Posted on 02/29/2016 10:27:27 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Not denying there is enthusiasm for Trump, I just question whether it isn’t already reflected in actual primary votes, both by existing Republicans and by Democrats switching over for the primary itself to vote for him.
The NBC/WSJ poll that had Trump up by only 5 points just prior to the South Carolina Primary was just the bomb!
The fact that he actually beat both Cruz and Rubio by double that spread must have been terribly distressful to statisticians everywhere!
Throw in the actual disparity between the polled numbers for Cruz and Rubio vs. the actual votes and we have ourselves an outright mystery here!
Need I add the sarcasm tag?
A lot of disaffected Sanders supporters will also likely sit this one out as well.
I’m as conservative as any person can be, and I support Trump.
The self proclaimed conservatives like, Bush I,II, III, Lindsey Graham, Rubio, McConnoll, Ryan, Boehner, Kasich....those conservatives
So does Phyllis Schlafly, who has been like a rock in her devotion to traditional American social, economic and philosophic values since the 1950s. The writer, on the other hand, does not appear to be even able to define what is most important to hard core Conservatives.
Moreover, Trump has an instinctive Conservative personality; although he is still a work in progress on some issues. (See Trump: Metaphor For American Conservatism.)
Nate Silver the fraud....
“fight every autocratic non-conservative blunder Trump tries to bully through congress” which is why Cruz should stay in. I am sorry Gowdy is out, too. Wish all the Tea Party congress critters that quit had stayed.
I agree. May change by November, but right now ABT.
If Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential nomination, he’ll have undermined a lot of assumptions we once held about the GOP.
This Window Closed.
Apparently now almost 50% of Republicans polled disagree with you.
I do not trust Trump. I am a constitutional conservative, who has been repeatedly betrayed by the Republican party. If Trump is elected, I probably will be suffering great anguish a year or so later. Nevertheless, I will vote for Trump. Good God! Look at the alternatives!
I was disputing your statement about 2012.
Many Republican Trump supporters are already hedging against a Trump defeat in November by claiming/implying that he can only lose if hard line Conservatives stay home, “like they did in 2012.”
That did not happen in 2012.
I have "stuffed my nose with cotton" and pulled the GOP lever seven straight times since 1988.
No more compromises for me, thank you.
I will never vote for Rubio after his Gang of Eight betrayal. And I flat out do not believe Trump's sudden Conservative conversion.
I will vote for Cruz if he is nominated, but I think Cruz is unelectable. I also think Cruz is - and always has been - a George W. Bush Republican on the immigration issue.
Cruz might slow down the Republican suicide, but his support for massive LEGAL immigration means we cannot stop the Republican suicide.
Another TDS article. I stopped after this:
“If a Trump nomination happens, it will imply that the Republican Party has been weakened and is perhaps even on the brink of failure, unable to coordinate on a plan to stop Trump despite the existential threat he poses to it. “
This is pretty much right...but they are so OSSIFIED that they are simply UNABLE to deal with someone like Trump. No different than Europe with their Muslim invasion.
The difference, of course, being that Trump will PREVENT that type of invasion, and he will also REVERSE what has happened so far.
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