There are two alliances possible.
Cruz/Kaisch/Rubio. They combine delegates and campaign together.
Trump/Cruz. Game set match. Will their egos allow it?
Of course Trump could choose to grind it out with continued slash and burn tactics. There is a meeting in DC today to start a conservative party.
Cruz has to think about 2020 and 2024. Just like Reagan in 1976, Cruz can hone his interpersonal skills for the future and appeal to a broader base and build his organization.
Like he did in Alaska and Maine.
“There is a meeting in DC today to start a conservative party.”
Do you have more information about that or a source?
Now is not the time for this. A conservative revolt against the... voters?
This whole counter Trump movement is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. It basically, in my opinion, is based in PRIDE. People like Erick Erickson, one of the three up there meeting, and PRIDE. Pride in being right.
What was supposed to happen was for Trump to explode. They were so sure of that happening that they excommunicated Trump from their gatherings, publicly ridiculed him, and when that didn't work, said that they weren't going to support him under any circumstance. And now since that didn't work either, they are out of options, so JUST WHERE DO THEY GO NOW?
They have to make it look like something other than just plain old wooden stupid. They have completely mis-read this from the beginning, so they decide to say the rest of us are crazy and they will stand on principle. And since they drew their little red lines right on out of the room and now find themselves standing outside looking in, well, they will go get themselves a 3rd party candidate.
Why, those Patriots! Play the fife for them! Idiots...
But this isn't as much about principle as it is about in them being wrong and them trying to turn it into being right somehow, and in being relevant, and in being needed, and in ultimately pride and power and, while they probably don't see it this way, money. JMHO
They should just repent and just be done with it. Take the opportunity maybe to get behind Rick Scott's comments and retreat five steps or so. Then maybe, just maybe, we can put someone on the ticket with Trump that will sooth some of this over.
But I doubt it, their pride is too much to overcome. They have to make this look like a real movement of their own. They are moving alright, right on out the door and down the alley and to the places where they pitch tents... Because as of now they are out of the process because they declared it to be so, they didn't win and in the doing of that, decided that a kamikaze effort was worth a go.
They won't do the 3rd party, because they won't win and it will make them look even more stupid and more contrary and so forth. Ultimately they will take the Jonah approach of others. They will go up on the Hill and build their booth to watch what becomes of it all. Great guys. Just to make sure they are right about Trump losing to Hillary, they will probably go pull the lever for Hillary too.
I think we are better of without them. I think they should go lobby to become the "smart, conservative" wing of the Democrat party.