[Blood of Tyrants]

I predict that unless Trump gets the majority of delegates on the first ballot, that Cruz will be the nominee because he is playing the long game to win over delegates while Trump’s strategy is to call Ted names.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Trump will do whatever is necessary to make sure he wins on the first ballot. Sometime between the last primary on June 7th and the first day of the convention in Clevland Trump will cut a deal with Rubio, Kasich or Cruz to make sure he has sufficient delegates to win on the first ballot.

If Trump gets to 1237 by June he won’t have to cut a deal with anybody.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I think I would have gone crazy in this election cycle if not for “sundance” whomever he is....I hope he’s a Freeper cause I love ya man^5 and Jim Hoft over at Gateway Pundit...An Insurrection is what we are in. I am 68 years old and I don’t want the Republic to fall in my lifetime but if we don’t stop what we are doing that is what will happen.
I pray that Trump gets to the 1237 Delegates and becomes the nominee. I expect the biggest blow out election in American history as “we the people” take back our government from the powers that be.
Freegards
LEX

[fireman15]

You can euphemistically call it his Raphael Jr’s “long game”... but I am not sure how it is going to play when people start to realize that every Trump delegate from Arizona (where Trump won by a 2 to 1 margin) is actually a Cruz operative. That is going to fly like a lead balloon. Everyone I have spoken with about this outside of Cruz supporters on Free Republic has characterized it as a sneaky, low down, dishonest, trick to completely disenfranchise the will of the voters.

[reviled downesdad]

If Trump misses 1237 then there’s also a real possibility that Cruz wins on the first ballot with unbound delegates and Rubio’s delegates voting for Cruz.

[No.6]

That’s all well if his only goal is the nomination ... But all those people who delegates would have betrayed them and who explicitly voted against GOPe politicking aren’t going to compliment Cruz on his insider manipulation and vote for him in November.

With every one of these inside game moves, he proves he’s the exact opposite of what everyone, including Cruz voters themselves, want — a party that represents Americans, not one that abuses them.

[Mechanicos]

Cruz winning at a convention is a pipe dream. Most of the delegates are party insiders who may have claimed to be for Cruz kinda like the GOPe is doing now.

[QuigleyDU]

I predict that unless Trump gets the majority of delegates on the first ballot, that Cruz will be the nominee because he is playing the long game to win over delegates while Trump’s strategy is to call Ted names.
==
Another example comment from the party of stupid.

Ted cannot win FL therefore a vote for Ted is a vote for Hillary.

[kiryandil]

I predict that unless Trump gets the majority of delegates on the first ballot, that Cruz will be the nominee because he is playing the long game to win over delegates while Trump’s strategy is to call Ted names.

Somebody was playing the long game in Wisconsin last night, and it wasn't Ted Cruz:

Waukesha County, Wisconsin:

2016
   Cruz      75123
   Trump     27186	
   Kasich    18521	
     total: 120830

   Sanders   26339
   Clinton   24784
     total:  51123

2016 total: 171953

2012
   Romney    51329
   Santorum  23874
   other      7489
      total: 82692

   Obama      9442
      total:  9442

2012 total:  92134

2008
   McCain    28160
   Huckabee  13926
   other      1313
      total: 43399

   Obama     37662
   Clinton   34009
      total: 71671

2008 total: 115070	

The Uniparty was busy in a few counties surrounding Milwaukee yesterday. Wonder why they're so hot to get Cruz to a contested convention?