Posted on 03/18/2016 12:10:37 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Hugh was reading from his own CNN op-ed, "Get ready for an open Republican convention." The gist of his argument is that Trump will probably not make the 1,237 delegates necessary to win the nomination outright. Then, at the convention, after the first ballot when Trump's delegates must vote for him, they will start to hemorrhage for other candidates, mainly Cruz, who, via his vaunted ground game, has implanted the state delegations with representatives secretly sympathetic to the Texas senator. Hugh calls them Cruz's "double agents."
Hewitt (dubbed "NostrHUGHdamus" by a listener) predicts the nomination eventually will fall to a Cruz-Kasich or Kasich-Cruz ticket. Never mind that these two men are an extremely odd couple politically -- Kasich almost a centrist Democrat and Cruz an unremitting conservative. Hugh clearly believes their one-two punch would make a much more successful nominee in the general election than Trump.
Although Hugh claims to be "Switzerland" in the primary process (not this “Switzerland,” I'm assuming, but the supposedly neutral one of lore), with respect -- and I mean that for once -- I think he's dead wrong for two main reasons.
One should be obvious. We can assume that Trump -- even without the full complement of 1,237 delegates -- will arrive at the convention far ahead on that score and four to six million votes above Cruz.
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But now comes my second reason that will astonish, or at least annoy, my establishment friends.
Trump has a vastly greater chance of making inroads with minorities in this increasingly minority country than a boring, white bread tandem like Kasich and Cruz. Yes, Cruz is Cuban-American but his Spanish, as Rubio pointed out, isn't even as native as Jeb Bush's (actually not by a long shot -- Bush speaks excellent Spanish). He's not seen as one of them.
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I get out of work around midnight and Hugh Hewitt is on and he is getting the same thrill up his leg like Chris Matthews did about Obama about a brokered convention.
It’s truly disgusting.
Kasich/Cruz? Hillary sweeps 50.
Cruz / Kasich would shut the election door on the GOP for years to come.
I say that Trump should try for a brokered convention, because he would make it ten times bigger than the Super Bowl. 24/7 coverage for Trump, Free. He’d love it. It’d be like the apprentice but on nuclear steroids, with all these folks fighting each other for the VP spot and Trump saying....YOUR FIRED YOUR FIRED to all the GOPe hopefuls.
And all the protests of the Left Wing Regressives, all those cracked liberal heads, all that negative coverage of the demonrats......49 states for Trump.
Do it and I, and millions like me will vote Hitlery. Piss on the GOP.
I’m guessing Hugh doesn’t want to be put on that conservative blacklist.
We’re going to have to listen to these folks for the 8 years of the Trump presidency. SO be it, at lease we’ll make America great again.
Time to call Jimmy Carter to monitor the Republican primaries and caucuses.
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