Posted on 05/30/2016 8:23:43 AM PDT by conservative98
When Donald Trump collected a few unbound delegates last week, surpassing the 1,237 needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president, expectations that the national convention could be the most dramatic in modern times evaporated.
“Now, it will be the most entertaining,” said Randy Evans, a party-wise man from Georgia, with a nod to the reality TV star’s promise to “put some show biz” into the July convention in Cleveland.
But there remains an important, unscripted drama yet to unfold in the tempestuous relationship between Trump and his chief rival, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
Although Trump will arrive in Cleveland as the victor and Cruz the vanquished, the politics of the moment suggest that Trump needs Cruz — to reassure nervous conservatives — more than Cruz needs Trump, whose defeat in November would fulfill Cruz’s frequent prediction and best serve the 45-year-old Texan’s future presidential ambitions.
“If he does not endorse and Trump loses, Cruz gets to step out on Nov. 9 and say, ‘See what I said,’ ” said Evans, a member of the Republican National Committee’s Rules Committee who, as chairman of the Republican National Lawyers Association, stayed neutral in the race. +In Cleveland, Trump may need Cruz more than Cruz needs him photo Drew Angerer U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to the media as he returns to his office at the U.S. Capitol on May ... read more
“Cruz is a brilliant strategist, a long-term player. He’s got cards to play, and I fully expect him to play a few of those cards,” Evans said. “I think Cruz’s theme will be to say, `You’re the nominee, but I’m the party. You’re the name on the ballot, but I’m the one who represents, who epitomizes what it means to be a Republican.’”
Cruz ended his campaign May 3 after a bitter defeat in Indiana, dropping out shortly after lashing out at the man who had spent months calling him “Lyin’ Ted.”
“This man is a pathological liar,” Cruz said of Trump. “He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth.” +In Cleveland, Trump may need Cruz more than Cruz needs him photo Nicholas K. Geranios Jennifer Fetters of Bellevue, Wash., works the Ted Cruz booth at the Washington state GOP convention May 19.
Cruz also called Trump “utterly amoral,” adding that “morality does not exist for him.”
“I don’t see how you can take those words back, particularly if part of your appeal is that you’re not a traditional politician, that ‘I tell it like it is,’ ” University of Houston political scientist Richard Murray said. “I can’t see how that would work.”
For many admirers of Cruz, the very thought of endorsing Trump remains repugnant. +In Cleveland, Trump may need Cruz more than Cruz needs him photo Rodger Mallison Delegates cheer as Sen. Ted Cruz speaks at the Republican Party of Texas state convention in Dallas on May 14.
“Cruz should maintain his sterling conservative brand and stay far away from the Trump train and its inevitable wreckage,” said CNN contributor Amanda Carpenter, Cruz’s former communications director in the Senate. “Even if Trump wins the White House, he’ll have done it in a low-down, dirty way that no one with any integrity should be proud to endorse.”
Well there were plenty of Jewish Nazi collaborators. Like Abraham Gancwajch, Moshe Merin, George Soros and maybe even Hitler himself.
Okay, Barky, what has Ted Cruz done since dropping out of the race that constitutes “duplicity and two faced behavior?” Not falling behind whatever the Trump position of the day might be? What part of the party platform does Trump intend to change? Maybe there is a solid reason that a conservative (I thought that’s what we all were here) would want to preserve any influence possible on the party platform. For example, he might, want to do his best to keep the GOP on the record as being against abortion on demand.
And furthermore, go to hell. How do you presume to know I’m a “butt hurt CruzBot.” I don’t want “mild and cookies” or anything else from you or anyone else. You are the one’s who have made the choice in this election between an unprincipled mountebank and a corrupt socialist. I doubt the best interest of the nation will be served by either.
Trump doesn't "need" Cruz now and never did. Cruz is visionless, a lousy debater, an old fashioned pol using very old dirty tricks and lies that sunk him and destroyed him and his political future, for good and all. The very few remaining rabid, drooling sycophants, of his, are still blind and deaf to reality. Perhaps one day, they may come out of this state, but I doubt it. Pity that......LOL
He’s ONLY “for the Constitution” when it favors him or he can misuse it to “cloud the mental state of his cult member”; otherwise he uses it as toilet paper.
And even in Texas, Cruz's "star" has lost its shine long ago.
Only in your opioid fueled dreams.
6) He was born in Canaduh, eh
“Impotent rage.” Hmm
Actually, at this point I would classify my state of mind as “morbid curiosity.” I actually don’t know where the country will end up after this debacle of an election, but I am certain it will at a point further removed from its constitutional founding.
I’ve never “ridden the lightning” either. I have no idea what that rant means.
Well for someone who has allegedly been here 3 years longer than I have, you sound pretty damn ignorant.
How about dupliciously not supporting the nominee as he signed an agreement to do and continuing to undermine Trump's candidacy.
Ted Cruz just crushed Donald Trump in Washington State election of GOP delegates
Cruz supporters outnumbered Donald Trump supporters at the state GOP convention in Pasco, and they were better organized, pushing through the Cruz slate of delegates over occasional protests from Trump backers, who noted repeatedly that Cruz is no longer in the race.Cruz's campaign is over, but his delegates fight on (Better call Saul)
Cruz’s team didn't abandon the race for the White House entirely. It still filed a slate of potential presidential delegates for California’s June 7 primary, and continues to monitor delegate selection in states that already voted in the GOP nominating process.Ted Cruz Says Fight Not Over with GOP Convention Nearing (Wants to CANCEL Open Primaries )
... Cruz and his allies in the Republican Party are EYEING TO CONTINUE THEIR FIGHT TO RUN THE PARTY. Despite his failure to win over Trump, ... he is still hoping that when he attends the National Convention,... he will be able to bring about key changes in how the party governs itself and picks its presidential nominee. Aside from changes in rules, the party will also be working out its "official policy platform" as well as "determine how much power the RNC has to make new rules of its own."As B_G_S noted, "There would be no reason to hold a primary election if the delegates were not bound to the voters decision and the election results.>>The key discussion points, which will also be the likely flash points during the convention, will include CLOSED PRIMARIES. THIS MEANS DOING AWAY WITH OPEN PRIMARIES AND THE "CONSCIENCE CLAUSE," which will RELEASE CONSERVATIVE DELEGATES FROM SUPPORTING THE PRESUMPTIVE DELEGATE, should that delegate represent views that contradict theirs or the party.
He never stops. TED & CURLY (RNC Rules from ND) must be conspiring in this insanity together.
Ted will never be elected by a popular vote. So he seeks RULES CHANGES so that his chosen delegates will select him."
Zot you, I-ambush. It's fitting that your FReeper handle tells us that YOU-ARE BUSH!
And you sound rather crazy to me.
That statement gives you away that you are not a FReeper, but a militant troll. I say again ZOT you troll!
Well, he’s not the nominee yet.
How can someone be on this news forum for over fifteen years and not know about viking kitties?
In the next few days nobody will say, (Does anybody remember I-ambush?)
So, I joined this forum over 15 years ago, waiting for my chance to criticize Trump the Wise? Your reaction reminds me of the pod people when confronted by one of the unassimilated. Sorry to interrupt. Please continue to discuss among yourselves.
Check out Alexa rating since April 1. It illustrates the numbers 38 and 62.
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