Posted on 04/02/2016 8:47:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Over the past few months, the Republican race has morphed from a seventeen-headed gorgon into a more manageable monster with four faces.
The first face belongs to front runner Donald Trump, who has run an idiosyncratic campaign, focused almost entirely on his own personality. He has no discernible platform, represents no clear faction of the GOP, and is running as Trump rather than as a Republican.
The next two faces are recognizably Republican. Ted Cruz, a respectable second, is running as the strong constitutional conservative. He favors a smaller government; decentralization of authority; a foreign policy grounded in the national interest; support for Israel; and resolute opposition to Islamist terror.
John Kasich, currently a distant third, pitches himself as a moderate, flexible conservative, steeped in fiscal rectitude, and likely to play well in a general election. Though he boasts a solid resume and polls well among independents and Democrats, his prospects for being anything other than a spoiler are minimal....
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I hope you get paid overtime for all the time you are posting this stuff as you are doing over time and never seem to sleep.
Ted Cruz should stand down, and support Donald Trump.
Really.
Ted Cruz is not going to be president. He is way, way down in delegates, and won virtually zero, of the actual free and open primaries.
He is not strong as a candidate in the general election. He won’t win.
All he can do at this point, is to send the election to the GOPe.
So now the media is openly propping up Cruz to stop Trump.
What country am I living in?
It’s called a campaign, not a coronation.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/R
They have Trump at 752. Cruz at 463. There are 808 available “pledge” delegates.
1237 -752 Trump delegates= 485 Trump needs this # to win.
808 Delegates left - 485 = 323 Delegates Trump can afford to lose.
1237-463 Cruz delegates=774 Cruz needs this # to win
808 Delegates left -774=34 Delegates that Cruz can afford to lose.
Ted Cruz needs to sweep the rest. If he loses Wisconsin, he has no clean way to win. There is no way for him to win on his own. He can only try and strip and peel at Trump’s delegate support, like a badger at night. And he needs to pray that his ‘new-found-friends’ don’t shank him in Cleveland.
Look again. I sleep quite a bit.
not that much seeing as you are on here all the time at all hours.
How much do you get paid?
Congrats: Ted won most of TULSA & TEXAS! and thats all folks.
Millions of Americans have either attended Trumps rallies or watched them online. And many of them have already voted. Since the day he entered the race, the media and GOPe have fallen into the habit of making losers into winners. But they can’t twist these primary election results. Trumps wins stand proudly and prove his ‘win ability’ in the General Election.
Here’s another fix for you to digest. Even at FR, Freepers don’t see how successful Trump’s campaign has really been. It’s a lopsided win for Trump. But, We are stuck with the GOPe and a guy trying to steal delegates from a winner. Ted is in cahoots to promote a rule change to qualify a win for himself or get something for ruining Trump’s win.
Trump has 21 states w 6,020,000 win votes Cruz has 10 states w 1,724,000
Cruz has weaseled wins in small caucus states with oddball vote counting method.
Cruz carried these states:
Virgin Islands. by 30 votes
Wyoming........by 480 votes
Alaska............by 600 votes
Maine.............by 2,500
( Total size of your local high school?)
Ted’s total votes from 9 wins.
Wyoming....... 620 people and
Virgin Islands 200 people
Alaska..... 8,400
Maine...... 8,500
Kansas... 35,000
Iowa...... 52,000
Idaho.....100,000
Utah..... 122,000
Okie..... 158,000
That total of 485,000 votes equal the population of Tulsa, OK.
If it wasn’t for Texas, he’d have nothing but a pile of beans!
Not to be confused with “spilling the beans,on Heidi!” ; o )
Ted Cruz’s Texas win was 1,239,000
Cruz won 9 states with..... 1,724,000 votes
Trump won 21 states, and nearly all the states were won by tens and hundreds of thousands of votes. The millions that have watched his rallies have voted.
Marianas (343peeps)........ Hawaii...........6,000
Vermont...... 20,000..........Nevada.........35,000
Kentucky..... 83,000..........N. Hamp.....101,000
Louisiana.... 125,000.........Arkansas....133,000
Mississippi...191,000.........S. Carolina...241,000
Arizona........250,000..........Mass...........311,000
Tennessee....333,000..........Virginia.......356,000
AlaBama.......372,000..........Missouri......382,000
N. Carolina...458,000..........Michigigan...483,000
Georgia........503,000...........Illinois.........557,000
..........................................And Florida 1,079,741
Trump has won 21 states with 6,020,000 votes. He has a total of 7,897,990 votes and 755 delegates. Thats 290 more delegates than Ted.
Cruz’s only way to prevail now is by pure chicanery, just how he began this campaign. It is impossible now for him to have a clean delegate win. And it’s impossible for Cruz to qualify for POTUS as a natural born Canadian.
Good factual post. thank you.
Really? ‘Cause the media’s already taken measurements for Hillary’s crown.
“Ted Cruz, a respectable second,”
To go up against Hitlery we need a winner.
It would be fun to watch Ted have to run one against the same level of incoming Trump has to
Guess we’ll never know
Loads. I’m headed to the Mercedes dealership next week.
CNBC! Crap head news network. BS
They do.
For now.
But half of them will defect to whoever the Dems nominate, and the other half will defect to whoever the GOPe finagles into the nomination.
Because most people do not realize what is next.
The GOPe is going to stick the knife in Cruz's back and engineer an open convention.
They will then pick Paul (the rat) Ryan.
Cruz may have been promised a seat on the Supreme Court, but I doubt it. I suspect that his blind crazed ambition is enough.
But the bottom line is that he will never be president.
If Trump can not get the delegates and the support, Ryan will be president.
And we get more of the same. Vote TRUMP!
cRuz should drop out.
Even Santorum, who only needed 75% of the remaining delegates, compared to cRuz needing...what...88%???, had the decency and sense to get out of the 2012 race, at this point.
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