The automatic assumption that Cruz would pick up the Solid South that he lost convincingly is fully nonsense, too.
Indeed, a recent Reuters/IPSOS poll showed fully 1/3 of the Trump supporters wouldn’t vote for him. I’m not in that 1/3, but you rosy cheeked Cruz supporters are wearing thin. Particularly with this “rules are rules” stuff in CO and UT and everywhere else no vote is held. Just because Ted could engineer a technical win doesn’t mean all manna goes to him afterward. People are tired of this politician crap. And, Ted has shown he’s down with the best of them.
Yes, rules are rules and we all understand we need to live and work under the best man-made rules available in this country - the US Constitution. However, the framers of the Constitution expected that just and honorable men and women would execute its assurances. That has clearly not been the case and our Constitution has been used against us by liberals ever since it was signed. Even now the politicians who profess allegiance to it on our own side are stretching, pulling, twisting its dictates to other derived tenets (e.g., state political party rules) to their own personal benefit.
Shoulda, coulda, woulda’s about who gets what when you kill off Trump’s nomination won’t hold like you think they will. Do that at your own risk.
Further, I will tell you this. I never call Cruz Supporters anything other than that. Yet Cruz supporters here are enamored of cute little names like “Trumpkins” and much works. Keep it up and see what happens in November.
Cruz himself has called Trump supporters, “Trumpsters.” Yet he expects our vote in November.
Today he called us “gullible.” If I’ve counted correctly that means he’s quintupled down on insulting Trump supporters. You, know, those millions of people whose votes he will desperately need if he gets the nomination.