Clearly he has given up on absorbing Donald’s followers:
Ted Cruz said late Thursday that rival Marco Rubio would make a better president than Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
“Marco is not my enemy, Marco and I are friends. Marco and I would both make a much better candidate and a much better president than would Donald,” Cruz told CNN’s Jake Tapper after Thursday’s Republican debate.
Cruz has concluded that once Rubio is out, his only hope is to absorb the establishment vote as the anybody-but-Trump candidate, though the establishment is so bent on having an ultra-Cuck candidate I can’t imagine them supporting him.
Donald truly has changed everything. Watching him play politics today is like watching those old videos from the 90’s of the Gracies in Brazil showing up at challenge matches with Karate guys who were doing splits at the beginning of the fight to warm up for high kicks. The fight started, in an instant the Karate guy was on the ground under the Gracie tapping out, and it was all over.
So far Donald has mopped the floor with everyone, and nobody seems able to even see how he has done it.
Donald appears to be the inverse of George W. Bush, and his success is a direct repudiation of the Bush style of politics. Whereas Bush refused to fight, and destroyed conservatism in the process, Donald appears poised to do the exact opposite. I would expect just as Bush handed the White House to an outright Marxist, Donald will one day hand it to a diehard conservative.
As much as I thought he would change the debate for the better at the start of this, I had no idea of how he really is the exact right guy at the exact right time to show the entire conservative movement how their leaders should have been fighting all along.
Plus we get to see Hillary, who is amygdala-hobbled to begin with, have to face off in a debate with an Alpha male who will make her mop the floor with herself.
GOPocalypse is here.
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Helmut Norpoth, Prof Poli Sci at Stony Brook, says that if he is nominated Trump has a 97 to 99% change of getting elected. He bases this on a computer model that has successfully predicte and retrodicted previous elections:
https://www.sbstatesman.com/2016/02/23/political-science-professor-forecasts-trump-as-general-election-winner/
I’m a conservative, but I have no faith in Trump actually following through on conservative values. I think he has been an excellent Court Jester, who is the one person allowed to say the things that no one else dares to say, but I don’t think he is the best choice for President. Mind you, if he gets the Republican nomination, I will vote for him, he’s just not my first choice. Trump’s long time involvement with the Clintons worries me a lot.
I know. At this point though, Trump has promised a big wall, and he has done it so vociferously I would think he couldn’t back down on that. Hopefully he will be tougher than anyone else on Muslim Immigration. On SC Justices, Trump wants an easy path, so if he appoints a non-conservative, he will have a Harriet Meyers type situation, so long as we own the Senate. Don Jr is a good NRA member, so I think he will be good on guns.
I see George W, who was good on Conservatism, but didn’t fight. He was tolerable in office, but he completely destroyed the movement, and handed the country to a Marxist. He left me thinking a President who was even less conservative than him would be better, if he fought and demeaned liberals at every turn. I think Trump will do that, in large part because liberals will not be able to stop themselves from attacking him.
But everyone you vote for is a risk.
[…] The oh-so-principled conservative Ted Cruz has begun sucking up to Marco Rubio in an attempt to stump the Trump. Cruz has to be the biggest weasel to run for president since Bill Clinton. (HT: Anonymous Conservative.) […]
So he’s decided to go ahead and support an open borders piece of trash like Rubio over Trump. I knew I didn’t trust Cruz 100% and now I know my suspicion was well founded.
So anonymousconservative have your views change on Ted Cruz? The Canadian question always comes up when I think if it would be good if he got the republican nomination. Hillary who would of defend Obama on the question of birth but she would go hard on Cruz. Thoughts?
I tell myself Ted did this tactically, but the angry vengeful me doesn’t like it at all. Ted’s position should be he either tears the establishment down himself, or he helps Donald do it. Lending any legitimacy to the machine is unacceptable.
Trump almost certainly has this wrapped up, since after a few more primaries his opposition will be thoroughly demoralized. But I almost wish he ran a little short of delegates, so we could seek who among Carson and Cruz would give their delegates to Trump to tear the machine down, and who would give them to the machine. You never know anyone in this business, until the rubber meets the road.
I’m so disgusted with the GOPe that I’m in full burn-it-down mode, so like you, I’m annoyed to see Cruz peeing on one of the flare-ups in an attempt to put it out.
Cruz really should have made peace with Trump. Trump isn’t a young man, and Cruz would have been well placed for 2020 after 4 years as the VP of a successful Trump administration. It’s almost (but not quite) too late. Cruz throwing in with Trump before Super Tuesday probably gives Trump another 15%, puttIng him over 50% in all those states, and it’s over.
Agree. I think Trump will take the nomination regardless. My one fear is that I am still not sure a vote cast is counted and elects the President. Once computer voting happened, there were no guarantees of anything. If anybody will win, though it has to be Trump.