The Rule: First Candidate to 1,237 Wins

Townhall.com ^ | April 12, 2016 | David Limbaugh

[fortheDeclaration]

If he doesn’t get the number because Kasich and Cruz don’t drop out, even though they can’t get the number, then they deserve whatever insults they receive.

[DouglasKC]

He's delusional. There is no way that Cruz even with his cheating ways still gets close to the number of delegates that Trump has and will have by the convention. Trump delegate lead will never shrink overall, but will always increase over Cruz.

Cruz WILL not be the candidate. He won't have enough support no matter what. He's doing the bidding of the establishment and is only trying to damage the Trump brand. He's hoping to damage it enough so that the establishment will have just enough support to bring in THEIR candidate of choice...and it won't be Cruz. Cruz has already been paid off.

[CA Conservative]

I know that conventional wisdom is that 1237 wins, but that rule isn’t carved in stone.

Well, the rule has been in place since 1856, so it kind of is carved in stone. If they didn't change the rule for Able Lincoln, for Ike, for Teddy Roosevelt, why would you think they would change it for Trump?

[CA Conservative]

Stop your repeating posting at me cause Limgaugh is on ever day here on the radio alway AM sometimes FM in the mornings. An weekends to.

Wrong Limbaugh...

[Blood of Tyrants]

It will be his own fault if he doesn’t get to 1237. It is not Cruz’s or Kasich’s job to award him the delegates.

[CA Conservative]

Next lets realize that the campaign Ted Cruz is running is that of a weak candidate who a majority of republican voters reject.

Well, a majority of Republican voters also reject Trump...

Ted Cruz will be pressured to drop out soon and he knows it.

Dream on. There is no way the GOP is going to pressure Cruz to drop out and cede the nomination to Trump. As long as there is even the slightest chance of keeping Trump below 1237, Cruz will have plenty of support.

[CA Conservative]

Can you say fairness doctrine maybe?

Typical leftist comment - very revealing about what Trump supporters really believe...

[Cboldt]

-- Well, the rule has been in place since 1856, so it kind of is carved in stone. If they didn't change the rule for Able Lincoln, for Ike, for Teddy Roosevelt, why would you think they would change it for Trump? --

Nothing is carved in stone. As for why the party would adjust, it would do so to preserve the existing power structure. If a popular candidate threatens the power structure, there is good reason to block that candidate's take-over. Lincoln, Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt were acceptable candidates. Trump is not an acceptable candidate.

I don't think they would block Trump that way, I think there are less obvious ways to protect the power structure and cause Trump to fail, and by fail, I mean either fail to get the office, or fail to implement his policies once in office.

[Salvation]

TTTT!

[CA Conservative]

When someone is mathematically eliminated he drops out, he doesn't plan a convention fight.

Really? Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Benjamin Harrison, James Garfield and Ronald Reagan might disagree with you...

[fortheDeclaration]

Abe Lincoln had no primary system to deal with.

Teddy Roosevelt later went independent and was responsible for the election of Wilson over Taft.

Reagan was neck and neck with Ford, he didn't just try to stop Ford from winning the majority for the sake of a convention fight.

And Ford lost the general election because of that fight.

As for Harrison and Garfield, I don't think a primary system was in play, it was decided at the convention.

And Ike was the overwhelming popular favorite.

So none of these cases have anything to do with Cruz and his attempts to stop the frontrunner from getting the nomination so he can win it at the convention!

[fortheDeclaration]

No, it will the fault of Kasich and Cruz who used clever tactics to keep him from the number even though they themselves can't get the number!

The Primary system was set up to avoid convention fights, that is why when a candidate is mathematically eliminated they drop out, they don't stick around hoping that they can get enough delegates to have a convention fight.

[CA Conservative]

No, it will the fault of Kasich and Cruz who used clever tactics to keep him from the number even though they themselves can't get the number!

Waaaahhhhh! Those mean people cheated because they wouldn't quit and let Trump win when he couldn't do it on his own! No fair! I'm going to hold my breath until I turn blue - or else I'm going to help elect Democrats! /end Trumpkin Trumpertantum....

[CA Conservative]

How do you know who I hear on the radio. Geez dummie cruxbots.

Because, genius, David Limbaugh doesn't have a radio show. Only a Trumpkin could accuse someone else of being dumb while displaying breathtaking ignorance...

[JediJones]

I’m with Limbaugh!

[JediJones]

I’ll spot you two delegates for that.

[JediJones]

So it’s a white nationalist word?

[A CA Guy]

I think Rush could have been threatened with the fairness doctrine. Nothing leftist about that speculation.

[fortheDeclaration]

The one who will be responsible for electing Democrats are the Cruz people, not the Trump ones.

You guys think you can highjack a nomination and then we are going to vote for Cruz?

You are more delusional then I thought!

This is why convention fights are not good, that the primaries are suppose to decide.

Both Kasich and Cruz cannot get the majority of delegates, and should drop out for their future runs at the presidency.

Instead, the GOPe is so desperate to stop Trump they have having these guys commit political suicide to stop Trump.

Nothing you guys are doing is in good faith and we owe you nothing but contempt.