Great reply.
Trump WAS a liberal democrat.
He is running on a rock solid conservative platform NOW.
I can support Trump. He was always my number 2. But he needs to win over the Cruz supporters somehow. He will not win otherwise.
Sure he will.
While he'd like to have them aboard, they are not necessary for an elector4al majority.
It's something each of should stew on if they wish to remain relevant.
“But he needs to win over the Cruz supporters somehow.”
There are far fewer of them than you think. All this subterfuge stealing delegates does two things:
1. Skews the delegate process by their not really being elected.
2. Pi$$es off those who originally thought Cruze was an honest guy.
Cruz is the GOPe point man for #NeverTrump so winning over a lot of the Cruzers will not be possible. But the good news is Trump will not need all the Cruzers to win. A lot of pissed off blue collar Ds will vote Trump too.
“Trump WAS a liberal democrat.”
Many people WERE liberal democrats at one time, many of who were the never-have-really-given-it-a-thought-before type of liberal democrats.
Ronald Reagan came within a gnat’s nose hair of joining the Communist party when he was young. Other more recent famous converts are David Mamet and Dennis Miller.
Many years ago I was one of the not-thinking-about-it “liberals”, but then I stared to actually think about what was going on, started reading books like “Atlas Shrugged” and “Animal Farm”, and then Free Republic really helped to clarify things.
I’ve got a dear friend from high-school who was another not-thinking-about-it-lib who had an epiphany on an airplane during a conversation with (apparently) a VERY articulate conservative and who subsequently begin to read FR. And finally, my wife, who was a die-hard liberal, has shifted so far to the right she’s conservative as hell now, and part of the process has been sending her selective articles posted on FR.
So, being a liberal in the past, means nothing, other than the fact one finally grew up. For some, it simply takes longer than others.
Have to disagree strongly with you. Trump needs to do NOTHING to win over Cruz supporters. I think that's the point of Jim's post. At this point Cruz supporters need to ask themselves who is likely to accomplish more conservative goals. If they don't realize it's Trump, guess we have to leave them behind.
One of Trump's greatest strengths is that he does not play the PC game. He lays out his goals and people can decide whether they want to follow him or not. There is NO special hispanic, or black, or LGBTQ ...XYZ, or rich, or poor, or educated, or uneducated, etc., etc.
EVERY other candidate, on both sides, continues to play the pandering game. Here a little, there a little.
So, Cruz followers get on board ...or don't. There will be no special carrot dangled for your support.