The MSM presents the GOP as being in an uproar about Trump
And perhaps, for once, the MSM is correct (see this sort of thing).
Since Trump’s candidacy began, I’ve certainly been distressed by his popularity, and I’m hardly a GOP insider, mover, or shaker.
But two things continue to tell me that Trump is not necessarily going anywhere. The first is the actual total of his support in terms of the whole; it remains low. As other candidates drop out, will they go to Trump? This is actually a three-part question:
Will other candidates drop out?
If so, when?
To which candidates will their supporters turn?
The answer to the first question is probably “yes.” Money is a limiting factor for many.
The answer to the second is unknown, and that will affect how many delegates are won by each remaining candidate during the primaries. I’ve read many articles trying to figure out what’s likely to happen, and they contradict each other. My opinion is that this is something that is truly unknown.
The answer to the third is a tentative one, but I would say that it is probably not Trump to whom many of them would turn. It makes sense to think that establishment candidates such as Bush and Kasich, or someone moderate like Christie, mostly have supporters who would support an alternative candidate other than Trump. The key to this idea is that Trump’s negatives are unusually high, and he is not the second choice of most Republican primary voters. That last bit is the statistic that could end up mattering a great deal, although if enough candidates drop out, it also will matter who their supporters end up choosing third or fourth or even fifth.
In many previous posts I’ve made no secret of my disapproval of Trump as a candidate or as a possible nominee; no need to go into that again right now. But in addition to my concern if he were to be nominated, I would probably be even more concerned if he ran third party and acted as spoiler. I believe that he, much like Ross Perot before him, would guarantee the election of a Clinton.
I am not going to get to worried until after Iowa and New Hampshire, and maybe not even then. Trump has yet to prove that he can win any kind of an election. Until then, he’s a big question mark.
I am concerned about a independent run. It would be ironic indeed if both Presidents Clinton were elected because of a spoiler candidate. If Trump does run as an independent, I believe that he will guarantee Clintons victory.
Being a sure fire loser has absolutely zero appeal for Donald.
I’m constantly amazed at the intelligent people who can’t figure out his inner drive.
http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Great-Executive-John-Wareham/dp/0060983000
The Anatomy of a Great Executive
ISBN 0-88730-505-9
John Wareham is a world class expert into the psyche of great executives. He, himself, was a world class head hunter.
It’s not even an expensive tome.
Upon reading it, and Scott Adams, you’ll start to ‘know’ Trump.
You might also benefit by reading Wareham’s
“Basic Business Types
ISBN 0-689-11756-6
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The person that Trump MOST resembles is actually:
Ronald Reagan.
Yup.
Mr. Cowboy, Mr. two-bit actor, Mr. “he’s going to destroy Social Security” [ It was last reformed during his administration — it would’ve blown up long ago, otherwise ]
Yes, Mr. Teflon, Mr. “Plays the media like a banjo.”
Trump’s executive style is identical to Reagan’s
You’ll note that Ronnie had simply no end of friends across the aisle.
A Trump presidency would be the absolute inverse of 0bomba.
Just as 0bamba is the inverse of Ronald Reagan, our third most awesome president — and the most important of the 20th Century.
[ People still lack the perspective to comprehend what a big deal ending WWIII// The Cold War was for the entire planet. It makes winning WWII look like chicken feed. The Entire world faced auto-genocide, a threat that’s impossible to top. ]
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You’ve got Trump pegged upside down.
The concern is not Trump in office.
The concern is not Trump going loser third party.
The concern is that opposition research is going to sink him in November.
It’s part of his negotiating persona to be bombastic. This style is Pure New York City.
Cruz is a bona fide genius.
Follow his lead, and stop the hand wringing.
If he had remotely the bad character you’re assuming — it would’ve been pouring forth from his ex-wives.
Yes, Like Ronnie, he’s been divorced. And like Reagan, his ex-wife(s) refuses to say anything negative about him at all, frustrating the tabloid press no end.
That’s a TELL.
WRT, look at the injured pouring forth on the Clintons.
!!!
Yes, that’s a TELL as well.
She’d not only devastate America, she’d end the Democrat party.
The brainiacs within the party are so corrupted — and dim — that they can’t quite figure that one out.
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
And you can quote me.
Being the laughing stock of the nation — like H. Ross Perot — to the end of his days — is an unbearable prospect for the Donald.
Such is the nature of the man.
His negotiating style is of Groucho.
“Here are my positions. If you don’t like them, I have more.”
Heh.
(paraphrased — my weak memory is failing)
If Trump supporters turn away from Trump, it will not be to an establishment candidate. His popularity is fuelled by a widespread sense of betrayal felt by conservative voters. They gave the GOP the house in 2010 and the Senate in 2014 and they’ve received nothing but sneers and derision from the GOP establishment.
The two big issues in 2016 will be illegal immigration and Islamic terrorism.
Every other GOP candidate is either for amnesty or pussy-footing around the issue. Even Cruz couldn’t bring himself to say that he’d deport illegals.
The Mexican drug cartels are sending illegal immigrants across the border loaded with high quality heroin that costs $10/hit or less. Our nephew, who should have been finishing his business degree this semester, is hooked and his family is at a complete loss. Addicts have to self-commit to get into rehab, or get caught stealing or dealing before the downward spiral stops. When Trump talks about his beautiful wall, he is talking to millions of Americans who have been adversely impacted by illegal immigrants.
Too many of the GOP candidates are following the GWB line that Islam is a religion of peace and the actions of Islamic terrorists have nothing to do with Islam. Trump is standing by his claim that he saw thousands of Muslims celebrating in NJ on 9/11. He may have exaggerated the numbers, but enough people have come forward to say they witnessed such celebrations, or saw the reports on TV, to confirm that some US Muslims did celebrate on 9/11. That is hardly surprising. According to Pew, 26% of young US Muslims believe suicide is justified. Trump is saying what we believe but the PC police wouldn’t let us say: the problem with Islam is Islam itself. My wife sent one of her liberal friends into a fainting spell when she told him that Islam was a “pre-enlightenment death cult”. The actions of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (PhD in Islamic theology from Islamic University of Baghdad) confirms my wife’s characterization.
So, if Trump is to fall, who is to pick up those two issues and pursue them as hard as Trump? None of the establishment candidates will do it. The only two with any chance of doing that and picking up Trump support are Carson and Cruz. They are much nicer people and I’d be happy if either of them got to the finish line. But Carson is starting to fade and the GOP establishment will never let Cruz run. The GOP establishment will pull out all stops to defeat Trump, but his celebrity status and wealth make him more formidable than Cruz. At least Trump is now out-polling Hillary, so the claim that running Trump would guarantee a Hillary victory is starting to look rather lame.
The press isn’t always wrong; sometimes they’re just six months late.
suicide = suicide bombing
A couple of points …
First, it isn’t so much a matter of the other candidates dropping out and when. The real question is whether they will be able to obtain ballot access. Getting on the ballots requires gathering large numbers of signatures across large geographic areas and paying large filing fees. I’ve seen estimates that once you add it all up it costs about a million dollars to get on the ballot in all 50 states. This has to come from hard money, as SuperPACs are not allowed to supply the funds. So what we are going to see are ballot deadlines slipping by. Once the minor candidates start failing to get onto the ballot, interest in them is going to dry up and fade away. It won’t matter if they drop out. If they can’t make the ballot, they effectively won’t exist.
Second, here’s a poll taken in the last few days ago that specifically addresses two-candidate primaries. Trump appears strongly poised to win such a contest.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/trackers/2015-11-25/poll-trump-beats-rubio-cruz-carson-in-head-to-head-contests
PatD,
On your point about Trump’s bombastic negotiating style: It may work in NY, but I’m not sure it would go over well in the rest of the world. It wouldn’t even work with me.
PatD:
You know, for many years I’ve been hearing about how the GOP establishment can control everything—either to get what it wants or to prevent what it doesn’t want. I’m not discounting their strength and their desire to control things (as well as the money they can put where their mouths are), and their ability to wield considerable power. But they are not able to just wave magic wands and control everything.
For example, if I had a dollar for everyone who predicted that they would MAKE Jeb win the nomination and could not be stopped, I’d be a rich woman. Long before Trump, or anyone else, was a candidate, I predicted Jeb would not win it, and I stick to that. Jeb never had many supporters (even without Trump’s entry) and he was never going to get them.
Similarly, if the voters want to go to Cruz, they will do so. He’s got his own money that he’s raised, and if Trump voters veer to him, he will win the nomination.
I’m tired of all this stab-in-the-back evil-puppeteers Establishment-illuminati crapola. They would if they could, but people have some power, too.
Sevenwheel:
I would say that poll is also garbage. Here is the sample selection process [emphasis mine]:
Ok. I missed that. Yep. Strike that poll. Sorry about that.
blert:
I’ve written over and over why I hold the opinion I do of Trump. I’m not going to waste more time repeating myself.
Nor, if you read carefully, did I say Trump would run third-party if he didn’t get the nomination. I was speculating on how I would feel if he did, and what the result would be. I am not going to hazard a guess on whether he would actually run or not; it would depend on his motivation and goal (to win, or to screw the Republicans and elect Hillary).
However, that you can call him Reaganesque is absurd. Yes, they’re both strong personalities and strong-willed people. In virtually every other way they are extremely different, almost opposites. Reagan was a politician with executive political experience and, more importantly, a depth of study and thought about politics and government, and a sophisticated and thoughtful way of expressing his deeply conservative philosophy.
Trump is above all a narcissist. He is about money and power, and cares nothing for conservatism and knows next to nothing about it. Not to mention the differences in style.
blert:
By the way, about “being divorced”—that is not something I’ve used as a criticism of Trump, per se. I’ve mentioned his infidelity as being somewhat relevant, although it’s not a top concern for me, either.
Reagan was divorced at his wife’s instigation; it was not his idea, nor was he having an affair. Then he married one more time, and was devoted to his new wife.
That’s a different sort of character, and a different sort of idea about fidelity and vows, than Trump has ever demonstrated. It’s not about “being divorced,” nor is it about whether your ex-wives like you or not. Trump cheated on several wives. Reagan didn’t cheat. That’s the difference.
Nor, by the way, is that my major objection to Trump. It barely registers on my radar screen of offensive things about Trump. But I find it interesting, to say the least, that so many people who railed at Bill Clinton for being a cheater have no problem whatsoever with Trump’s cheating. Granted, Bill’s seems more excessive. But they kept saying “a man who will cheat on his wife isn’t trustworthy.” But so many of them are willing to make an exception for Trump. Funny thing, that.
I’m not saying you’re one of those people, by the way. I have no idea what you thought of Bill Clinton, or think of Bill Clinton, and his womanizing.
Trump does have his negatives, no question about that. What makes me sad to watch is how the Republican establishment simply can not and will not embrace the voter sentiment that makes Trump so popular. Another comment hit the nail on the head; this election is driven by GOP voter anger after voters had delivered the House and Senate to the Republicans and they went to DC and forgot completely about the voters. Does the GOP look seriously at this sentiment, and the reasons behind it, and attempt to craft a platform that addresses both? Does the GOP establishment work tirelessly to reduce the size and scope of the Federal government, to reign in the stampede of regulations that choke businesses, to understand that illegal immigration is a significant problem and find ways to deal with that don’t include amnesty? No, they don’t. Instead, they flail about trying to bring down a non-establishment politician who threatens their control. The GOP is its own worst enemy. If Trump does run as a third party candidate, it will be because the GOP forced him in that direction, either by dragging him through mud on TV or finding some other way to undermine his candidacy. I’m not saying the GOP needs to jump into the Trump camp with both feet, yet, but they should consider how and when to do so if it presents the best chance of winning in 2016, and it just might. But they won’t do that; they truly are the party of stupid.
@neo-neocon: The GOP establishment has considerable power over the nominating process. They set the rules, for example, and they made a number of rule changes for this cycle designed to stop a movement candidate like Carson, Cruz or Trump.
I’ve been following Conservative Tree House for a while now, and the primary blogger there has made a number of predictions, which have turned out to be accurate. He points out that VA GOP recently required primary voters to sign a pledge that they are Republicans. Why would they do that at this late stage of the game? The suspicion is that it is designed to stop cross-over voters from voting for a movement candidate.
I also read Peter Schweizer’s book, “Throw Them All Out”, that documents the corruption of politicians in both parties. (He also wrote Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich). So, I have no trouble believing that almost all politicians are more interested in lining their pockets than serving the people. Their backers want open borders, regulatory favors, subsidies and a transnational corporate environment. What do we have? Open borders. Check. Regulatory favors? Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, and Obamacare (my former employer strongly backed Obamacare) Check. Subsidies? Green energy, sugar, ethanol, the Farm Bill. Check. Manufacturing has migrated to the lowest cost locations. H1B visa holders are taking over large chunks of the IT industry (I helped my former employer make that model a success), so Check again.
The people have some power over the process, but not nearly enough. Who really wanted Dole or McCain as the GOP nominee? Who really wanted Romney? When Gingrich started surging in the polls, the big money came in and destroyed him with millions of dollars in negative ads. The people don’t have the power to fight back against the power brokers.
So, I’ll make a prediction. If Trump flames out, and Cruz replaces Trump at the top of the polls, he will face the same onslaught that Gingrich faced. He will be nailed for “shutting down the government”, his “extremist” position on immigration and borders, his father’s strange ministry, and any other “dirt: they can dig up. And he will not get the nomination. It will turn out to be a contest between Rubio, Bush, Fiorina, and, maybe, the awful Kasich.
I think you better make a tag called Trump.
The GOPe has no-one that they truly love — other than Bush and Kasich.
Even Rubio has not received the $$$ that would flow to Mr. Establishment.
I think 2016 is too early for Rubio, but I’d have no hesitation in pulling the lever for him in November.
No Trump for me, whether he wins the nomination or not. As I’ve said before, he doesn’t strike me as a moral man.
He’s a clown.
I would find it hard to vote for Trump because of his personal style. I guess it is classic NY or NJ “in your faceness” and I don’t like it. It strikes me as bombast, and that makes me think the man lacks confidence.
As for him being like Reagan because they have the same management style, I can’t give that a lot of credence. As Neo has pointed out, Reagan was a very political person, from even before his time as governor of CA. He was president of the Screen Actors Guild when it was chock full of Communists and he took them on and beat them. When he was POTUS he beat the USSR and won the Cold War, then had the good sense NOT to gloat — can you imagine Trump defeating an international enemy and not gloating? No Way — he’d be just like Obama, taking single-handed credit for killing Osama bin Laden.
I suppose there’s a good chance Trump will hang in until the end and possibly even be the nominee. If we find ourselves in that situation I will hold my nose and vote for him, mainly because there is no way I would want to see another Clinton, especially Hillary, in the White House.
I didn’t know much about Trump until he entered the race. I had him categorized as tabloid news and, therefore, of no interest to me. There are accusations of cheating out there; some true, maybe, and some false. It is not top of the pops in terms of disqualification from the nomination.
What is more important to me is his business record. He appears to be someone who picks good people and delegates to them. In this Washington Post article, I see quotes like:
Given Trump’s business success, I’d say he passes the delegation test.
I like Trump’s position papers. They seem conservative to me.
But his take-no-prisoners stance on illegal immigration sealed the deal for me. We have one chance to get control of illegal immigration before the next Democrat President decides to legalize them, give them the vote, and thus confine the GOP to minority status for eternity. That’s their plan and any GOP candidate who doesn’t recognize that should be discarded, starting with Bush, Rubio and Kasich.
Will not vote for the donald, no matter if it puts cackles and slick willy in the WH. I trust trump as far as I can throw a 500 pound Iowa boar.
what people really dont like is that trump owns the downside… he does not try to give you a quarter and claim it only has on side and try to pretend there isnt any tails
either its trump or wholesale immigration of peoples and things will not stop.. period…
its an old science fiction plot… Is it ok if the world is saved by who can save it, or is it doomed if the hero is not what you want him/her to be? peiople want the package, and their being catered to has developed a point where the package they normally want is so unreal, that they are begging for lairs and posers to present themselves and wonder why they get liars and no honest people… take a look at heroes of history and only a few are handsome and what we may want in some fantasy of who would be great..
Eichmann was great looking and everything ladies wanted. if placed by central casting Churchill would be more like don draper, not Churchill..
and date retort “not if you were the last man on earth”..
…”I’d rather have a known billionaire I elected representing me than a hundred faceless billionaires, we don’t know, who are backing another candidate for their own best interests”…
keep voting in beta males who are effeminate and keep complaining that they are underhanded and dissimulating as the weak are, and be afraid of all things strong, whether bad or not…
avoid the open sheep dog for honesty, reward the wolf in sheeps clothing for making themselves more appealing than honest to you.
Meanwhile supporters for other “outside” candidates like Ted Cruz are literally forced to avoid an entire period of time from October 2013 through March 2015 simply because candidate Ted Cruz fails to own any of the activity, action and consequence within that 18 months.
It was almost comical to see Breitbart.Com write a 2,000+ word deconstruction of Marco Rubio over the H1B visa program, and a lawsuit coming from Disney workers, and yet see Breitbart (funded by Cruz Super-PAC financier Robert Mercer) had to intentionally avoid mentioning that Senator Ted Cruz advocates for the exact same thing. The silence is deafening.
breitbart article
‘I would probably be even more concerned if he ran third party and acted as spoiler.’
He’d take millions of votes from Clinton and guarantee a Republican landslide. What’s the problem?
‘I’ve said before, he doesn’t strike me as a moral man.
He’s a clown.’
Those two statements contradict each other. I agreed with the first, not the second.
All of the people who will not vote for Trump over Shrillary will get what they deserve, and they will get it good and hard. Trouble is, the rest of us will get it too. The election of Hillary, one of the most profoundly corrupt, totally immoral people on the planet, will seal the doom of America. You all will be accomplices to that national murder, a great crime against humanity.
I see the complaints: The Donald is a windbag; he’s cheated on some wives; he’s a narcissist. He blusters; he’s not sufficiently factual; things don’t add up; he saw muslims in NJ.
So start listing the complaints re Hillary: She’s an obscene liar, whose Benghazi lies stole the election for Barack Hussein; she kills people; she is for sale to the evil forces of the world, a truly world-class whore; her and Bill’s corruption has yielded them several hundred millions.
The Trump haters will dig their own graves. Dig mine and my childrens’ while you’re at it, and no thanks to you.
Frog and all other trumpsters,
I would vote for trump over cackles if I believed a single one of his promises, but I do not believe a single one. And I fail to understand why others believe in a single one. trump is not a changling like neo. Fortunately, he will only fool you once.
Waitaminnit,parker:You believe cackles on one thing? What is that? You favor cackles over trump because you don’t believe his promises? The only thing I infer from that is you believe at least one of her promises.
That takes some doing, ol’ buddy.
I wouldn’t vote for shrillary even if she promised to kill Bill, commit suicide and go to hell if elected. I will vote for Trump instead.
I’m not a trumpster, BTW; I am an observer, and I favor the three Cs. I do despair when we hold our side to higher standards than the Evil Ones are held to, though.
Steve D:
Glad you know the future.
However, I don’t happen to see the same thing you see when I look into my crystal ball. I see quite the opposite—he takes votes away from the Republican candidate, whoever that might be.
It’s so interesting to me that Trump admirers are convinced he appeals more than the other GOP candidates do to people who usually vote Democratic. And yet that means ignoring the polls. It’s a sort of magical thinking at this point; people believe it, but I’ve yet to see evidence for it and there’s plenty of evidence for the contrary.
I’ve written about this several times before; Trump is one of the weakest candidates against Hillary among all the GOP candidates. Rubio and Carson are the strongest. That has been true quite consistently over time.
See this and this.
No Frog, I do not favor cackles over trump, she is a liar as is the donald. I will vote libertarian or not vote for any presidential candidate rather than vote for trump if he is the gop nominee. As I have posted over and over again, he is not what you and others believe him to be.
Under trump crony capitalism will make crony capitalism under the mannish boy look like kindergarten. trump is about trump, not about “making America great again”. He will, if elected, prove to be the exact opposite of what you imagine.
It’s simple.
With Trump as President, the nation as we knew it has a chance.
With Hillary as President, the nation as we knew it has no chance.
Drudge has a link to a NY Times article predicting the endorsement of 100 black preachers for Trump. I present this as prima facie evidence that he’s a spoiler gearing up for a 3rd party run to insure Hillary’s election. Ask yourself why they would support a Republican for any other reason than this. It is so contrived.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/25/black-pastors-expected-to-endorse-donald-trump/
> Ask yourself why they would support a Republican for
> any other reason than this.
He may have convinced them that his economic policies will be better for black people than the economic policies of the Democrats. Given the state of black unemployment, it might not be that hard of a sell.
Parker, take care with your vote. Do not vote “present.”
Cackles is a proven persistent mendacious and evil liar. Trump, not yet, not in ways that matter, not as a person who has sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. Lying about that overwhelms any concern about The Donald will keep his promises.
“For evil to succeed….” ahh, good old Burke.
Cruz is my pick…
But…
I can’t imagine Trump running third party. Period.
He hates to lose.
If he can’t sweep the nomination — he’ll pull back.
He left Atlantic City, after all.
I also believe that he’s being smeared just like Ronnie Reagan. It seems that memories have weakened.
The amount of negatives that Reagan had were everywhere in the media.
The media also held to the opinion that Reagan was a mental cripple –very much in the manner of Sarah Palin.
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As for those looking for a monk to head the ticket…
Good luck.
Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good; good-enough-to stop Hillary.
I have absolutely no worries about Trump being more corrupt that Hillary or 0bomba. That’s a logical and mathematical impossibility.
Trump is a BUILDER.
He is certain to be building everything from the magic wall to upgraded freeways.
Trump will find it irresistible to turn a spade of dirt. He’ll resemble FDR in that respect.
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What ever I can stump up — will go to Cruz.
But, I have to tell you, the presidency is basically a selling job.
He’s too uncouth for my taste.
But I know enough LIVs to know that they are entirely happy with his antics.
Unlike the posters herein, the voters that will ultimately decide the election are going to make their decision based on feelings — their gut.
I actually hope this is true.
Because Hillary is gut-wrenching.
Hillary is sure to be cut-up in any media circus // so-called debate by everyone from Trump to Cruz to Carson to Rubio.
Trump is the ONLY non-classic politician that has a chance at the head of the ticket.
Carson’s big weakness is his faith. I have no problems with his beliefs. They’d be refreshing compared to Muslim Barry Soetoro.
( WAY too many Freudian slips for an athiest/ agnostic. )
( No Christian would be slotting Muslims (moles) all though our government.)
But, I can see that his comments about the pyramids of Giza would result in brutal barbs at the Daily Show.
Trump has already done the SNL show.
After the epic flip-flops of JFK, BHO, and HRC — there is no flip-flop that Trump could execute that would be in the race.
Heh.
Trump does NOT have a reputation for dirty dealing. In real estate – that’s nothing short of astonishing.
Most fellas in that ‘line of country’ are as charming as a honey badger.
I brought up his ex-wives because they have already been canvassed for dirt.
Instead, they’re becoming Trump boosters. (!)
Trump is ALREADY entirely out of character for a property mogul.
BTW, Reagan was a go-along guy at the Screen Actors Guild.
Trump is clearly a log-rolling negotiator.
He’s been interfacing with big league politicians for most of his life.
His position on Putin is the perfect and correct one.
You’ll note that he immediately launched into Trump’s universal solution to most anything: start building — and building BIG.
Trump allowed that he didn’t even want a sit-down until America had already ramped up the DoD — and that the domestic situation had been corrected.
Even working like a maniac, that will take two-years to get through Congress and take the form of contracts.
He’ll put Cruz on his ticket — and has already run that up the flagpole.
Scott Adams makes the case that the battles are never fought by dream candidates.
Trump has enough ammo on Carson to sink him.
He’s letting the MSM do the dirty deed.
40% polling in the early primaries will be enough to crush the dwarf candidates.
I’m hoping that Cruz will surge at the expense of Carson, and the rest of the field.
Carson would get just about everyone’s ‘second pick’ when the choice must be faced.
That’d put him at 45% to Trump’s 38% I see that as quite reasonable in southern primaries, (South Carolina)
Momentum is huge in LIV psychology. So, Cruz needs to merely place well… and then begin the roll-up to the top of the ticket.
It could well turn out that the convention is brokered — and Cruz puts Trump on his ticket as the VP.
Being a blow-hard is THE job qualification fro VPs.
Cannot argue with your thinking. Except that Trump would have to accept being the Vice.
They had a term for her in the old days, Wicked Witch of the West.
I’m a Cruz supporter, but I’m going to paste in this tweet every chance I get:
Jeff @EmpireOfJeff tweets:
“You “conservative” “pundits” still don’t get it: Trump isn’t our candidate. He’s our murder weapon. And the GOP is our victim. We good, now?
12:25 PM – 14 Aug 2015 ”
Trump isn’t the enemy. The enemy of all conservatives is the Republican Establishment, the RINOs who pretend on the campaign trail to be conservatives but who routinely vote with the Democrats to betray conservative and small-government principles. I count the entire Shrub family among these, with Rove, Rubio and Kasich.
I sincerely hope that Trump self-destructs, but I want him to go out in a blaze of glory, incinerating the Establishment GOP at the same time. And if Trump becomes the nominee, I will certainly vote for him.
I have a campaign pin that I sometimes wear. It features an octopus-headed man with both arms raised high in a sort of Nixon salute, with the slogan; “Cthulhu! Why vote for the LESSER Evil?”
I’ll never again vote for the “lesser” evil represented by the mainstream of the GOPe.
I’m a Cruz fan, but would vote for Trump if he gets the nomination. He has proven he can take the heat if he were to become President. Would he govern as a conservative? Who knows – very few of the Rs actually do govern or vote as conservatives. But he’d probably be more conservative than Hillary!.