Posted on 02/03/2016 4:40:06 PM PST by mak5
Rick Santorum endorsed Marco Rubio for president on Wednesday evening, just hours after announcing he’d drop out of the race himself.
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I "used" to have a daily call from a friend I have known for 15+ years who is a Trumpanzee. 24/7 Trump is all he can think, talk and sleep. I mean this guy has had a brain implant of Trump. Finally I told him to quit calling if that is all he had to talk about, I was tired of it. No more calls
The sad thing is he has been raised in deep South Texas on a ranch all his life like myself and not dirt poor but has scraped by punching beeves and making it only ranching for others.
I believe there are lots and lots of others like him out there that have drank from the trough, heavily.
Like The Mouth said he could shoot people on Main street and his avid supporters would not leave him........
To be fair...Trump said someone said I could shoot, etc. while describing his supporters loyalty.
I have lived too long to believe any man or woman can do all they promise when campaigning.
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Huck, I’m sorry to say, is essentially a comfortable old shoe. He has big connections with the Evangelical community.
I would be very surprised if he endorses anyone before Monday, and then it won’t be Trump.
OTOH, I would love to see people coming out for him BEFORE Monday.
Ping for later
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
Me too. All I know I voted for Cruz as Senator an he has delivered on his promises. He has taken it to the establishment in DC. He has called them out by NAME, not by "my friend" but by liars and cheats.
That is why this is the first time I have donated to a national election and that why my money goes to Senator Cruz for President.
CRUZIN' With CRUZ to the White House. Bringing honor with him and not just a Big New Yawk Mouth making deals and payoffs
Not at all. I know why. Because he'd fought them all tooth-and-nail rather than "make deals" with them a la Trust Fund Donnie.
Hank
I support Cruz, too.
This process is over. Rubio will end up our nominee. Write it down now. Trump is acting like a spoiled ass brat who will continually turn people off and Cruz is too far right to garner enough support nationwide. All of this will galvanize behind Rubio - he’ll get every endorsement as they all drop out - Bush, Christie, Kasich, all of them......
“He just endorsed the biggest amnesty pusher in the election.”
Shhh... You’ll ruin everything. Rube-io thinks we all have short memories and has been trying to downplay that amnesty thing.
The polls were wrong. We will see if they are right in NH. Cruz has 8 delegates and Trump has 7 after Iowa. Trump ran a strong second in Iowa, let's see how Cruz fares in NH. The race has only begun.
So blaming the polls for rumps lose rather than the voters who voted. Ok, I get you.
As for NH I have no expectations regarding where Cruz will come in. It’s NH and highly liberal....I lived in New England for a time and they are a breed of their own. I suspect Christie and Rubio will fare ok there. But it’s up for toss IMO.
Am more interested in how the South goes.
Support for the welfare state is not conservative nor pro-family. In 2012 Santorum revealed himself when he attacked the concept of limited constitutional government (ie his oath of office). Like most politicians, the man is a sociopath, a liar and has no business in elected office. Glad he is out of the Presidential race.
“Dream on. After Trump wins big in NH, he will follow it up in SC and NV”
Base on what? Those lying polls again. Trump may win liberal NH, but won’t win the rest by much if at all. And then Cruz will crush Trump in Texas and still have more delegates Trump...LOL
Texas primary comes on March 1 (Super Tuesday). Texas is not a winner take all state. Republicans allocate delegates through a graduated proportional system that favors candidates who get at least 20 percent of the vote. Most GOP delegates are allocated through the 36 congressional districts, with three per district, and the rest based on the statewide vote.
Cruz will only receive a portion of the Texas delegates. You can bet that Trump will receive a substantial proportion of them.
March 15 starts the winner take all process. FL will be key along with Illinois and Ohio.
No, Texas is not a winner take all, but we have 155 delegates. NH has 23 and Iowa 30. All are proportional. My point being Iowa, NH, SC, NV do not matter much.
Trump is not well liked in Texas and his popularity is declining rapidly. Only demoncrats and Texas “yankee” transplants seem to support him at all and we do have a closed primary. Trump will be lucky to break 20% here. Cruz could quite possible win 80-120 delegates based on the current political landscape in Texas. I know because I’m here and I travel the State often.
I agree, March 15 will be important too.
However, if Trump loses some of the upcoming primaries or just barely wins, I look for him to cut and run because as he states “it will all be a waste of time and money” for him.
>> I doubt Trump would want to spend his own money and devote the time to run as a third party candidate <<
I couldn’t argue with you if we were talking about normal politics.
But “normal” doesn’t necessarily apply to Trump’s methodology.
So it’s hard for me to dismiss entirely the possibility that he might, against all odds, try some kind of independent or 3rd party bid — surviving mostly on the free TV publicity he so skillfully can generate.
Moreover, he wouldn’t necessarily have to win a yuge total of votes, in order to derail a Cruz or Rubio general election campaign. Six or seven per cent of the national total, concentrated in a few “purple” states, might do the job and bring Trump a lot of personal satisfaction.
>> Because he’d fought them all tooth-and-nail rather than “make deals” <<
Yeah, but what about Mike Lee? He and Ted used to be pals. But apparently Cruz landed some sorta low blow on a favorite Lee bill, and they seem no longer to be best buds. Just kinda makes me wonder.
Latest combination of polls show Cruz at 36.2 and Trump at 30.1.
RCP has it 28.7 Cruz and 26.3 Trump. Trump is running a strong second.
Trump will do well in the South and the Northeast.
However, if Trump loses some of the upcoming primaries or just barely wins, I look for him to cut and run because as he states “it will all be a waste of time and money†for him.
All these predictions about Trump by his detractors never seem to materialize. I know you are praying that he drop out, but Trump will be in it to the end. His supporters are the most loyal and enthusiastic. We aren't going anywhere.
“RCP has it 28.7 Cruz and 26.3 Trump”
Those same polls showed Trump beating Cruz by 4-13% in Iowa too and look how that turned out.
I’m telling you what I see on the ground here in Texas. You don’t have to like it, but you’re not in a position to discount it either. Facts are Facts!
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