Posted on 02/02/2016 12:20:14 PM PST by JSDude1
If the internecine warfare between the two top populist candidates continues, the conservative majority of the Republican Party could once again be forced to live with a nominee chosen by the Establishment.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump placed first and second in Iowa. But if they don’t now combine forces and put aside their rancor, they may each find themselves losing the nomination to the third-place finisher, Establishment favorite Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Entering New Hampshire, Cruz and Trump have to play it smart. Cruz must recognize that he needs Trump to win in the Granite State. If Rubio wins instead, he will gain so much momentum that he will be almost impossible to stop.
Cruz is smart and must know he can’t take the Granite State, which has fewer of the conservative and evangelical voters that drove him to victory in Iowa. According to Iowa exit polls, Cruz garnered a third of the evangelical vote and was the choice of 44 percent of voters who consider themselves “very conservative.â€
Trump, on the other hand, is up by 20 points in New Hampshire and has a real chance of victory — a win that could send the soaring Rubio straight back to earth, possibly wrecking his chances and providing a major blow to the hopes of the Establishment.
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Maybe after everyone's had their fill of blood and entrails.
The childish bickering has been ONE SIDED. Get out of denial.
Curious minds want to know...... where could that have come from?
We can get three guesses and the first two don’t count.
Can’t be having any 1 point close calls, then the spit starts coming out like one of them spittin cobras.
BINGO! We have a winner.
And by no means ever count it out.
The hype didn’t work.
Can’t happen. According to Trump, Cruz is not eligible.
Here’s my counter offer: Give us Trump or we will give you Clinton and then we can all watch her burn this country to the ground.
Perhaps something good will rise from the ashes.
Thanks for the ping.
Like in 2012? You liked Nobama2 result, did ya?
I think its too late for that. If I were Trump I would totally distance myself from Cruz. Either win on your own or lose. But not smart to align with a guy who just got reprimanded by the Iowa Sec of State over shaming letters and then had to apologize to Ben Carson for dirty tricks. I don’t think any other of the GOP candidates has had any of this kind of antics that I’ve heard of.
Saved me the trouble of pointing that out.
“They just need to STOP with the childish bickering.”
Meh, Trump started the war. It can be over if he waves the white flag.
No. It would be the first time I have ever stayed home. Can’t stomach the guy.
Definitely not.
Sorry, but no. Cruz supporters did a scorched earth campaign to get him a Iowa win at all costs, and burned too many bridges in the process. From Trump/Carson/Hucakabee supporters on.
“I think people are overplaying Cruz’s reliance on evangelicals.”
Concur. I am Catholic and a stanch Cruz supporter.
I too worry about multiple more grassroots/conservative candidates tearing their viability to pieces, while the GOPe unites behind a single candidate to clean up through the mess.
It seems like we never learn.
The Bush family likes to back Cuban-Americans for public office: the Cubans lean Republican and they break the meme "Hispanic <=> Democrat" that the 'Rats have been pushing since Landslide Lint'n blew up the hinges of American immigration policy.
In Houston, the Bush family explicitly, patronizingly, and embarrassingly endorsed for mayor -- twice -- a Cuban-American politico named Orlando Sanchez, who now holds a state office somewhere after twice failing to break the death-grip the 'Rats have on Houston city government.
At the time, I called Sanchez "the Bush family's cabana boy" and similar things, mostly because he was so obviously subservient and a creature of Manor Bush.
Marco Rubio appears to have come up the same way, as a protege of Yeb!
I think I’m going to change my mind on my hopes for a Trump/ Cruz team.
I’m going to lean more towards a Trump/ Rubio team.
I’m sick of Cruz and all his supporters.
He won Iowa but he was predicted to do that. Now it’s time to really show what he has.
No longer a supporter of a Cruz anything ticket.
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