Posted on 04/16/2016 6:29:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In addition to winning more primaries, more convention delegates and 2 million more votes than any other Republican presidential candidate running this year, billionaire developer Donald Trump has won a significant national following with his repeated pledge, as a shrewd negotiator, “to beat China, Japan and Mexico at trade.”
Trump offers a simple explanation for the problem: “Their leaders are much smarter than our leaders.” But they’re not smarter than the no-nonsense negotiator Trump: “I beat China all the time.”
If that is true, then why has candidate Trump been so publicly and griping about his campaign’s having been cheated by the unfair delegate selection rules of the Colorado Republican Party?
“The system, folks, is rigged. It’s a rigged, disgusting, dirty system,” Trump complains.
Let’s get this straight: The previously unintimidating Colorado Republican Party — which in the past 42 years has managed to elect exactly one GOP governor and which twice lost to Democrat Barack Obama — by simply awarding its 34 national convention delegates to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, has hoodwinked Trump, the man whose election, he himself has assured us, would be guaranteed to make both Beijing and Tokyo go nervous in the knees.
To be fair, Trump’s criticisms of the delegate selection rules are not without merit. In Colorado, far less than 1 percent of the state’s 900,000 registered Republicans even were able to participate in the arcane process.
In both South Carolina and Georgia, where Trump won solid primary victories, GOP insiders have been organizing efforts to drop support for Trump after the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
None of this is new stuff. Treachery is no stranger to American party politics. But Trump, the self-styled no-nonsense tough guy, could never get rolled, let alone victimized, by these minor-league party bosses, could he?
After all, if you can’t outsmart a Republican county chairman in Durango or Kankakee, why should we ever believe you would be able to go toe-to-toe with the wily Mexicans, Japanese or Chinese?
But all is not lost for the Trump candidacy. My onetime political sparring partner Patrick J. Buchanan — from whose 1992 campaign platform, especially on trade and immigration, Trump has borrowed — offered one imaginative solution to confound the Republican establishment, which, in the political equivalent of a shotgun marriage, now backs Cruz, whom it actively dislikes, against Trump, whom it both loathes and fears.
Buchanan’s answer: an alliance between Trump and Cruz. Between them, he says, they should control a solid majority of the Cleveland delegates, and because there is a GOP rule that prevents a candidate from being nominated at the convention unless that candidate has won at least eight primaries or caucuses, no “white knight’” sponsored by the party establishment could be nominated in Cleveland — only Trump or Cruz could be the nominee.
And on Sean Hannity’s show on the Fox News Channel, Buchanan added a wrinkle for the 2016 ticket: “Go with Trump and Cruz ... I think that ticket would set the country on fire.”
More unlikely political unions than Trump-Cruz have probably been arranged, but I’m frankly at a loss to recall one.
Fairly good article, even though it was written by “Maxi Shields”.
Not a snowballs chance in hell!
Trump hates Cruz because he’s a scumbag and even if he did, we would throw both of them out!!!
Not a snowballs chance in hell!
Trump hates Cruz because he’s a scumbag and even if he did, we would throw both of them out!!!
Couldn’t have said it better.
Go Trump
Biggest question is if Trump ruined political careers of conservative/GOP politicians, why didn’t Trump go out an ruin Obama’s political career? Trump is not a conservative -period.
Trump is for Trump
Choose wisely.
Hope not. Doubt that Trump would taint the ticket by not having a NBC on board. Too much potential for the administration to be tied up in court for years to come. Do we really need that kind of distraction when it isn’t necessary?
I submit that a 2ndDivisionVet/DoodleDawg ticket is far more likely than a Trump/Cruz ticket is.
No matter how crazy it sounds.
I can not envision DJT ever contaminating his campaign with The Great Pretender known as Cruz.
The elites, both Dems and GOPe (that includes Cruz, for those who haven’t yet figured it out despite glaring evidence) all train their venom against the one man who has the financial ability, smarts, and love of country, to circumvent their choke hold. The only one who is exposing them for who they are. It tells the electorate just who is the only candidate that stands a chance to bust up their “system”.
Of what benefit would it be to take on this GOPe fraud?
If it’s God’s will that DJT prevail, he won’t need to sully himself with a Cruz VP. I pray DJT steers completely clear of his vileness.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3421722/posts
You do best to read that. Help you shed your fantasy bias.
Mark shields, ol fat turkey neck, is still alive??? Looks likes he’s as wrong and stupid as he was on the Capitol Gang
“LOL I agree. Can’t believe the Trumpers and Cruzers have shown more hatred against each other than what we SHOULD show Klownie the Kenyan at the White Hut. I’m still shaking my head at the stupidity..”
me too, This feud is entirely GOPe induced, Romney being the rino most responsible.
Trump and Cruz take office and Trump's first order of business will be to fill the seat vacated by Scalia. He nominates Cruz for SCOTUS. Senate gladly confirms just to get rid of Cruz, who they dislike personally.
Cruz becomes a Supreme Court justice (a job he's better suited for than the chief executive) and Trump appoints a new VP to replace him.
Easy peasy...
None of the millions of us America First supporters respect the process...That's why we and Trump are here...
The RNC rules committee is set to meet in Fla. and there agenda is to come up with an official rule where they don't have to accept Trump or Cruz...They'll dump Cruz in a New York minute (whatever that is)...Cruz is just a useful idiot to the RNC...And likely Cruz knows it and is going along with it...
millions of us support Cruz because we prefer the constitution to your anger
The constitution? Seriously? From the guy who voted to subvert the constitution to enable the Iran deal? From a guy who advocated to subvert the constitution for TPA? From a guy whose father believes that he has been anointed by God to enable ‘redistribution of wealth’? Seriously?
months back..
twitter was on fire about a rumor between the trump and bernie camps having an alliance..so this would not surprise me
Still could happen, would show magnanimity, and NO Conservative would feel the need to stay home.
Yes seriously
Is there some substantive point you want to discuss or shall I respond with a similar riff on dear leader?
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