Posted on 03/23/2016 10:09:09 AM PDT by Jeff Head
FYI...my thoughts.
Very well reasoned and presented!
I suspect Cruz will abide by any decision that the Bushes and Romney make for him.
Senator Cruz, DO NOT Allows the GOPe to co-opt you and your campaign.
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Too late.
¡Teb! has fully embraced the Cartel he once railed against
He is on board the Cheap Labor Express in their attempt to block the citizens from keeping their country.
Ah snap!
So, Ted right now is at 461 delgates. He needs another 775 to get to the 1,237 number.
But there are only 763 delegates left to win.
So now the Cruz supporters have to decide it they are going to play nice or try to force a brokered convention on everyone else.
This will be very interesting.
This is why The Establishment will completely endorse Ted Cruz.
Jeb Bush only endorsed Ted after it was too late.
Looking at UT primary results from ‘08 and ‘12 put last night’s into perspective for me…
2012: Romney 93% | Paul 4.7%
2008: Romney 89.5% | McCain 5.4%
Nothing all that anomalous since apparently Utahns vote in creepy lockstep. If anything, Cruz underperformed by only netting 69%.
Too late...Lyin' JEB/Ted has been a Bush Establishmentarian from the beginning.
He's now being used to block Trump so Establishment can "nominate" Lyin' Paul Ryan.
It's so transparent even Ray Charles could see it...and he's blind AND dead.
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I’ve heard Cruz a few times say “Kasich should get out since he can’t reach 1237.” Wonder if Cruz will change his mind when HE can’t reach 1237. I’ll bet he decides that having a path to 1237 isn’t so important at that point.
Well, it seems clear that Trump will have a strong plurality at the end of the primary process. Will he be derailed?
If Trump doesn’t win on the 1st ballot, then all hell breaks loose, figuratively speaking. Who would be the compromise candidate who wins on a 2nd or 3rd ballot?? Jeb Bush??? Mitt Romney even?? After all a convention doesn’t have to limit itself to candidates who ran during the primaries.
Who won American Samoa?
GOPee and Yeb! have absorbed Cruz along with his blind ambition to keep on going. Next state Wisconsin where Trump picks will pick up ALL 42 Wisconsin delegates.
A powerful mathematical argument.
No he won’t. If he loses he will cede.
It would be nice, however, if the text in your argument did not run off the right screen, meaning that a scroll bar was needed to view all of it. You may want to re-paginate a bit.
The ‘when’ is NOW for Cruz. Cruz cannot reach the # of delegates needed a of now.
Even if Cruz won every single delegate from this point forward, he would still be short the number of delegates needed for first round.
Cruz has handed a brokered convention to the establishment GOP. Congrats all you “outsider” Cruz supporters. The GOP thanks you and Cruz for being the useful tools they needed.
Disgusting.
1,237 gets Trump the nomination, but 1,236 doesn’t mean sh-t.
If Trump doesn’t get 1,237 on the first ballot, the rules call for a second ballot. The GOP may try to prevent the second ballot from going to Cruz, or they may not. Perhaps Trump will agree to be Cruz’s Vice President and their combined effort will carry the day.
I am sure both campaigns have plans that include following the rules.
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