Posted on 04/01/2016 7:46:09 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Cruz says the nomination of Trump would mean an "absolute trainwreck" in November. But, Cruz, 45, with a future in the party, would be foolish to walk out as a sore loser, as Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney did in 1964.
A Cruz rejection of a nominee Trump would mean the end of Cruz. The elites would hypocritically applaud Ted's heroism, publicly bewail his passing, then happily bury and be rid of him.
Cruz, no fool, has to know this.
If the nomination is taken from Trump, who will be 70 in June, he has nothing to lose. And as "Julius Caesar" reminds us, "such men are dangerous."
Trump and Cruz, though bitter enemies, are both despised by the establishment. Yet both have a mutual interest: insuring that one of them, and only one of them, wins the nomination. No one else.
And if they set aside grievances, and act together, they can block any establishment favorite from being imposed on the party, as was one-worlder Wendell Willkie, "the barefoot boy of Wall Street," in 1940.
All Trump and Cruz need do is instruct their delegates to vote to retain Rule 40 from the 2012 convention. Rule 40 declares that no candidate can be placed in nomination who has failed to win a majority of the delegates in eight states.
Trump has already hit that mark. Cruz almost surely will. But no establishment favorite has a chance of reaching it.
With Cruz and Trump delegates voting to retain Rule 40, they can guarantee no Beltway favorite walks out of Cleveland as the nominee -- and that Ted Cruz or Donald Trump does.
No matter who wins in Cleveland, the establishment must lose.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
So it’s one set of standards for Cruz. And no set of standards for Trump. Got it.
According to Shakespeare's Caesar, it's not men who have nothing to lose, but men who think too much: "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous." (Act I, Scene 2)
The GOPe must lose in the end, they must lose.
All the fighting and name calling only helps the cause of the Republican Establishment, who could end up saying both candidates (Trump and Cruz) were so tainted by the fight that a new one is needed who is ‘electable’.
“So it’s one set of standards for Cruz. And no set of standards for Trump. Got it.”
Pleas explain
It says it in the article. I don’t need to explain.
I think Buchanan has it backwards. Cruz being destroyed and Trump going back to all his successes would not happen. Cruz will go back to his senate seat and Trump’s ego of having the nomination taken away from him will result in lawsuits, angst and misery for all those around him.
“It says it in the article. I don’t need to explain.”
Thank you. You just did.
The GOPee amoral, corrupt slime think all Trump’s supporters will just slink away quietly?
How do We The People get our message to these vermin now before their treason is attempted?
Trump makes Cruz VP. Serves 0ne four year term after which he will be bored and Cruz gets nomination for next eight years. Problem solved!
I think your chief problem is that you aren’t very intelligent. Now this is not your fault. One can only play the hand one has been dealt in life. Good luck !
So I would be intelligent if I supported Trump? Of course you think that.
“So I would be intelligent if I supported Trump? “
Yes it would!!
So it’s one set of standards for Cruz. And no set of standards for Trump. Got it.
The gist of the article is:
All Trump and Cruz need do is instruct their delegates to vote to retain Rule 40 from the 2012 convention. Rule 40 declares that no candidate can be placed in nomination who has failed to win a majority of the delegates in eight states
How exactly is this a double standard against Cruz?
“How exactly is this a double standard against Cruz?”
Well you know, Cruz would be stupid to raise a ruckus if the nomination is taken from him at the convention because, he has something to lose. but Trump, it’s ok if he does because he has nothing to lose.
Apparently he doesn't, and neither do his supporters here on FR. Simply delusional if they think they're going to get the nomination.
mathematically, Cruz is out of it. No way he can get to 1,237.
The only one who can in order to defeat the GOP-E at the Convention is Trump. To deny that reality is just mentally delusional.
A vote for anyone other than Trump at this point is a vote for the GOP-E. Fact.
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As usual, Real Foggy Politics has their pen in the toilet bowl.
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Get your butt to Cleveland before the Convention opens and bring plenty of tar, rope and feathers.
Time to party like it's 1776!
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No, problem not solved.
The crisis is now, so we need Cruz now.
Trump is way too light weight and wishy-washy to bring about the critical moves that have to be made correctly on day one.
It truly would be a train wreck leading to the death of the nation.
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