Posted on 03/26/2016 1:58:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I find it interesting the last two times this was done, the party doing it lost the general election.. I guess republicans want to lose in 2016. They aren’t called the stupid party for nothing.
If any of the candidates win fairly, I will be supporting that candidate. If they republican party doesn’t reflect the will of those that have voted, I will not be supporting them.
The republican party better realize they better not pull another Mississippi on us.
Cruz is playing with fire now.
He is running this contest to try to force a run-off, but if he does that, he himself won’t be picked as the candidate, the candidate will be a failed “mainstream” guy.
It is time for Cruz and Trump to get back together, and wrap this race up. Trump is winning. He needs to be supported against Hillary now, Cruz needs to support Trump, stand down, and then run again next time.
In the meantime, get Cruz a good job with the new administration.
For sure.
Very good article. Thanks for posting it.
I love when people sign up here and are instantly political experts and insiders. Way back when, new sign ups walked small and felt their way around the place before assuming they were on par with people who had been here years or even decades. Or are you an operative in real life?
Keep threatening me. It makes me laugh. If I’m ever banned here, it won’t have anything to do with “JoSixChip” and your compadres, I assure you.
Dude.
I am Cringing Negativism Network. I have been a FReeper since 2005. I am using this handle, while I am currently on sabbatical in Asia.
We in fact were in pretty close contact, while I was using my previous handle.
:D
You’re supporting a guy, who is being used by the establishment to go after Trump, who in my opinion is exactly who we need to have running this time.
Time for Cruz to stand down. You have supported him strongly this time, but he himself won’t win this race. We’ll end up with an establishment stand-in.
Stand down.
>>> I find it interesting the last two times this was done, the party doing it lost the general election..
More than 2 times. Brokered conventions have only happened 6 (or is it 8) times in American history, I read. In all cases but one, that party lost. The one time it won was when the other party also had a brokered convention the same year (thus, one of them had to win).
It would be interesting to know if the leading plurality vote getter was ever nominated by his party or if they always chose a safe loser instead.
Therefore, it seems that a brokered convention is a nuclear option for a party to give up hopes for the presidency and opt for the insiders retaining power. It makes me really despise especially Romney, but Cruz and Kasich are clearly doing the establishment’s bidding, and have lost any prior respect I may have had.
If Trump ends up just shy of the magic number, and the party screws him, I will cease being a lifelong Republican at that point.
With 2000 Trump and Cruz delegates, where would the mainstream guy get votes?
The idea of double-agent delegates happens every convention, and might work if 100 or 200 sleepers were needed, but the probable delegate breakdown would require 600 or 700 delegate flips from Trump/Cruz to new candidate X.
If you truly are CNN, you’ll remember that I’ve been FReepmailing you Trump articles since before he declared his candidacy, so I’m not anti-Trump like so many of his slavish followers think I am. Having said that, I don’t think we should coronate anybody until they’ve at least reached 1,237.
I was curious where you went. Nice to hear from you.
It will be the Trump convention. They take it away and either the Gope goes third party or Trump does....It won't matter. Trump wins big.
SUCK ON IT you stoopid CRUZHOLES and Gope anal remoras.
If those sites were verboten they’d be fixed so you couldn’t post them here, like VDare is. And I’ve never posted anything from Democratic Underground, and you know I haven’t. And speaking of Red State, how about that crap site Conservative Treehouse that the Trumpets love so much? What a POS!
I fully recognize and admit Cruz (and you frankly also) have been formidable opponents this time.
:D
While we ended up with opposing candidates this time around, I fully commend your advocating strongly, and ceaselessly for your guy. I really do.
But Trump is winning now. It is time for you to stand down, throw your support to Trump, we can work out a good position for your guy go-forward, and the establishment will lose.
That is what we both want.
You have run an admirable campaign, but Trump is winning. If your guy manages to mess that up, then someone else will end up the candidate - probably someone like Romney and we will all be royally PO’ed.
Stand down.
There’s that “civility” that Jim was asking for...
Thanks.
I am using unsecured logins, while away, so I decided to just run with a completely new handle at the moment.
Sorry for any confusion this caused.
Are you implying that I have a say in what the Cruz campaign does or doesn’t do? Dude, I’m a disabled veteran shut-in in a mobile home. LOL
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