Posted on 04/06/2016 7:59:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s not the will to win that matters. ... It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.
— Paul “Bear” Bryant
HOUSTON -- People here at Ted Cruz’s campaign headquarters are meticulously preparing to win a contested convention, if there is one. Because Donald Trump is a low-energy fellow, Cruz will be positioned to trounce him in Cleveland, where Trump’s slide toward earned oblivion would accelerate during a second ballot.
Wisconsin has propelled Trump, a virtuoso of contempt, toward joining those he most despises: “losers.” In the 1992 general election, Ross Perot, a Trump precursor, won 21.5 percent of Wisconsin’s vote, above the 18.9 percent he won nationally. Wisconsin’s populist tradition is persistent and indiscriminate enough to encompass Robert La Follette and Joseph McCarthy. And evangelical Christians are less important in Wisconsin than in contiguous Iowa. Nevertheless, temperate Wisconsin rejected Trump, partly for the reason that one of his weakest performances so far was in the reddest state, Utah, where conservative Mormons flinched from his luridness. His act — ignorance slathered with a congealed gravy of arrogance — has become stale.
If, as seemed probable a month ago, Trump had won Wisconsin, he would have been well-positioned to win a first-ballot convention victory. Now he is up against things to which he is averse: facts. For months Cruz’s operation has been courting all convention delegates, including Trump’s. Cruz aims to make a third ballot decisive, or unnecessary...
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Trump seems to be fading, which is too bad. But since Ted was my second choice, I see a win either way.
Funny words coming from a virtuoso of vacuousness like George Will.
At least Trump still has his real hair.
Trump will have 500-600 more delegates than Cruz, and 3,500,000 + million more votes, but Cruz winning is not ‘Stealing’. Yeah, right.
Cruz has always been my first choice but I’ll be voting for whoever is the nominee.
Trump seems to be fading, which is too bad. But since Ted was my second choice, I see a win either way.
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Unless the goal is winning in November, and then there’s only 1 choice.
I’ll vote for either. But if the RNC denies Trump the nomination and he has at least 1237 delegates... I’m outta there.
If Trump doesn't win it himself, then no, it's not stealing.
Then I suppose getting his ass kicked on the 19th is also part of his master plan.
Right Georgie?
If that happens all hell should break loose.
Trump will only win the race if he crosses the finish line first. Read my tagline!
If the goal was winning in November one certainly wouldn’t pick Trump.
It will be something to see.
I’ll try to show you pictures from the inaugural ball.
Yeah, I guess you’d pick one who hasn’t won more states, got more delegates, and millions more votes than the other guys, eh?
Bo Dollars (@Zagowski) tweeted at 4:45 PM on Wed, Apr 06, 2016:
@mitchellvii I’m a delegate in MI for Trump and just got a call from the Cruz campaign from a blocked number trying to convince me to switch
(https://twitter.com/Zagowski/status/717845811246313473?s=09)
That should be fun. I hear the local IHOP is willing to help out guys like Ted, the unfortunate losers brigade. You can still toss a party when Trump is sworn in.
I’d enjoy seeing those photos too.
But it is dyed blond...it’s is fake as his conservatism.
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