Posted on 04/07/2016 8:03:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Via Breitbart and the Right Scoop, you can grumble about this if youre #NeverTrump but we all understand, I think, that the vast, vast majority of the party will come around to his position by November, right? Dont get me wrong, stalwart anti-Trumpers may have the numbers to fatally damage Trumps chances even if theyre just five percent of the electorate. But thats probably what theyll be five percent, not a third of the party despite how much fun it is to ooh and ahh over numbers like that. Never underestimate the power of partisanship, especially when youve got a Democrat as unlikable as Hillary topping the other ticket.
And even if five percent of Republicans do end up as #NeverTrumpers, thats not necessarily a death sentence for Trumps campaign. Why? Because some segment of Bernie fans claim that theyre #NeverHillary:
One out of four Sanders supporters 25 percent say they would not back Clinton in a general election if she became the Democratic nominee for president, while just 69 percent say they would support her, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
By comparison, Clinton supporters are considerably more open to supporting Sanders should he overtake her large lead in delegates and win the nomination. Just 14 percent of Clinton supporters would shun him in the general election, while 79 percent would support him, the poll found.
Whats the actual number of Sanders supporters whod sit out an election with either Trump or Cruz, both of whom will be painted by Democrats as unprecedented threats to the republic, as GOP nominee? Two percent? Remember all the Hillary fans who vowed after 2008s bitter primary to loss to Obama that theyd never vote for him for president? Howd that work out?
Anyway, click the image to listen to a preview of what conservative medias apt to sound like this fall if Trump seals the deal in Cleveland. Levin has endorsed Cruz and has fiercely criticized Trump over the past few months (even over the Michelle Fields incident, which is unusual in major conservative media) but hes prepared to set that aside in the name of beating Clinton. I wonder where Glenn Beck, Trumps most strident critic in conservative talk radio dating back to last year, is on that. If anyones going to carry the #NeverTrump banner to the bitter end, its him.
Cruz didn’t give more than 1% to his church why would he contribute to a Dem although his PAC did give Carly 500K
“I am shouting from the roof tops that the Bush Family backs Cruz. Chips will be collected.”
But it’s OK for Guliani to support Trump?
I thought Guliani was anathema around here?
Have we all forgotten the “Guliani Purge”?
Now that he’s backing Trump, everything’s forgiven?
Please forgive me...it’s hard to keep up with this.....
It's like trying to maintain eye contact with a toy frog in a blender.
No,but businessmen are as often as politicians not good people. Capitalism is not an ideology but a means of creating wealth. It is a kind of science. Indeed, the scientific revolution and capitalism between them did so much to create the modern world. But the twentieth century showed us that we can progress right over a cliff if we are heedless of limits.
Rudy has to admire Trumps political skills, and my guess is that their thinking on a raft of issues much be nearly the same.
Cruz is super smart. The general public is not. Cruz knows this, and Cruz uses illogic like this to fool the general public.
Same as Cruz saying “More people didn’t vote for Trump than voted for Trump, therefore I’m going to win.”
It sounds good to anyone who didn’t pay attention when Math class covered percentages. But it’s completely illogical and mathematically wrong.
Politicians who do not deliver what they charge taxes for get promoted or recycled either into other positions, or, in extreme cases, a lucrative lobbying post.
Mark Levin, as editor of the conservative review, allows Amanda Carpenter to publish black lists of people who support Trump.
So its way beyond just not supporting Trump, but also going and permanently blacklisting his supporters.
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I understand someone supporting and working hard against another candidate but I have never seen the outright hatred of a person and his followers than I do of Trump.
The main reason is he is truly antiestablishment.
None of the other candidates are, and so not only he, but anyone in an influential position that supports him must be destroyed or severely damaged to send a signal to anyone else brave enough to try and take the GOPe and Uniparty down.
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Wowsa. I hadn’t seen those. That’s some serious hatred/disdain.
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