Posted on 04/25/2016 2:30:18 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Rush Limbaugh today on his radio show looks ahead to what happens if Ted Cruz actually succeeds with his plan to wrestle the nomination away from Donald Trump on the 2nd or 3rd ballot of a contested Republican Convention. Rush said it will be like a “nuclear explosion” going off, and that “it will be the end of the Republican Party.” . . . .
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“Trump basically just put his conservative training wheels on six months ago.”
Trump has been advocating for all of his major policy positions for over twenty years.
You’d know that, if you’d done even ten minutes worth of due diligence on the man since the race began.
Exactly right. We do not have that one issue.
We do a couple of issues like immigration and the Islamic threat, but it is not geographically divided as it was then.
And that's what the egotistical luzer SOB is going to deliver to his GOPe puppetmasters.
Ted Cruz is no conservative.
He and his wife support the Amero over the dollar.
Cruz is a Global Socialist, just like Euro disaster.
I would say the “one” issue would be protectionism, or the lack there of. I think almost the entire country is tired of factory closings and offshoring. We are weary.
Trump is definitely a Nationalist which explains why Europe finds him so distasteful... as well as the DC elite...
An old school conservative would not push LGBT rights, hedge on abortion, accept same sex marriage as well as many social issues outside the norms...
That makes him a pragmatic conservative...
With all due respect, a Cruz nomination would cause
a top down slaughter of GOP candidates, not just a loss
of the Presidential race.
Does the GOP really want to get slaughtered over Cruz?
Silliness
Cruz is a Global Socialist, just like Euro disaster.
I look forward to the day you guys have actual evidence he is...
I think it's going to be a long wait...
If it keeps Trump or a Conservative from getting the nomination, or if they believe that it would destroy the Conservative movement, I would be willing to go way out on a limb and say, yes they do.
>>Anything other than letting the people decide the candidate is signing the death warrant for the GOP.
>++++
>The GOP candidate chosen by a popular vote of Republicans lost the popular vote in the General Election in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008 and 2012. The “people” have not had a good run.
Well, all those candidates were crafted and promoted by GOPe. The GOPe *hates* Trump. He came out of left field and doesn’t owe anyone anything. This is why the people have flocked to him. I think this is the first real people’s choice since Reagan, IMHO.
Trump may have held some of these conservative positions...
"Advocating" for them is probably a far too strong of a word, after all he gave millions of dollars to democrat politicians who are diametrically opposed to his positions...
The only policy Trump cared about twenty years ago was "Trump"...not knocking him for it...but that's what it was..
I love how you guys build up this facade of who Trump is/was to justify your support to people who don't support him...
“If Cruz gets the nomination on 2nd, 3rd (or whatever) ballot, then everyone here will not unify behind him?”
If Cruz ‘won’ the nomination on a second or third ballot, and every single Freeper voted for him in the general, he’d still lose in a landslide defeat.
The reason is that Cruz does not have the popular support of the Republican electorate, as Trump clearly does. You can make a case for ‘unity’, but Republican voters have held their noses and voted for ‘unity’ time and time again, only to be used, abused, lied to, and betrayed by those they trusted to uphold their promises.
This time, the electorate is so angry, they’re ready to put their trust and hope in someone who has a demonstrated track record of success and executive abilities. Someone who is saying the same things they say at their kitchen tables. Someone who has nothing to gain except the restoration of his nation’s greatness.
Take that away from them, only to install an establishment puppet, and the backlash will be instant - no matter what we Freepers say or do.
“I am not sure that we have a single, divisive issue like slavery today.”
We do. It’s immigration - legal and illegal.
Our country is being invaded and slowly colonized. It’s probably the greatest existential threat we’ve ever faced, yet the politicians have done nothing to stop it.
I think the country is every bit as divided over this issue, as it was over slavery in the 1800s.
This will be interesting. Rush is enemy #1 according to many here on FR that support Trump.
Would Trump win a second ballot? I doubt it. Curious if other Freepers think so.
I don’t know how it would turn out.
Sort of uncharted territory.
“Trump may have held some of these conservative positions...
“Advocating” for them is probably a far too strong of a word...”
There’s no “may” about it. Trump has written books, advocating the same policy positions he holds now. There are twenty - even thirty year old videos of him discussing these very ideas in television interviews.
The point is, he’s not the Johnny-come-lately to pro-American, conservative ideals that some make him out to be.
I’m done with this after first ballot.
Whatever happens after that doesn’t exist to me.
You’re on your own if that’s the road you want to travel.
And then what’s he going to do somehow, magically? He’s going to seize the nomination from Donald Trump, displacing the party’s clear frontrunner.
Then what?
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After cutting the voters out in the primary process, Cruz will demand a rule change so that he can fill out Republican voter ballots in the general election thus bypassing the voter in the general as well.
Cruz would view this as totally reasonable and acceptable.
That would be the next step and answering your question of “Then what?”
And in his rally yesterday he complimented his supporters by saying we are the most loyal people he has ever seen in an election in history, and we are...
We will stand in front of him, to the sides of him and in back of him, to get to Trump, you go though us first, good luck on that one!!!
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