Posted on 02/16/2016 7:04:51 PM PST by springwater13
At the end of the day, it's about business. Trump doesn't have the organization Cruz does and won't want to spend the money to build it from scratch. Picking Cruz as Veep allows him to get his organization "wholesale" out of "bankruptcy" at a price that can't be beat "free."
Donald's not stupid. He'll make the deal if Cruz is agreeable to it and they can figure out a working partnership.
1. Bill Haslam, a Republican, Governor of Tennessee
2. Philip Norman “Phil†Bredesen, Jr., Democrat, former Governor of Tennessee
Big govt libs...a reason to vote 3rd party
I agree that Trump would like Cruz’ army of God (and private NSA-like databank), but he would like the army of God without Cruz. In a two-person race, Trump is going to have to be competitive in battleground states. Cruz isn’t the best running mate for this purpose. Maybe Gov. Nikki Haley (for a lot of reasons). But, Trump is a deal-maker. Let Cruz be AG and have a major say in selection of justices. Plus, Cruz can see the logic in this.
Only way I see this is if they are FORCED to stand back to back against a GOPe attack via brokered convention or some similar chicanery. That is the only way it would happen now, and it isn’t a sure thing even then.
I can’t see Trump picking any of the GOP losers. It’s going to be someone new.
Trump will never pick Cruz for VP at this point. That ship sailed. But don’t be surprised if he picks Kasich.
Heh! I didn’t vet them for political purity! I did a quick search for independently wealthy governors. The fact that these three showed up gives me hope that Donald Trump can find another common-sense Conservative to run with him.
Makes sense if you consider that the eligibility thing is a carefully orchestrated effort on the part of both of them. Why?
1. To put the issue to rest before the dummycrats made it an issue in the general, and
2. Everytime this comes up, two candidates corner the media: Trump & Cruz. Other candidates? What other candidates?
how about appoint to Supreme court.
You believe this is orchestrated? Did Cruz tell Trump to call him a liar, too?
Cruz could be an asset to a Trump administration in a number of roles, but the real issue is what would he bring to the general election campaign? Exactly which States would Trump/Cruz carry that Trump/X would not? Like it or not, that's the calculus that any presidential candidate makes in selecting a running mate.
In the particular case of Trump, there's another factor. One of the arguments for Trump is that he's the only Republican who can plausibly win supposedly "safe" Blue states like NY and NJ. If that happens it's game over for the Democrats since there's no way any Red state would vote for either Hillary or Bernie over Trump. So the question becomes would Cruz be an asset or a liability to Trump in these Blue states? Ted's overt evangelicalism may be an asset in the South but it's a huge liability in the Blue States and it's easy to foresee ads raising the specter of "Pastor-in-Chief" Cruz a "heartbeat away" from the presidency flooding those markets to keep the Blue States solidly Blue and have sway in the key Purple States critical to any contested race.
That might be a deal breaker for lots of people.
You missed Trump’s press conference yesterday. Someone asked him and he said, no, he’s not on my list.
Haslam won the TN gubernatorial primary in 2010 because he was the only Leftist Republican, while Ramsey and Wamp split the conservative vote.
Bredesen is not your typical Democrat, but he is still a Democrat.
Rauner has been good... for an Illinois politico.
If Trump really wants to keep his brand of being the one true anti-establishment candidate (Sanders and Cruz are both career politicians), he should not choose a politician as a VP, especially since that politician will inevitably be bribed to participate in an assassination of Trump.
That’s what he’s doing.
Anything he says in public is for effect.
This is business. We are all dealing with an ace salesman doing his thing.
On the other hand, the regular politicians have been doing the same, while pretending they haven’t.
Neither are honest, but Trump doesn’t hide his nature.
We have one liar who admits he is, and several others who won’t admit it. Who is more honest ? That’s can interesting philosophical question.
Cruz had his chance to draft Donald all the way to the convention. The team would have been unstoppable. Then the he decided to grab for the ring and it’s been downhill ever since.
He’ll pick Ellen.
You are right. Kasich delivers Ohio.
Heh! I didn’t vet them for political purity! I did a quick search for independently wealthy governors. The fact that these three showed up gives me hope that Donald Trump can find another common-sense Conservative to run with him.
what’s with the wanting independently wealthy politicians?
All part of the show. I wouldn’t be surprised. Perhaps its wishful thinking onmy part. I guess we’ll likely see soon.
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