Posted on 02/28/2016 12:44:49 PM PST by Kaslin
When this election started in what seems like a lifetime ago, I was contacted by the Bush people. After all, I had been a supporter of Bush 43 and one of his appointees. I expressed my concern that I thought it was bad for the country to have another election between a Clinton and a Bush. The world has changed dramatically since then to say the least. We now are facing a presidential election between a congenital liar and an egomaniacal opportunist. The person who can stop that is Ted Cruz by getting out of the race now.
A Ted Cruz supporter will immediately react and say why not have Rubio get out of the race. That is because Cruz just came in third in two states (South Carolina and Nevada) where he should have done much better based on the composition of the electorate. He is facing down the primaries in the South where he could lose every state except Texas and have nowhere to go. If he does that he will have brought Donald Trump that much closer to being the Republican nominee and make it that much less likely that Rubio can overtake Trump.
Cruz supporters are not very favorable to Marco Rubio. They believe he is not conservative enough. They are upset with Rubio's attempt to settle our broken immigration system. That was certainly a mistake, and Rubio has admitted it. He now knows the two things that have to be done before anything else is secure our Southern border and establish a comprehensive system to track foreigners entering and over-staying their visas. Then the other aspects of the immigration system can be properly addressed.
As unsettled as Cruz and his supporters may be with Rubio, they are off the boards in their distaste for Trump. They may think Rubio is insufficiently conservative, but they know that Trump is barely a Republican and a wild card on most public policy issues. Cruz must shutter at the idea of Trump choosing the person to replace Cruz's favorite Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Cruz must be quivering at the idea of a presidential debate between Clinton and Trump. The biggest activity that viewers will have is to keep a competitive count of how many times each candidate invokes the pronoun "I." It is hard to envision two politicians on one stage that are more self-centered than Clinton and Trump. They rarely invoke the word we (You know "We the People') in any commentaries they make. The only American politician that can compete with these two is our current president who thinks he owns the armed forces and the White House.
There are a couple things we know about Ted Cruz. He is a committed American. The idea of either Clinton or Trump becoming president must be totally abhorrent to him. Second, he is a conservative Republican. Envisioning either Clinton or Trump becoming president must drive him crazy. Neither is a conservative and, though Trump is running as a Republican, neither is a Republican. Cruz has to be fearing either of these people following in the footsteps of Obama.
Cruz needs to not only get out of the race; he must immediately endorse Marco Rubio. He should go out on the campaign trail and make sure that his legions of supporters vote for who would be the only remaining actual Republican in the race and the only one assured of winning in November against Hillary.
Yes, Trump can beat Clinton. I have said that for a long time. But he could just as easily lose. There are many Republicans who would never vote for Trump. Who among Cruz's supporters and Republicans of all stripes would not despair at the idea of the Congenital Liar becoming president? Imagine a continuation of another four or eight years of the dismal Obama era which Clinton promises.
Cruz would be much better suited as Attorney General or even imagine Cruz filling the gigantic shoes of Scalia on the High Court. None of that would happen with the Congenital Liar in the White House.
This race is not over despite the talking heads alluding to that. It is not over even if Trump wins big on Tuesday. It is over when someone secures a majority of the delegates to the convention that will nominate the candidate for president.
The fate of the Republic is in your hands, Mr. Cruz. Do the right thing. Save your country.
It’s time for Rubio to drop out and go away.
Rubio needs to become Cruz’s VP pick, now.
It is time for both Cruz and Rubio to drop out
Ask RUBIO to drop out for the good of America.
It is time for Trump to drop out and and leave so the republicans can have a primary.
Another Townhall GOP-e hack pimping for Rubio. SHOCK!
I needed a good laugh..only reason I clicked on this.
RUBIO????? They say this with a straight face????
Rubio needs to go and drop out as he has no chance of winning any states.
It is time for Rubio, Kasich, and Carson to drop out for the good of the nation!!
You are asking the only person good enought (running) for the job to make way for the only person who is right up there with the Clinton and Obama for out right disater for this country. WTF?
That way the GOPe can choose our candidate... again.
Smell the fear....
I love it.
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Rubio should drop as he has no chance of winning any states, has not won any states.
It is time for Rubio and Cruz to leave the race for the good of the country
I’m sorry it hurts so many feelings that natural born citizen is an exclusionary term meaning one can only be a US citizen and nothing else, born here of citizen parents.
Naturally a US citizen because there is no other possibility.
Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein Obama should be proof enough of the wisdom of the founders when they tried to prevent him from being President by requiring someone who could only be a US citizen and nothing else.
Born here of citizen parents.
Naturally a US citizen because there is no other possibility.
One cannot be anything else and also be a natural born citizen.
Obama told us he was born a British Subject.
Who believes Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Jay, Monroe, Madison, etc. would have found him to be a natural born citizen?
Rubio and Cruz think they should get away with it because Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein Obama got away with it.
Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009, happened with the complete cooperation of both parties.
They want the Constitution changed without the hassle of amending the Constitution.
Confuse people about the clear meaning of a three word phrase and voila, every anchor baby and Winston Chrurchill is eligible.
The bench was the reason the GOP went along with the fig leaf resolution for McCain as cover for Obama.
Jindal, Rubio, Haley and Cruz were all up and comers and the future of the party and ineligible.
Why? Trump’s finished. /s
and all the...
Trumpys
Trumpholes
Trumpaloompa
Trumpsters
Trumpateers
Trumpenistas
Trumpers
Trumptards
Trump Cult
Trump Diehards
Trumpkins
...can’t help him.
Nah. Cruz should stay in. Let’s see how this shakes out. It will define the true soul of the nation overall.
I love how this election season has exposed so many truths, even to the Low Information Voters, that had been perhaps only been suspicions in the minds of those who pay attention.
Hidden in this dense wall of text is the golden butt nugget:
“Cruz needs to not only get out of the race; he must immediately endorse Marco Rubio.”
Whoop there it is!
well, let's just say Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
“It is time for Trump to drop out and and leave so the republicans can have a primary.”
They are having one.
You just don’t like the results.
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