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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Well said. I’ve argued many of the same points, but the school teachers and clerks around here who haven’t run a business or taken an accounting class are clueless. They love lawyers and professional politicians who live in limited sight silos. They are blind to the realities of the world of competition in free market capitalism.
That some island chain is the Marianas where Saipan can be found!
No, but Iowa, Kansas, Missouri (virtually a win) are, as is Texas and Oklahoma.
The difference between Mitch McConnell and Hillary is far far less then the difference between Mitch McConnell and the Conservative movement.
The conservative Tea Party put Mitch and Bitch or perhaps it should be Bitch and Mitch (aka Paul Ryan and McConnell) into their positions of leadership. Both have done everything in their power to stop the philosophy and will of the Tea Party. They are not our friends. If the Dems win or the GOPe wins they will have their positions of power, prestige and great monetary benefits.
The DEMS and the GOPe are both the enemy.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is its natural manure.
Thomas Jefferson He was a wise man! "
Why? What’s up with Kasich’s vetting?
North Mariana Islands. And that actually qualified him for 8 states/territories with a majority of delegates rule. No other candidate has done that yet.
In what fantasy land do you live in to believe Cruz wins an open convention.
The Cruzbots have swallowed the line, “principled conservative.” It’s actually a very tired cliche. A principled conservative doesn’t’ keep Glenn Beck around. A principled conservative doesn’t hook up with the Bush family. A principled conservative doesn’t stomp on a person’s 1st Amendment rights to back up BLM rioters. A principled conservative doesn’t show up at a rally where Kevin, what’s his name, is preaching about killing gays. A principled conservative doesn’t take $2,000 from the Federal Reserve Bank or allow Goldman Sachs to bankroll his candidacy. So, get over your high falutin, delusional ideas about Mr. Booger being a principled conservative. It just ain’t so.
True. Because Trump peaked last August. His fifteen minutes of fame flamed out. He’s toast. Stick a fork in him.
“He’s like a fight that has been knocked down three times throwing roundhouse punches.”
He won’t quit fighting unless/until he gets knocked out.
So pull out the popcorn.
LOL!
There's the rub. Cruz is absolutely convinced of two things. One, that by virtue of having made it to the Senate he's insider enough for the GOPe to get behind him and two, that he is destined to be President this time around.
Yeah, I looked at the images for the place. Don’t tell anybody but it looks like Hawaii before it got so GD commercial. I am researching what a vacation there might cost. It is 56% Asian and hugely Republican. If it was not for the cesium from Fukishima and that disaster still going on I might be looking at retiring there. Northern Mariana Islands.
None of that hair-splitting matters.
If Donald Trump leads in delegates going into the convention but does not end up as the nominee, then he'll simply go independent, and the GOP "second choice" nominee will have no chance of winning the general election.
And I'd totally support that decision by Trump if the GOPe tries to pull any shenanigans.
This revolution is not going to be short-circuited by a bunch of cigar-smoking "kingmakers" in some back-room at the RNC. Those days are gone. There's too much anger for such silliness to succeed. And that's a good thing.
I think that Trump will get to 1237 anyway, but even if he doesn't, Trump and Cruz combined will probably arrive at the convention with 80% or so of the delegates between them.
Even if no candidate has a majority, the Presidential nominee will be the one (of those two) who comes in with the most delegates, and the VP nominee will likely be the other one.
If he leads in delegates, there's no way that Donald Trump is going to let Cruz be on the ticket above him, and there's no way that someone other than Trump or Cruz will be the nominee.
Why? Because it would be absolute political suicide for the GOPe to do anything other than choose the delegate leader. If the GOPe pulls some stunt that subverts the voters, and results in putting Hillary in the White House, then the party will disintegrate under the weight of its own tone-deaf corruption. And I'll be dancing on its grave.
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.
Wake up and look at reality, people!
I guess we're firmly into the bargaining phase of Establishment (and ted Cruz supporter) grief...
“Fight for what? There is zero chance of him winning.”
Remind me never to have you balance my checkbook.
I hear what you are saying, but I don’t think VP is even a suitable spot for Cruz. A deal wouldn’t have to include the VP slot. Frankly, he not geographically desireable as V P.
Cruz could deal for any number of positions that could serve as a launching pad for a future career on the Court or for another run at the Presidency.
Trump will have a minimum of 1100 delegates, and still has a path to 1,237. Trying to stop him to get to an open convention is a Pyrrhic victory. It will destroy the GOP and guarantee a Dem victory. Neither Cruz nor Kasich can amass enough delegates to beat Trump or even come close. The gap is going to widen with AZ, NJ, NY, WV, CT, PA, and CA. It is time to cut this off and coalesce behind Trump.
Trump brings up these issues and all of a sudden these morons like Rubio, Cruz, Kasich, Paul, and the governors have an opinion. Before that.... Nothing.
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