Posted on 04/08/2016 1:38:22 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer predicted that the Republican Party would most certainly collapse if Donald Trump is denied a presidential nomination at the convention in July.
In his latest column for the Washington Post, Krauthammer said if Trump does not lock up the nomination before the convention — he has the most delegates but needs a majority — it is possible the party will coalesce around an alternative and the billionaire's supporters will walk away, leaving the party in shambles.
"And if Trump loses out, a split is guaranteed," wrote Krauthammer. "In Trump's mind, he is a winner. Always. If he loses, it can only be because he was cheated. He constantly contends that he's being treated unfairly. He is certain to declare any convention process that leaves him without the nomination irredeemably unfair. No need to go third party. A simple walkout with perhaps a thousand followers behind will doom the party in November."
Trump has insisted that if he has the most delegates, even if it's less than half of those needed to win the nomination, he should be granted the nomination. But party rules allow delegates at a brokered convention to re-vote to elect a candidate who they believe to be most likely to beat the Democratic nominee in a general election.
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If Mr. Trump is the nominee, will you vote for him?
Trump’s doing pretty good for a guy who doesn’t understand how the system works...
And you can flip it around: If Trump supporters think they can win without Cruz supporters, who are insulted and vilified here in just about every thread--well, good luck with that. And if Trump thinks he can win by insulting, alienating, and blowing off social conservatives--again, good luck, Donald!
If Trump hadn't been a candidate, Cruz would be history, and Bush would the candidate.
That was the plan all along and Cruz would have been eliminated long ago except that Trump derailed Bush and the other est. candidates so all the GOPe had left was Cruz, who Trump, by the way, left alone until he started attacking him.
You and I are close to the same age, and I too have never missed an election that counted. I too voted for Reagan in 1980. I will most likely vote again, but if the GOPe pulls a fast one, it will be very difficult to let them off the hook. And I have to vote for Kirk, that mealy mouthed Uniparty useless.....GrrrrrrI Then the GOPe wonders why Trump is so popular.
Trump doesn’t flip out. That is in the imaginations of Cruz supporters and the media. He’ll not be happy though and law suits will follow if they CHEAT.
Anyway, most of the projections I've seen still give the GOP at least a 50-50 shot of hanging on to the Senate, so its not a lost cause. Not unless a bunch of us stay home, which sounds like what is going to happen.
But primaries are suppose to be run in such a manner that the candidate who recognizes he cannot get that number drops out, he doesn't stay in just to block the front runner and hope that it ends up back at the convention!
Convention battles are for those primaries when two candidates are truly deadlocked, not for game playing to stop the frontrunner from getting the majority and then have the convention win it.
Cruz supporters can cry all they want about the 'rules' but we Trump supporters know the spirit behind the rules and we are not going to accept that kind of evil behavior.
If he earns my vote between the convention and election day by, for example, surrounding himself with competent conservatives, and not "etch-a-sketching" back to his long history of liberal positions, such that in November I think he will do less damage to the country than the Democrat, then, yes. This was my approach, e.g., with Romney. I have always voted for the Republican nominee. And I would certainly never vote for a Democrat.
As a proven Cruz supporter, let me give you a good reason to vote for Trump, if required.
Trump has no political philosophy. He is random. That means he will accomplish conservative ends about half the time, totally on accident.
That’s a huge improvement.
If anyone but Trump is the nominee then The Beast wins CT whether I vote or not. So I might as well vote for the R whomever it is.
And Cruz supporters did the exact same thing to Trump supporters.
If you think Trump supporters are going to vote for Cruz after he swipe the nomination at the convention, you would be sorely mistaken.
It looks to me like a split is coming.
That can’t be. The Cruzor Losers tell me Trump only cares about making money.
When GoPe doesn't even have anyone holding the position of dogcatcher perhaps they will wake up to the fact that the democrats no longer need them because they have nothing more to sell.
If Cruz cannot win the majority of delegates and only keeps running to keep Trump from doing so and wins a convention fight, no, Trump supporters are not voting for him.
If any Trump supporters disagree with me, please let me know.
And don't blame Hillary's election on us, you elected her by ignoring the spirit behind the primary process.
So that makes you a Hillary supporter, according to the logic of some here.
GOP split guaranteed whether it’s Cruz or Trump.
If Trump hadn't run Cruz wouldn't have gone past the Texas primary.
Bush would have been the frontrunner and everyone would have gone after Cruz and knocked him out as unelectable.
Cruz is only around because the GOPe has no one else left.
When the Trump voters do go, enjoy what is left of the GOP, because it will be dead, with the GOPe firmly in control.
No, it’s not. This is not the time for a “random” president. I’d like somebody who actually didn’t just say the first thing that bubbled through his shallow mind and who really knew something about the economy, world affairs, etc.
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