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Path to certain failure: NeverTrump + NeverCruz = NeverWin = LostSCOTUS = LostFreedom = LostNation

Posted on 04/13/2016 2:36:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

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To: Jim Robinson

Kasich was on CBS news last night. I got the impression he is being positioned as the consensus candidate from a brokered convention or a negotiated VP position.


81 posted on 04/13/2016 3:18:42 PM PDT by daisy12
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To: dragonblustar
I’ll still vote for the man over HildaBeast or that Socialist Putz.

A. B. C.

82 posted on 04/13/2016 3:18:46 PM PDT by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: plewis1250

I knew in april of 2015 that Cruz was not as ‘likeable’

But man he has a TON of fight to put the catheter on to fight for the purse in the Senate and make it this far.

That is worth something. Feel the same way about Carly, Carson and Walker and Perry and Jindal.


83 posted on 04/13/2016 3:20:08 PM PDT by fooman (#NeverHillary Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: C210N

[[Would be sorta like a MLB team with less runs not playing the ninth inning.]]

Wel that would certainly be the fair hting to do- an if the rules of MLB were that one team had to get 10 runs in order to win, otherwise it goes to extra innings until one does get to the goal- and it came down to, let’s say, the 5’th inning, and one team had 2 points, and the other team had 4 point,s the only sportsman-like thing to do would be for the team that is behind to drop out so that the rest of the contest doesn’t need to be played out


84 posted on 04/13/2016 3:20:10 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: plewis1250
I have not voted for a presidential candidate in a general election since 1984. A year ago, I was quite hopeful that in 2016 I might have the opportunity to do so again.

At this point, it seems a very remote hope indeed.

85 posted on 04/13/2016 3:22:00 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: plewis1250

Well, Cruz is in a helluva lot worse shape. He has no path whatsoever. He’s in the same ballgame as Kasich, Carson, Rubio, Bush, Fiorina, Walker, Paul, et al, who all dropped out (or should have—Kasich). When you’re an ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT candidate and you’ve lost a primary battle—per the voters—to the only other ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT candidate in the race or have become mathematically unviable to the point that continuing risks handing the nomination over to an ESTABLISHMENT LOSER and or risks destroying your party and your country, then the honorable thing to do would be to concede, congratulate and unite behind the frontrunner and ensure that he gets the delegates and the nomination and unites the party to defeat the godless socialists in November.

Remember why we’re doing this?


86 posted on 04/13/2016 3:22:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: PJBankard

I agree Trump will roll in the NE. Whats kept Cruz in the race is his ground game. Trump needs to step up his game and be more prepared for Hillary. This ain’t bean bag. Or bottled water.


87 posted on 04/13/2016 3:22:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: TheNext

Um. No.

1237 is a MAJORITY of delegates.
That rule has been in place since the beginning of the GOP.
It needs to stand. We are not nominating by plurality, but by majority.


88 posted on 04/13/2016 3:24:54 PM PDT by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: plewis1250; Jim Robinson; Windflier; LS; MinuteGal; M. Thatcher; Cboldt

RE: #74

Fraud is not “politics”, or “organization”, or a “long game”. It’s fraud. This is not persuasion, either. It is moral theft.

It isn’t to be excused, or brushed off, with “Silly you for not committing fraud right back.”


89 posted on 04/13/2016 3:25:08 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: fooman

“It is a essentially a tie once Cruz ‘steals’ the unbound and Rubio delegates.”

More correct as I view it by his and his master’s (the establishment) actions!


90 posted on 04/13/2016 3:25:42 PM PDT by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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To: Jim Robinson
Jim Robinson said: "Because he [Cruz] has no path to winning honorably via we the voters."

Don't we all wish that the situation was that simple.

Unfortunately, the majority of Republicans have shown multiple times recently that they can select a nominee who is unable to win in the general election.

It could very well be that a better approach to this election is to identify that Republican candidate who is least objectionable to the Republicans in order to garner the majority of independents.

The consequences to the makeup of the Supreme Court of a Democrat success in November are almost unimaginable. If someone could create a list of Republicans who WOULD win in November, I would gladly support one of them over Trump, Cruz, or Kasich if I knew none of those three could win.

91 posted on 04/13/2016 3:25:55 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: ldish

Manafort/Donald are perfectly capable of filing grievances.


92 posted on 04/13/2016 3:27:06 PM PDT by fooman (#NeverHillary Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: spacejunkie2001

Actually, the bottom line is the GOP establishment will never let Cruz win at the convention. He has no shot at winning by the vote and no shot at winning at a convention controlled by the establishment. There is no reason for him to hang in there.


93 posted on 04/13/2016 3:27:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: jjotto

Lincoln won the Republican Convention after several votes. There were no primaries during the time of Lincoln. The first “primary” didn’t occur until 1912.


94 posted on 04/13/2016 3:28:44 PM PDT by PJBankard (Political Correctness has killed America. It is time America is resurrected.)
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To: Jim Robinson

IMHO it is the Republican Party that is tearing things apart. They would be pleased with Hillary as President over Trump and somewhat over Cruz. I am at war with the establishment, the croney capitalism and the crooked status quo in Washington.


95 posted on 04/13/2016 3:28:47 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: daisy12

[[or a negotiated VP position.]]

I seriously doubt he wil lbe the candidate- the peopel woudl go mental if the GOP elected him as nominee and republicans woudl be booted out of office midterm elections for betraying the party this way-

[[or a negotiated VP position.]]

Most likely scenario- Trump and he probably made deal to have him remain in to take delegates from Ted- so that donald can claim majority delegates in the end regardless of how close he gets to 1270- then kasich will be given VP position IF donald feels it can benefit his presidency run against she who’s name dare not be mentioned


96 posted on 04/13/2016 3:29:03 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: DaxtonBrown

Just to keep FCC censorship out of the hands of the Dummies.


97 posted on 04/13/2016 3:29:43 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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To: Jim Robinson
OK. I will do my part and dial it back a bit and not let some of the Trumpbot posters who I think are jackasses know this is how I feel about them. I've started by at least saying something nice about Trump's family.
98 posted on 04/13/2016 3:30:49 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Trump: The most cruel & sinister joke played on sincere Conservative rank-and-files since Ross Perot)
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To: Bob434

Most likely scenario. But Kasich will be low energy even if he delivers OH.


99 posted on 04/13/2016 3:31:06 PM PDT by fooman (#NeverHillary Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: Jim Robinson

Right there with ya Jim!!!

though i’ll need a bottle of JD to vote for Kasich and a few others if it came to that.


100 posted on 04/13/2016 3:31:32 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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