Posted on 03/29/2016 9:04:48 AM PDT by Defiant
In the final installment of our series on what conservatives should do if Donald Trump wins the nomination we look at a final scenario and offer our recommendation on whether conservatives should join Trump or the Republican establishment at the Republican National Convention.
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Conclusion
If conservatives form their own cultural conservative Third Party to oppose Trump in the General election they are certain to elect Hillary Clinton.
If conservatives sit out the election they are certain to elect Hillary Clinton.
Based on the historical evidence, the results to-date in the 2016 primaries and 2016 exit polling if conservatives make a deal at the Republican National Convention to deprive Donald Trump of the nomination they are certain to elect Hillary Clinton.
The only scenario that does not, on its face, result in the election of Hillary Clinton is an alliance at the Republican National Convention between Cruz’s conservative delegates and Trump’s populist delegates who unite to guarantee that the two leading post-primary candidates are nominated as President and Vice President – as they were in 1980.
Right now, the establishment’s goal is to sow as much chaos as possible in the lead-up to the Republican National Convention so that no candidate reaches the magic number of the 1,237 delegates necessary to win the nomination on the first ballot.
We urge Donald Trump and Ted Cruz delegates to be smart about what is happening, keep their eye on the prize, which is defeating Hillary Clinton and dismantling the establishment stranglehold on our country, and to follow the lead of their compatriots in Tennessee by forming an alliance to ensure that the Republican National Convention nominates a conservative – populist ticket.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativehq.com ...
OK, I didn’t detect that.
Conclusion: Should Conservatives Support Trump If He Wins The GOP Nomination?
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What a question. The real question should be WHY? Why does the Repug Party keep getting stuck with NON-conservatives?
Haven’t they learned the “hold your nose and vote” strategy doesn’t work?
the answer is no
hillary and trump are allies against conservatives
Who said...
“Americans don’t go around carrying guns with the idea they’re using them to influence other Americans. There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.”
“Everybody get ready to unload their guns now”
California Governor Ronald Reagan - 1967.
Well, if nothing else, this election will identify the Hirohito Jungle Fighting Dead End Not Too Bright so-called conservatives among us.
And supporting his campaign manager for assaulting a female reporter with video proof, support from another reporter and police charges. Trump has a YUUGE female problem and it is getting worse.
Just so you know:
I heard Tucker Carlson on Hannity say that Republican “insiders” on The Hill are saying that there is no way in hell that Donald Trump will be the nominee. The GOP won’t allow it, no way no how. The voters be damned.
Yes, most of us already do. The FR caucus has his support under 15% here.
el Cubano de Canadian has basically won only Wichita and Texas, that’s all.
Cruz would have had zero chance if it was not for shaming voting/ballots and SECRET counting in very over-representative delegate states that eventually become the lowest electoral college vote states. They are fringe marginal wins compared to the REAL election (w the exception of Texas).
Cruz’s 8 states vote totals is less than the population of WICHITA for crying out loud. He had the worst showing in Texas in 50 years. And if he didn’t have his staff of profiling schemers finding where he may appeal to people, he’d been long gone. And if Ted wasn’t from Texas, he’d be at <5% of the vote and long gone. Texas is huge in both delegates and electors.
There is no reason why an ‘evangelical Christian’ wouldn’t have won The South and Cruz got zilch. Southerners see through his over rehearsed smarmy pious demeanor. And if he can’t win Florida, Ohio, & Virginia plus the South, there’s no path to winning when it counts.
All he can do is cajole, bribe, deceive & coerce his way to Cleveland. Unless he’s planning on some major league cheating (computerized vote reversals) he can not win. And if he’s succeeds in doing this, you can be guaranteed the GOPe will back-stab Cheatin’ Teddy at the 2nd ballot.
Read some of the 57 delegation rules, many delegates are pledged through to the winner to the 2nd or 3rd round. And some delegations can DQ him since he does not ‘qualify’ as an eligible candidate. el Cubano de Canada demonstrates how little he really regards our Constitution by running.
Tricky Teddy = Dirty Teddy = Lyin’ Teddy = Cheatin’ Teddy
Trump is not a conservative, he is a populist. Hillary is on the other hand an open borders communist who we would not survive.
So yes, conservatives must support Trump’s election. But supporting ethanol mandates and Planned Parenthood, etc., etc. isn’t in the cards.
America 1st.
How is this a bad plan?
MAGA
I look at it differently, as I expect a female reporter to be a Ros Russell type. If you want to get in there with the boys, jostle and get in there with the boys.
I watched the video from above put out today by the Palm Beach paper. She was not grabbed and knocked down. She didn’t even lose stride.
I see her as someone with a history of being a special snowflake.
She wants money. Enough to last decades. And now, she has Kelly on Fox, along with other women, to dig that well.
Nope. Cruz ain’t eligible, he’s a fraud and he won’t deliver a single state that isn’t already solidly in the “R” column. Hopefully, Trump isn’t stupid enough to give more than two seconds thought to this.
Just responding to the headline:
Of course conservatives (Cruz supporters?) should support Trump.
But what about that other question: Should Trump supporters support Cruz if he wins the GOP nomination?
I would support any Republican over Hillary or Bernie and I would hope that all Cruz and Trump supporters would do likewise.
The hateful lying venom dispenses here at Free Republic agains the most conservative candidate in decades is absurd.
Cruz stood alone to shut down the Federal government in 2013 while liars said that was stupid and it would cost Republicans more seats in the Senate.
A tidal wave for Republicans in 2014 actually flipped the Senate. Cruz then stood up to liars in the Senate like McConnell and fought the Gang of 8 and many other garbage actions by RINOs— funded by sleaze balls like Trump.
Cruz has won major constitutional arguments for conservatives before the Supreme Court. He put to death an illegal Mexican immigrant murderer over the objections of the Bush administration.
What does he get for that?
If he got nothing that would be pretty generous right now.
But what he gets here is putrid contempt that has no reasonable bounds. If he ends up divorced and without custody of his children that would sit well with dozens of self righteous RINOS at FR who find in Trump the virtuous populist King of Politics.
with all due respect, I think Cruz is FANTASTIC.
I think Trump and his supporters have spent vastly greater efforts slandering the good conservative man that is Cruz than they ever will expend fighting their friend and ally Hillary Clinton.
Yes.
As badly as the word Conservative has been watered down and debased as of late I can affirm that myself and other Conservatives of varying types have already embraced Trump and that you’re (the writer) an idiot for even asking this question!
Go Trump Go!
Should they: Yes
Will they: Many will, yes.
The rest will stay home because they hate Trump more than they love America.
This is an EXCELLENT analysis of why Trump is so hated and feared by the oligarchs. Sadly, because the situation we face is so dire and complex, Mr. Hultberg’s essay is probably longer than the ability of many short attention span Americans will tolerate. For them, I’ve extracted below what struck me as the three “take away” paragraphs.
Please read the entire piece and share it as widely as possible! As I’ve commented before, this is almost certainly our LAST CHANCE to turn the corner back toward something akin to that which the Founders ATTEMPTED to leave us.
“Throughout his adult life Trump has watched as most of the business and political leaders he dealt with have sold their souls to the World Government vision of oligarchs like George Soros. He has observed how our slimy Demopublican politicians and bankers have sold out the interests of the American people via trade deals that sixth-graders would realize are toxic for jobs and prosperity if they were explained at that level of schooling.”
“This has horrified Trump, this grotesque sellout of the America he loves, the America that gave him so much freedom, so much opportunity. Being the bodacious man of action that he is, he could not sit by and watch elites like George Soros, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Lloyd Blankfein, and Robert Rubin push for tax and trade policies that undercut the productive might of America in submission to a globalist, anti-nation-state vision for the world.”
“Their goal has been to make the world into a giant social welfare state akin to Sweden, but first in sections on a regional basis – like Orwell’s three regional governments of Oceania, Eurasia and East Asia. All the important decisions of governance will be mandated from world institutions such as the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, etc. And eventually an organized central governing body, complete with military and police drawn from all nations, will evolve into transcendent power. In essence it will be a world-wide form of Mussolini’s economic fascism.”
http://www.newswithviews.com/Hultberg/nelson115.htm
So why is Cruz working for the establishment's goals? Is that conservative?
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