Posted on 04/05/2016 7:37:48 PM PDT by doldrumsforgop
Wisconsin is relatively inconsequential to the overall number of delegates.
Well, I’m thinking PA, NY, MD.
Lots of time and room.
-JT
“Kasich will then campaign for delegates as the compromise or go to candidate, acceptable to the party bosses. It is a plausible scenario.”
One of the following will head the GOP ticket:
Romney
Ryan
Kasich
Bush
One of the following has a shot at the #2 spot on a ticket with any of the four above except Rubio who cannot run with Bush (Constitution doesn’t allow 2 from same state) but can run with any of the others. Either of these two will add “diversity” to the ticket.
Fiorina
Rubio
I can also see a Ryan/Kasich combination emerging from the smoke filled back rooms.
Unless Trump wins 1237 outright, the game is fixed and he will not be the nominee. The media, Cruz, Kasich, and the GOPe are going to do everything they can to keep Trump from hitting the 1237.
Cruz won’t hit the 1237. The GOPe (and Cruz) know the Democrats will be in every courtroom in America challenging his eligibility if he gets the nomination. The fight over his eligibility will be a huge distraction in the fall campaign if he is the nominee. Therefore, no matter what deals Ted is prepared to make with the insiders, they won’t feel they can take the risk. Hence the opportunity for Romney, Bush, Ryan or Kasich to step in and be the compromise candidate. Of them I suspect Bush is least likely unless the GOP has decided to throw the election. By now Bush, and his family, know the nation suffers from Bush fatigue and will not elect another Bush in this cycle.
I can see Rubio as the #2 but not the #1. Trump chewed him up so badly the donors and the elites know Hillary will do the same. Giving Rubio the second slot insulates him from Hillary’s direct fire while continuing to season him for a future run at the top of the ticket. In the event this GOPe ticket wins in 2016, Rubio is heir apparent. If the ticket loses, he can take a lucrative lobbying post plus become a periodic Fox contributor to keep his name and face in front of the voter base.
Ted Cruz defeated the bush administration at the Supreme Court on precisely the question you raise.
Bush sought to usurp American sovereignty and defer to international law in order to prevent texas from executing Jose Medellin an illegal immigrant murderer.
Cruz defeated the globalists more extremely than any candidate running ever has or likely ever will.
Cruz is NOT a globalists. Trump probably is.
Yeah narrowing a bit. Cruz was near 54% when Madison-Milwaukee were coming in.
The outlying areas will be slower to trickle in. By morning we may see Trump pick up another point or 2.
Cruz did well in Walker’s state. By tomorrow, we’ll look at the math for Donald to stay on track to 1237. WI was never counted much towards 1237. A lot of Cruz supporters forget, ignore or don’t possess that fact.
One thing that concerns me, the mass rallies are gone. There are still sizable crowds but they are mostly now smaller crowds in smaller towns. But that may just be Trump campaign strat for WI.
But Trump campaign needed to defuse the ugly leftist Black-Lives-Matter dynamic by going with smaller select crowds.
So maybe gone are the blowout crowds of the first 8 months. I hate to see progressives win by shutting down Trump rallies, rallies which are private and protected by the 1st A. They may have won on it. Wish there was a way to get those rallies back and catch and jail the bastards. But the media are their enablers.
Donald is going to have to spend spend spend on advertising to really differentiate himself now.
Shame on the Party of Romney. Best thing that will happen to America this year is to extract the Romney minions from the GOP and for Trump to defeat the democrats.
“Wisconsin is relatively inconsequential to the overall number of delegates.”
Wisconsin is probably inconsequential to the results of the fall election. The state has consistently voted “D” for president for quite a few years. Cruz can celebrate tonight winning a state he will almost certainly lose in November if he does win the nomination.
TPA/TPP
Wife endorses NAU.
Cruz is a globalist.
Good point. All the more reason not to read too much into tonight's results.
So be it. A globalist versus globalist.
The only way Hillary does not win is if Cruz drops out and Trump wins the nomination outright. Regardless of whatever judgment you want to put on them, enough Trump supporters will stay home to hand Hillary an easy win if he is not the nominee.
...and since Cruz obviously isn’t going anywhere, it ain’t looking pretty.
If he doesn’t get to 1237, then he doesn’t win. It is not a conspiracy. It’s called the rules.
Are we going to have to listen to this crap until July?
I seriously don’t think Trump is a “globalist”...He is anything but a “globalist”...Trump is the only real “nationalist” running in this election...
The rest are all “professional politicians” owing everything they have to the “establishment elite”
If Trump is not elected, we’ll have the “same old same old” we’ve had for 25 years....
Not necessarily...It only means there is the possibility of a brokered convention...Even with a little less than 1237, he can STILL be named the nominee...
That dog seems to be very into that signing ceremony.
I don’t think the elites really want Hillary to win, whoever they run is going to want to win, badly. I think what they are going to do is offer the VP slot to Trump, in hopes of keeping the massive number of votes that Mr. Trump commands. Mr. Trump will then be neutered but they will have his votes, without having to build the wall or change in any meaningful way.
Go away Kasich, you democrat.
Hannity pressed Reince Priebus tonight as to whether Priebus could assure us that either Cruz or Trump would be the nominee. Priebus continued to deny that it would be between just those two, and went on and on about how the nominee would certainly be one of the three that is still running.
Clearly the fix is in for Kasich, no question, based on what the RNC chairman just said!
Is that you Jose Medellin?
In a small way, they have started going after Kasich. They are both fighting to keep rule 40b. That eliminates everyone else.
With both Cruz and Trump delegates making up the majority, they should be able to guide the rules significantly and stop anything that will inhibit a one on one race.
Now, if one of them tries a bad rule change all bets are off.
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