Posted on 04/12/2016 9:18:29 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Lord thought Cruz’s fatal flaw in the general election would be his inability to carry the Northeastern states, a feat Trump might be able to accomplish.
Recalling that Ronald Reagan overcame a 30-point polling deficit to defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 by winning in the Northeast, Lord said, “He carried New York State, he carried my home state of Pennsylvania, he carried Massachusetts, for heaven’s sakes. I’m not sure that Ted Cruz has that ability to do this, and this ‘New York values’ business, I don’t think helped him. I do think that Donald Trump does have that ability.”
For that reason, Lord advised Trump and Cruz to think about joining forces. “I think that there should be a Trump-Cruz alliance. I’ve suggested that Ted Cruz should be his Vice President.”
Lord said he was “amused” at the argument Trump was too cozy with Democrats like Hillary Clinton before he entered Republican presidential politics, because the same was once said of Reagan, before the conventional wisdom of the day re-framed him as a right-wing extremist.
Referring to a YouTube audio clip from 1948 that has Reagan endorsing Harry Truman for President and Hubert Humphrey for Senator from Minnesota, Lord noted that the “Harry Truman values” Reagan endorsed included single-payer health care.
“He himself later described himself as a ‘hemophiliac liberal,’ and he was,” Lord said of Reagan with a laugh. “People evolve.
Lord said Trump was making an effort to catch up in the delegate game, where Ted Cruz has been doing a much better job of wooing uncommitted delegates and getting supporters into key positions. He cited a report from Matt Boyle of Breitbart News on some smart moves by Trump’s new convention manager, Paul Manafort, who “took a page out of the Reagan playbook from 1980” in Michigan.
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Well, Duh.
But will their respective egos allow for such logic?
Or President Cruz with Trump as a Secretary of State to renegotiate all these bad trade deals we have.
Who is Jeffrey Lord? Besides a clueless asshat?
If Cruz is Trump’s VP. He will permanently lose my support.
To me, Cruz is damaged goods.
I would prefer an actual Conservative as a Trump running mate, a Governor perhaps.
This reminds me of 1980, when both Reagan and G.H.W. Bush fought each other and they both ended up being becoming President and Vice President.
Lyin Trump pretty much burnt that bridge.
(unless Trump already has someone lined up which is possible).
Either way we need a combined ticket
That said, if Trump gets more popular votes and delegates, it make a lot more sense for a Trump/Cruz 2016 ticket, with Cruz 2020.
A Trump/Cruz (or, less likely, Cruz/Trump) ticket is what I hoped for early in the campaign. Unfortunately, the breach is probably too wide to heal at this point.
“Jeffrey “Jeff” Lord is a former member of the Ronald Reagan administration, a former White House associate political director 1987–1988, journalist, author, and political strategist in Pennsylvania”
We don’t need no stinking GHWB this time! Keep the Establishment out of the Trump Administration!
John Mcafee for Vice President! He understands about cyber-warfare, and he is really good at getting away from governments who try to frame him for murder. ;-)
Jeffery Lord is a liberal, GOPe insider, globalist piece of dirt bag!
“This reminds me of 1980, when both Reagan and G.H.W. Bush fought each other and they both ended up being becoming President and Vice President.”
The same with John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
Who can deliver a state we need that is really conservative?
I will never support Ted Cruz for ANY public office.
Cruz is damaged goods, and will NEVER get any sentient
beings supports. He is a blackmailer, liar, false accuser,
serial cheater, frankly stupid, oily, and an impetuous
globalist who HELPED ObamaTRADE because, like him,
it help SECRETS and was for Goldman Sachs.
But Cruz as VP would make Mitch McConnell's worst nightmare come true as Cruz would become President of the Senate.
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