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The Case for a Cruz-Trump Coalition
Lifezette ^ | Feb 2, 2016 | Laura Ingraham

Posted on 02/02/2016 12:20:14 PM PST by JSDude1

If the internecine warfare between the two top populist candidates continues, the conservative majority of the Republican Party could once again be forced to live with a nominee chosen by the Establishment.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump placed first and second in Iowa. But if they don’t now combine forces and put aside their rancor, they may each find themselves losing the nomination to the third-place finisher, Establishment favorite Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Entering New Hampshire, Cruz and Trump have to play it smart. Cruz must recognize that he needs Trump to win in the Granite State. If Rubio wins instead, he will gain so much momentum that he will be almost impossible to stop.

Cruz is smart and must know he can’t take the Granite State, which has fewer of the conservative and evangelical voters that drove him to victory in Iowa. According to Iowa exit polls, Cruz garnered a third of the evangelical vote and was the choice of 44 percent of voters who consider themselves “very conservative.”

Trump, on the other hand, is up by 20 points in New Hampshire and has a real chance of victory — a win that could send the soaring Rubio straight back to earth, possibly wrecking his chances and providing a major blow to the hopes of the Establishment.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cruz; establishment; rubio; trump
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To: BillyBoy; sickoflibs

That’s perfect, forget the doll though, he has money, he can clone a mini-me version of himself!

Reminds of the idea of a debate between 2012 Romney and 1994 Romney. Except with Trump he could debate himself from a month ago.


101 posted on 02/02/2016 11:26:19 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: lentulusgracchus

????

While they were wasting time killing each other, the Romans were trying kill both groups. But the post was really about the Jewish Roman war. Cruz and Trump together and even Rubio in that package could clean Hillary’s clock. But if they keep demolishing each other, they will open the path for an establishment stool pigeon like Jebber or Kasich.


102 posted on 02/03/2016 3:09:36 AM PST by ZULU (If you support Stokes or Obama, you are too stupid to own a gun.)
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To: X-spurt

His victory speech in Iowa was insufferable. 4 years of that is too much to contemplate.


103 posted on 02/03/2016 4:28:09 AM PST by jimbo807
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To: JSDude1

Too late.

Rubio is the presumptive compassionate conservative nominee. He’ll be in til the end.


104 posted on 02/03/2016 4:31:05 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: JSDude1

For Rubio to prevail, all the under pretenders must resign the campaign


105 posted on 02/03/2016 4:33:40 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: napscoordinator

Trump / Sessions.


106 posted on 02/03/2016 5:15:06 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools: Go Trump!)
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To: Impy; sickoflibs

what the real danger is:

party regulars will infiltrate the Cruz & Trump delegations. People who are Trump first, Rubio 2nd choice will become Trump delegates.

People who are Cruz first, Rubio 2nd choice will become Cruz delegates.

at the multi-ballot convention, it will prove to be impossible for Cruz or Trump to gain a majority. Even if they work out a deal.

Not saying it is guaranteed, but it is a danger. I am not sure Cruz has the organizational resources to monitor delegate selection in all 50 states. And he cannot afford to purge the Rubio 2nd choice people from his ranks.


107 posted on 02/03/2016 5:18:46 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (https://www.facebook.com/NHforTedCruz)
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To: Impy; sickoflibs; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/02/us/cruz-trump-rubio-nomination-paths.html

hard to find a path to victory for Rubio.
I guess Mich, ILL and Ohio in March could propel him. He will get delegates and a lot of 2nd place finishes.

He is staying in NH for the next 7 days. A bit surprising, but wants to assist on finishing off Kasich Bush and Christie. first post-IA poll in NH shows Rubio in 3rd at 12%. up 2 pts.


108 posted on 02/03/2016 6:04:29 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (https://www.facebook.com/NHforTedCruz)
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To: jimbo807

Guess you are not able to be more specific, which plainly shows the only way Cruz offends you is by challenging and beating Mr. Blowhard Big Bucks and there is not a conservative bone in yo body.


109 posted on 02/03/2016 6:38:11 AM PST by X-spurt
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To: campaignPete R-CT; BillyBoy

Cruz coming in ahead of him in NH would be quite not good for Rubs. If I were Rubs I’d absolutely stay in NH, go hard, and try to bloody Trump and bury Bush before SC.

IL RINOs are all for Bush and Kaisch, looking at the names of delegates. They’re gonna be sad if neither makes it that far.


110 posted on 02/03/2016 7:40:26 AM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: xzins

Nope, not him. Cruz or Trump could still win.


111 posted on 02/03/2016 9:14:14 AM PST by JSDude1
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To: JSDude1

What I’m saying is that it will be a 3-way instead of a 2-way all the way to the convention.


112 posted on 02/03/2016 9:17:42 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: hiredhand
I can’t fathom The Don lowering himself to the VP position.

I think you have it backwards. The smart move would be for Trump to announc he'll serve but one term, to be followed by his vice-president- presumably Cruz- who will continue the repair work done by his boss.

But if Cruz doesn't want to go that route, perhaps some other candidate could be found.

113 posted on 02/03/2016 12:00:18 PM PST by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: AuntB

“Unlike most candidates, at least we know WHO Ted Cruz would pick....JOHN ROBERTS and other sell outs just like him.”

But is Roberts really Cruz’s fault? I remember when W appointed him. Roberts seemed to have everything we were looking for.

Not sure what happened to him, but I didn’t see it coming. Did I miss something?


114 posted on 02/03/2016 12:05:35 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

George Bush or no one else had ever heard of John Roberts before Cruz first recruited him to count ‘chads’...and then introduced him to Bush for SCOTUS.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/gop/3384862/posts?page=15#15


115 posted on 02/03/2016 12:17:12 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: ZULU
But if they keep demolishing each other, they will open the path for an establishment stool pigeon like Jebber or Kasich.

Depends imho on the grounds they choose for debating among themselves.

A primary is still an election among peers and not a powder-puff social or a pillow fight in the kids' room. As long as the candidates do not go the full-bull personal-destruction route (a la Karl "Rule or Ruin" Rove), they don't give Beastwoman and her media orcs anything red-meaty to use in the general.

FWIW I agree with you in general, but the Good Guys have really got to sort it out among themselves, esp. with existential issues like tsunami immigration and terrorist immigration on the table.

FWIW furthermore, I don't think Marco makes the grade on the immigration issue, he's a definite FAIL on that issue and a probable Rove/McCain corruptee on a range of other issues. Guys who are too ambitious are vulnerable that way -- that's why I prefer people the e-GOP hate viscerally, like Sarah, who imho is the by-God love-child of Teddy Roosevelt out of Calamity Jane and a direct descendant via Molly Pitcher of Joan of Arc herself. </ridiculous American-political hyperbole>

Truth in advocacy, I favor Ted Cruz and suspect that Donald Trump is in fact a typical New York 60's liberal who's mastered the conservative issues vocabulary and may have sympathy with some of them. He may be a patriot and sounds like a nationalist as well, with intimations of Manifest Destiny.

Cruz has questions to answer about where he is now on immigration and shamnesty, and does he owe people at Goldman Sachs anything. <disclaimer: I'm a foam-at-mouth Goldman hater: "great vampire squid" does not do them justice, it isn't sucky enough>

116 posted on 02/03/2016 7:01:16 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: xzins
Rubio is the presumptive compassionate conservative nominee. He'll be in til the end.

True, he's tapped into an inexhaustible river of (our) wealth. These guys were around 2,000 years ago and financed Judas Iscariot's 30 pieces of silver. (They laid it off with shorts on the Parthian shekel and a basket of Greek currencies.)

117 posted on 02/03/2016 7:11:20 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: xzins

Compassionate Conservatism is neither.


118 posted on 02/03/2016 7:11:48 PM PST by dfwgator
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