Posted on 03/18/2016 8:12:45 AM PDT by GeaugaRepublican
“...those who support Trump might be wondering about their guy’s ability to “close the deal” as they keep asking for Cruz to drop out.”
There’s no question that Trump will go into the convention as the presumptive nominee, but it would be best for the people and the party if he arrives with 1,237 delegates.
If, at the start of the convention, neither Trump or Cruz has 1,237, then we forfeit the electoral process to the party insiders, who will possibly attempt to choose a nominee who doesn’t have the support of the greater number of the people.
Perhaps the party members will choose Cruz. Perhaps that’s why he’s suddenly getting endorsements from so many Washington heavies. Does it not bother you that the party might choose to nominate a candidate who came into the convention as the number two vote getter? Does that not signal strongly to you that they’d do so, only because they hold some kind of undue influence over that candidate?
Thirdly, do you not understand that if that happens, that the party and the entire process will be seen as illegitimate by the greater number of voters, who all supported the number one vote getter?
Are you picturing the absolute chaos that will ensue, should this race come down to that scenario? I really and truly hope you are.
I agree .. Trump started with 16 rivals and has consistently won states from day one. I get a kick when Cruz says 60% of voters don’t want Trump. Of course he doesn’t follow that up with the fact that 80% of voters don’t want Cruz, or that he rarely wins states unless they are caucuses, where his campaign can play their tricks (Iowa!!!).
I’d hold my nose and vote for him if he were the nominee, but
it won’t matter anyway .. he will get slaughtered in the general.
Agree. Just don’t understand how a guy that got 13 and 17 percent in the two swing states of FL and OH has any chance in Nov.
“Trump started with 16 rivals and has consistently won states from day one.”
Ted started out with the same number of rivals, yet has consistently trailed Trump throughout the race. He’s done we’ll in caucus states where his ‘secret army’ could twist the arms of small numbers of attendees, but he’s performed dismally in straight primary states.
Ted’s got a moral test on his hands. Does he stay in, knowing that he has no chance of capturing the nomination fair and square, but also potentially stopping his chief rival of doing the same? Or, does he get out now, and prevent the party insiders from taking the process away from the people?
I hope Ted chooses wisely.
Ted has already chosen.
He is no outsider, nor is he a principled conservative.
This will all become even more evident in a short time.
You say Ted is not a "principled conservative", and yet the Trumpkins are perfectly fine with the idea that Trump is not really a conservative at all, principled or otherwise. So if that is the case, why should it bother you about Ted? I am not agreeing with your characterization - just pointing out that your criticism of Ted on that point is kind of silly for someone that supports Trump...
The GOP is not conservative, nor does it support conservatives. It has not for the last 25 years.
Your boy is now in bed with Romney and Lindsay Graham.
As well as the nutjob Glenn Beck.
Can you still not see clearly who he really is?
He is an insider, tasked with the job of corralling “conservatives” and keeping them on the GOP plantation.
I am not playing that game any longer.
Build the wall, protect the 2nd Amendment, send the Syrians back to the Middle East and the illegals back home, build the military and take care of our vets, and fix our rotten trade deals—that’s PLENTY conservative for me.
Go Trump!
Yes I can - the only constitutional conservative in the race. I also see who your candidate is - a reality show con-man whose "principles" only extend as far as they benefit himself.
If your boy was a true constitutionalist, he would know he is ineligible for the position he seeks.
A natural born citizen of Canada cannot also be a natural born citizen of the Untied States.
Also, your boy gets a lot of money from gay billionaires in NYC. Doesn’t sound too conservative to me.
As for the “conman” I see a man who could peacefully retire after a lifetime of true achievements, instead going through the meat grinder of the media and the politicians to make America great again, and paying for the privilege himself.
The scales came off my eyes about Cruz a few months ago.
I hope they fall off of yours as well.
Romney just called for an open convention to install Cruz as the nominee and Cruz right away called him to thank him !!!
This means that Ted Cruz’s plan to win is to say to the voters F*** You.
For all you Cruz fans .. how do you like your man now .. the man of the people..the outsider ... rails against the “DC Cartel” ... principled conservatism ... he just sold all of you out !!
I’m done with Cruz .. He does not get my vote !!
“the only constitutional conservative in the race”
Your man just sold you out to the “Washington Cartel”
Once they install him (Banana Republic ?) as the nominee, they will mold him and his “rock solid” positions so bad you will not recognise him.
You’ve been had !!
BS - It is just that the "Washington Cartel" has come to realize that as much as they hate Cruz, the one that will insure we lose to Hillary is Trump. So you can say they are selling out to Cruz...
California? that’s the poll that still had Rubio in it.
but it should be the same as this one.
why the #### didn’t anyone tell me we’re getting a snow storm sunday!!???
dam it.
“They are selling out to Cruz”
You really believe that ? You really believe Cruz can win a swing state with his platform ? in 3 months it will be Ted “Rino” Cruz; they might even have to do plastic surgery and change his name !
You’ve been had !!
You forgot the /s tag.....right? Because you can’t be serious.
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