Posted on 05/01/2016 9:58:20 PM PDT by conservativefreak
The United States may soon have its first female president. And it may not be Hillary Clinton.
Over the past few weeks, the best answer to the question of who will emerge as the Republican presidential nominee — businessman Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, some other failed 2016 contender or even House Speaker Paul D. Ryan — has become "none of the above." In each instance, the case for why any one of these candidates probably won't be picked has gotten much stronger than the one for why each of the individual candidates would.
Despite Trump's big victories this week, he's not the "presumptive nominee" he claims to be. He faces much tougher challenges in Indiana and California, where poor showings would likely leave him short of the 1,237 delegates needed to end the upcoming Republican convention chaos with a victory in the first round of voting. Despised and feared by the Republican establishment, Trump almost certainly will do worse with each passing round. A stone's throw is probably as close as he'll ever get to the nomination.
Cruz is on track to succeed as the spoiler of the Trump campaign. But with Trump romping on the East Coast, Cruz will likely finish hundreds of delegates and millions of votes behind. That's too far back. The possibility of allowing a big loser to leapfrog over a clear front-runner has not polled well among the party rank and file. It's a good bet it will flop at the convention, too.
If it could, the Republican establishment would settle for finding its way to Kasich, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, new Cruz running mate Carly Fiorina or another one of the 2016 also-rans. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Trump will get well over 1237, but keep dreaming
Niki Haley could not get elected dog catcher in her home state.
It’s a truism that one should consider the source...
The author is a former ambassador to Belgium, a gift after apparently raising boatloads of cash for Obama.
He is an avid trump detractor, especially since Trump has criticised the islamization of Brussels and other parts of Europe.
Lately has been a Hillary rah rah.
Not exactly a Nicki fan...
So take his thoughts in context.
Sounds like GOPe dreams.
pure garbage, not worth spending a few sec reading
I resist the temptation to make a train-derailment joke.
Cannot miss the Canadian if he won’t go away.
Tanned, rested and ready! :)
Time for you to take another hiatus.
Journalists, GOPe and others are hitting the sauce and smoking something along the way. These people are insanely delusional.
That nose really bothers me.....just sayin’
Another ineligible
I agree...Trump is a great political comedian. At his rallies he brings the audience into his circle, into the inside of what is happening. I always enjoy the reports he gives on the status of the campaign. It helps in letting folks know what is going down in the race.
He is bluster...he is serious. He tells stories. He informs on important matters of the day. He tells his plan. He connects. He gives a shout out to people in the crowd. He stops and greets those sitting behind him...
He works it. He knows what his crowds want and delivers. His rallies are a process of bringing everyone together to connect to the greater whole. Trump’s years in the media limelight knows this like the back of his hand. He has crowds shouting out lines before he utters them...Its kinda like going to Rocky Horror Picture Show where the audience would shout out lines 40 years ago.
It is a movement and a happy one.
Just what we need, a Chicago paper nominating a candidate for us..... They’ve given us so much in the past.
Haley is NOT eligible.
Nikki Haley is not a natural born citizen of the United States, so she is not eligible to the Office of the President or the Office of the Vice President. In a nation of more than 300 million people, why do the Republican and Democrat Parties keep trying to force us to vote only for ineligible candidates who are themselves foreign born or their parent/s are aliens? We have no shortage of natural born citizens of the United States whose ancestors were last known to immigrate before the Revolutionary War, yet these political parties see fit to deny them the opportunity to represent and lead the nation their forefathers created and bequeathed to them.
Do they actually pay this guy to write this idiotic crap? If so, there are a lot of homeless drunks and drug addicts that should get an apology because this guy is less sober and conscious than the derelicts in society.
The desperation of the Establishment has gone so far past lunacy that I can’t even think of a word for it Prefacing it with ‘batfeces’ doesn’t even begin to suffice .
Sure, 0bama, Cruz and Rubio supporters have thrown even the loosest interpretations of “Natural Born Citizen” down the outhouse hole, but thinking to elect Nimrata Nikki Randhawa to the Presidency adds insult to injury.
That these people are not laughed off the stage by even Low Info Voters affirms my long held opinion that this nation is completely and irretrievably lost.
It wouldn’t matter if Haley was eligible 10 times over - this writer is crazier than a crack-head.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.