No, Trump can't win

The Washington Examiner ^ | April 11, 2016 | Timothy P. Carney

[wardaddy]

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3418598/posts?page=62#62
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Cruz has lost it fair and square and should step aside for the sake of the country.
If his continued efforts at thievery split and destroy the party,
we’ll be saddled by Hillary or burned by Bernie.
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62 posted on 4/7/2016, 8:03:29 PM by Jim Robinson
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/3419800/posts?page=51#51
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Cruz lost the primary vote and is now aiding and abetting the enemy (the GOPe)
in their treasonous attempt to deny the nomination to the winner.
Cruz is a sore loser turned traitor against the grassroots voters.
And the foolish neophyte thinks the GOPe is going to let him have a shot at the presidency
if he helps them block Trump?
Laughable if it wasn’t so serious.
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51 posted on 4/11/2016, 4:58:07 PM by Jim Robinson
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[nopardons]

I've see both of those posts by JR and he is correct.

Shamelessly, the Cruz supporters here have just doubled down on the insults, impugnations, lies, and vile posts, ignoring what JR has posted.

[nopardons]

He has many BILLIONAIRE friends who would LOVE to donate to him and no, they wouldn't "own" him!

OTOH, should he be the GOP nominee, they can't withhold money from him. To do THAT would raise a worse firestorm than they are now under.

[wardaddy]

That can be fixed eventually

I just look forward to Cruz ratcheting up the war with Matt Drudge

Not smart for a Princeton Man

[Dstorm]

$2700 per individual is the max those billionaires can donate. If Trump has sworn off PAC’s and bundlers, Individual contributions is his only option unless he takes the federal funding. As for the National and State parties they can give maybe max 1 million. More than 9 million a day from small donors, it certainly will require more organization that he has displayed so far.

[nopardons]

Cruz is NOT "smart" at all; he's only really good at memorization. He can't think on his feet at all, has NO common sense, and I don't understand why people still believe the canard that he is "SO BRILLIANT".

DRUDGE has always been VERY good at hunting down the truth about people and I can't wait for him to strike back. :-)

[nopardons]

So you’re really rooting for Hillary, or is it Bernie ?

[Dstorm]

I seriously don’t think that a man who can successfully argue a case before the Supreme Court of the United States can be described as being unable to think on his feet. Also Alan Dershowitz described him as a brilliant student, hardly a canard.

[nopardons]

You don't understand how lawyeres work then. It's all just memorization! You talk about your case and prepare for the questions that the SCOTUS and the opposition lawyer is going to ask/throw out at you. Ted does that well; thinking on his feet he stinks at!

Trump called the MUSLIM TERRORIST Belgium disaster long before it happened. Ditto re what would happen in Iraq, with Obama in charge.

Cruz has NO understanding of finances, diplomacy, and much more.

Sure Dersh called ted a "brilliant student"; that doesn't mean that Cruz is "BRILLIANT" about everything, or even some things.

[Dstorm]

Guess you didn’t read my tag line, but I decided that if Trump wins the nomination I will vote for him, never the Wicked Witch. But as a voter that likes to be informed, I want to know how Trump will raise 9 million a day without taking any money with strings.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Larry MacDonald wasn’t good?

[fr_freak]

I want an ideological conservative with a plan to shrink the size and role of government in my life. I don't know if that's Cruz, but I know it ain't Trump.+

I have no idea what Trump would truly do in office, but I suspect it would go like this: Trump probably doesn't have strong ideological positions. That's why he seems to bend so much. But he does seem to have some pretty pro-American goals - to guard its safety, to help it prosper, and to make it respected. He will then take whatever actions necessary to promote these goals.

For example, he might just get that wall built, but it won't be because he just believes its wrong for illegals to break our laws, but because he sees the effect on our safety and security having carteleros and various jihadists flowing across the border at will has. So he'll do the job, not for ideological reasons, but for pragmatic ones. He sees the cause and negative effect, and deals with the cause. Same with the economy. Trump might not be a small-government conservative, but he might see the negative effect that overbearing regulation has, or that "free trade" has, and decide that a lot of the government interference is causing problems with the economy, and thus he removes the interference and the government also, coincidentally, gets smaller.

The point is that Trump may not be an ideological conservative, but his pro-American stance will cause actions that will absolutely overlap what an ideologically conservative president would do. In such a case, everyone is happy (except lefties, but screw them). I don't see the other politicians achieving as much as what we would want, because if ideology is the ONLY thing that motivates you, you'll probably fail or even cave more often. But if you are implementing policies because it is the only logical, rational thing to do to achieve your specific goals, you'll get it done because it will never occur to you not to do it

[Dstorm]

It’s not what you know, it’s how you use what you know, do you really think that preparing an argument before the Supreme Court just memorizing words in a book?

[Lakeshark]

No, it's not just memorizing.

But the skills to argue something at the Supreme Court are not necessarily the skills needed as an executive, particularly the Chief Executive of the US.

We need someone who knows how to get things accomplished, to succeed, not necessarily just be a debate champion.

[nopardons]

It's just looking up past cases, presidences, memorizing, and doing a sell job in court. I am not a lawyer, but know many of them, in different fields.

Though far too many presidents have been lawyers, it's not a prerequisite for that job and doesn't really help doing it well, as evidenced by the current resident of the White House.

Cruz has NO knowledge nor understanding of finance and business, doesn't know any foreign heads of state, the BIG GUNS in other nations, nothing about the military and past American military history, and like Obama, doesn't know America's big movers and shakers outside of his big donors, who own him!

His judgement of people stinks on ice and neither does he know, understand, nor care about the American populace.

And now the GOPE own him so it's their people, he owes and owes BIG TIME!

And last but most assuredly not least....he can't get to the 1237 needed delegates and he can't beat Hillary nor even that shlubby Commie Bernie!

[napscoordinator]

He lack political skill. Good! Politicians have “f’ed” up this country for 200 years. Enough!

[CottonBall]

I’d love to join you!

[dp0622]

I’d love the company :)

Go Trump!!

[Katya]

this actually makes sense now... thanks for posting. It also explains why the exit polling showed republicans answering the question by an overwhelming margin that whoever wins the delegate math should get the nomination. Dems switched an voted for Kasich in Ohio as well, this is normal for elections... Rush promoted doing the same thing for Hillary.

[raptor22]

TRUMP NEEDS TO ENROLL IN “DELEGATES 101”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3420543/posts