Posted on 04/24/2016 11:27:15 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
It might work, but as Fox News notes this weekend, it’s hardly a risk free strategy.
Even if Cruz is able to force a contested convention by keeping Trump from reaching the magic 1,237 number, he is counting on delegates both having the strength to vote to reject Trump in the face of significant pressure from the campaign and Trump supporters, and then moving to Cruz after they are unbound.
While the strategy seems to have its merits, the question of whether delegates will back him could be complicated by recent threats made to both GOP party officials and delegates themselves, allegedly by Trump supporters. -----------------------------
Yet it wasn’t so long ago that anyone with a career in the dreaded GOP establishment wouldn’t spit on Cruz’s head if his hair were on fire. (I mean, it’s not as if any high ranking party members were joking about murdering him on the Senate floor or taking cyanide rather than voting for him, right?)
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Great insight. McConnell should have been using manipulative Ted all along. Who knew he was good at intrigue?
It will be viewed as having "won" not based upon merit, but fraud. It will confirm what many believe, that their vote doesn't count in the face of the Establishment's wishes. The process will be viewed as dishonest. While Cruz didn't create the system, his "victory" will be tarred and he will be viewed as dishonorable. Deservedly so.
Cruz cannot win against Hillary. Because no one likes him. He’s not gonna get crossover voters.
He has the lipstick...it comes from the bed-partners, those tramps etc as enumerated in the National Enquirer.
Cruz will be an illegitimate nominee.
Cruz cannot win against Hillary. Because no one likes him. He’s not gonna get crossover voters.
I really hate to see the delegate process (which favored Trump mightily is Missouri and a couple of other states) misrepresented so deeply.
It reminds me of the sudden rush to “But he won the popular vote!” in 2000, when that was never the standard for winning the presidency. If we’re going to argue style, substance, positions, and electability, let’s at least do it with some intellectual honesty.
LOL!
You STILL suck.
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