As always, if you wish to win your opponent to your side, you do not gloat. It is crucial for a win in November over the Clinton/Media machine that Trump supporters ask non-supporters to take that gamble on Trump that these voters would think it to be.
It is certainly a better gamble than to gamble on Clinton. We know what she will do.
We also MUST united around the Senate campaign. One of the worst scenarios is a Trump win and a senate loss. Why? Because the new senate will be seated BEFORE the change of presidents. In that almost 3 week period, Obama could approve a new SCOTUS justice with the democrats moving quickly to the nuclear option. They won’t really care about the implications.
So, reality is that neither Ted Cruz nor John Kasich have any mathematical shot at victory.
Can they fight for a brokered convention? Sure. But it will so divide the anti-Clinton forces that it will throw the Senate to the democrats who have a huge advantage this year in terms of seats up for election.
To Cruz supporters, this is a heartfelt request. Become an anti-Clinton supporter. Stand aside the in Indiana and elsewhere so we can unite the anti-Clinton alliance.
Stand aside so we can unite the anti-liberal SCOTUS forces.
Look at Cochran and Murkowski. They both had elections stolen for them And they've become even more detached from voter sentiment. Look at McCain. He's back to lying to the voters about his agenda. Look at that despicable Ayotte. She traitored her voting fodder before she even unpacked in DC. Look at Portman. He had the nerve to RoboCall for KSick, he traitored the pro-marriage agenda, and he never met a global trade deal he didn't love. Etc ad nauseum.
What's my point? There's not much worth saving in the US Senate.
After the damage inflicted by the juvenile tone of this election set by Trump (yes Trump started it) I am not sure that the wounds will heal merely by Trump getting the necessary 1237 votes before the Convention. In my opinion (and apparently it is an opinion that has gotten more than one poster zotted) a brokered convention would have been the best way to get unity in the party.
The party right now is fractured and the anti-establishment crowd is dancing in the streets and mocking the losers.
FWIW, Cruz has always been anti-establishment and Trump has always been a dues paying member of the establishment. But Trump poised himself as the pinnacle of antiestablismentarianism and ran on it using a campaign that appealed to the baser instincts of people who were fed up with the GOP and their leadership.
When you examine the actual positions taken by Trump on several key issues he does not come across as anything close to a Constitutional Conservative. Instead he comes across simply as an antiestablishmentarian who thinks he can solve all the ills of the country with a pen and a phone without any regard to whether or not such actions would be Constitutional or not.
IOW, like it or not, Donald Trump will likely rule as a populist tyrant. I can only hope that he will pick Constitutional Conservatives for important positions within the administration who can rein him in and keep him from being a power mad demagogue. He ran a top-down campaign and he has run a top down business enterprise. He will likely be a top down president.
Our founders did not envision the power that has been granted to a single man when they drafted the Constitution, nor did they envision that a president would be elected by popular demand. But that is where we are now and we will have to deal with it.
Presidential power is likely to continue to grow over the next few decades and unless Congress can reign it in, we will eventually be ruled by a dictator. Maybe a tyrant and maybe a benevolent dictator, but we are headed towards that end. And Congress (including Ted Cruz BTW) has at every turn surrendered its powers to rein in the president and given him authority that was never envisioned by the founders.
Of all the candidates in this race, I believe that Ted Cruz was the one candidate who truly had a deep understanding of the role of the president and the intent of the founders in regard to that office. His campaign got sidetracked by a number of things which suggest that he probably would not have been a very effective president at this time anyway. He lost his focus when the going got tough. He became a reactionary to the situation rather than a leader. His teaming up with Glenn Beck was an example of extremely poor leadership. He should have known better and should have investigated Glenn Beck before hitching his wagon to that horse.
All I can say about Trump is that he cannot possibly be as bad for this country as Hillary. But that doesn’t mean I have any illusion that he is going to be good for the country. We are in a post constitutional era and I was hoping that we would get a candidate who understood the constitution and was willing to fight to restore it. I don’t believe Trump is that man.
Maybe if he is elected he will choose not to run for a second term and we can all work to get a candidate who will understand and restore our Constitutional Republic. But I’m not going to hold my breath. I don’t think such a person could ever get elected by popular vote. Face it. The “people” don’t give a damn about the constitution. They want their government to be their master and to give them everything they want for free. They want the government to take from the rich and give to the poor. They always have. They always will.
However, standing aside ain't part of our nature...as the delegate battle would show...we love to fight...even when the odds are overwhelming against us.
Instead of standing aside...we will have to reinforce the nominee and I respectfully call on all to join the fight against our common enemy.
It takes both wings for the plane to fly.
There is one lamp lit in the Old North Church Tower...Cruzaders like the minutemen before us, need to rally to the call.
It is dawn and those who support defeating the Beast must join the battle together as one united force.
EAGLES UP!
Jedi.
Having had my fair share of being called stupid (and lots of other names) by the Cruzers, it's against my nature to do that. I've mostly been nice; to all but a few of the hardened ones, I've tried to engage with discussion.
On this point, you're absolutely correct. As many as possible need to be brought back in to fight the Clinton machine. If they win, it's genuinely over for this country.