[NATIONALREVIEW] Cruz’s attention remains focused on rival Marco Rubio, and he essentially called Rubio and the rest of his challengers to drop out of the race. “To get to the nomination you need 1,237 delegates. And so I will say for any candidate who wakes up tomorrow morning who has not won any states, for any candidate who wakes up tomorrow morning who has a negligible number of delegates, I think it’s time to start thinking about coming together and unifying and presenting a clear choice,” he said.
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Sven has the correct answer, but I don't think Cruz can make a public offer. Unlike Christy as Attorney General I can't think of a position truly suitable for Rubio.
Posted by: Sven the pelter ||
03/02/2016 14:53 Comments ||
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Romney, ya say? A polite opponent in a slashing street brawl, no quarter given. WTF with the GOPe?
Get the message, whatever one thinks of Trump, he is the only one that is attacking the status quo that has brought this country down as low as it has sunk so far. Does Trump have all the answers? Probably not. Is he the man of the hour? Probably not. You do not have reasonable people across the aisle that will compromise and work for the common good. Only slopping the trough. We do not have many good alternatives, just very tough choices.
One way or another one has to keep Hillary out. She will be the tipping point that will totally bankrupt this country. At least we have defined the enemy. Now what to do about it.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
03/02/2016 14:55 Comments ||
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Romney can't run. It will cause his wife all kinds of health problems.
#15
You'd think, gorb. But, it may well be that Romney has gone the full Al Gore (you NEVER go the full Al Gore) and lost his mind after losing the presidential election. He seems obsessed -- the thing that wouldn't leave the party.
#17
The only things that has rallied the dems and republicans to work together has been the tea party and trump.
The republicans seem to have a lot of action and big talk to challenge Trump. Where was that energy to challenge Obama? Maybe if they actually stood up once to Obama they would not be in this position.
Romney, Ryan, and Bush can go stand next to Eric Kantor.
#18
Airandee, I think that Ted Cruz is the kind of 'pub you're looking for. Not sure but I hope so. BUT the GOPe fears him because he is the closest thing to a true Tea Partier with national clout.
The Pub elite would much prefer Hillary to Cruz because Hillary sure won't upset the graft machine and power grabs.
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Emperor Misha at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler summed up best what is in my mind about this:
All over RINO land, the lying weasels who always cried about “Party Unity!” when it was us who had to swallow their slimy surrender monkeys are already howling about how they’ll vote for the Hildebeest or stay at home if Trump wins. Good. It’s very helpful of you to provide us with further evidence of your Quisling opportunism and hypocrisy. Not that we needed any more evidence, but it’s always nice when your enemy is kind enough to make mistakes in front of G-d and everybody.
No, we’re obviously not talking about those who’ve always followed their conscience. That’s called “having principles” which, albeit not necessarily always the most pragmatic move, is certainly never a dishonorable one.
As to ourself, we’ll vote for Trump if he’s the nominee. We’ve held our noses enough times for the RINOs, it’ll be nice to hold it for once for somebody who enjoys kicking them in the balls, even if that turns out to be his only qualification. And we don’t know that yet. However, we do know that if we end up with the Hildebeest or an Establishment whore boy, we’ll get four more years of the same. In the former case because that’s who she is and, in the latter, because… Seriously, you guys, haven’t we already gone through at least a decade of proof that that will also be the same?
Name one single thing that resembles a conservative victory brought to us by the GOPe over the last 16 years. Please. We have all day. Did spending go down? Did any of the alphabet soup agencies get disbanded? Do we have border security? Come on. Just one thing. Please. And make it something that actually matters to those of us who work for a living.
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Obama summoned Republican and Democratic Senate leaders to the Oval Office for talks on replacing Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court bench
Republicans are refusing to even hold hearings until new president is in office - and talks did nothing to make that position change
Men smiled for the cameras but did not answer questions on whether they would change their positions
Democratic minority leader Harry Reid said: 'They think that they can wait and see what President Trump will do, I guess'
Not the worst of strategies...
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03/02/2016 00:00 ||
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Obama will appoint a replacement during a Christmas recess (or sooner). McConnell will not stay in session until there is a new president. Everyone knows it, that's why Obama is not pushing too hard.
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/02/2016 8:43 Comments ||
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SCOTUS already ruled. The Senate decides when its in session and out of session not the Executive branch. Separation of powers. You know who to blame if it does come to pass.
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03/02/2016 15:32 Comments ||
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I'm truly surprised that the 'pubs have held out on this.
Someone in the Beltway can read the writing on the wall and it's spelled T-R-U-M-P. If the GOPe want to elect him, all they have to do is fold to Obama again. Not to mention seeing themselves lose control of either or both Houses.
[DAILYCALLER] When Donald Trump failed to disavow former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke on CNN Sunday, the notorious racist group suddenly became one of the major issues of the campaign cycle.
Fellow Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has skewered Trump’s dithering response and the media has been relentless in its covering of the controversy. Some, like Rush Limbaugh, have even speculated that the reason the Republican front-runner wavered on denouncing the Klan is because he didn’t want to alienate any of his supporters.
While there is a lot of present concern over the Klan, the group is in reality incredibly small and irrelevant. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the KKK only boasts about 3,000 members.
To put this in perspective, far more people believe they have been abducted by aliens than claim allegiance to the Klan. Hundreds of thousands of Americans believe they have been taken by extraterrestrials. One support group for alien abductees says it receives 1500 reports per year of involuntary UFO contact.
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David Duke was born in 1950. He joined the KKK in 1974, at age 24. He left the KKK in 1980 - at age 30. For more than 35 years, he has had nothing to do with the KKK.
Robert Byrd was born in 1917. He joined the KKK in 1942, at age 25. He left the KKK 1947, at age 30.
How much closer of a KKK "career" profile can you get? I guess only Democrats can be "rehabilitated" by the passage of time. Others - like David Duke - not so much.
#5
I would not know when Duke left the KKK but I know he continued to openly profess the same general beliefs he did when he was in it for many more years afterward (he probably does still, but since he's not running to be governor of my state anymore I don't have to listen.)
#2
The whiff of desperation in the GOPe? Are the people that passed the Obama-Reid-Pelosi omnibus funding package (to include Planned Parenthood infanticide and human parts trafficking funding) engaged in Freudian Projection?
#3
The biggest problem I see fora Trump nomination is that Hillary's oppo research group is already writing the attack ads. Trump has so many negatives that people will understand: his bankruptcies, business failures, Trump University, etc., etc. And all this is besides his general bombastic, bragging, thin skinned approach to any opposition.
Of course, given all that, I will still crawl the two miles to my polling place (over broken glass if necessary ) to vote against Hillary in November.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
03/02/2016 10:18 Comments ||
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Rubio's right. Almost as often as a broken clock.
#5
Rambler, Trump truly seems to be teflon. Same with HIllary. I suspect we could see the dirtiest campaign in history with no effect on the polls what-so-ever.
#6
Rj, the MSM and Hillary's minions (but I repeat myself) haven't turned their full fury on The Donald - yet. If he gets the nomination, they will. Trump will be forced to fight back in kind.
I agree, this is going to be a VERY dirty campaign.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
03/02/2016 12:34 Comments ||
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The Hounds of Hell? Srsly, Marco? Who writes your stuff, Nathaniel Hawthorne?
#9
the MSM and Hillary's minions (but I repeat myself) haven't turned their full fury on The Donald - yet
Why should they when the GOPe and other wannabees are doing it for them. Given how hated the MSM is outside their urban oasis, it probably will aid Trump more than hurt him.
#2
He could withdraw his suit against Chris Kyle and kill himself. That's be a start
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03/02/2016 7:36 Comments ||
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back in 2014, Ventura proposed running w Cynthia McKinney in 2016
actually, this would be a great idea
also Ventura is no longer suing Chris Kyle, he is suing Chris Kyle's wife and Chris Kyle's publisher (both new since he won a judgement a few years ago)
Posted by: lord garth ||
03/02/2016 8:28 Comments ||
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I know - it's on appeal
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/02/2016 8:42 Comments ||
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Jesse Ventura vs. Bloomberg cage match?
Breitbart dies, these two live. Is there no Gawd ?
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03/02/2016 9:34 Comments ||
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Re #2: what Frank said.
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03/02/2016 10:19 Comments ||
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The result of too many faux head slams to the ring posts or maybe, stupid is as stupid does.
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