Posted on 04/09/2016 5:15:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You are right ..I’ve been trying to explain to the Cruzbots that if they steal it from Trump and give it Cruz, there is no way I can get the Trump voters that I know to vote for Cruz ...most of them don’t normally vote to begin with, but they love Trump and I was able to get them to actually vote ... the Cruz camp has a tiger by the tail here and I don’t think they realize it ... they are screwed
The Cruz folks are the open proponents for the GOPe on the forum.
They want folks to think it’s just for Ted. No, people don’t insult others in the name of their favorite candidate.
They will on behalf of the GOPe.
Big difference, and totally transparent here.
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Great news isn’t it! GAME ON! Thx, sweet.
GOOD! I will vote ONLY for Trump!!!
Because ANY Republican is better than ANY Democrat, and another election of staying home because you don’t like the Republican nominee is a guarantee for Obama’s third term.
That’s 66
That’s 66% that wouldn’t vote for a damned Democrat should Trump get the shaft by the party. Smart folks.
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And 33% of Republicans WON”T. Cruz, not having crossover appeal, needs every Republican vote. If he manages to STEAL the nomination on the second ballot, will go on to lose and lose in a spectacular fashion.
How dare the will of the 37% of GOP primary and caucus voters who are voting for Trump be disrespected!!! I’m so mad!! Grrrr!! Damn that other 63%!!
>>66 % seems like a bogus number...
Probably includes all of us who would vote for Cruz (if Trump wins the most delegates, but Cruz gets the nomination), but no other Republican.
If Trump gets shafted at the convention, look for Kamikaze Voters taking out Republicans everywhere.
I think you’re right. Voters won’t just sit it out they’ll take it out on the GOPe.
Same for this Trump guy. If he's denied the nomination, I'll write him in. Since Rinse told us to sit down if we didn't like THEIR pick, I'm planning to do this.
Actually, this election did a LOT for me. It's opened my eyes to exactly how the political system works.
I don't actually get to vote for anyone. I get to vote for someone who gets to vote. I never get close to voting for a candidate.
Well, that's opened my eyes to a lot. THere's no more of this pulling the straight lever for the R's.
The R's are MASTERS at splitting their base and sending the votes to sqishy moderates or to actual Dems.
Not me anymore. Unless I REALLY, REALLY like a candidate, I follow Rinses advice and I sit down at home.
Godspeed
I thought she sold it a few years ago.
I don’t really think so. Commenters on some of her thread titles still refer to her in terms of leadership there, but I could be mistaken. Maybe they didn’t know she transferred out, either.
I don’t think the GOP understands that it is not the party the Trump voters are voting for.
Go ahead. Test that theory.
Oh, and it’s not just Republicans who won’t vote: it’s about 2 million first timers or indies ir Dems who won’t vote for anyone else.
That brings your total to 5 million, or more than stayed home in 2012.
If a third of Trump voters don’t vote GOP, the GOP has no chance to win.
Ron Paul voters alone sitting out in 2012 were more than enough to make the difference in a number of battleground states, which - had these voters been given something to vote for - would have changed the result of the election. The GOP’s cynical institution of the “Ron Paul Rule” - which had no effect other than to prevent his delegates from giving him the honor of having his name placed into nomination, knowing the result was predetermined - singlehandedly lost the election.
Likewise, anti-globalist Trump voters would have nothing to vote for with a typical GOP nominee, making that an election-losing move.
The GOP has two real choices right now: Trump or lose. All other suggested potential outcomes are pure fantasy.
yep
There is a third option, but only with Trump's and, to a lesser extent, Cruz' consent. They would both have to endorse a third candidate. I don't expect it to happen. I expect a complete rout of the Republican Party, with 12 million illegal aliens voting as new citizens after President Clinton appoints several new Supreme Court Justices with a Democrat House and Senate. I expect the confiscation of firearms and the forced acceptance of homosexual marriage by all religions except Islam as a civil right. Wickedness will rule in the United States until the coming of the Messiah.
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