Posted on 04/06/2016 6:33:18 AM PDT by springwater13
Even Trump’s most trusted advisors didn’t expect him to fare this well ” the goal was to get The Donald to poll in double digits and come in second in delegate count. That was it. The Trump camp would have been satisfied to see him polling at 12% and taking second place to a candidate who might hold 50%. His candidacy was a protest candidacy.
I don’t think even Trump thought he would get this far. And I don’t even know that he wanted to, which is perhaps the scariest prospect of all. He certainly was never prepared or equipped to go all the way to the White House, but his ego has now taken over the driver’s seat, and nothing else matters. The Donald does not fail. The Donald does not have any weakness. The Donald is his own biggest enemy.
What was once Trump’s desire to rank second place to send a message to America and to increase his power as a businessman has nightmarishly morphed into a charade that is poised to do irreparable damage to this country if we do not stop this campaign in its tracks ” He doesn’t want the White House. He just wants to be able to say that he could have run the White House. He’s achieved that already and then some. . . . The hard truth is: Trump only cares about Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
The Washington Times used to be a conservative newspaper.
Betcha a dollar to a donut that if Salon posted a negative article on Cruz (or a positive one on Trump), a Trump supporter would post it in a nanosecond.
IMO, Salon should be barred from FR, except for comedic purposes.
I was wrong , sorry that is what I meant.
How about the National Enquirer?
769-732 is 37.
37 delegates going to Trump will keep sCruz out, at this point.
New York and Calif are the keys.
Just yesterday, the Trump folks were all excited about the possibility of a big crossover vote of Dems and independents to vote for the Donald in a GOP primary. It used to be that conservatives were opposed to liberals messing around in our primaries to pick our nominees for us, but the Trump supporters are all for it.
But because Trump lost, now we have his minions accusing Cruz and his supporters "in bed with Lefties" simply because Cruz is doing what Trump can't - uniting the party behind him. I guess in the minds of the Trumpkins, the Republicans are the "Lefties", and the Dems that vote for Trump are the "conservatives"...
The headline speaks the truth. Trump is doing this as a challenge. He won just about everything else he wanted in the business world, and sees the presidency as something he should have too.
He is a sore loser. If he is the nominee a democrat wins. He is flaming out. I hope he drops out in time to give the nomination to someone less objectionable.
Indeed.
“Ventura won it all.”
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Ventura is our president?
Put down the bong and take a step back.
Cruz truly believes the ends justify the means, as long as the ends = his ambition to be President. No different than Hillary in this regard.
The goal is for Cruz to hold Trump below 1237 a very likely outcome then win on the 2nd ballot, cheers.
Irreparable damage? Like Obama and his changes we never believed in?
Let me guess. You've watched every episode of The Good Wife.
That’s 52% that WILL NOT vote for Cruz is he’s nominee....
And leaves the slimy Canadian LAWYER who has sold his soul to the establishment..
Ventura won.........
Madman? Really? I wish I was mad like that. I could live in the clouds on 5th Avenue looking down on the Plaza and gorgeous Central Park, turn right and see the magnificent Sherry Netherlands and all the cute carriages and draft horses on Central Park South. Yeah, I wanna be mad like that.
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