousands everywhere he goes, cannot possibly beat Hillary! Whereas the dull, uninteresting, rather unlikeable, ponderous, boringly religious, Canadian Ted Cruz drawing his crowds in multiples of ten, neither drawing not one new voter into the republican party nor attractung one additional viewer to the televised debates, winning =a few caucuses with the spectre of fraud clouding each of those victories, is the one to beat Hillary Clinton! What nonsense! Donald Trump is the only candidate with even the slightest chance of beating Hillary! Tell me, what planet do these pundits live on, certainly it isn’t earth!
I’ve looked at the numbers.
There is no way, no path for Cruz to outright win the nomination prior to the convention if he does not win Florida and Ohio.
His only way to win is if there is a brokered convention and they give it to him
I encourage you to go to the states and numbers remaining and look.
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