Posted on 03/09/2016 8:09:34 AM PST by scooby321
Ted Cruz says he would have no problem with a contested convention over the summer in the event neither he nor Donald Trump secures enough delegates before then to lock up the Republican presidential nomination.
Trump suggested Wednesday morning on "Fox and Friends" that Cruz was making the statement "because he had such a bad night last night."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
We’re all going to have to accept the fact that the GOPe would rather lose to Hillary than win with Trump.
Which is why we need to insistent that the candidate with the most delegates gets the nom. THAT is the best deal the base is ever going to get in 2016. Once the GOPe starts brokering we are you know what.
Two days ago, he said no. Sounds like he can be bribed. He’ll never beat Hillary. Partly because the media is owned by the Dems....partly because his experience in law might be fine, but in the Senate, he just kept a saying....but nothing was a happening.
I think most would agree with that. The issue is what if Trump is 100 votes shy and Cruz is 200 votes shy. Then what happens?
Then Trump and Cruz need to be the key players trying to get the delegates to vote for them. Like Trump can promise Kasich a VP slot and get his slate of delegates. And Cruz can team up with the Rube...you know that kind of stuff I’m fine with.
But if it goes to a backroom where some unknown people come out and say...”Here’s your nominee” then that’s when the Shat hits the fin.
The same Ted Cruz who cut a deal with McConnell to sell out conservative primary candidates in order to get a pat on the head to run for President along with Rand Paul.
The same Cruz who co-authored the article with Paul Ryan to support TPA and supported the amendment in the Senate that added the TPA legislation to a house bill.
The same Ted Cruz who voted for Closure on the Corker amendment giving Obama authority to enact the Iranian deal giving away Congresses authority to review such treaties.
The same Cruz who opposed the gang of eight legislation in the Senate but it passed the Senate anyway. Only Dave Brat’s defeat of Cantor stopped the bill from becoming law. The person who fought the legislation the hardest in the Senate, Jeff Sessions, endorsed Trump.”
Oh yeah? Well OK, if you insist on being FACTUAL about it.
So, its not “establishment” to follow the rules that have been in place ?
Exactly! I mean what do Trump supporters want a special rule that says Trump wins no matter what even if he doesn’t get the right number of votes? Geeze.
Ted’s just using a different word....Two days ago...it was a no way thing.
I haven’t seen anything that Trump is saying that will bring us back to the “right”.
Republicans have no such rule. Cruz is simply stating the process as it stands now. Calling him names for doing so is ridiculous.
Beware of the false conservatives. By their associations you shall know them. Are outsiders gathered from the insiders? Anti-establishment from the establishment?
I don’t think the folks here know the difference between a contested convention and a brokered convention
the true difference is one of semantics, and that only recently...any convention failing to nominate on the first ballot is technically ‘brokered’; alternately, it can be referred to as ‘contested’...
in today’s parlance, ‘brokered’ has taken on the sense of interference by party bosses, that may or may not be the sense of a ‘contested’ election where a nominee is produced after floor wheeling and dealing without resorting to obvious manipulation...
whether ‘contested’ or ‘brokered’, a convention is subjected to a good deal of machination and influence peddling, and generally produces a loss for the party...
It’s kind of fun to watch the Cruzaders put on their best lawyering caps to defend Ted supporting the idea of taking the nomination away from the biggest vote-getter.
In addition to that, they completely ignore what he said THREE DAYS AGO (before the Bush camp began calling the shots). They’re mincing words between contested/brokered, like it matters. It doesn’t. This flies in the face of what Ted just said the other day.
Ted Cruz says he doesn’t want a contested convention
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-beat-donald-trump-ballot-box-not-gop-convention/
Tricky Ted is in a tough spot, he wants to be on the GOP ticket but it doesn’t look like he’s gonna have the delegates to force the issue.
So he supports a contested convention in the vain hope the GOP establishment will give him their blessing as VP, then tries to sell that notion to the nominee.
Trump would be very wise to treat Cruz like the venomous snake he truly is.
Agree. I doubt even the GOP would try a brokered convention. Pretty sure those days are really over. But it may well turn out that it becomes an open convention. If that’s the case, it would be “prudent” to have a Trump-Cruz ticket.
Well sure...And now he has the entire D.C. Bush dynasty behind him because Rafael Cruz is a big staunch conservative and not an just another insider lawyer turned professional politician?
Is this what their still trying to sell maskedman?
I think those GOPers wishing for a brokered convention with The Art Dealer may be sorry if they get what they want.
I think it will force Trump to go Third Party. When he stated in the last debate that he would "support the nominee", I think it was a trick answer. It had already been established in the debate that Trump financially supports candidates of both parties just to stay on their good side. I could easily see Trump run a third party race. When confronted about his "pledge", he will say "I am supporting the nominee - I just sent a check for $1,000 to the Romney campaign". In the meantime he can still run Third Party. He might even win that way.
Because you don’t understand that if both illegal and legal immigration isn’t stopped there will never be any getting back to the “right”.
Once that FINALLY sinks in, maybe you’ll get it.
Geeez! Doesn't any understand there is a DIFFERENCE between a CONTESTED convention, and BROKERED convention?
Ted Cruz says he doesn’t want a contested convention - CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-beat-donald-trump-ballot-box-not-gop-convention/
3 days ago ... Ted Cruz downplayed talk of a contested Republican convention, ... Cruz said no one could have expected Trump to rise as high as he has.
Ted Cruz: A brokered convention “ain’t gonna happen” - CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-cruz-a-brokered-convention-aint-gonna-happen/
4 days ago ... Ted Cruz on Friday said that a brokered Republican National Convention in ... Without directly addressing the suggestion, he said, “No doubt, if we ... House correspondent Major Garrett that he predicts a contested convention ...
(VIDEO) Ted Cruz Says A Brokered Convention Is Not Acceptable ...
http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/03/07/video-ted-cruz-says-brokered-convention-acceptable/
1 day ago ... Ted Cruz says no to brokered convention. ... There is a difference, though, between a contested convention in which candidates vie for ...
Ted Cruz: A Contested Convention ‘Is Not Going to Happen’ - Breitbart
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/29/ted-cruz-a-contested-convention-is-not-going-to-happen/
Feb 29, 2016 ... said Monday that a “contested convention is the great hope of the Republican establishment,” and that it’s “not going to happen.” According to ...
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