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Cruz Suspends Presidential Campaign
Published in GeneralTed Cruz is quitting the presidential race, according to campaign manager Jeff Roe, ending one of the best-organized campaigns of 2016 after a series of stinging defeats left Donald Trump as the only candidate capable of clinching the nomination outright.
Cruz had appeared likely to go all the way to the Republican convention, but a string of massive losses in the Northeast, and his subsequent defeat in Indiana, appear to have convinced him there’s no way forward.
John Kasich, however, pledged on Tuesday night to stay in the race until a candidate reaches 1,237 bound delegates.
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I can’t believe you’d openly promote a turd sandwich, like that. Just admit it. You’re in the tank for turd sandwich. What a Republican squish purist you’ve become.
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Tom, I’m just curious. What part of the word “never” do you not understand?
Did you think that once Trump got the nomination, actual Republicans would fall in line behind him just because there was an R next to his name? For the last two years I have been listening to the burn, baby, burn crowd whine about the need to destroy the Republican “Establishment.” Okay, now that Trump is the “Establishment,” my suggestion for how we proceed is “burn, baby, burn.” Lesson learned.
Expecting conservatives to fall in line and vote for Trump makes about as much sense as expecting the LGBT people to fall in line and vote for him. Trump can win, but he’s going to have to bring in people that support his positions. He’s certainly going to get some protectionist Bernie supporters to vote for him. He’ll just have get enough of those to make up for the conservatives, like me, that won’t be voting for him.
Trumpublicans, this is the guy you just married.
I am late to this tidbit but it’s in perfect harmony with donnys’s other parrot droppings regarding women. I think the trumpubs’ best bet is to concede the female vote and concentrate on gang bangers, trailer trash, porn industry professionals, honor killing Muslims, and the all important divorce lawyer demographic. Plus the Kennedy family.
You have to hear the recording of the turd baguette holding forth…
Would President Trump dump Melania?
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/would_president_trump_dump_melania.html
Yes! That’s it exactly! I certainly prefer Ted Cruz over, for example, John Boehner, but I was skeptical about saying that John Boehner is no better than Obama and that the R by his name doesn’t matter. Now, it turns out Boehner is much worse than I realized, and Trump really is awful enough that I don’t see a great advantage to him winning over Clinton. But now, now, I’m being told that I should just fall in line and vote Republican no matter what!? Is that what I’m supposed to agree to!?
Hillary really owes Trump. She should go to his next wedding for free.
Larry, man, that’s a great point at #273.
Can we start calling him CuckDon or TRUMPe ?
the mind reels with possibilities…
instant update: Donald Cuck
John “Hannibal” Smith said it best…
Well I certainly know where Hillary’s rhetoric has been and where she will go. Give me a break. Do you know how anyone once elected will run? Look at all the argument over Boehner or McConnell, or GWB, or anyone else. Even Reagan wound up supporting massive increases in government.
One doesn’t vote for a person, one votes for a direction, and on paper, with some exceptions, Trump is in the direction of conservatism.
If were remotely true, I would vote for him.
Unfortunately, it is the opposite of true. A vote for Trump is a vote in the direction of central planning, crony capitalism, and big government authoritarianism.
It’s Winnipeg isn’t it?
One of the sources of this blight on our nation are the progressives and communists that haunt academia.
When there is an accounting for torturing the truth to achieve the political indoctrination of the youth the academy will be the first to receive it.
This may feel like your day in the sun. There is still time to repent.
Respectfully, I don’t think that is fair. Trump is the direction of the Republican party barring some miraculous shift at the convention.
I’ve seen little or no evidence of Trump garnering a ground swell of conservative support.
How did things turn out for businesses and people who signed contracts on paper with Trump?
Shame on you A-Squared. You can’t call Hillary a giant douche, that’s obviously sexist.
I’ll repeat the advice I offered months ago: manage him.
Whether pro-Trump, anti-Trump, or undecided, people generally agree that Trump is primarily interested in himself, right? He is non-ideological, unlike Clinton who patterned her life on Alinsky’s destructive strategies. Furthermore, some of his interests align with traditional conservative interests, like lowering corporate tax rates (for his own corporations) and streamlining investment (for his own investments).
If so, then Republicans can negotiate with him. They can direct him toward shared interests and trades, rather than leaving him a loose bull in a china shop.
He is interested in fame, right? He might not care if many people hate him, but he likes people to like him. Use that. Republicans can direct him to legislative and diplomatic opportunities which could secure him a place in history.
A lot of NeverTrumpers have proposed Machievellian strategies for dealing with various issues. Well, no issue ever merited a Machievellian approach more than Trump.
Integrity and ideological and intellectual consistency prevent me from “sucking it up.” Help him to be effective? What? Didn’t his minions champion him as he was impervious against people such as I?
I’m wondering how Donald J. Trump, the presumptive “Republican” nominee will react when the media begins crucifying him with whatever “facts” and stories they’ve got in the background.
Will he fight back? or will he quit?
Up until now, the media have been his collaborators.
Maybe Cruz suspending will let the Don see just what the real fire is like, now, instead of waiting until July.
He will fight back, but once they take away his open mike, he is going to be surprised at how hard it is going to be from now on, especially once the media starts attacking him, not just other Republicans.
He might regret calling the press “horrible people” to their face. I’m sure the press will not forget that little incident.
I’m showing my ignorance here but, how did Mr. Donald Trump run as a Republican again?
Did he need some GOP seal of approval?
Or can anyone just self-declare and run for a party with no history of party membership?
I assume he got a GOP seal of approval somehow?
The single greatest predictor of future action is past action. Not mere rhetoric, the actual facts of what a person has done. By your logic we shouldn’t care about that, only the “direction” of someone’s promises. Without even knowing you, I can confidently say there’s less than a 1% chance that’s how you think and act with respect to neighbors, co-workers, family members, etc.
Indeed, by this reasoning, if Boehner or McConnell run for President on a platform of fiscal austerity, a wall across our southern border, and reducing the size of government, we should all say “Sounds great! I’ll vote for John and Mitch!” You’d never fall for that nonsense from those two . . . why do you fall for it with Trump? What’s your evidence Trump defies the logic you’d apply to Boehner or McConnell?
Just want to like this comment again.
I think you simply need to file as a candidate and get a sufficient number of petition signatures in each state to get on the primary / caucus ballot.
Bernie wasn’t registered as Democrat when he decided to run for the Democratic nomination.
I can’t decide if we arrive at the same place regardless, but I think you misunderstand The Donald.
He’s not simply interested in himself. He’s interested in what (certain) others think about him, which is quite a different thing. He’s motivated by adulation, not lower marginal tax rates (even “for his own corporations and … investments”). He’s got plenty of money . . . he wants to be loved. If he falls short of that, he wants to be feared. Why do you think he lauds Putin? They broadcast on the same frequency.
If what you mean is that stroking Trump’s ego is the surest way to get something you want, that’s true. But you’ve got to be close to him to do that effectively. I’m sure Melania has that sorted, not to mention his kids.
Trump already has his place in history . . . hell, he is history right now. What he wants is to be loved by the Ruling Class. Unfortunately, that’s what they all want. Which is why I don’t expect much to be different under The Donald.
Best case scenario.
No, I don’t think there were many members of “the Ruling Class” (if such a thing even existed) at Trump’s rallies. I don’t think he puts his name on hotels, steaks, ties, bottles of water, and “Trump University” to appeal to “the Ruling Class.” He doesn’t just want adoration. He wants validation for his own self-adoration.
To that end, any cheering crowd will do. Any vote cast for Trump will confirm, in his own mind, that he is a yuge, wonderful “winner.” And any criticism from anyone (Ruling Class or not) requires that he strike out, attack, and destroy, in the most vulgar and obnoxious manner possible.
Frankly, it is the latter quality that scares me most. Leader of the free world is not a job for someone whose skin is so thin and ego is so fragile that he cannot stand even the slightest criticism without going into a paroxysm of rage. You don’t give the launch codes to someone like that. However bad Hillary is, she ain’t that bad.
I’m more of a Coverdale man myself, but the Authorized Version ain’t bad.
You are correct; that’s not why he puts his name on everything. He puts his name on everything because branding his narcissism is remunerative. He wants adulation (not so much adoration, but he’ll take that too) precisely because it validates his narcissistically high opinion of himself. He’s both clever and intelligent; he fully comprehends the difference between “any cheering crowd” and properly expressed acceptance from those he believes are his social peers. He becomes petulant when his vanity is wounded, and that wound occurs if he doesn’t receive his proper due, no matter from whom the slight occurs.
I agree it’s not the job for The Donald, but apparently there’s millions of people who don’t share our concern. He’d hardly be the first with a narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) to inhabit (or tried to) the White House (cf., Obama, Bill Clinton, McCain). I disagree about Hillary; her NPD expresses itself differently but is equally concerning.
I don’t undervalue your points. You know, my wife asked me if I thought Hillary was a sociopath, and I said that she wasn’t, she was a sociopath enabler. Hillary’s vanity, greed, and power lust may be as bad as the Donald’s narcissism, but I don’t think she will get us into another Great Depression or a nuclear war. You won’t see her threatening to default on the national debt. You won’t see her starting a trade war and provoking a worldwide depression. You won’t see her starting a cold war with 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide. She is smart enough to do things that will leave her a legacy that feeds her ego. Trump is not that smart. He will make catastrophic decisions that Hillary would not.