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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Having shown that he believes Cruz is constitutionally ineligible to be president, Trump can hardly choose him as vice president.
Well, if the two factions outside Jerusalem had been united inside Jerusalem, they'd all have been equally screwed, as long as the Romans had Jerusalem and the Jews cornered and beset.
Sometimes different isn't better, unless it's actually better.
Watch out for deals with the e-GOP: That was Ronald Reagan's deal to unify the GOP Main Streeters and the E-GOP. Problem was, VP-designate Bush got all sorts of patronage chips, and he used that to run the Reaganauts out of town well before the end of Reagan's second term (Reagan's getting shot by John Hinckley didn't help, I'm sure).
Bush named Reagan's chief of staff, and he in turn organized a "Tuesday morning" group that filtered everything and everyone, very like Haldeman and Ehrlichmann had done, and shut lots of conservatives completely out of the government.
It was blackmail in the first place (1964 got mentioned a lot), but Reagan gave Bush too much, and the e-GOP were too much apparent in the policies of the Reagan Administration.
Karl Rove and "K" Street money thank you.
Blue-rinsed dowagers in Park Avenue "good buildings" don't thank you, because they rule by right and by God.
I never picked up on that from him.
I guess you don't make it to these levels if you aren't a deviant of some kind.
I don’t like Cruz, don’t trust him. Don’t trust Trump but at least he is up front. Might be a deal breaker for me.
So that fits because Rubio is Establishment, and Trump can make a deal with them.
He’s my counter offer: LEAVE IT.
You couldn’t be more correct.
Until Jeb and Rubio are out.
Let the Don shut down the border and sort out the Islam refugee mess. Cruz can help him make good SCOTUS picks.
I like your thinking!
Aside from Cruz showing up your guy. Care to be more specific on how Cruz is as you say?
And Christie and Kasich.
Can Marco Rubio Even Win a Primary?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3368499/posts
Heard that broadcast and a regular listener who more often than not disagrees with her asessments on candidates and particularly in this 2016 campaign.
Previously Weve had a bunch of republican presidents who were populists and believed in an expanded government role. Nixon, GB and GWB are recent examples. Now that government is your face in everything up the point that the democrats are flaming socialists and our country so screwed up it is time to roll government back to its constitutional format of divisions of powers.
She claims to be a conservative. But she’s advocating populisism ?
Here Trump seals a deal with the GOPES (government over the people elite state-ists) also known as country club republicans, and gets their endorsements from the establishment in the Crony Corn King lobby and even advocates expanded mandated Ethanol. Because he thinks dumping this government mandated junk inro your gas tank will help him carry IOWA .
She complained about that position but that was it. She couldn’t cross that denouncement line . Because she feels a candidate like Trump who when he proclaimed that position unfortinately he confirmed just what Cruz pointed out what he was. By winning that election Cruz proved that citizens would prefer look to their own devices not dependency on government.
The battle is between NWO globalists and Nationalists.
Both Cruz and Rubio are ardently, openly and firmly NWO globalists.
The only person, man or woman, D or R, running as a Nationalist, is Trump.
SMH.
Oh, must he? The longer Trump is in race taking potential support from him, the better for Cruz? Makes sense. Funny how no one called on Trump to support Cruz in Iowa.
Indeed. I'm a conservative Catholic and I'm firmly in the Cruz camp.
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