ooops. I meant David Duke!
Posted on 03/30/2016 4:47:20 PM PDT by sargon
I would not be surprised if the US starting to split up within 10 to 20 years, if not sooner.
I got it!!!!:
Trump/Romney 2016
Pure unity.
ooops. I meant David Duke!
Kasich would at least win Ohio, which the GOP nominee HAS to win in order to have any chance at all at getting elected.
Do you think we could get him to be postmaster general?
“Kasich would at least win Ohio, which the GOP nominee HAS to win in order to have any chance at all at getting elected.”
He’d be my VP pick.
It guarantees OH, and helps a lot for PA.
I grant you that a solid ideological conservative like Cruz would have a tough race, and I also concede that Cruz is not terribly likable at times. He is a flawed candidate. I support Ted Cruz because he is the only consistent, ideological conservative in the race. Period.
I think Cruz has a tough road, but yes, he could defeat Hillary. Trump on the other hand is not only NOT a conservative, he has run one of the most ugly campaigns I can ever remember and has alienated just about...well...everyone. Trump has no path to victory at all in a general election, in fact I think he would lose in a landslide and take the Senate down with him.
Kasich is not without some talent, so perhaps a suitable position in a Trump or Cruz administration could be found for him.
Yeah, hold our noses, select Kasich as Veep, and tell him he has one job: win Ohio. Pennsylvania and Michigan are probably out of reach but would be a nice bonus.
“No Trump/Cruz ticket will be forthcoming.”
I agree. Trump has become so despised by so many Conservatives, especially talk show hosts that they would throw a fit if that happened. I think the GOPe will offer Cruz VP behind the rino candidate they choose. Unfortunately that is my prediction, and I think he would take it. ugh
“Yeah, hold our noses, select Kasich as Veep, and tell him he has one job: win Ohio. Pennsylvania and Michigan are probably out of reach but would be a nice bonus.”
If Trump is prez, I could care less who the VP is.
And Kasich is such a lock for OH, it’d mean Hillary would have to spend Yuge amounts of time and money there and PA, while Trump is in FL and trying to steal MI.
” I think the GOPe will offer Cruz VP behind the rino candidate they choose. Unfortunately that is my prediction, and I think he would take it. ugh”
I didn’t think of that, but now that you mention it, it seems a very likely outcome.
Your analysis echoes my feelings. We are dead men walking. Incidentally, my evolution was from Walker -> Carson -> Cruz -> Trump. But any brokering of the convention is not acceptable to me. I am done, too. However, I may stay a lifelong Republican voter just to vote against every establishment Republican I can.
Rush Hannity Savage and Laura I are all fine with Trump
Even Levin would get on board kicking and screaming if Cruz were VP.
No serious talk show host would argue against this ticket.
See, this is where I believe you are just wearing the Trump blinders. Come on man, Trump has run the most nasty, distateful campaign in modern times. He has made a complete mockery of the GOP primary. His entire strategy has been to insult, belittle, tear down, smear, trash, etc, every other candidate in the race. He has taken Reagan's 11th commandment and turned it on its head. Instead of running on his own policies and avoiding attacking other Republicans, his entire campaign is based around attacking other Republicans. How on earth do you think he could ever unify the party after what he has done? And that doesn't even get to the general election problems he has having alienating pretty much every demographic except maybe white males.
Look, if Trump were a real conservative leading a movement that could stand the test of time I would be willing to get behind his candidacy even if I knew it would not win this time around. But Trump isn't a movement, he's not even a conservative. This is a one off for him and his policies, to the extent you can really define them, is populist protectionist with some nationalism mixed in. I'm sorry, but though I agree with some things Trump says, I mostly see him as an opportunist pretending to be a conservative to get what he wants at this moment in time.
Cruz is imperfect, no doubt. My biggest fear with him is that I don't really think he is terribly likable. But at least Cruz IS an ideological conservative and against that bag of bones Hillary, I think he can win. Trump I think would simply be blown out in a landslide and it would be a pointless loss since Trump represents nothing lasting.
The day Trump entered this race I knew it wouldn't end well. This man has divided the right of center in a way I've not seen in my lifetime. People that really like Trump, perhaps including yourself, seem to do so on a gut level. They don't care all that much about his policies because they support the man. The problem is, an ideological conservative like myself and millions of others just don't operate that way. We see Trump as more of a clownish figure who knows almost nothing about the Constitution, American history and the mistakes and missteps to be avoided, ideological conservatism with the goal of shrinking and devolving government back to the states, and on and on and on. Someone else I think said it on this thread or another. The chasm between the two sides here (Trump or Cruz) is so vast that arguing about it is almost pointless now. Trump supporters I think just like the guy on a gut level, Cruz supporters feel they are making the more logical choice. There doesn't seem to be a way to reconcile this.
Lastly, I will vote for Trump if he is the nominee. I hope he isn't because I don't like him and believe he will lose badly to Hillary, but I will suspend my dislike of the man long enough to cast a Trump vote if it comes to that. I hope you Trump people can do the same if Cruz is the nominee, but I've seen an awful lot of Trump supporters say they won't.
In the final analysis, there's one undeniable truth regarding the average Republican voter: he is much more anti-Hillary than pro-Republican-nominee and so will vote to keep Hillary out of the White House.
Outstanding post #53
>>> I have not seen Cruz change his policies or change his method of campaigning.
1) Cruz took on Neil (brother of Jeb) Bush on his Finance team
2) Cruz took on Jeb’s complete finance team
3) Cruz blamed Chicago shutdown of Trump rally on Trump, not BLM/Soros.
4) Cruz explicitly (rather than tacitly) thanks each establishment endorsement as they come in.
5) Cruz PAC uses nudie photo of Melania to attack Trump in Utah.
It has only gone downhill from there...
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