Posted on 04/03/2016 4:11:35 PM PDT by Steelfish
Trump Tries the Art of Intimidation
by JOHN FUND April 3, 2016
Seven months ago, after he signed a pledge to support whoever won the GOP nomination, Donald Trump said, “I see no circumstances under which I would tear up that pledge.” That was then. Today we see a different Trump. On Sunday, he told Chris Wallace of Fox News that while he wanted “to run as a Republican,” he wouldn’t rule out an independent or third-party race this fall. “We’re going to have to see how I was treated,” he warned. GOP leaders should have known better than to have taken his pledge seriously.
As the Associated Press pointed out in September 2015, his record on honoring contracts is at best spotty: When lender Boston Safe Deposit & Trust refused to extend the mortgage on his Palm Beach resort, Mar-a-Lago, he ceased making loan payments until the bank capitulated in 1992. In his book The Art of the Comeback, Trump proudly recounts forcing his unpaid lenders to choose between fighting him in bankruptcy court or cutting him an additional $65 million check. Afraid of losing their jobs, the bankers folded, Trump says. (snip)
As Donald Trump piles up more rookie campaign mistakes and his momentum stalls, he is clearly developing a Plan B for the Cleveland convention. Call it “The Art of Intimidation.”
Republican leaders shouldn’t twist convention rules in Cleveland to block Trump’s nomination. Nor should they disrespect his voters. But they also should call out the veiled threats from Team Trump for what they are: a form of political blackmail. And no party seeking a mandate to govern should surrender to such lowball tactics
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
So, since Trump has made threats about what he will do if GOPe steals the nomination and gives it to one of Rove's "fresh faces" they should go ahead and do it because not to do it at this point would constitute surrendering to politicaL blackmail.
But it is not blackmail if Trump tries to obtain something to which he is actually entitled, i.e. the nomination by virtue of having a substantial plurality of the delegates when the so-called "fresh face" has few or maybe none since he didn't bother running.
Where ya walking to with your Walking It Back Kid?
Third Party? That will prove somewhat difficult considering he will not be able to get on any State’s ballot once that State has had their Primary with his name on their State Primary ballot (its the law, look it up). Let’s see, that leave him on 20 out of 50 States as a Third party on the November ballot. Even if he was a landslide in 20 States, he’s DONEald.
Write In you say? Go for it! That won’t get 2%, mainly because Trumpbots won’t go to the trouble and most ain’t smart enough to spell his name.
Trump also does not have liquid assets enough to run his campaign in the General. With all the bridges he’s burned to date, who in their right mind would bankroll such an ass?
It was great fun for wildeyed Trumpbots while it lasted, but he’s DONEald.
Empty threats. Look around who’s acting scared?
Did you read the article? DT can still win the election...
But many Republicans worry that Trump could still play “spoiler” by merely threatening to run an independent campaign. “Sore loser laws don’t hold up well in court,” says Richard Winger, the editor of Ballot Access News. “They also aren’t easily enforced. John Anderson ran as an independent in all 50 states in 1980 after ending his Republican campaign, and not one of the sore-loser laws was enforced against him.” Even if they were enforced, Trump could easily evade them. Winger says it would be easy to put Donald Trump Jr., the real-estate mogul’s son, on state ballots and make it known that if the Trump ticket won a state, its pro-Trump electors would in reality be voting for the elder Trump.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433594/donald-trump-wont-rule-out-third-party-bid
Your reading comprehension problem surfaces again. You did not say who you were voting for. That is not the same as voting against, but I bet you can figure that out, with a little time and effort. Bye.
It’s low-information, not uneducated, and means you and I may not understand the devil in the details.
If you want to know what it means by example, listen to Cruz explain his view of ethanol to a farmer...
Scroll down (if you don’t want to read) to the video under the heading: FAKE: Ted Cruz is not electable
http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/02/watch-debunking-anti-cruz-myths-video/
2. A great many of us have educational achievements far greater than your own ‘fish.
We all know what great fun Trumpbots have ignoring factual evidence and making up shite on the fly to suit your fantasy. Just how is it you have any notion as to Steelfish’s education?
He’s been running out of PT Barnum’s playbook.
Please, Trumpanzees!
"Just how is it you have any notion as to Steelfish’s education?
I've interacted with Steelfish on the Religion Forum for a couple years now. I've also tried to warn him each time he beaches himself in shallow waters or repeats himself like Rainman. It's become a full-time job.
Actually his Big Advisor, Newt, said the very same thing.
Quoting Newt, “If Trump doesn’t wise up and quit the playground bully stuff he is going to find himself further and further behind”
Your reading comprehension is failing you. I am not voting for a dem.
Now, through the years, I have voted against more people than I have voted for.
To keep my sanity I parse these things. I did not vote for either McCain or Romney. I voted against Obama.
Can I quote you on Trump running on the Democrat Ticket?
You were not the first to suspect such, but probably the first to admit it.
I say that when its clear that Trump will not get to 1237, he will drop out. His ego will not allow him to come in second.
The only entitlement Trump will have is IF he gets 1237 delegates before the Convention, anything less is same as zero.
As a blog which I used to read with regularity, I must say that Free Republic has become no better than any of the many other anti-Trump Cruzer-monopolized websites bashing Trump 24/7 in a mind-numbing lockstep march to political catastrophe by aiding and abetting the RINO-driven GOPe destruction of what’s left of the late lamented USofA through the back-stage chicanery and treachery of election stealing and vote-rigging for their Manchurian candidate Rafael Cruz, the Canadian, who is the object of the slobbery, wet butt kissing and anus-clenching fetishistic affection of the Cruzers who post on this website ongoingly and unendingly, day after day, with their depressing asininity on full display.
Religion Forum, you say?
Guessing being a faithful Christian is a “set asidable” like conservatism for Trump supporters.
You seriously need to reread what you write.
DR. PotCallingTheKettleBlack, so glad you could enlighten us with your presence, although your trumpian thoughts are so 3rd grade. Go punch some liberal SOB in the face like a good little Trumpbot, or go home. I mean Go 3rd Party!
So you, the establishment, will win and continue to sell out America. First thing on that agenda will be TPP, I assume you know about that nightmare, and it will kill our sovereignty and trade.
But whether I write in or stay home I will never again vote for the establishment and my own demise, thank you very much. And that includes Cruz.
Let it be clear. Yes, I have encountered aMorePerfectUnion on a religious forum and his posts are just as shallow as they are here.
He has no clue what my educational background is. It will blow his mind if I should reveal it. And if I do, I don’t want to sounds if its a vain boast.
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