Posted on 02/18/2016 1:51:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
For all the jostling and jockeying taking place in South Carolina ahead of this weekend's Republican primary, little of it will be decisive.
If anything, the outcome Saturday night only stands to muddy an already messy contest to lead a deeply fractured Republican Party. Losers may not be forced to leave the race, and the still-uncertain winner will leave the state with nothing guaranteed.
The growing consensus among many senior Republicans is that there are three likely outcomes facing Republicans. Donald Trump could win enough delegates to be the nominee. Ted Cruz could do the same. Or no candidate emerges from the final primaries on June 7 with the required 1,237 delegates to win when the intra-party convention starts in Cleveland.
That means the remaining candidates with a claim to party establishment backing--Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush--see their chances for winning the nomination before the July convention dwindling. National and early-state polls have shown Trump and Cruz polling with a combined share of more than half of party voters. The also-rans do not have a clear path, barring a sudden collapse in support for Trump or Cruz, to cobble together sufficient support to put up a roadblock to the outsiders' aggressions, even if two of the candidates agreed to drop out to unite behind the third....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Iif they have the delagates there can be no fight, this again those who are too stupid by half.
Not surprised, probably has been the game plan all along.....and many are feeding it here.
As pointed out by many .
It’s not a new revelation, and the party power brokers have never been secretive about it.
Perhaps the brilliant author of this piece will now proceed to explain that your car won’t work if you don’t put gas in it.
Despite Time’s wishful thinking of a floor flight, it’s unlikely:
http://thehill.com/opinion/dick-morris/267117-dick-morris-a-two-way-race-by-march
I dunno, there’s a lot at stake here. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the RNC try and pull this off.
Hope not, I guess we’ll see.
By the time this is over Trump will waltz into the convention with 1274 delegates in his pocket.
If the party bosses blow up the party machine with a convention fight or theft of the nomination ( speaking of either R or D) — it may be a blessing. From the ashes may arise a far better new party — one free of corrupt bosses maybe? We can Dream — we live for hope. We sure won’t lose much
You might be right, time will tell.
Did you happen to see this? Imagine if Trump gets in and busts this wide open...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3398724/posts?page=246#246
Why do people, including Limbaugh, continue to tag Loser Cruz with Donald Trump?
I think everybody would be okay with Cruz, but Trump is not a Republican and doesn’t share about half of the GOP platform. Weakness at the top of the party was the only thing that let Trump get away with this.
If the GOPe had its way the ticket would be either Rubio-Bush or Bush-Rubio. Fortunately, the voters have a say.
Georgia Girl 2 do not get to over confident anything can happen and we REALLY NEED Trump to win!!! I am very nervous about this election also very excited however I just have this gut feeling we are somehow going to be crushed in the end!!!
Nice way to describe the most conservative candidate since at least Ronald Reagan. Are you sure you don’t belong at DailyKos4Trump.com?
Yes, highly unlikely.
The only think Cruz has in common with conservatism is the letter “C”.
Donald Trump announced his candidacy June 16th and since that time he has been leading not only in all the national polls but the state polls as well. Iowa is always an outlier. Other than that polls are actually very accurate especially when you are being shown with a 16-20 pt lead.
Once Trump wins SC and NV I believe he has a yuge lead in MI and the SEC is not going to go for Cruz. I’m in GA and we are all in for Trump. Look for Jeff SEssions to endorse Trump just before the SEC. After that its a snowball effect.
Ted Cruz is appealing to the most conservative wing of the party which is a small minority of voters. He just does not mesh with the average GOP voter. I would not worry overly about this.
The GOPe would put more fight into fighting Trump/Cruz than they have ever put into fighting Obama and his deliberate destruction of America.
Total losers who are dedicated ONLY to their own self-empowerment and wealth.
The establishment will keep funding one establishment candidate, most likely Rubio, to the bitter end. With a 2-man race, there is no way we get to a brokered convention. One guy will have over 50% of the delegates. They need a 3-man race to get us to brokered. They will not expect Rubio to win outright, but will keep him in to keep anyone else from getting enough delegates.
Unlike Planned Parenthood sponsor and Democrat contributor Don Trump?
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