Posted on 03/12/2016 4:31:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It was not much more than a week ago that Republican insiders were having animated public discussions about how Donald Trump could be deprived the GOP nomination. The consensus was straightforward. Unlike the consensus a few weeks earlier--that Kasich and Cruz needed to drop out of the race to clear the field for a Trump-Rubio death match--the new consensus was that that they should all stay in the race. This time, the goal was not finding someone who could beat Trump to the 1,237 delegates needed for a first ballot victory in Cleveland in July, but instead simply to deny Trump a first ballot victory.
If Trump could be denied an outright majority of the delegates, the new strategy suggested, he could be defeated on the first ballot. Then cooler and wiser minds could prevail, and the GOP establishment could select someone else to lead the ticket in the fall. Lost in all of the scheming by Republican insiders, however, was any thought that one or more of those candidates might have their own plans in mind, or have priorities that might go beyond whether or not Donald Trump won the nomination. While Marco Rubio would have been delighted to have others pushed out of the race on his behalf, John Kasich made clear that he intended to live or die on the results in the Ohio primary. Ted Cruz, meanwhile, had no intention of being guided by whatever the GOP establishment might cook up.
It turned out that this new consensus strategy didn't last much longer than the previous consensus strategy....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Great minds think alike?
Palin not on list
In 2011, in an interview in Texas, Cruz said that in order to be a NBC, both parents have to be AMERICAN CITIZENS at the time of birth and the child has to be born on American soil. That IS what the government still says.
Now Ted claims otherwise and NO laws have been passed, since then, to change it.
That is BS and you know it. Just stop Lyin Cruz supporter just stop lying.
That was one amazing sick video. Those black lives matters college protestors should be thrown out of school and should give back all the money they received to be there.
And Wright State should brace itself for a 20% drop in applicants and enrollments.
When parents find out it was a Wright State moron who attacked Trump today it will have an effect on enrollment.
While you were busy writing that “Cruz is smoked”...Ted was moping Trump in one of the most Conservative States... Wyoming.
Cruz wins with well over 65%... in contrast Trump came in THIRD with less than 10%.
Great ... and, yes, somewhat demented. But that’s where the fun is.
Still reeling from Cruz, Rubio and Kasich’s incredibly off-key pronouncements. None of them realize that if they had been the Republican front-runner they would have met with the same kind of “reaction” in Chicago, which will demonstrate and riot for just about anything? Especially on a Friday night?
What an interesting weekend.
Maybe. I don’t know. The fact is, no one is protesting any Cruz or Kasich or Rubio events . . . anywhere. Why? I think it’s because they aren’t a threat to anyone. They won’t change a thing. BLM knows it.
Cruz = Lose.
I listen to the Steve Dahl show from Chicago daily. About every other day their poor besieged traffic reporter, Christina Filliagi, has to direct motorists around some demonstration or other.
Chicago: The City That Loves to Act Out.
Yeah, I also should have included Chuck Norris, probably others.
Prove it?
And so what if he was
If Trump isn’t the nominee, the GOP will not win.
And he still did not manage to get a majority of the delegates
14 delegates go to the Wyoming convention in April
Jed Bruz is still a loser, even when he “wins”
EXCLUSIVE: Kenneth Copeland Lays Hands and Prays Over Donald Trump
Actually it was Donald Trump
GROUP HUG!!! I want in!
Let's all refuse to piss on him together.
Kinky, yet not.
A caucus IS NOT a primary voting state!!! A caucus is a situation were people can be manipulated by their peers or PLANTS by the Cruz campaign!!! Caucuses should be done away with!!! DON’T blow your horn to loud besides his home state the ONLY thing Cruz has won are caucus states!!!!
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How happy is Chuck Norris that he didn’t end up backing an apologist for Black Lives Matter? Good instincts.
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