The president can pick the leader of their own party. This is the face of a man who will now have to work to elect the man who will fire him.
Posted on 05/03/2016 7:04:11 PM PDT by Milhous
Well, so much for suspense. The networks called Indiana for Donald Trump about five seconds after the polls closed, and within two hours Ted Cruz announced he was suspending his campaign. Trump is winning a majority of the vote and will likely win all 57 delegates.
Even if a few delegates stray back across the line, this win clinched the nomination for Trump. He will now have well over 1,000 bound delegates, which is less than 200 from what he needs to make it a lock. And that's without the unbound delegates he definitely has in Pennsylvania and is sure to win in West Virginia on May 10; or the share of proportionally allocated delegates he's going to win in Oregon on May 17, in Washington on May 24, and in New Mexico on June 7; or the 51 winner-take-all delegates long conceded to him in New Jersey on June 7; or the many delegates he will win in winner-take-most California on June 7. So Cruz's surrender is entirely rational. And, beginning tonight, we will find out if a shocked Republican Party puts up any further resistance to its new barbarian master.
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“Let the purge begin.
And if Trump screws up, hes gonna get purged too.”
Who needs to be purged are McConnell, McCarthy, Ryan et al.
“LOL - I love the sound of heads exploding”
One of the amazing things I’ve noted about tonight, whether it be all the talking heads on TV, the radio commentators, and even the more establishment or religious focused Republicans on various boards like this, they just are incapable of seeing that the world they thought they understood simply doesn’t exist anymore...they simply can’t grasp what is happening around them.
People are trying to save their economic lives...if not their lives period. They’re trying to save their country from becoming a part of some weird internationalist system that benefits only the uber-wealthy and the politicians who are their clients. Ideology is very yesterday, survival is today. And so many people in the system or around it just can’t see it even though it’s staring them in the face.
That’s why Trump is winning. Just open your eyes.
Trump Will make America Great Again!
Hillary would just Grate on America Again!
The president can pick the leader of their own party. This is the face of a man who will now have to work to elect the man who will fire him.
Fundraisers for the GOP? Ugh. I guess he has to if he’s the party leader but ugggghhhhhhh
But let's face it: there's never been a major-party nominee with his background, his temperament, his notoriety, the sheer air of vengeful zeal he inspires in supporters, and the fearful determination he inspires in opponents. Add the most polarizing candidacy in memory to a pre-heated atmosphere of partisan polarization and fundamentals that are relatively neutral, and it's hard to imagine a scenario in which Trump keeps winning right through November.
As to that "vengeful zeal", the author might be correct with respect to the Republicans but it is a common emotion, and motivation, among the Left. It is, in fact, the driving force behind the 0bama administration and we are still reeling from the blows that wretch and his acolytes have inflicted on a country they hate. Vengeful zeal, indeed. It didn't come from nowhere.
The man represents the absolute opposite of the "safe change" an "out party" must normally offer to win over an electorate tired of, but not necessarily angry at, the incumbent party.
Here the author hasn't quite caught up with the zeitgeist yet. It isn't just the incumbent party toward which the anger is directed, although they've earned it for embracing the racism, the contempt for middle America that has so pervaded the political atmosphere for the last eight years. The anger is directed at the arrogant, disconnected, and thoroughly corrupt system that produced that incumbency so perfectly represented by one of the most corrupt and disgusting figures in American politics, Hillary Rodham Clinton. That anger is more universal than Trump's candidacy and will bleed over heavily into his favor should Clinton manage to defeat Sanders for the Democrat nomination.
This isn't, as the author has implied, a normal campaign, and the usual rules he leans on are not going to support his case or his candidate. The voters aren't looking for "safety". They're looking to tear the beating heart out of the current political establishment and Trump just might be the only thing keeping that from happening on a more literal basis.
Well that is who i am referring to , the goper rino uniparty establishment leadership. And any of their enabling cowards.
And if trump winds up down the road screwing up, we will do to him what were gonna do to the uniparty asses in our party.
This purge needs to be done, it is bigger than just one person, nobody gets a free pass, no one is sbove being purged out if they sell out.
Tru,p getting in now signals the urge nees to start now. Enough people have finally had it with our uniparty leadership and were not backing them anymore. We need to start taking down the ones in our own backyards, and in my ackyard its Paul Ryan, that bastard.
You nailed it!
tonight the pundits are going full bore in balkanizing conservatives into issue classes.
Trump shakes up the holy GOPee’s? Fine by me!
I was saying to my father earlier, the agita that. the GOPe feel tonight is exactly what they all deserve. I hope they all get ulcers
I have said all along that if Trump secures the nominee, I will support him in the General Election. It looks like this has come to pass, so now I will support Donald Trump.
Trump is infinitely better than either Sanders or Clinton, just as McCain and Romney were both infinitely better than Obama. Supporting the Republican nominee is usually a no brainer, and 2016 is no exception.
Trump was about my 17th choice from the Republican field of 17, but that is irrelevant now. Trump will be the nominee, so Trump will have my support. The fact that New York Magazine hates Trump makes my decision easier.
Will not vote for Trump under any circumstances.
Calling for party unity - should have thought about that before all the personal insults.
You reap what you sow.
The press never called Obama a nightmare, which he turned out to be.
Charles Krauthammer, Geroge Will, and Greg Gutfeld said they are NOT voting for Trump. I think it’s a safe bet that Megyn Kelly and Dana PeRino will vote for Hillary as will the staff over at NRO. I suspect the staff at the WSJ will also vote for Hillary.
All these faux “conservatives” are turncoats and should be shunned and ostracized.
Here I am, earlier today, about to cast my vote for Trump.
The real, and most important question is: will the big money republicans stay home with their pocket books and not donate. A sure killer to the campaign. The Koch’s have passed and I am sure the U.S Chamber of Commerce will bail and as well there will be untold numbers of big money folks that will not fall for trumps NY bluster, bully, bs style. They are too smart, too rich and do not have to put up with the crap.
“Ideology is very yesterday, survival is today. And so many people in the system or around it just can’t see it even though it’s staring them in the face.”
That is a good way of stating what is happening. I hear the anti Trump long time republicans say how he’s not a true conservative. Well the so called true conservatives the party has been offering to us, both as presidential nominees and in Congress, have failed the people miserably.
It’s no longer about a checklist of conservative for a candidate, it’s about who can protect this country from the scourge of globalization. Trump is truly our last hope.
If Clinton gets elected, you can see the future of our country clearly by looking at the state Europe is in. And that’s just the beginning.
I for one, welcome our new barbarian master!
Can’t believe I got this in first!
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