Posted on 03/18/2016 4:29:04 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
Time and again Ted Cruz slammed the door in his own face. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has the Midas Touch of politics.
One recent national poll showed Trump at 53% support by republicans. Whether true or not, trending will continue to look better for Trump if nothing serious changes -- from both parties and independents.
Eight points.
The first point is a little 'numbers crunching'. The rest point out choices Trump and Cruz made during the primary.
Point 1: Ohio.
True, Trump only came in second. But he he took on a wildly popular governor in his own state.
Trump got 700,000 votes.
Hillary won with 666,000 votes.
To defeat Trump in Ohio, Hillary needs to steal hundreds of thousands of Kasich supporters. Is that even possible? In most states she will have an even tougher challenge.
Point 2: Trump is the ONLY Republican who ever turned the tables on the 'war on women'. [Cruz said that kind of thing is off the table.]
Point 3: Trump's trade policy will be wildly popular. [Cruz opposes.]
Point 4: Trump's muslim ban is a strong net gain of support. He's been poaching democrats ever since. [Cruz opposes.]
Point 5: No republican has been more effective than Trump when it comes to exposing rent-a-mob thuggery. In Illinois that gave him strong support as well as his surprising support in Missouri. Even if a recount hands Missouri to Cruz, he was supposed to be the clear winner there. [By blaming Trump, this was the worst political error Cruz ever inflicted on himself.]
Point 6: On immigration, Trump is arguably as strong as Cruz. That was supposed to be the key to Cruz winning this primary. Trump managed to steal it from him, and he will own that issue in the general election.
Point 7: In a poll last year, Jack Baur was America's favorite choice to be President. So who is closest to Jack Baur? The one who promises to waterboard? Or the one who refuses to discuss it? Trump approves of waterboarding, and Cruz ducks that particular issue.
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Now for the point that 'Trumps' Cruz completely ...
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Point 8: A path to the Convention is nothing without a path to Party Unity.
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I repeat: A path to the Convention is nothing without a path to Party Unity.
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There's no path to party unity if Cruz somehow 'out-conventions' Trump.
I heard Jamie Dupree [daily Hannity guest] talk about how delegates are selected. Positively byzantine.
Does anyone expect Trump supporters to understand if the front runner is taken out via a convention struggle?
Farewell to Party Unity.
Fortunately for the party, Cruz himself hallowed out his support and softened resistance against Trump via points two through eight. If Cruz remains serious about damaging Trump, by the time of the convention the only 'excitement' for Cruz will be Grahamnesty astro-turf and a handful of jeddi knights.
Only one clear path to party unity -- we must back the front-runner.
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Counter Point
Only one counter-point -- polling. Hillary is 'projected' to defeat Trump. His current negatives are high.
All of that early polling mean next to nothing. November is a long way off, and the dynamics of points two-through-eight are what matters.
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One Last Point
Perhaps most important of all -- Trump self-funds. The 757 that jets him around is HIS jet while the donor class feels his engines' blowback.
I agree with Pat Buchanan.
A real drum-beating is about to commence. Trump is going to not only defeat Hillary but slice open the DNC and rip out its entrails.
Cruz can either be a part of it, or he can find new ways to injure his own face with a door.
...another day, another Vanity.
“A real drum-beating is about to commence. Trump is going to not only defeat Hillary but slice open the DNC and rip out its entrails.”
Yes!
And Trump is the ONLY one with the ability to do that.
Time and again Ted Cruz slammed the door in his own face. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has the Midas Touch of politics.
[Followed by eight points.]
Cruz made major errors to the point that now he’s only a ‘what could have been’ candidate.
The more people rally behind Trump, the stronger his position will be during the convention.
He had infiltrated the DNC for a long time now. He knows them and even has a rapport with them. But the GOP was his agenda all along.
CRUZ NEEDS 87% OF REMAINING DELEGATES...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/16/upshot/trump-cruz-kasich-republican-delegate-lead.html
Cruz himself has admitted that he can’t possibly win 1237 delegates. Last night I saw him saying that if Trump continued to win delegates at his current rate, Trump wouldn’t get to 1237. By the exact same token, if Cruz wins delegates at his current rate, he will be way behind Trump by convention time.
The other day Cruz even said that he was fine with an open convention, not exactly words of someone who expects to win the nomination honestly.
“A real drum-beating is about to commence. Trump is going to not only defeat Hillary but slice open the DNC and rip out its entrails.”
Provided all of those Democrats for Trump don’t return leadership of the House and Senate back to the Democrats. Think they are going to be voting straight party Republican ticket for the same ‘establishment Republicans’ they claim to oppose?
Mr. Trump has already promised he’s quite willing to strike deals with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. I don’t see how that slices open the DNC and cuts them in any way.
As I’ve said before, what is Cruz’s path to the Presidency? Forget the convention and the nomination. How is he going to win the general election when he pulled less than 20% in Virginia, Ohio, and Florida?
What’s the old sports saying...Act like you’ve been there before. Given the number of pure rooting vanities since Trump became the bona fide front runner, not only do his supporters behave as if they’ve not been there before, they behave as if they’re very insecure that they are there now.
The errors are because a person's true nature comes out on the campaign trail. Cruz is a globalist with party elite connections. Now he's "pulling out all the cards" by being willing to accept Lindsey Graham's support to save his path to a nomination.
The problem is that this shows that if Cruz can't win the nomination at the ballot box, he'll settle for a coronation. What Cruz isn't factoring in is how many Cruz supporters will FINALLY stop believing he's with them. Cruz didn't get Lindsey Graham support without making a whole lot of compromises.
Cruz is not longer acceptable.
East of the Mississippi, its all Trump - especially the South and industrial North.
Cross-over votes are key....Trump has been mining these as assiduously as a California gold-miner.
Niche candidate Cruz will NEVER get cross-over votes. Heck, he didn/t even get evangelical votes....the votes on which he based his entire campaign strategy.
See:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3387449/posts?page=108#108
I’ll take a Freeper vanity over an MSM article masquerading as “news” anyday.
In fact, I would encourage Mr. Jim to start a FreeperNews site with advertising to promote the really good vanities and kill Freepathons.
It's not that he is the only conservative, non establishment.
He is the Establishment finance by the Establishment for the purpose of stop Trump
I never hear anyone say Ted is the best conservative , but he is our best chance of stopping Trump.
A recent blogger said he always keeps Trump/s name attached to Sanders.
That prevents brain lock in a liberal.
Then you might casually say to the liberal something like "there/s so much corruption in politics"......off-handedly mentioning super-delegates attached to Hillary that are preventing poor Bernie from getting the nom.
The blogger confided he had even gotten a liberal to say "Hillary should be indicted" using this strategy.
When Trump indicts Hillary, he slices them open. That can of worms is bottomless. As for democrats voting for Trump and DNC at the same time, we have an off-year election two years later. But don’t forget, for every democrat who turns to Trump, two or more will stay home.
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