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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Your fanatical postings remind me so much of what the Ted Cruz insider told of the people on the inside of the Ted Cruz campaign. It’s just an observation, so I asked the question. Which you didn’t answer and resorted to Alinsky style ridicule.
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Hey, not so bright guy, that was a clipping from another FReeper; the number shown at Politico is 847 to go, making the elimination for Cruz 131, meaning, 33 to go after NY -- and no, he won't be the nominee. He may still be on the ticket, kind of like Stevenson-Kefauver, but I doubt it. And Glenn Beck, hero to so many FINOs and CINOs, won't vote for Ted if he's on the ticket with Trump, no matter what the order. That's because Beck and his camp followers support the Demwit in the race, every time.
Good cartoon, but the American people truly see Mrs. Bill as something special.
Trump isn’t a reform candidate.
The GOPe doesn’t control Cruz,
And Cruz will win this with support of other conservatives.
Not an outlier, you just don’t like the fact that Trump lost, and will continue to lose, because he’s not a winner.
And the real reason is because the majority of the Republican party doesn’t like liberals masquerading as reformist conservatives!
I know it’s true, and his record in the Senate prove it.
Wisconsin is an outlier politically in general and always has been...from fighting Bob LaFollett onward
Your assumptions are so far off the wall it isn’t even funny
Interestingly enough more people have voted for some one other than Cruz and that should worry you. Frankly I don’t think you know what the majority of the Republican Party likes or doesn’t like. The votes say they don’t like Ted
And Cruz will win this with support of other conservatives.
Cruz is a Washington insider, who has bamboozled people into thinking that he is a regular citizen who came to Washington to challenge the power structure. In reality, he is nothing but a slick lawyer who has no real world experience, who went from arguing a handful of cases in court directly into the political world.
Given his underhanded tactics in trying to steal the election from Trump, I don't think he has conservative credentials at all. A principled conservative would not resort to such tactics. His "conservatism" is a shallow veneer that he uses to dupe people into believing that he's the real thing.
I don't think Cruz stands a chance in the general, but even if he did make it, he would be nothing more than Obama, term 3.
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