Posted on 05/01/2016 1:37:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With the pivotal Indiana presidential primary only two days away, and the decisive California contest still six weeks off, many Republican officials are already privately writing off 2016. Amid the wreckage of the turbulent 2016 nominating season, they still have a challenge in front of them: handicapping which of the two flawed finalists will cause the least long-term harm to their Grand Old Party.
The conventional wisdom has been that Donald Trump is the bigger menace than Ted Cruz. Certainly, several swing-state Republican senators up for re-election in November worry about The Donald at the top of the GOP ticket more than they fear the presence of The Ted.
For some, however, there are other benefits in nominating Cruz. These are not, let me hasten to add, factors Cruz would boast about during a debate with Hillary Clinton. All of them start with the assumption – one bolstered by mock matchups in the polls – that the former secretary of state will trounce either Trump or Cruz in November. But who do Republicans want to go down in flames with?
If it’s Trump, establishment Republicans can simply walk away from the carnage. They don’t have to vote for him; they don’t really have to vote for anyone....
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Yes I did.
Interesting: the article's author is executive editor of RealClearPolitics.com.
Yes I read every word, and it is clear the Repuglicrats are dead to me. These aholes hate conservatives more than they hate liberals, heck they support all the liberal ideas.
I wouldn’t doubt that most of the fraudulent reports and hit pieces on Cruz come from the Repuglicrats. Taking over this corrupt pile of steaming excrement isn’t worth it. They party needs to die, and the best way to do that is elect Trumpdick. By electing that festering sore we will closer to killing the GOP forever.
To bad there isn’t a like button for your comment.
“Their hope is that it would be the end of Ted Cruz, and the end of this fanciful notion that the Republican Party somehow isn’t conservative enough.”
Maybe they won’t read it all but, maybe they will read the last line if I quote it.
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