Good morning! No questions from me. I can see you’re having another heated debate.
As for Trump, I think he’d be smart to keep the second party thing on the table and return to it periodically. This guy is a negotiator, he realizes he isn’t the chosen one per the gop leadership and that they’ll do everything they can to stop him. So he basically says, if you don’t play fair, I’ll ensure that your chosen candidate loses anyway. No reason for him to go second party while he’s winning, but as we all know, the gop is capable of endless shenanigans.
Where I think that strategy isn’t so good is where it assumes that the gop cares about winning. They’d be perfectly happy if hildabeast won. She’s another crony for the uniparty. Where things start getting uncomfortable for the gop faction of the uniparty is when the same outsider dynamic takes hold in the rats. Hildabeast is having problems and might not close the deal. That leaves the gop faction of the uniparty in a double bind; sanders on the left and Trump on the right. Neither are friendly to their interests.
As for Trump being for Trump, how is that different for any other politician? Politicians are for themselves primarily, and everything else secondarily. And I pointedly include Ted Cruz in that observation as well. He hasn’t exactly hurt his future career prospects by becoming a senator and presidential candidate.
Not a heated debate...just pressing Trump supporters for details. The last day or so has been VERY telling. I think the wheels are about to come off of his campaign. Just a feeling, but we will see.
The problem with the logic that Trump needs to play the 3rd party card and that he is a good negotiator (both of which I agree with you on) is that his supporters LOVE his “courage and conviction”. His constant flip-flopping on this issue makes it sound like this was his plan from the beginning.
Also, I know people will call me a RINO troll, etc, but if Trump TRULY cared about the future of America, he wouldn’t run third party. He knows, as do those of us who aren’t blinded by Trump, that he won’t win a third party bid. Thus, giving Hillary the win. All of his supporters keep saying that Trump loves America....well, he if this is the case, why destroy the next 4 years of this country by helping to elect Hillary. That having been said, if Jeb is the nominee, all bets are off.
Finally, people on here keep the belief that Trump and Cruz will form a ticket together. They will not. Unlike Trump, I think Cruz believes the best way to win is a REVITALIZED 2nd Party...like Reagan said. Help elect Conservatives at ALL levels and crush the RINO’s this way.
I think this shows that Trump isn’t the man they say he is...again, just my opinion.