Posted on 04/06/2016 12:30:54 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
That has been my daydream since last summer.
Cruz is not a team player. Won’t happen.
Also, two of the things that Trump values the most is honesty and loyalty. Cruz sided with thugs over the rule of law in Chicago last month, and he has consistently lied about Trump's positions.
The candidate with the plurality of delegates should be the nominee. If this were Jeb leading, the RNC would already be coronating him.
There will be only two candidates in any convention ballot: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. They are the only ones who will qualify under Rule 40B. Yes, the rules can be re-written, but they’d have to get a majority of the delegates — largely pledged to Trump and Cruz — to approve them being re-written.
Yes, in some states, delegates pledged to Trump and Cruz may not be personally big fans of either. But in most states, Trump and Cruz have some significant role in nominating or electing those delegates. In the other states, the party leaders who nominate the delegates will have to answer to party activists who overwhelmingly support Trump or Cruz.
[Cruz is not a team player. Won’t happen.]
If Cruz were smart, he would realize he has little chance of winning the nomination, esp w. a brokered convention, and ZERO chance in Hell of beating Hillary.
That said, he should make a deal with Trump to be nominated as SCOTUS in exchange for Cruz’s delegates and ground game support.
LMAO! Not this crap again. PA supreme court already ruled on this. He’s legit and Trump should come out and say so since he is the one that started this crap and wanted a court to rule on it. Now that they did Trump should say cool thanks for getting that cleared up.
Read my tagline -— everything else is just details.
>> The candidate with the plurality of delegates should be the nominee. <<
Said no political party, ever.
Those aren’t the rules, and Trump and his operatives knew those weren’t the rules when they embarked on this campaign. You have to be acceptable to a majority, for the simple reason that the rules are written to nominate an electable candidate, not to serve as the means by which the party immolates itself.
Trump knew the rules, when he implied that the only reason Ben Carson isn’t a violent psychopath is that he’s heavily sedated. He knew that when he published glamour shots of his wife in comparison to the nastiest facial expression he could find of Cruz’ wife. He knew that when he boasted that soldiers would obey him when he ordered them to seize the wives and children of terrorists.
The advantage of that sort of campaign is that you get hundreds of millions of dollars of free publicity. The disadvantage is that you risk becoming unacceptable to the majority. Trump has received the rewards, but he will pay the price.
You do realize that most likely only Cruz or Trump can be allowed to win at contested convention if they adopt the existing rules. Which I suspect Cruz and Trump delegates will vote to keep. You have to win 8 states to be voted for the nomination. That means only Cruz or Trump.
I wish people would quit passing the lie around that some magical person decides what happens. It’s the delegates that vote on this type of stuff. The delegates are people that get involved in local politics. These are the same people pissed off at the GOPe as well. Sure there are some GOPe in the ranks but not enough to decide the rules—especially when it’s only about keeping the same rules.
Romney pushed for the rule to be changed to 8 states to ice out Ron Paul and other shenanigans at the convention. Now it’s going to be used to ensure a non-GOPe person wins (Cruz or Trump).
Yeah... I love the Trump people complaining Cruz lied because Cruz cited Trump’s recent positions... but keep bringing up Cruz’ Canadian birth. They may believe Cruz is ineligible, but Trump believes Cruz is eligible and he feeds that nonsense, anyway.
If Cruz and Trump can’t count on their delegates being loyal to them, then the delegates can throw out rule 40 and even raise the number of delegates required to cinch the nomination, prior to the first vote being taken.
And even if the delegates are loyal, the convention chair can take a voice vote and apparently is the final arbiter of the vote. Thus having complete dictatorial power.
There woudn’t be much of a republican party left. But I don’t think some of the GOPe cares if they destroy the party, as long as they stay in power 4 more years.
You know one might think Trump is trying to lose with the stupid crap he does. Or maybe he wants to demonstrate his magical powers of negotiating. He says he’ll get the wall paid for by Mexico and China to change its trade policies by his awesome set of skills.
So my take is that he is trying to piss off the entire country. Go into a contested convention and then negotiate his way to the nomination and get the very people he called names and attacked for months to vote for him! It’s going to be truly inspiring to watch such a negotiator at work That will not only unite the party behind him but the democrats as well. It truly will be a uniparty because everyone will fall in love with him and his magical powers of negotiating.
It’s either that or the guy is nuts.
That's the worst endorsement I can imagine.
"Team player" in my universe is a historical Clintonian concept, and is worthless to me.
I see Cruz an the "smooth talking" GOPe maverick, perhaps a rare, honest elected criminal.
I am opting for the citizen-politician.
Trump has had my vote all along. There is NO other certain way to break up the "good ol' boy" crony capitalism symptoms.
We had the "first African" president; total FAIL, indeed, total devolution to a banana republic.
We are about to get the first "woman" president; the certain socialist destruction of the Republic, from where I sit.
If the GOPe insists on self destructing, and taking us long with them, I will accommodate them by voting "democratic" in the general election.
Something I have not done since 1960.
I refuse to feel totally helpless as if my vote is meaningless.
We shall see... shan't we.
Like I said...he's not a team player...and the USSC is a team.
I just don't trust him. It's a gut thing.
Could Trump and Cruz beat the Democratic Party Candidate ?
Just discussing it will provoke the wrath of the socialist-progressives, which demonstrably have the total control of arcane rules and legal legislative procedures or maneuvering.
Shouldn't Obama have been impeached at the first signs of 'executive order legislation abuse?'
Instead, it is now precedent. The GOPe royally screwed up! They totally deserve extinction.
I can’t disagree with you except that it seems that courts and Congress don’t care about natural born citizen definition and Cruz’s citizenship records are sealed (his decision). So it’s hard for me to make a definitive statement about his NBC status.
I’m a solid Trump supporter but also want to see the strongest possible alliances in an attempt to defeat Uniparty forces.
All Mr. "Art of the Deal" had to do was make a deal with Cruz after South Carolina, for VP or SCOTUS or whatever it took, and Trump would be in like Flynn, and Cruz's supporters would be Trump's supporters. Instead, Trump did everything possible to p*ss off Cruz and his supporters (including yours truly), up to and including his Sore Loser response today to yesterday's Wisconsin results, so that it is now impossible for the two to come together for any reason whatsoever.
“Cruz is not a team player. Won’t happen.”
Of course he is. Problem is it’s the wrong team, and they’re only letting him play because he’s useful until the game is over.
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