Reagan has words for the #NeverTrump Purity Choir in the Conservative Media. This idea that if they just keep shouting they will get a 100%er elected to do everything they want is a fools notion.
Reagan:
“A man 75-80% on my side is a valuable friend and ally, not my enemy:
I know this falls on deaf ears with 100%ers but the fact remains, We are a Constitutional Republic that rests on the notion that the people’s Representatives in Government know how to compromise and negotiate.
This feeling that Cruz will ride into DC and dictate the Conservative Media's 100%er terms to everyone else there is simply wishful thinking. What is more probably is Cruz would be a GOP Carter.
Carter was the same sort of religious political puritan who went to DC and assumed he would dictate his political dogmas to everyone there. The record shows how badly that idea failed.
“Conservative” politicians talk a good game and then go to DC and accomplish nothing. After 30 years of fail, it is time to try another solution. The winning candidate is “GASP” going to have to cut DEALS! And some times those deals require..compromise!!!
Another fail point for the “Principled Conservatives” is they think only as far as the election. Then once they win their purity candidates go to DC and fail against the inertia of the DC/Media political machine. 1994-2000-2010-2014 are all example of where this “Next election” mindset has failed.
Trump is merely the 1st wave of a multi wave assault. Cruz might do for a follow up wave, he is not a 1st wave candidate.Without Trump to lead the way, the Cruz boat would of either been ignored because it was irrelevant, or been shelled into oblivion by the 10s of millions of GOPE attack ads.
The 1st wave job in any assault is to shatter the defenses and open the road for the follow up waves. No matter how flawed you think the vessel is, Trump is the best 1st wave political assault team we have had to hand in my lifetime.
We need to use Trump for all he is worth to shatter the corrupt, “my party right or wrong” mindset that grips vast swaths of the electorate. Break that inertia, get the people thinking outside the party label box and real change is possible. Do not an we slide into a stagnate European style decline that will not end in my lifetime. Cruz shares that agenda point but is not as well equipped by background and media following to achieve that break through as Trump
We either win this now or we have little chance of ever doing it again politically. Once we win we must relentlessly stay on the attack election wave after election wave until we are dead.
I am really not willing to leave this fight to my kids and grand-kids. We have let the ship of state drift since Reagan in the hands of the “smart people”. We failed and most redeem that failure.
This is our generation’s “go” time
If Trump goes into a brokered convention with the most delegates and most votes, it would be a travesty to undo the will of the people and put someone else in as the candidate. The Trump supporters will not accept it thus guaranteeing Hillary the victory.
It has become a two man race, Trump and Cruz, which is good for us since they are the two most acceptable candidates for the insurgents who want to take over the GOP. I doubt that a brokered convention run by the GOPe would allow either one of them to get the nomination. They will find a "compromise" candidate who has not gone thru the meat grinder of the campaign.
There is no doubt that the concerted attacks against Trump are going to have an effect in weakening him. And the big money will have an impact in taking him down a notch. Trump will have to pick up his game and invest more of his own money to fight back. He also has to stay on message and avoid making gaffes on immigration and "torture" that he has to take back immediately using twitter. At the interminable debates, it is hard to take back a mistake.
This Tuesday will give us a better picture of how injured Trump is and the size of the Cruz momentum. Hawaii, Idaho, Michigan, and Mississippi will give us an idea of where everything stands. I expect Cruz to win in Hawaii and Idaho and Trump to win in Michigan and Mississippi. Michigan will be the pivotal state testing if Kasich can win or place second and the performance of Cruz in a non-caucus state. I see MI as a clear indicator heading into March 15 winner take all.
Trump has hit some head winds. It will be a test of his strength and resiliency to survive and win. For us political junkies, it is a great time to be alive.