The next 10 days are going to be very good for Donald Trump. If we’re still fighting beyond that, I think you can count on another President Clinton.
Memo to GOP Establishment: you can’t buy Trump, however Cruz will gladly take your money.
No sale.
Was it Fred Thompson?
If Cruz, or worse, Rubio, gets the nomination, then Hillary Clinton will be the next President of the United States...and, once again, the Stupid Party will have clutched and lost the game.
The Republican Establishment reminds me of Charlie Brown repeatedly trying the kick, only to have Lucy yank the ball away at the last second.
A very well articulated, but alas, totally clueless analysis of the situation by the writer.
Works for me.
The GOPe figured this one out a couple weeks ago, and they’ve already invited Cruz over to sit down and ‘Have a Cigar’.
Personally, I don’t think I could stomach having to watch Hillary lay her hand on a Bible and swear to ‘protect and defend’ anything. I’ll spare her the 3rd degree burns and stick with Trump.
Neither can he beat Hillary, Sanders, nor any other Dem!
Trump's supporters are loyal, they won't leave him, the blacks, disaffected Dems, and many other of his supporters will NEVER vote for Cruz; not EVER!
Cruz is a regional candidate and not even a good one, at that. So HOW is he going to win enough delegates and the 8 state outright minimum to be the nominee?
This article is just HOGWASH and a pipe dream!
That's what is so great about the position the Establishment finds themselves in: both of their great hopes have floundered (Bush & Rubio) and now they're faced with backing Ted Cruz against Donald Trump.
From FR's perspective, with about 75% of members supporting Trump and 25% percent for Cruz, that's perfect, because the Establishment is damned if they do, and damned if they don't.
If Freepers would just drop all the needless acrimony and watch the chips fall where they may, things will be fine.
But if Ted Cruz sells his soul in order to help the Establishment take out Trump, by which act he will then be beholden to the Establishment, that will completely taint the voter enthusiasm and splinter the party.
Thus Ted Cruz has a few possible paths:
I believe I've already seen signs of Ted Cruz moving in the direction of option #2, what with his absurd sliming of Trump with the David Duke issue.
Playing the race card, especially when its basis is known to be a scurrilous falsehood, is one of the most lowdown tricks in the book, and is the single greatest reason for my growing skepticism of Cruz's character.
Go, Trump, go! Things will be OK. The GOP will enjoy a massive demographic shift in its favor, and cripple the Democrat party for decades to come. And the People will get pro-American policies which could benefit all Americans. And the Washington status quo of both parties will be shaken to its core.
The alternative is a Hillary Presidency against the backdrop of a hopelessly splintered, or even disintigrating, GOP.
Go, Trump go! It's the only way to be sure...
I support Ted and am sending him my small gifts every week through this heavy season of primaries and caucuses before Easter.
But I’m not happy with Ted’s light response to matters out West. There’s a rebellion out there and people who participated in it, including a prominent Trump supporter in New Hampshire yesterday are being arrested.
Ted better get way up to speed with a relevant message for the folks in Idaho where there’s also a primary next Tuesday.
How about ‘free the Hammonds’ unjustly sent to prison as ‘terrorists’ for setting a backfire to protect their ranch in Oregon.
If Ted doesn’t notch it up on things like this, the Trump bulldozer is running him over big time.
I’m thinking about not sending Ted any money after next week.
Two thoughts. (1) If Trump does very well between now and the 15th, he should definitely have a very serious look at his personal security as the GOPe may be willing to do anything. Anything. (2) If Cruz does well as manages to overtake Trump, which is still possible, he should know that the GOPe will also be against him. Particularly if it came to a Brokered Convention - the GOPe hates him (almost) as much as they hate Trump, and at the convention they will definitely not support Cruz.
Cruz wants a war with China, Russia and North Korea, to create jobs and to satisfy campaign donors in key industries.
Yes, we all get it. Cruz is the true social conservative. No one denies that. It isn’t selling. Few think social conservatism is the solution to our present danger.
And as a former submarine officer, I find his talk about CINC condescending. He knows nothing about it because he never ran anything more than his mouth.
The problem with Cruz, with all the Pub candidates except Trump, is that they are getting their money from rich donors who will expect to influence policy in return.
All new presidents begin immediately to campaign for the next election. That campaigning requires money, lots of it. A President Cruz, Rubio, or Kasich will have to satisfy their major donors if they expect more money.
This puts the rich donor class right back in the Presidential driver’s seat, molding policy to their satisfaction, & not necessarily to the satisfaction of the people who elected them.
If Cruz had refused all big donors & focused on a grass roots campaign, I would be backing him now. As it is, Cruz is owned just as all the others are, with the exception of Trump.
This helps. I've been wondering over the past week or so where I fit in, because I can live with Trump if I have to, but only because the alternative is incomparably worse, like supporting Jehu in the time of Elijah but only because the alternative was Jezebel.
There are enough of us, I think, who think of Trump, not as the Savior of the Nation, but as the opportunist who knows exactly the pulse of the public, and is exploiting it for his own power grab--except that his power grab is less likely to destroy the nation than the power grab of our most likely opponent, Hillary Jezebel Clinton.
So here is my problem. I despise Romney's pusillanimous attempt to "Operation Chaos" the primaries--as a Floridian, I will not ever again vote for Rubio--and Glenn Beck's call for a Cruz/Rubio ticket is absurd on its face--even Trump/Cruz make more sense, though Trump in his own tactical stupidity destroyed that possibility after Iowa. All this makes me less undisposed to Trump.
But at the same time, I am sick to death of the general argument of Trump supporters, which is not, "He is the best candidate in the race, and here is why," but instead is, "Get with the plan, stupid, the train's leaving the station!," which makes me less disposed to support Trump rather than more, because to be a conservative is to think rationally, to think logically, to see human nature for what it is and not give in to its worse side.
So I cannot stand with the anyone-except-Trump side, and I cannot stand with the nobody-but-Trump side, and for this we are reviled by most on our side, and everyone in the opposition. I wonder at times, as a supporter of Cruz on conservative principle, if Cruz does not feel a little like Elijah, who was convinced that he, he alone was left. But God reminded Elijah that there were 7000 who had not bowed the knee to Baal--and the Baal of our time is the oversized government, which Hillary and Bernie promise to grow, and Trump does not promise to shrink--and there are still those of us who long for an America freed from the twin Baal/Ashtoreth idols of big government and identity politics, who will, if the tide does not turn soon, have to wait yet another four years, or eight, or perhaps until His return.
The GOP is the stupid party.
I agree! Is this a good thing? When will Ted disavow the GOPe?