Posted on 04/23/2016 1:02:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United State of America."
Securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity is our mission on FR.
We cannot secure the blessings of liberty with Hillary in the White House.
When Trump wins the lion's share of the primary votes, states and delegates and the establishment installs someone else as the candidate, you've handed the election to Hillary.
Trump is the only anti-establishment candidate in the race and has won the lion's share of votes, states and delegates and is on track to continue amassing the lion's share of the votes, states and delegates by direct vote of the people.
We the People have voted and are voting to finally wrest control of our government from the entrenched corrupt establishment, aka, the uni-Party.
Cruz, Kasich, et al are mathematically eliminated and cannot win the nomination per the voters. They can attempt to re-wrest the nomination away from Trump and away from We the People only by corrupt establishment treachery at the convention. And that will split and destroy the party and guarantee a Hillary win.
NeverTrump is a losing proposition and will lead to a loss of liberty and loss of country.
This is totally unacceptable.
After the corrupt establishment losing twice in a row to Marxist Obama, I'm damned tired of the corrupt establishment and damned tired of losing.
If you are a NeverTrump type person, you are working against our purposes on FR, so please opus out now and log off and let us carry on with our mission in peace.
Continue insulting us with 24/7 anti-Trump diatribes and insults, your opus will be assumed.
We will unite behind our nominee and we will win this coming election (with or without you) and we will get a handle on this divided forum very soon.
Hope you understand my position.
By the way, Cruz's campaign still refuses to answer the question whether or not Cruz will support Trump if he's the nominee. He's taking the GOPe route of preferring Hillary over Trump. This is also totally unacceptable.
They will be. It will happen on the first Tuesday in November, 2016. When the first Wednesday rolls around, there will be more do-do birds than freshmen Republicans in Washington, DC.
You’ve got mail.
For example...?
You are definitely on point on this thread!
It is not only a trust issue with Cruz on SC.
More than half of evangelicals and conservatives are supporting
Trump. If Cruz is on the SC, he might be looking for some payback
to the Southern States who voted against him.
You wouldn’t know class if it hit you over the head. Why do you care that I support Cruz? The bottom line is that I’m voting for the nominee. However it happens, there IS going to be a nominee; it’s going to happen no matter how YOU want it to happen.
Spot on, KC!!
I guess that means I'd certainly know you if you hit me over the head...
Very good, sargon...now go crawl back under your rock.
Q.E.D.
At what price? It was never about slavery, that was the excuse, as always it was about the money.
A well-worn tactic that didn't work in this case. Sorry, your ty-um is up!
Leni
Income inequality?
I don’t know that he can bow out now. I believe he is beholden to others and is required to stay in. He is supposed to be the spoiler and help some other spoiler step in. The people’s will doesn’t matter now. It is all about their strategy to neverTrump. Cruz knows he will not be president this go around and, possibly, never. He is following orders.
The logical adjunct of that is that calls for a contested convention need to be squelched.
Indeed, calling for a contested convention at this point is tantamount to being a member of the "NeverTrump" crowd, because the only intent of a contested convention is to supplant Donald Trump. That has been the goal of the GOPe all along.
What the GOPe's specific route after that might be, I have no idea. I don't think they know. They just want to get it to that point, and then worry about it, I guess.
That may be a tough pill to swallow for Cruz supporters, but that's where we are: Ted Cruz using his own selfish ambition to play into the hands of the GOPe. Whether they would choose Cruz at that point is irrelevant, because all the consequences I outlines yesterday would still apply.
Thus, followed to its logical conclusion, Ted Cruz himself equals "NeverTrump", seemingly, at this point. That's the signal he's sending.
Maybe he's just banking for VP?
The People don't want a contested convention.
Tuesday night will provide additional clarity (as if any was needed). When Donald Trump sweeps these Northeast states and gets the lion's share of their delegates, and with Cruz coming in last place multiple times, it's clear that Indiana will go for Trump as well, which will be still more confirmation of Trump's inevitability, for those few Cruz supporters who remain in denial. Ted Cruz's political clout at that point will be quite limited, which is yet another reason for him to wise up sooner, rather than later.
Ted Cruz fought hard. But it's time to unify and heal.
Vote Trump
There are examples on almost a daily basis. There was a primary in New Your last week with multiple primaries on track for this week. Additional contest are scheduled into June. The Rules Committee met last week and affirmed the current rules without change. Daily, the candidates are being forced to defend their positions and to build the teams necessary to win in November.
By his own admission, Mr. Trump is new to the political arena but I think we could agree that he is better equipped to compete in a general election now than he was when he first announced. Cutting off the process now would deprive him of the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to win in November provided he can win the nomination. If he doesn't have the skills and strength to win at the convention, he would likely not be able to successfully compete with the democrat nominee in November. We need to find that out before he becomes the nominee, not after.
All endeavors have rules, both formal and informal, and if you choose to compete, whether it be in real estate, manufacturing, retail, sports, or politics, you must abide by the rules of that game. If you want to develop a real estate project, you certainly don't start erecting buildings before you have signed, sealed, and recorded title to the land you want to build on. Other developers may be out there trying to get the same property and they are justified in using all legal means to do so. Seeking the Republican nomination for president is no different.
Winning a majority delegate vote at the convention, whether on the first or later ballots is the final step equivalent to clearing title and recording the deed in a real estate transaction. That is the process and it is on track and will play out regardless of what you, I, or anyone else thinks about it.
As I said earlier, I want to win in November and I trust that you do also. I believe our best chance is with whichever candidate has the skills to win the nomination in the real world rough and tumble battle known a politics. This is not professional wrestling nor is it a ninth grade civics exercise. The democrat party, including their mainstream media wing, will go all out to destroy our candidate and he better be prepared because crying "foul" or "unfair" will fall on deaf ears.
You’ll be banned. Just a matter of time.
I will dance on your grave.
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