Posted on 03/16/2016 8:43:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What's that famous saying? "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." It's time for Ted Cruz to wake up and make the phone call that changes history, changes the GOP, changes the course of America.
It's time to face reality. Donald Trump will be the 2016 GOP presidential nominee. Only Trump has a path to the nomination. Ted Cruz is delusional if he thinks he can win the nomination...or deserves to win the nomination.
He was shut out on Tuesday night. Shut out as in zero, zilch, zip, nada. It was Trump 4, Kasich 1, Cruz 0, Rubio cut from the team.
Cruz can't be the nominee. We're deep into the GOP presidential race on a key Super Tuesday and he can't even win one state. The nomination winner can't be 0 for 5 on a Super Tuesday. That's not a man on the way to becoming leader of the free world.
Kasich can't be the nominee. He just won his first state out of 27. He's 1 win, 26 losses in the GOP race. And the one win was a "homer." The sitting Governor of Ohio just won his own state. My guess is very few sitting Governors have ever lost their home state. So please don't get any delusions of grandeur John! No GOP power broker is stupid enough to award the presidential nomination to a guy who is 1 win, 26 loses. That would be the death of the Republican Party.....
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“Don’t look now, but we don’t need a conservative at this point. A conservative is not going to beat Hildabeast. We need a nationalist. Go Trump...”
A nationalist is not going to save this country; only a true conservative will.
By the way, the polls seem to show your premise is hogwash. Look at the Cruz v. Hillary, Trump v. Hillary polls.
Go Hillary!
Only if he does a write-in campaign - it will be too late to get on the ballot as an independent candidate in most states by that point.
And I'd totally support that decision by Trump if the GOPe tries to pull any shenanigans.
No shenanigans. If Trump has 1237 delegates going into the convention or can get to 1237 at the convention, he gets the nomination -if he can't, he doesn't. That is just the way it is.
Why? Because it would be absolute political suicide for the GOPe to do anything other than choose the delegate leader.
Why? It has happened more than once, including Abraham Lincoln.
Newt Gingrich is right: these wet dreams where the Establishment and their dupes fantasize about stealing the nomination from the delegate leader (or the second place candidate) are, practically speaking, ludicrous, especially when someone like Donald Trump can immediately begin an independent run, and fund it himself.
First, Trump can't fund it himself unless he liquidates a lot of assets - he does not have that much in the way of liquid assets. Second, even if he could afford to self-fund an independent general election campaign, he wouldn't be able to get on the ballot in most states - the filing deadline will have passed, and he would have to collect signatures, etc.
Yup. Ted is incapable of exercising good judgement. Every week is another dopey move. He should stick with lawyering. Prosecute drug pushers.
I don’t know what a Trumpeter is but, as a Trump advocate, I since lye hope Trump does not partner with Cruz.
The reality is even worse than 80%. Trump is going to win AZ and NJ, two winner take all states. Trump is going to do well in NY, CT, WV, PA, and CA. There is no way Cruz can overcome the current 250 delegate lead Trump has now given the states that remain in play. Forget the math and look at the remaining primary schedule.
I have one word for you regarding the states you named above: CAUCUS.
That's right: caucus. As in collectivist, groupthink, caucus. Ted Cruz seems to do really well with that format, which, of course, only loosely resembles an actual election.
And, as for Guam? LOL!
You're quite the optimist, 2DV. It's time for some realism.
Three final words for you: grasping at straws.
Trump will never accept VP.
That’s exactly what would happen and I’m aghast that Cruz fans hold on to the notion that the filthy rotten GOPe would crown Cruz....never ever going to happen, never.
No, that's not the way it is.
It's eminently possible for the delegate leader to get the nomination, even if they don't have a majority going into the convention.
As Newt Gingrich keeps pointing out, these fantasies about somebody else being handed the nomination, when Cruz and Trump will have 80% of the delegates between them, are just that: fantasies.
Any port in a storm for the Trump-haters...
Another holier than thou Trumpbot.
And how many sins has Donnie committed in just the last eight months alone? How many skeletons are there in his closet that have already been revealed not to mention those soon to come?
You have a very exaggerated view of Cruz. Why is that? What did he ever do to you? How did he ever damage conservatives or conservative positions?
Aren’t you just a bit defensive about having to argue he isn’t a principled conservative?
Is that because your guy really isn’t?
I'm sure he would if he was second place in delegates, which isn't going to happen, of course...
You don't seem to get it. What do you think the Trump voters will do if they think the nomination has been stolen from the guy who will have the most delegates and votes received of any of the candidates--by far? Do you think they will accept it and then vote for a nominee selected by the GOPe. I for one will not vote for any GOP candidate for any office if the front-runner is denied the nomination.
It really won't matter if Trump runs third party or not. About 40% of the primary GOP electorate will walk away.
Ted is not throwing in the towel to a totalitarian. Give proof Trump is a totalitarian.
I am not even attempting to argue the merits of what you think Trump will accomplish. I think he is the second best candidate we have to chose from, but that is merely a difference of opinion. At this point, I expect to be voting for Trump in November unless somehow Cruz pulls off a miracle.
What concerns me is the emotional investment so many Trump supporters have in the guy. I am telling you that if you think Trump is going to be a super hero and save the day, you are going to be very disappointed. However, he may not be a bad president. Just realize he is a mortal human being made of flesh and blood. Like most humans, he needs to be held accountable, not worshipped.
“10 billion times better...[than] William Wallace”. Really? At least let the guy make it into office and accomplish a few things before declaring the guy crown prince for best of intentions.
>>If it truly was a foregone conclusion, then Trump supporters wouldn’t care whether Cruz hung up his spurs or not.<<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is not quite true. We want to see an end to the attacks on Trump from other Republicans. We want to see him start on Hillary. Many Trump supporters would love to see Cruz play a massive role in Trump administration or SCOTUS. There is also that nasty little possibility of the GOPe stealing it if Trump falls short of 1237. The sooner everyone gets their mind around Trump as the nominee, the better for the country.
Oh . . . and I would personally admit that if Cruz serves as VEEP for 8 years, he would be vetted as NBC. It would be like a palate cleanser for him after the embarrassing Canadian citizenship thing.
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