Posted on 04/01/2016 7:46:09 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Cruz says the nomination of Trump would mean an "absolute trainwreck" in November. But, Cruz, 45, with a future in the party, would be foolish to walk out as a sore loser, as Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney did in 1964.
A Cruz rejection of a nominee Trump would mean the end of Cruz. The elites would hypocritically applaud Ted's heroism, publicly bewail his passing, then happily bury and be rid of him.
Cruz, no fool, has to know this.
If the nomination is taken from Trump, who will be 70 in June, he has nothing to lose. And as "Julius Caesar" reminds us, "such men are dangerous."
Trump and Cruz, though bitter enemies, are both despised by the establishment. Yet both have a mutual interest: insuring that one of them, and only one of them, wins the nomination. No one else.
And if they set aside grievances, and act together, they can block any establishment favorite from being imposed on the party, as was one-worlder Wendell Willkie, "the barefoot boy of Wall Street," in 1940.
All Trump and Cruz need do is instruct their delegates to vote to retain Rule 40 from the 2012 convention. Rule 40 declares that no candidate can be placed in nomination who has failed to win a majority of the delegates in eight states.
Trump has already hit that mark. Cruz almost surely will. But no establishment favorite has a chance of reaching it.
With Cruz and Trump delegates voting to retain Rule 40, they can guarantee no Beltway favorite walks out of Cleveland as the nominee -- and that Ted Cruz or Donald Trump does.
No matter who wins in Cleveland, the establishment must lose.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
“Well you know, Cruz would be stupid to raise a ruckus if the nomination is taken from him at the convention because, he has something to lose. but Trump, it’s ok if he does because he has nothing to lose”
So the double standard was based on your premise, not the articles? It’s funny that people are presuming what Trump and Cruz would do. For all we know, Cruz goes back to the senate no worse off than he was before he joined the race. Heck, the RNC didn’t support him in his run for senate so I don’t see how that would change. Trump on the other hand can go back tonight what he was doing before he entered the race, or he could file suit and fight this until he gets his way.
Regardless, the true premise from the article states what rational people have been saying for weeks. These two must come together to take down the establishment. Until that happens they will continue to destroy conservatism and get Hillary nominated in the process.
“A vote for anyone other than Trump at this point is a vote for the GOP-E. Fact. “
Why would I vote for Trump after what his minions in the media did to Cruz? Trump supporters are doing the exact same thing to Cruz supporters as the GOPe did to conservatives for years. Shut up and vote for us.
Sorry, doesn’t work that way. The nominee, whoever it is will not get my vote until they shake hands and finish the job of destroying the establishment.
That’s what the article says.
He’s a Cruzer
RE “....but Trump, it’s ok if he does because he has nothing to lose....”
Except his OWN money. He’s the only one in this who’s spending his own fortune. He put his money wher ehis mouth is.
This shouldn’t be Trump vs Cruz, nor Freeper vs Freeper.
It’s about America and trying to stop the slide into sh*t.
It’s plain as day, I’m so tired of the trolls who feign ignorance to reality.
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