Posted on 03/18/2016 6:35:33 AM PDT by MNDude
Gee, Larry, it would be GREAT to have a contested convention.
Just like Kasich said, it would be exciting, and little kiddies all over the whoo-wide-world would see democracy in action.
The GOP tells the lion to bow before the fox. What will the lion do?
Exciting, thrilling, like a nature scene in politics.
[53%] Trump breaks 50% in national support for the first time [Cruz 22, Kasich 11, Rubio 10]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3409079/posts
Even if Trump only picks up 3% each from Kasich and Rubio, that puts him at 59%.
Cruz, with 22% approval, wins a contested convention. Such fun! So exciting!
Your point is exactly why I wonder if a contested convention will destroy party unity faster than a brokered one ...
‘After the GOP establishment works so hard to get a brokered convention to deny him the nomination, Trump will make deals with individual delegates and get the nomination anyway’.
Ugly, ugly, ugly.
So it's unlikely that Trump will miss the ‘magic’ number.
But if he does, and if delegates choose to get in the way of party unity, the GOP would be completely at Trump's mercy.
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Option 1 — would Trump endorse Cruz?
If he did, Cruz might stand a chance. There would be a drop in turnout and an utter collapse in energy, but it might work.
After all, Trump had softened up Hillary for him during the primary.
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Option 2
Trump could support his son or wife or truted friend to run as an independent.
Helps to avoid the ‘sore loser’ laws.
But how many republicans remain ‘party faithful’? A wild guess, I would say maybe 10% of Trumpsters stick with the party. Now Trump is only 43% but Cruz would not be 57% because some people would stay home out of protest.
There is no telling how many would switch over to the independent bid, even if some states end up ‘write-ins’.
So both would control roughly half of what remains of the GOP.
A perfect split is possible.
President Hillary Rodham Clinton.
There's no way Cruz would win that way, but it is possible that Trump's proxy could.
By next Tuesday night he will either be in victory celebration or will begin to see that hill just grew into a mountain.
I'm hoping for the mountain scenario and it looks like that is going to be the case.
He can always look back on Cruz fondly and start planning for 4 years from now.
You seem obsessed and nervous with your multiple defensive posts.
I’m off to Assembly to establish my credentials as a committed Cruz Delegate.
bye bye!
I need to keep reminding myself that Cruz supporters are patriots. Upstanding people.
You guys rock!
You are not Cruz. Its just that his finest qualities represent you.
FRegards ....
Very well, and Trump should quietly line up an independent to be on the ballot, a proxy who could make Trump his/her chief advisor.
Just a little leverage he can bring to the convention.
Bye-bye.
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Ted Cruz thanks Mitt Romney for his endorsement
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3410949/posts
Ted Cruz is in the race to win. An endorsement, even from Romney is not a flaw (although, being Romney, it is certainly too late to matter).
Based on what we have seen of Ted in office and in front of the Supreme Court, he remains true to his beliefs once in office. I do not see a Romney endorsement as a corrupting influence on Cruz, nor will Romney learn from exposure to a true conservative. It is just Romney tolerating Cruz while knowing that Cruz will not change, and only endorsing Cruz because at least the conservative senator is a known quantity.
‘Based on what we have seen of Ted in office and in front of the Supreme Court, he remains true to his beliefs once in office.’
If Ted can unite the base, I’d back him too.
‘I do not see a Romney endorsement as a corrupting influence on Cruz ...’
Wanting power too much is what corruption is all about. He’s confusing the base.
That's a new one.
If the GOP vote is split, either because Trump goes TR or because Trump is the nominee and some fool like Perry goes TR, Hillary wins a landslide in the electoral college, period.
By setting up an independent challenge contingency, Trump could have leverage in case delegates favor a less popular candidate who fails to rally the base.
Leverage. A doomsday option. If the GOP-e uses the nuclear option, Trump can too.
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