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.
“Rubio needs to become Cruz’s VP pick, now.”
The best idea yet.
It’s time for Gilmore to drop out because Gilmore is a commi-nazi!!!
Ok, I think that’s everyone.
What about Carson. When is he going to go away? His numbers are lower than those guys. I know he has a book to sell but c’mon!
No...it’s not.
I know the GOPe would love to see this happen...but the fact is, Cruz has a better shot than Rubio...and cruz is also viewed as an outside which most of us want.
In addition, his record standing up to the GOPe and standing for the Constitution is very clear.
No...Cruz should stay in until either Trump out and out wins it, or until the convention where Trump and he can come together to build an anti-GOPe team for the Presidency that is sure to win.
Ain’t nobody dropping out til after Super Tuesday. Waste of bandwidth.
Why doesn’t Trump drop out for the good of the country...most polls show him losing to the Hildabeast!
The paid Cruz supporters are jumping ship to get behind Rubio in the fight against Trump, the only real anti-globalist, anti-GOPe candidate.
When Cruz himself endorses Rubio, there will be true believers who follow along merrily.
Sad to witness, but I knew it would happen. After Iowa, it’s been pretty easy to see that Cruz and his media shills have been playing a long con.
He basically already endorsed Rubio. Pro amnesty birds of a feather flock together,
GOPe won’t compromise with conservatives, ever.
They could have compromised with Cruz and gotten 40% of what they wanted, and the voters to win.
Now they’ll get what Trump wants to give them, or Hillary.
BTTT
After their coordinated tag-team attack on Trump and Cruz's comments favoring Rubio over Trump, we should be questioning what their true agenda is.
It is too late.
Rubio or Cruz each could drop out and nothing will change. Donald Trump has all of the momentum.
Cruz and the Glen Beck wing of conservatives have a ceiling of about 25 to 30%
Rubio and the Establishment have about the same size support with a very solid ceiling of 25 to 30%.
The rub is if combined they might be able to take on Trump, but they cannot. If either or both drop out Trump will collect almost 50%.
By Tuesday night this will be over.
Cruz needs to win Texas by 50% to get a big delegate count. But right now no current poll shows him willing Texas by that kind of margin. While Trump will either win Texas and get a large chunk of the pie, or come in 2nd place and still pick up a large chunk of that delegate pie. But Super Tuesday is not all about Texas. Trump is set to sweep the rest by large margins.
Rubio the Establishment Guy.....by the end of Super Tuesday IMHO will have zero wins and Cruz with maybe two(Iowa & Texas if he pulls it off).
Funny thing is, for the big money players financing their campaigns, it doesn't matter whether Cruz or Rubio wins. They'll come out the same either way. It will be like Randolph and Mortimer Duke. The billionaire who backed the guy who gets the nomination will win a dollar from the billionaire who backed the other one.
I’m voting Trump, but I’d rather choose Cruz over Rubio.
A former Bush appointee lauding Rubio as the savior of the Republican party, eh? How Unexpected!
Never mind that his entire screed is filled with half truths, distortions, outright lies, and despicable mischaracterizations of all the Republican candidates.
He got nearly everything in that article exactly backwards.
FUBB
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