Posted on 04/20/2016 7:56:19 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)said Wednesday morning that a contested Republican convention is certain and that supporters of Donald Trump are ultimately helping Hillary Clinton reach the White House.
During a radio interview for a Philadelphia morning show, Cruz predicted with certainty that the Republican Party is “headed to a contested convention.” He suggests Trump supporters “might as well put a Hillary sticker on your car.”
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Agreed!
Bumper sticker?! Geesh, the GOPE thinks so small and 20th century.
Yes it is.
Trump's overwhelming victory in the New York primary insures him closer to the 1237 needed delegates and the republican nomination.
But it also brings us the inevitability of a President Hillary.
The rest will deny reality and start complaining about elections being stolen.
And when confronted with the reality during the genera, will continue to bring up other candidates and start demanding zots
Marco Rubio was on local radio in Florida today, saying TRUMP was much better than HITLERY.
Absolutely. And how did Cruz do there? Didn’t win a single county in FL, VA and OH. He’s the worst national candidate in generations. Cruz has hope in the general. Zero.
We may never know now;)
I’m talking the general election. Not the primaries
Hey Ted: if you can't beat Trump – and obviously, you can't – what makes you think you can beat Hillary?
Give it up Ted. It’s over. defeaTED
Quote:
“Nominating a president becomes making the decision between who might possibly be the most conservative president and who can actually win the general election.”
It’s been that way for decades. It’s just that the last five Republican presidential candidates, chosen by the GOPe, have been bumbling, stumbling, inarticulate stiffs that most conservatives had to hold their noses to reluctantly vote for and the rest of America just couldn’t stand.
Trump is ANYTHING but a bumbling, stumbling stiff. He is Exhibit A of an Alpha Male. The question remaining is:
Does Ameerica still have enough testosterone to elect an Alpha Male or is the country sufficiently feminized enough to only elect the likes of Hillary and/or limp-wristed Metrosexual socialists forever?
Yes actual demographics of people voting for Trump. Like Yesterday it was 59% women. Like the 62 percent said he was the best to beat Hillary, etc. This is played out in all those key states any GOP has to win in order to win the General. You know real world objective data not this stuff the Globalist express tries to sell.
Thank you, Jeff, for your wise and heartfelt post. You clearly recognize that the enemy of this country is not someone that shares 70% of the positions that you have, but someone that shares under 10% of your views. You understand that there’s a point to fighting the good fight, but that there is also a time to throw in the towel.
We here at FR are a mirror of the Republican/conservative electorate. The incredible hostility that this primary season has generated can ONLY help the Dems, and if any of them are elected to the Presidency (even Biden or Fauxcahontas, if Shrillary is prosecuted or drops dead). Your post, if it causes a lot of Cruz supporters to reassess the situation in light of the NATIONAL interest, could be the start of the healing process - and I earnestly hope that it will be exactly that.
I would also add that the Trump supporters (of which I am one) will also handle this victory with some degree of magnanimity. Offering one’s hand to those who fought you and lost is a much better policy than spitting in their face. BOTH sides need to swallow their pride a bit, and BOTH sides need to look at what is best for their nation and the future that they wish to leave to their children and grandchildren. Now IS the time to come together...thanks, again, for beginning the process (at least here on FR).
That was an exceptionally stupid comment. Cruz should not have gone there and should not repeat it. Polls show Cruz losing to Hillary by less than they show Trump losing, but this Cruz comment is not in any way the correct way of making the point.
So you have nothing substantive or credible eh?
Reagan didn’t fare much better in 1980 at this point...the only constant is change, especially in politics.
“You must not be old enough to remember what they said about Reagan in 1979.”
True. I was 18 and not particularly interested in politics.
I do remember going to visit a girl at her dorm room and she was more “sophisticated” than me. She was 17 and couldn’t vote so she told me I better vote against Reagan. I asked why. Her answer was Reagan will start a war. I was skeptical and told her I didn’t buy that. At the time I thought it didn’t matter. I didn’t buy in to whatever anti-Reagan scare tactics people threw out, but I didn’t support him. Nor Carter. I didn’t care about politics and didn’t vote.
As far as the analogy to Trump today. I don’t buy Trump is like Reagan. Trump was in his mid thirties when Reagan ran and a business man, yet didn’t support him ever. He even belittled Reagan in his famous Art of the Deal book. I saw the light and went fully conservative when I was 29. Reagan became conservative well before he ran for governor and even more so before he ran for President. He had a track record both in and out of office as a conservative for decades. Trump has nothing remotely similar.
I’ve seen old videos of Trump talking about the Japanese buying up everything. So he has been a nativist for a long time. That does create a track record of a sort on some of his issues.
The problem with most Trumpers is they think success in a primary election translates to success in the general. Some of the things they’ve posted makes me question what’s taught in civics in public schools. They also assume that the country sees Trump with the same eyes they do
They believe he’s had everything already thrown at him and won therefore his enemies are all out of ammo.
Oh, what they saw during the primary season was minor to what’s coming. If the War on Women meme was used effectively against a Romney, it’ll be used doubly so against Trump. Trump is aware of all this, BTW. The question is how he deals with it
But despite all I posted, it’s possible for him to win
“I question whether Trump is capable of managing such a thing. Should Cruz step aside, and Trump simply spikes the ball without some real acknowledgement of what Cruz and his supporters hold dear, then no real alliance is going to happen.”
Read “The Art of the Deal” - he wrote it in 1987, long before he seriously contemplated running for POTUS. His insights into business and life are pretty instructive for a guy who was only 40 or so, and he really hasn’t changed his tune. If anything, the intervening nearly 30 years have made him wiser.
...and no, I don’t think that he’s perfect - I’m not that type of person, and he does, indeed, have many flaws. But stupidity isn’t one of them.
And who did not win their home county in NY yesterday? The republicans of Manhattan, the voters that know donnie the best is who.
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