Posted on 03/16/2016 11:59:39 PM PDT by profit_guy
Cruz wants to be Prez., been campaigning for 4 years in the Senate. He will never win Fl and OH on his own, seen as too far right from too many moderates he’ll need to win. His only bet is to ride the Trump train.
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Trump will have the delegates or near enough, kicking him off the ticket will be blamed on Cruz by conservatives, his political career outside of Texas will be done, because Trump can’t win without Cruz and his voters, and 60% of conservatives not voting this time, for Cruz, will realize he’s either really GoPe or insane.
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Simply the way it is. Trump/Cruz ticket or Hillary is Prez.
Why is delay defending the party who hung him out to dry.
Meanwhile, in the world of reality, where the rest of us live, Trump has never won a poll of Republicans against Cruz head-to-head. This goes all the way back to September, 2015, but the most recent one was on March 8th. http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/272170-poll-trump-loses-head-to-head-vs-cruz-rubio.
Kasich is a stalking horse for Trump, that's all he is.
“No poll has ever found Trump beating Cruz head-to-head. Read it, and weep”
So what, Trump has an insurmountable lead in delegates over Cruz, read it and weep.
And there is no chance Cruz beats Trump in the northeast. Read that and weep some more.
Hidden in plain view: The GOPe Bush’s are Ted’s establishment puppet masters.
“...The Bush-Cruz connection is clear. Ted was George W.’s brain when he ran for president. A top policy adviser, Ted maneuvered for Solicitor General in Bush World but settled for a plum at the Federal Trade Commission. Ted’s a Bush man with deep ties to the political and financial establishment. Ted and wife Heidi brag about being the first “Bush marriage” – they met as Bush staffers. Cruz was an adviser on legal affairs while Heidi was an adviser on economic policy and eventually director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice. Condi helped give us the phony war in Iraq. Heidi then went to the Bush U.S. Trade Representative as a top deputy to U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Zoellick, who wired Heidi’s membership in the Council on Foreign Relations and job at Goldman Sachs. The bailed-out bank then loaned Cruz $1 million secretly to finance his Senate race. Crux would also borrow an undisclosed $1 million loan from Citicorp...”
http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/10/ted-cruz-a-bush-by-another-name/
Exactly. Cruz needs to know when to stop the meme generated by the GOPe and their media whores. I have watched almost all of Trump’s speeches. He rarely says anything different, so I can’t understand where anyone will get offended by his presentation. What really really gets me upset is the constant interruptions by these rude troublemakers.
I give this narrative, to give you and my FRiends a perspective that gets lost in all the hyperbole about Trump. To put it all in perspective, imagine going to the movies. You have spent $20 for the tickets, for you and your wife, for a movie you have looked forward to for months. You have bought $25+ for popcorn and soda. And this is the only night you will both have free for a month. So, you have over $45 invested plus your time and anxiety to enjoy the movie you have researched and knew it would be a great movie for you and your wife to share.
As you sit watching the movie, a yahoo behind you starts the comments. He gets on his cell phone at tells his friend that he is sitting in a theater watching a crap movie. He calls the main character every expletive and starts laughing and carrying on about how the movie sucks. All out loud. You turn around and tell him to chill. The next thing this yahoo takes a swing at you and sprays your soda all over your wife and scatters the popcorn over her nice dress. He knocks out a tooth. You leave the room to get the staff. They call the police and when the police come, they have to drag out this guy, kicking and dropping the F-bomb at the top of his voice. This is what is going on at the Trump rallies. And, people on their high horses, without a brain cell in their heads, repeats the meme that it was Trump who incited the violence.
In fact it is the troublemakers who deserve the consequences of their rude actions and it is reasonable to understand why people react the way they do to them. I mean you will have as many as 17 troublemakers popping up throughout the arena and engaging in the most outrageous behavior. None of the Trump supporters know that these troublemakers are being funded and tutored to go into these rallies to disrupt with such behavior. And Trump supporters react as people who have never seen anything so outrageous. Trump, I know, is outraged at what these yahoos are doing as well as the junk yard dogs who are putting them up to it.
It is time that expensive criminal charges be brought against these troublemakers. I mean, their behavior is as serious as yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
Same result whether its the majority or 100%:
A little know GOP rule was put into place in 2011, to help Mitt Romney secure the nomination and prevent an outsider like Ron Paul from using delegate tricks to become the nominee or force a brokered convention: Rule 40b.
The rule is now haunting the GOP establishment as they watch their party apparatus getting dominated by Trump, and Trump beating them with their own rules to prevent such an occurrence from happening.
In Layman’s terms:
The Rule prevents a candidate who does not meet a qualifying threshold (which only Trump has reached) from being considered on the Second Ballot.
In short: The establishment cannot stop Trump. It’s over.
Trump even would win New York against Clinton according to analysts, something Cruz, Romney, Ryan, or Kasich have no hope of doing (LINK)
Even John Boehner admits this. (LINK)
Breitbart:
Technically, most of the analysts citing Rule 40 are referring to the current version of Rule 40(b), which sets a certain minimum threshold for candidates at the Republican National Convention. According to this rule, candidates must arrive at the convention with a majority of the delegates from eight states or territories, or else they are disqualified from the first round. In most elections, this is a mere formality because the clear winner of the nomination is well-known before the convention begins, making the convention an extended infomercial for the party and its nominee.
Of course, there is good reason to suspect the Republican convention will be rather more exciting this year. Gidley noted there is apprehension among front-runner Donald Trump’s supporters that the GOP Establishment will use some “shenanigans” to “steal” the nomination from him at the convention. Among those shenanigans could be changing Rule 40 to bring candidates who don’t meet the established minimum threshold into the game.
There are two ghosts from the 2012 election haunting the Shakespearean drama of the 2016 primary, and Gidley invoked them both in a single breath: Ron Paul and Mitt Romney.
“This is actually called the ‘Ron Paul Rule.’ The Romney people put this in place,” Gidley explained. “The Establishment hurt Ron Paul, but I think this Establishment rule will actually help Donald Trump.”
Rule 40 “was an effort to stop the Ron Paul faction from gaining traction at the convention,” Gidley recalled. “And now we see the fruits of that rule, which was designed to stop Ron Paul, could effectively stop the Establishment.”
“The second part of the rule is, you can’t even count votes for anybody else who doesn’t meet that threshold,” he pointed out. “So people can try to submit votes for other people — like Kasich, or like Rubio, or like Romney — but if you haven’t won a majority of the delegates in eight states, you can’t be on any ballot, at any time. First, second, third, fourth, fifth — it doesn’t matter.”
It has been suggested that the Rules Committee will simply change Rule 40 to arrange whatever outcome is necessary to block Trump, but Gidley was skeptical of this idea.
Normally, a presumptive candidate who has reached the “magic number” of bound delegates needed to secure the nomination can control the rules. If Trump is held below that 1,237-delegate threshold this year, the Rules Committee could theoretically rewrite the rules to hurt him, but Gidley anticipated sheer chaos if such tactics were employed.
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