What was the middle thing?
Posted on 03/09/2016 7:34:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
That's the message David French has for the GOP establishment:
Here's what the math says: John Kasich and Marco Rubio, you have no hope of becoming the GOP nominee. Even if you win your home states, the only thing that will do is maintain the four-person dynamic under which Trump thrives. Even if you are fortunate enough to work cooperatively to deny Trump an absolute majority of delegates, do either of you -- in your right mind -- believe that a convention dominated by Trump and Cruz delegates is going to unite behind you? They'd sooner riot (and I'm only partially joking).
We've given the multi-candidate "blind ambition tour" exactly 23 states and one territory to work, and here's the score: Trump 15, Cruz 7, Rubio 2, and Kasich . . . zero. I think that's a sufficient sample size. Let's try something else...
...Let's try uniting around the person who's beaten Trump more than anyone else -- a person who happens to be a constitutional conservative, who would replace Justice Scalia with a judicial superstar, who is unquestionably pro-life, who is unyielding in his defense of religious liberty, and who actually understands the dynamics of the global economy, trade policy, and national security.
...Is it more likely that Trump loses two-man races in the winner-take-all states with Rubio and Kasich united behind Cruz? Or is it more likely that Trump keeps winning a four-man race with his solid, unyielding 35 percent?
...I have a feeling, however, that this appeal will fall on deaf ears -- and not just deaf candidate ears. The party elders and donors who traditionally intervene to talk sense into failed candidates are also sitting on the sidelines, paralyzed perhaps by their hatred of Ted Cruz...
...After 24 contests, the pattern is emerging. Cruz battles Trump for first, while Rubio and Kasich tend to battle each other for last. This is true in the South, the West, the Northeast, and the Midwest. Can conservatives finally get serious? Can we finally unify, now, before Trump starts sweeping winner-take-all states with 35 percent of the vote? If not, then a foolish GOP will richly deserve its fate. I'd like to remind readers that Scott McKay predicted this very scenario in August of 2015. His American Spectator article -- entitled "Could Ted Cruz End Up as the Establishment Candidate?" -- assessed poll data, fundraising ability, and organizational structure and arrived at that conclusion.
We could see a situation where Trump is ahead on the strength of his performance in the early states and still leads in the polls, though he might have commenced fading in the face of the various challenges befalling a presidential candidate and the terror gripping the party of having to nominate a bull-in-a-China-shop like the real estate magnate has not subsided. But while the establishment might believe Trump is beatable, they could be without candidates to beat him.
And at that juncture, the unthinkable might become inevitable; namely, that the RINO/Chamber of Commerce GOP establishment might well see Ted Cruz as their only hope to stop Donald Trump from getting the Republican nomination.
McKay predicted that the GOPe would end up begging Cruz to save them from Trump.
We'll see how much sway the doddering, incompetent, open borders losers at the RNC have over the remaining two vanity candidates. They should be begging Rubio and Kasich to drop out immediately.
But, given the RNC's wondrous track record this cycle, I wouldn't count on anything sensible happening.
Die soon.
It is to when Cruz needs 55 million at least. Keep dreaming.
“fodder for a conspiracy theories”?. This is a direct connection.
smells pretty bad
Where can Cruz win outside the usual ‘red’ states?
Ohio? Florida? I just don’t see it. His preacher shtick will not work in the general.
Yup!
The craziness is in full tilt tonight.
Ted walks on water now. He better be careful hooking up with the Bush group, he might sink.
Exactly! Let them die!
He is earning it. Perhaps Ted could too by actually winning voters over that aren’t interested in him.
RCP polls .
FL: Hillary 46.8 Cruz 41,8
PA: Hillary 46 Cruz 40
Trump is tied with Hillary in PA and slightly ahead in FL.
If you don’t win FL and PA, you lose.
I noticed a very visible Glenn Beck, knife weilding stabber and Cruz annointer, must have been sent to his room to quiet down lately.
What was the middle thing?
“Where can Cruz win outside the usual ‘red’ states?”
No where. In fact he’ll have trouble winning the must win Swing States, FL, PA, OH he’s behind Hillary in all 3 now.
If the polls are right. He doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning.
“Ohio? Florida? I just don’t see it. His preacher shtick will not work in the general.”
He’s has zero chance of taking a blue state from Hitlery, Trump could very well take Michigan.
That’s not what the polls say. Cruz beats Hillary, Kasich beats Hillary, even Rubio beats Hillary. You know who doesn’t? Donald Trump.
and would be more than proud to actually cast the one vote for him. As to Sen Ted - there are doubts which have been planted in the mind and are hard to weed out. Not as highly thought of, but he would be the one to receive this vote if it became the necessity. BTW, this perception could be changed given the right answers to the questions which linger. Would love to actually vote FOR a candidate this time rather than cast a vote simply AGAINST a more despicable candidate. The decisions made by the GOPe, being out of these hands, will be judged. As will Sen Cruz when the time comes. Go!! TRiUMPh
Take it to the limit and leave no stone unturned.
Every time one of these people and organizations, that are vehemently opposed to Donald Trump, open their mouths in derision and run their millions upon millions of dollars in never-ending, lying, negative ads; All they do is serve to remind us who the REAL enemies are, while solidifying and enlarging DT's ever-expanding base of support of AMERICAN CITIZENS who LOVE America and detest what each and everyone of these people and organizations have purposely done to destroy America from within and without, while habitually lining there own pockets to the tune of untold BILLIONS F DOLLARS at our expense!
Every time they attack TRUMP, his "wall of support" which is made up of AMERICAN "DREAMERS" (as opposed to law breaking, illegal alien, "dreamer" theives) who want to "Make AMERICA Great Again" grows another 50 feet higher, 50 feet wider and 50 feet deeper!
I wonder why Cruz won’t disavow this endorsement from this nutcase.
He should, because Trump would be made to if this weirdo endorsed him.
I wonder why Cruz won’t disavow this endorsement from this nutcase.
He should, because Trump would be made to if this weirdo endorsed him.
Good point, and Cruz is still hanging out with Stabber Beck...Sheesh.
Yet, some Cruz supporters have their panties in a twist because of a bogus David Duke “endorsement” that Duke never made....”Hands up Don’t Shoot”
Perhaps popular vote but not electoral which in case you forgot that’s how you win the presidency. Cruz is losing to Hillary in Ohio and Florida. Trump is winning those against her.
TRUE, TRUE, TRUE!!!
Thanks.
LOLOLOL,I love it.Trump lives rent free in all their heads.
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