@tedcruz u promised 2 call me & didn't. U lied 2 a grieving mom. STOP SENDING EMAILS BEGGING 4 $$ #AlwaysTrump pic.twitter.com/UqGC42hFxK— Sabine Durden(@sabine_durden) April 7, 2016
Posted on 04/08/2016 1:27:46 PM PDT by JSDude1
When a political party picks one candidate over another, the party signals to the broader electorate what it represents. If the Republican Party nominates Ted Cruz instead of Donald Trump, it will represent one of the greatest practical and moral victories in the Republican Party’s noble history.
Cruz’s enormous victory in Wisconsin this week makes it more probable than not that Donald Trump falls short of the required 1,237 delegates – 50 percent plus one of the 2,472 total delegates to the convention – to cinch the nomination on the first ballot. Combined with savvy delegate recruitment and a mounting string of endorsements, Cruz is setting himself up as the most likely nominee in a contested convention.
While many Trump supporters might decry this outcome under the stated rules of the party as the “establishment” countermanding the voters, this broad theme oversimplifies. Both Trump and Cruz exist outside the “establishment." The more interesting question is what statement the GOP makes by picking the particular candidate Cruz over the particular candidate Trump.
If Cruz wrests the nomination from Trump with a renewed message of unity and opportunity, the party as a whole should rejoice and celebrate. Indeed, there are four reasons the party should be dancing inside at the prospect, because Cruz defeating Trump represents:
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@tedcruz u promised 2 call me & didn't. U lied 2 a grieving mom. STOP SENDING EMAILS BEGGING 4 $$ #AlwaysTrump pic.twitter.com/UqGC42hFxK— Sabine Durden(@sabine_durden) April 7, 2016
LOL.. you are living in a delusional world— I won’t argue with you though.. you are right.. Trump has no chance... soon he will have 95 more delegates from NY though..
Trump gave MUCH more to Republicans than Democrats! pic.twitter.com/CSN6oU4wxi— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) April 8, 2016
Nice try Alinsky-ite.
You never did answer me if you were a Uniparty troll on the other thread. All you did was invoke some Alinsky on me, that’s all I needed to know.
CGato
I have no idea what you’re talking about, Deceptive Donnie.
All I know is you have a lot of liberal ideas that you can’t shake after 40 years.
And you don’t talk like any conservative that I know. The words you speak reveal everything I need to know about you. You’re like a martian wearing a human suit trying to convince me you’re human.
Get the lingo down, and then maybe I’ll listen to you, Donnie.
“If Trump is the R candidate I will pull the lever for him but will not be surprised when he puts a pro choice type on the USSC and deals with the Dems on raising taxes etc in order to balance the budget. Watch and see.”
Yes. In all seriousness, this is my greatest fear about him, that he will not fight to the death on his Supreme Court nominees. I don’t believe he has the intestinal fortitude, the constitutional or moral foundation, or the will to see that through.
I also fear he’s signalling he’s going to wimp out and have some kind of mandate on healthcare that is basically going to be a continuation of Obamacare.
You'll have to read my About Me page. I'm about as anti-statist as it gets. I've been at Free Republic since 1998, I just didn't join to participate until 2013.
I've battle many liberals/progressives/statists online. I can spot Alinsky tactics anywhere and there you go again with the rule of ridicule. I admit, it could be the extreme fanatic coming out in you but it's still very deceptive what you are doing here when Cruz has very little chance at taking the nomination outright. There will NOT be enough delegates left after New York and that is a fact some of you don't want to face.
CGato
Fixed.
5) No chance at a wall
6) Amnesty a shoe in.
“Wall St” = Cheap Labor Pimps
My comments were about your candidate, not you.
I’ve been here since 2000, and I still want what I have always wanted, a candidate with firm conservative constitutional values, who doesn’t just talk a bunch of words, but actually does what he says he’s going to do and has lived the life. So don’t question my authenticity.
You might want to look in the mirror and ask yourself what you’re compromising to support this candidate. Is he really conservative, or are you just trying to settle a score with GOPe? 16 years ago, there’s no way the freepers on this site would have gone with Trump, because it’s obvious he does not have a conservative track record that’s reliable.
Instead of just tearing down Cruz for trumped up crap that you just throw on the wall, what does your boy Donnie really stand for? That’s what I question. All of the lies you make up about “Lyin’ Ted” and all the salacious scandals you invent that have no foundation in fact, THAT’s ALINSKY.
And if you keep that crap up, your damn right I’m going to call you and expose you on it.
Once you figure out that Ted Cruz is not the principled conservative, you think he is, then all will be clear.
And I'm not a fanatic of Trump. He is not anything like you are constantly here trying to paint him though. I know he has his flaws, but he also has his strengths too and the whole evil cabal in DC is trying to come together to try to stop him. Do you realize you are participating in their strategy?
Which begs the question, are you part of the Ted Cruz campaign? The only reason I ask and have suspected is because of some of the answers you gave me in the other thread and continue to give here.
Still Report #R749 - Cruz Insider Talks - Part 1
Still Report #750 - Enquirer Sex-Scandal Explained by Cruz Insider
In the first video, it starts at 3:11 and I found it very interesting what the former Ted Cruz insider had to say (It is continued in Episode R750 if you want hear more deception coming from a former insider for the Cruz campaign). He did forward the Still Report a copy of the letter when he was hired by the Ted Cruz campaign, along with the letterhead and how much he made. Of course, his name and address is blacked out for obvious reasons.
What he had to say is how the inside of Cruz's campaign is being run and I've seen that attitude from you and others here, very unrational, cultish, and it seems the ends justify the means, no matter how wrong it is. Like I said, it's just an interesting observation that sounds so familiar coming from your posts and others.
CGato
This is commentary, does NOT belong in Front Page News. Please review it.
Nope, no way would I “rejoice” over the GOP establishment once again destroying the only candidate who might actually set the country on the right path again in order to install an establishmentarian who will lose to a socialist.
I like freedom and opportunity too much.
Clearly, neither Cruz nor Kasich can honestly win the primaries. Why don’t they step down and support the frontrunner in his effort to Make America Great Again?
Join the party, fix it.
Or sit on the sidelines and pretend you have influence.
The party won’t burn because people who aren’t involved get angry. They have a whole bunch of folks on the inside that will wait it out and throw water on the flames.
No one who believes that the ends justify any means is a conservative. Period.
In any case, we have a clear choice: between someone who has a clear track record of executive success, who isn't politically correct, and who has a backbone--versus a lawyer with no real world experience whatsoever, who is clearly part of the establishment. I know my selection.
In any case, we have a clear choice: between someone who has a clear track record of executive success, who isn't politically correct, and who has a backbone--versus a lawyer with no real world experience whatsoever, who is clearly part of the establishment. I know my selection.
Exactly!
It's come down to Patriots like Trump vs. Globalists.
CGato
Some are bound thru the 2nd ballot. a few thru the 3rd ballot, before they become unbound.
And just because they may be verbally telling Cruz’s they’ll switch to him from Trump doesn’t mean that any of them necessarily will.
Absolutely understood.
Keep in mind also that the GOP Exec committee can change the rules under which the convention will be carried out all the way up to the day before the convention begins. If they think there’s any chance Cruz might pull something off - poof - rules change that will destroy that hope.
The Rules are written by the Rules Committee, not the GOP Exec Committee. There are 112 members of the Rules Committee, two per entity (states & territories). They are drawn from the convention delegates -- so the vast majority of them (80%-or-so) will be Trump and Cruz delegates.
Contrary to popular belief, it won't be easy for the RNC to pull any shenanigans with the rules.
You may be right about Trump. But he has gone after Hillary.
Get a hold of yourself man. And get over you sense of self- importance
You need to take off your tin foil hat and check yourself in
As I said before, I’m not interested in your Roger Stone tactics. Knock off the defamatory lies.
Cue the Twilight Zone music
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