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This is the week that Ted Cruz won the Republican nomination
Red State ^ | April 10, 2016 | Freedoms Truth

Posted on 04/09/2016 10:43:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Hostage
The people that are stealing this are not Cruz supporters. They are loyalists to Romney. Romney is still the head of the GOP. He’s the ‘mastermind’.

But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along."

201 posted on 04/10/2016 5:05:39 AM PDT by CASchack
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To: JediJones
More importantly, Trump only has 37% of the votes overall. Almost 2/3rds of the voters have voted for someone else.

An argument could be made for "second ballot" in popular vote. He might do better.

202 posted on 04/10/2016 5:08:13 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
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To: jersey117; Albion Wilde
Cruz winning by manipulating, lying to and probably bribing delegates. Trump winning the people. Trump winning the AMERICA FIRST voters.

This is the key narrative that needs to get around

In winning the support of the voters, Trump owes the voters - he is bound to represent the best interests of the People. When Cruz "plays by the GOPe written rules" and buys off delegates - and those behind them - he owes his soul to them, not the voters. In other words, the Cruz worm shedding its skin and turning himself into a GOPe snake.

203 posted on 04/10/2016 5:11:20 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Sasha_S

2nd ballot will get the GOP, RYAN. Take it to the bank.


204 posted on 04/10/2016 5:12:36 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: AlmaKing
Wins the nomination, loses to Clinton.

By how big of a landslide is the only question. Well, this and does Hillary bring congress along with her in what will be a vast sea of blue.

205 posted on 04/10/2016 5:15:12 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Hostage
Great post.

Cruz can’t do that because he is owned.

From this thread, it appears that everyone is now figuring that out. Cruz is selling his [grinchy cramped] soul one delegate at a time. He is now so owned by so many people he can't figure out whether it's Calgary or New York.

206 posted on 04/10/2016 5:17:04 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: wardaddy

They lose with trump. And trump will not get a majority. No majority = loss.


207 posted on 04/10/2016 5:19:43 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Hostage

Why do the rules say 1237? Plurality isn’t majority. Trump will lose.


208 posted on 04/10/2016 5:20:47 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Buttons12

If the argument is that Trump only has 37% of the vote, Teddy only has 25% of the vote.


209 posted on 04/10/2016 5:22:38 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: UnwashedPeasant
the same Cronyism the Trump fortune is built on.

You wouldn't detect cronyism if it smacked you on the side of the head like a smelly rotten fish.

Trump's fortune is building buildings, selling condos and leasing commercial space. To do that he has to build the building. Then he has to sell to willing clients one by one. Overspeand on building by a factor of 3 - like the F-35, install service equipment that doesn't work (like the USS Minnesota) and as a developer you are bankrupt utterly - unless the US government is your client.

A real crony looks and smells like the partners in the Podesta Group that catapulted staff positions in the Clinton white house into gazillionaire status representing Russian banks to the US government. That is doing well for doing nothing at all.

Buying, selling and consulting on the F-35 - that is cronyism, doing well for doing nothing at all.

Cronyism is not getting a contract to build a city ice rink and then building it. Cronyism is getting the contract, getting paid and then not building the ice rink.

210 posted on 04/10/2016 5:26:19 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You are a sellout


211 posted on 04/10/2016 5:27:19 AM PDT by maddogtiger
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To: nopardons

Knock off the personal attacks. This is making you look worse than trump.


212 posted on 04/10/2016 5:29:04 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The writer needs to cut down on meth.


213 posted on 04/10/2016 5:31:21 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Sasha_S
You claim Cruz is ‘owned’, but provide no evidence for it.

Every time a delegate is turned that is another debt Cruz owes.

214 posted on 04/10/2016 5:32:13 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You should tell your buddies over at Tedstate that Cruz may defeat Donald Trump but he will never be president. He's despised by the Republican party more than Trump.

Jeb Bush has a better chance of being the Republican nominee than Ted. Hope it was worth selling your core principles.

215 posted on 04/10/2016 5:32:31 AM PDT by McGruff (If my vote does not count why vote?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The old you needs to talk with the current you.


216 posted on 04/10/2016 5:33:44 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Kenny
They’d prefer Hillary to Trump and that’s what they would get.

That is only because part of their calculation is that they get to keep the house if not the senate. Again, to repeat what a lot of folks say, they won't even keep town dogcatcher.

217 posted on 04/10/2016 5:34:57 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Perchant

“There is no way they are gonna let a non-natural born citizen become the nominee.”

Cruz’s NBC status has been verified in all 50 states, in the courtroom of a PA judge and perhaps in the near future by the Supreme Court. But you probably still won’t change your mind on that even then.


218 posted on 04/10/2016 5:43:15 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: nopardons

Well, well, well...nopardons raising her hypocritical little head again. Perhaps this time you’ll choose to answer the questions:

On this thread from 2011:
Meet Donald Trump, Sudden Right-Wing Conservative: Contributions, Abortion, Health Care, and Taxes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2700816/posts

You said the following about St. Donald:
“Paying bribes to pols is one thing, touting them for president, as he did with Hillary, is quite another thing.
What about the rest of the facts, that are in this article? That man nothing at all to you either?
What about his disgusting personal life?
21 posted on 4/6/2011, 9:53:33 PM by nopardons”

AND then theres this gem:

“Here’s a news flash for ya................Trump can’t beat Obama! Trump would be even WORSE than Barry! He’s Clintonian re morals, worse than Barry re taxes, and far worse than Hoover re tariffs.
Because he has donated to more Dems than GOPers, is personal friends of the Clintons (he wanted Hillary to be president! ), has mob ties, his SCOTUS picks would be a disaster, as would his other appointments.
27 posted on 4/6/2011, 10:00:37 PM by nopardons”

Care to explain? You’ve done a wonderful job of explaining all of our concerns about Trump.


219 posted on 04/10/2016 5:45:05 AM PDT by Axeslinger (Trump: the Kaitlyn Jenner of conservatism. One's not a woman, one's not a conservative.)
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To: AndyJackson

A very good point that bears repeating. The only thing these guys have to barter with is power. If they get voted out up and down the ticket, there aren’t nearly enough consultant/lobbyist/cable TV bloviator positions for all of them. Some of these guys might actually have to (gasp!) work for a living.

Ironically, the GOPe is trying so hard to hold on to its power that it might end up losing everything. These guys are really earning the “Stupid Party” moniker this year.


220 posted on 04/10/2016 5:55:20 AM PDT by LNV
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