Posted on 04/10/2016 10:52:56 AM PDT by Art in Idaho
Will these whispers turn to shouts?
The word behind the word is that Paul Manafort is already earning his keep BIG TIME as he moves to deliver a stunning blow to the Cruz campaign a source describes as a potential punch to the face that involves the number 172.
Here is a brief summary of what will simply be called the 172 Plan :
**Talks are ongoing and more numerous between Team Trump and a second party over the last 48-hours.
**If these talks lead to an agreement, it will be a game-changer in the 2016 Republican nomination process.
**Manafort is said to be personally leading the negotiations with Donald Trumps full approval. In fact, its believed Manafort was the first to suggest this scenario last month but did so then more as an observer of the campaign. Now he is a top-ranking operative/adviser for Team Trump.
**This ongoing negotiation has sent the Cruz campaign scrambling to block further negotiation from materializing and getting a considerable assist from powerful GOP forces.
Get real. Sheesh
I don't think Trump would personally pick him, but maybe Manafort is pushing this thinking it will help Florida. If Florida is called early, it will affect Ohio and maybe Colorado, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Iowa and Nevada.
Marco Rubio has always been a whore. It was predicted by the savvy people at Hillaryis44 (now a Trump website, eschewing Hillary!) that Rubio is particularly vulnerable to selling out in directions we want him to.
Cruz told the Colorado crowd earlier that its easy to talk about making America great again you can even print that on a baseball cap but that the more important question is which candidate understands the principles and values that made America great in the first place.
Does that mean getting in bed with and wildly fornicating and fluffing every establishment elitist he can get close to?
Wow he makes me sick. To think I bought his book A Time For Truth. I actually believed he was the only principled candidate in the race. He proved how stupid I was to believe him. Six months ago no one would have believed Cruz would be where he is right now - in bed with the GOP elite.
I’ll still vote for him if he is the nominee but Id like a refund on the book.
Oh god you are ridiculous if you mean that IMO.
Here you have Trump getting it on all sides by the RNC, the Press, Donors and Ted acting like a burgler since his Carson fiasco.
Are you truely offended if an outside candidate like Trump doesn’t just stand there and take it, REALLY?
You wouldn’t do something yourself if that was you?
Were we not offended by stuff like this from the Democrats and other enemies with Palin AFTER she left the contest with McCain?
No one should be a piñata.
3 reasons
1-He’s a Christian
2-He forgave him
3- He’s putting ‘country’ before petty grievances
Rubio has 173.
“If Trump has something to say, he should have the courage to face Ted one-on-one in a debate and say it.”
You mean like Ted Cruz told Ben Carson to his face in a debate that Carson dropped out of Iowa?
That would be an interesting pairing, to offer the VP slot to Rubio, thus going over the head of the #NeverTrump crowd (and to a large part, the Republican Establishment), and sort of short-circuiting the Cruz strategy.
Playing the bank shots and the combinations on the pool table. Makes one hell of a hustle after pranking around and acting as if a wrist were broken in the early rounds of the match.
Playing the set-up for the long game.
Rubio is dead in Florida. He still has a following elsewhere in the country. I’d rather have him than gaysick.
Not getting your vote will be a devastating loss!
“I am about a millimeter close to refusing to vote for Trump in November, so his team of punks had better watch themselves.”
You have to be f-ing kidding me, Cruz’s team is the biggest bunch of Sleazeballs in the last fifty years, and you call Trump’s team ‘Punks’? Get lost.
So ‘dirty tricks’ are okay now?
[[Maybe its actually a political knee in the groin.
Or how about a political kick in the gut.
Or a political shot in the head.]]
Or a political noogie
Or a political wedgie
Or a political ....
How many of these secret plans and secret deals and secret news blasts are we gonna hear about before they actually do anything.
You’re being played
Sooooo.... Sleazeballs for Cruz—bad.
Sleazeballs for Trump — Good.
Do I have that about right?
Anything to get rid of Cruz. The good thing about Rubio is 8 years under trumps leadership would be a good thing. Rubio was an idiot to trust the GOPe with gang of 8, but that even pales to what Cruz is doing in bed with the GOPe.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.