Posted on 03/08/2016 1:19:35 PM PST by Jeff Head
I support Cruz...I will ABSOLUTELY support Trump if he is the nominee. That’s a big part of what this article is all about...and why.
Almost all Cruz supporters I know feel the same way.
No more lawyer/politicians.
Agreed...
“While the field was competitive with several candidates Reagan did not fare any better than Donald Trump is now.”
While the field was full (5 candidates), Reagan won Alabama with 70%, Georgia with 73% and Kansas with 63%. Has Trump won any state with more that 50%?
“Trump doesn’t have to be “comparable to what Reagan did”...
He just needs to WIN.....”
If not, then why is the article being posted comparing him to Reagan.
“At this point in 1980 Reagan trailed Carter by up to 30 points. Get your facts straight.”
I thought we were talking Primaries here. You know where Reagan succeeded in uniting the base where Trump has succeeded in doing the opposite.
After the March 8 South Carolina primary, Reagan had won New Hampshire with 50% and SC with 55%. Do I misread conventional history?
You and the GOPe are doing everything you can to make sure that there will be no unity once Trump has the nomination.
“After the March 8 South Carolina primary, Reagan had won New Hampshire with 50% and SC with 55%. Do I misread conventional history?”
He also won Vermont
You are pushing on a string...there was a clearer definition between candidates back then. We have now two “anti-establishment” candidates who really are not very dissimilar (except in some minds) on the policies they present. Both have conservative stances on the most important issues. If you took Trump and Cruz vs the rest you would see an even greater gap than Reagan had.
“You and the GOPe are doing everything you can to make sure that there will be no unity once Trump has the nomination.”
I was on board with Trump and Cruz when Trump first entered the race. You can thank him for that no longer being the case.
“Both have conservative stances on the most important issues.”
Right. Now it’s a question of who is most likely not to bend from those stances.
HReagan won Vermont with 30% of the vote, pretty long way from a majority.
The real point is that the primary season usually leans toward one candidate fairly early. That candidate this cycle is Trump, and did he not have such high negatives, there wouldn’t be much doubt.
I am supporting Cruz. I voted for him this morning in Idaho. He is an anti-establishment candidate despite some of the fairly crazy theories (IMHO) going around.
Is he perfect? No. No one is.
But if Cruz does not prevail...and quite frankly at this stage it is a pretty long shot for him...I will absolutely support Trump in the general, and do so gladly.
That is a big part of what this article is about.
In the end, either Trump or Cruz will make an outstanding president...and either of them will put an end to the disastrous Obama policies that +Hillary or sanders would double down on.
ON top of that, either of them will deal a mortal blow (IMHO and at least for the next several years) to the business as usual GOPe.
In the end...reversing Obama, and dealing such a blow to the GOPe is what this is all about to me.
“HReagan won Vermont with 30% of the vote, pretty long way from a majority.”
That’s what we were talking about though right? You said he had only won 2 states, but he had won 3.
Trump WILL not bend that is for certain. I am not so sure about Cruz...I know he has bravely stood alone at times supporting us conservatives on the Senate floor, but it came to nothing. We need someone who will win! But, having said that should Cruz win the nomination I will support him but Donald Trump is definitely my first choice.
Other than those two and we are toast as a nation I believe...
Reread post #14.
“Trump WILL not bend that is for certain.”
Oh please. He flip flops more than a fish out of water.
There were only 8 GOP candidates vying for votes in the 1980 primaries.
There were 12 GOP candidates in Iowa, 2016:
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