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Tonight’s 2 big losers, and no, one is not Ted Cruz! (Vanity)
3 Friends driking Scotch tonight

Posted on 05/03/2016 9:16:33 PM PDT by Strac6

There are two huge losers tonight and neither of them is Ted Cruz. The Cruz campaign was dead in the water after the New York primary, and in his heart, Cruz knew it.

One of the realities of politics is that money is the grease that enables the political engine to go forward. Due to the stunning degree of Cruz’s loss in New York, and especially considering how much better than the poll expectations Trump did, Cruz fundraising was on pause after the New York primary two weeks ago.

As the election embarrassments continued for Cruz during the ACELA primaries, the fundraising stopped, DRT.

When you consider that Cruz was as much as eight points ahead of Trump in Indiana less than three weeks ago, and he suffered a blistering defeat tonight, the Cruz defeat /retreat/surrender was total, but certainly expected.

Simply put, Cruz had run out of ideas, supporters, and money simultaneously.

He will now begin to say very nice things about Donald Trump, with the hope that he can salvage something out of this campaign and not end up as nothing more than the punchline for bad standup comedian’s jokes.

The real losers tonight were Hillary and Kasich.

Hillary’s failure to perform anywhere near her polls is a clear and convincing indication that whatever support she has, beyond the 30% labor/gay/hard left that would support any Democrat even if we had an 8 x 10 Glossy of them shooting Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, is more shallow than the Bay of Fundy at low tide. One of the worst things for Hillary is that Gods are expected not to bleed, and tonight, she leaked all over the State of Indiana.

Tonight she lost her title as the presumptive candidate, and even worse than that, even her best supporters no longer assume even if nominated she would win the General Election.

There is an old “rule” that most candidates who are leading the Democratic presidential primary two years before the election never make it to the “finals.” You only have to look back to the recent Democratic front runners who were NOT nominated such as Clinton in 2008, Ed Muskie, Gary Hart, and so many more. “Scoop” Jackson, the Democratic Senator from Boeing, was so sure that he was a shoo-in in 1968, his wife had done everything but pick out the new White House China.

The bottom line on Hillary now; she is the Democratic “All-Star” who is about to go on the 21 year disabled list, and there is no one on the Democratic bench who has a chance. Unfortunately, there is one exception to that prior sentence and that would be a Biden/Warren ticket.

Despite all his prior protestations, if Clinton gets out, Biden/Warren will be in within 72 hours.

The big loser tonight on the Republican side is not Cruz but Gov. Kasich. Prior to Trump’s overwhelming win and Cruz’s surrender, Kasich was a bit of a kingmaker with his hundred plus delegates. If Donald Trump had been within 80 to 100 delegate votes to get the nomination on the first ballot, Kasich would have been in a position to demand virtually anything he wanted, with the possible exception of the vice presidency. Of course, being a reasonably smart man, Kasich would’ve called for a much more visible and important post then vice president.

After tonight, if Kasich campaign officials were to ask Trump campaign officials what they should do with their hundred plus first ballot votes, Trump officials might tell them to dispose of them in an exceptionally anatomically painful way.

If tonight’s Indiana Republican primary was a Las Vegas high-stakes poker game, at this hour Donald Trump would be in the 26th floor penthouse celebrating his victory with the world’s finest champagne, Cruz would be in his 1993 Chevrolet headed back to Encino, and Gov. Kasich still be sitting at the table with a moderately large pile of totally worthless chips in front of them, wondering what just happened.

Strap on your seatbelts boys and girls; it’s going to be a hell of a next six months!


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016gopprimary; election2016; tedcruz; texas
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To: Snickering Hound

Who is the fat guy in he picture? He looks somewhat familiar. ( /s )


21 posted on 05/03/2016 9:31:27 PM PDT by Strac6 (The primaries are only the semi-finals. ALL THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING HILLARY IN NOVEMBER.)
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To: dila813

A failure to vote for ANY Republican candidate is effectively a vote for Hillary.


22 posted on 05/03/2016 9:32:31 PM PDT by Strac6 (The primaries are only the semi-finals. ALL THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING HILLARY IN NOVEMBER.)
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To: Strac6

He was entitled but got busted by Trump.
By the way, TRUMP is still tweeting.


23 posted on 05/03/2016 9:33:02 PM PDT by jennychase ( Vote Trump Or get Ready for President Hillary)
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To: MUDDOG

He’s already spinning it.


24 posted on 05/03/2016 9:33:26 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: AndyTheBear

“If Hillary got out I am not sure how Warren/biden would get in. But if the Democrat establishment managed it...I think they might have a big problem getting the Bernie babies to turn out in November.”

I agree. The dems can’t replace PIAPS because they don’t want Sanders but if they pass him over they are dead meat.

Lovely, simply lovely


25 posted on 05/03/2016 9:33:31 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Just a tropical gardener chatting with friends)
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To: progunner

Your (and JRs, and my) lips to Gods ears.


26 posted on 05/03/2016 9:33:45 PM PDT by Strac6 (The primaries are only the semi-finals. ALL THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING HILLARY IN NOVEMBER.)
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To: cba123
Maybe. No. I do not want to see Cruz in ANY position within a Trump administration, in any national office whatsoever. I seriously doubt he could win reelection at this point. Nope, nada, never. Good riddance to him. Period.

Tomorrow is Trump's and whatever fresh faces and ideas he brings to Washington.

27 posted on 05/03/2016 9:35:47 PM PDT by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: Strac6

You can’t read?, I am voting Trump, I want him for President for all the trumpets


28 posted on 05/03/2016 9:36:07 PM PDT by dila813 (Go Cruz!)
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To: MrEdd
His problem was a surplus of siding with illegal aliens, communist flag carrying thugs, and Muslim activists when they attacked Trump’s Chicago rally.

That's exactly when the tide turned against him.

29 posted on 05/03/2016 9:37:40 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: cba123
Mr. Trump finds a good position for Mr. Cruz.

Ambassador to Canada?

30 posted on 05/03/2016 9:38:31 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: Strac6

Great post.


31 posted on 05/03/2016 9:39:02 PM PDT by RedWulf (Trump Supporter)
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To: dila813

“Can’t you read”

Actual, after three Chivas’s tonight, not as well as usual.


32 posted on 05/03/2016 9:39:04 PM PDT by Strac6 (The primaries are only the semi-finals. ALL THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING HILLARY IN NOVEMBER.)
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To: Strac6

I’d bet a dollar to a donut that the DemocRATS are all over the FBI right now begging them to indict Clinton.


33 posted on 05/03/2016 9:39:05 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer
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To: FlingWingFlyer

That is a VERY interesting point!!!!


34 posted on 05/03/2016 9:39:49 PM PDT by Strac6 (The primaries are only the semi-finals. ALL THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING HILLARY IN NOVEMBER.)
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To: null and void

New Cuban dictator.


35 posted on 05/03/2016 9:41:16 PM PDT by RedWulf (Trump Supporter)
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To: Strac6
Hillary’s failure to perform anywhere near her polls is a clear and convincing indication that whatever support she has, beyond the 30% labor/gay/hard left that would support any Democrat even if we had an 8 x 10 Glossy of them shooting Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, is more shallow than the Bay of Fundy at low tide. One of the worst things for Hillary is that Gods are expected not to bleed, and tonight, she leaked all over the State of Indiana.

Very few men with normal testosterone levels will vote for Hillary. The only men voting for her will be on the Gov't tit one way or another. Could be via Gov't employment or getting Federal contracts or subsidies such as ethanol farmers and other farmers. Also guys in Obama's federally funded solar power companies and windmill guys. I can see some private sector guys voting for Hillary if they are in unions. I can see some guys voting for Hillary who are in the normal Democrat constituencies such as blacks, Jews, Hispanics, gays and so on. Tranny guys will be voting for Hilary except for Bruce Jenner.

36 posted on 05/03/2016 9:41:42 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: Strac6
Good observations. As Trump said, Cruz has a bright future. But if I were him, I'd lie low for a while and ditch a lot of bad baggage, such as Glenn Beck.

Shrillary Clinton was definitely the big loser tonight. As Trump is being crowned presumptive nominee on the Republican side, Bernie Sanders victory tonight ensures that she is going to continue to have a miserable road to her "coronation."

Yeah, she'll probably get the nomination. But it will be painful. And the Bernie supporters will be none too pleased to see her "super delegates" put her over the top when the "pledged" delegates were so close.

She'll be easy pickings for Trump in the fall. Weak, weak candidate. And many Bernie supporters will vote for Trump. It seems odd that the supporters of a socialist would gravitate to a pure capitalist. But this contest is driven more by anti-establishment than ideology.

Another big loser tonight was Carly Fiorina. What a train wreck of a week for her! She officially replaces Thomas Eagleton as the most cursed VP candidate in history. It was less than a week ago when Cruz introduced her and she sang a nursery rhyme to his children. So cringeworthy. Then she proceeded to fall off a stage, engage in a very creepy "hand-shake" maneuver with Cruz, and then got absolutely blown out in her first primary with him and had to introduce him during his concession speech where he suspended his campaign, awkwardly appearing to refer to him as her "husband."

Now that was a week from hell for Carly. She's probably on her fifth stiff drink as I type this and I don't blame her a bit.

37 posted on 05/03/2016 9:42:26 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: bigbob

Sander’s is hoping an indictment is coming!


38 posted on 05/03/2016 9:42:37 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: atc23

Glenn Beck’s face plant into the Cheetos failed to stop Trump. Instead it made people question Ted Cruz’s sanity for sidling up to such a loon.


39 posted on 05/03/2016 9:45:01 PM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: dennisw

Trump might even get 20 - 25% of the male Black vote.


40 posted on 05/03/2016 9:46:43 PM PDT by Strac6 (The primaries are only the semi-finals. ALL THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING HILLARY IN NOVEMBER.)
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