Posted on 04/22/2016 1:24:48 PM PDT by the_doc
Mississippi Redux????
Sorry, Trump goes to the convention with 1240+,thanks for the history lesson though
Millions of actual voters may tend to disagree with you.
Cruz is cratering. He won’t see 700 delegates, and will be millions of votes behind. Giving him the nomination would destroy the GOP for generations.
Justify it anyway you want, but Cruz or Kasich will not be the nominee.
40% the popular ceiling. Interesting how each ceiling soon becomes the floor of trumps support
Thanks for the bump. We’ll see what happens, won’t we?
Trump is the presumptive nominee and Cruz is an asterisk, like Kasich. They are mathematically eliminated.
It’s time to unite behind the only viable candidate, if we are to win in November. That’s Donald Trump. The power now is in unity. All Aboard!!!
Cheers!
So you think that the delegates are going to choose an alternate candidate that is further behind in both delegate count and voter count over the front runner, if Trump doesn’t win the first ballot outright. That is a good way to alienate the voters, destroy the party completely, and hand the election to Hillary.
God, but you are prolix.
“the risk of laboring the point, I submit that the fellow who waltzed into the Convention as the presumptive nominee was not the best candidate. Lincoln was.”
At another risk, I submit that we all know how that little selection turned out.
Half of the country destroyed, millions of dead and wounded and centuries of enmity.
Not saying that this would happen, however, if that’s how you suggest that the Republican party was born, then I am proposing that it may very well end that way as well
A runoff is exactly how Cruz outlasted a pack of 8 also rans to heavily favored Lt. Gov. Dewhurst and then beat him for the Senate seat.
For later careful reading.
Good post but if you really think there is a possibility that trumpers will see reason, you are a bit optimistic.
Dream on!
Keep shoving “the rules” down everyone’s throat so that you pump up your candidate when it is convenient. Do you think in Politics that all rules are followed and just because a rule exists that it is just?
By the way, you think it is ok to be able to “bribe” delegates away from voter intent? Is that democracy nowadays just because it is “the rules”
Bribery is illegal in all 50 states, why would it be legal for the RNC?
My late husband would profoundly agree with you on this.
Even though it is sacrilege...most places.
Totally different issue, Dewhurst was the establishment candidate, Cruz is the establishment this time.
The run off argument only works if primary elections get a redo. I think you know very well that delegates...GOPe ones at that, reversing the will of the voters is a deal breaker. Those of us who are at our flipping limit over pubbies sent to DC to thwart obama giving him his every wish are at our last straw.
If my vote is disregarded, 35 years of straight pubbie tickets is over. I will NEVER cast a vote for anyone will an R after their name even if they run unopposed.
Check your math, Trump doesn’t have the required delegates left.
He may well get them if someone can get to his mouth with some duck tape... and quick.
Cruz isn't going to be the nominee and after next week that reality is going to become even more real.
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