Top Kasich aide: Romney tried to help broker backchannel with Cruz campaign

CNN ^ | 3/28/16 | Dana Bash

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

This butt muncher is annoying as hell.

[TigerClaws]

They want to block Trump - by any means necessary - to get a Jeb/Romney type Uniparty candidate in at the convention.

Ted is being fooled into thinking they’d ever support him. He will be cast aside at the appropriate time.

[lee martell]

I don’t blame Cruz’s group for not really trusting Romney. Ever since Mitt’s Mad Moment about Trump, we all know how quickly he will turn on somebody in his own party.

[2ndDivisionVet]

So Cruz is not in league with the GOPe? But I’ve read literally thousands of posts here slamming him for being in bed with the establishment.

[capydick]

Boy if Romney only worked this hard to defeat Obama.....

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I don’t blame Cruz’s group for not really trusting Romney

What the Hell are you talking about. Cruz was all up in Romney's butt in Utah and Romney endorsed him.

[Neu Pragmatist]

Ted isn’t being fooled ..Ted got his marching orders ..they might put him on as veep , thinking that will get the sheep in line ... won’t work this time

[Ray76]

This kind of behavior is what fuels Trump. Are they that out of touch that they don’t know this?

[Slyfox]

[JoSixChip]

Ted is being fooled into thinking they’d ever support him

The smartest man in the room? I think not. cruz is working hand in hand with jeb and romney because they have comon goals: beat Trump, do the cheap labor expresses bidding and advance one world order.

[Georgia Girl 2]

My guess is that when Teddy finally accepts reality he will try to cut his deal with Trump. Kasich has nothing to offer.

[JoSixChip]

My guess is that when Teddy finally accepts reality he will try to cut his deal with Trump

My opinion is that ship has sailed. I would think less of Trump if he ever took cruz in after what cruz did with the pics of Trumps wife.

[DannyTN]

Kasich is the most liberal candidate left in the GOP field.

If Cruz is more conservative than Trump which Cruz claims, but I don’t believe, then Kasich supporters would flock to Trump not Cruz.

And if Cruz is between Trump and Kasich and it becomes known, then Kasich supporters might go to Cruz, but Cruz’s base will abandon Cruz for Trump.

Either way, Cruz loses and Trump wins.

[CaptainK]

I’d like to put that on a bumper sticker. Or on billboards in Utah.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I would agree that the VP ship has sailed but Trump might put him on the bench.

[DoughtyOne]

[Parley Baer]

He is in bed with the GOPe. No reason for Ted to go the Kasich route, he has already sold out to the GOPe. GO TRUMP GO

[Catsrus]

I’d put Cruz on the bench too, but not the SC

[Georgia Girl 2]

Actually I think I would put him on SCOTUS.

[dowcaet]

Why deal with an intermediary of the GOPe? Cruz is in league with the head honchos of the establishment, namely the Bush family. The Bushes look down on Romney. Even in the establishment there is a pecking order.