Elections GOP 2016 Primary Thread V5: 2 Hispanics and a Bigot Walk into an Election Edition

[in the]

From my understanding just looking at it from the outside, it seems that by Trump NOT having a stated position on many issues (and thus being assumed to default to the general stance of "his" party) he's much closer to the core of the Republican party than Cruz is, which makes the idea that the parties important members will side with Cruz to stand against Trump because...reasons...all the more confusing.

Maybe I am 100% wrong on this, but I cannot see how Cruz can be considered the "Establishment" candidate, and if the political landscape inside the Republican party has shifted to where Ted Cruz is the "moderate" choice, I'm struggling to find ways that Trump is more extreme.

Gandhi is right.

The Republicans might detest Cruz, but they loathe Trump. Cruz is more controllable than Trump (and his wife is a managing director at Goldman Sachs). Even after years of being shunned by the Republican party, Cruz is now getting a ton of support from the anti-Trump elements of the GOP.

 

[bad seed]

Lindsey Graham endorses Cruz!!!!

 

[ShoelessRye]

Mitt Romney endorses Cruz and will vote for him in Utah Caucuses on Tuesday. So the guy who last week cut robocalls for Kasich and Rubio at the same time now endorses Cruz. Doesn't he realize how ridiculous this makes him look. Kasich was good enough last week and won Ohio, but now it's all about Cruz?

And Graham, after running himself and getting 0%, then endorsing Jeb Bush in SC only to see Jeb finish 4th and drop out a week or so later.

Romney and Graham in back-to-back days...

 

[in the]

Donald Trump dropping BOMBS on the Republican establishment. It's about time someone wakes them up.












Ann Coulter calling out Lindsey Graham for his "proclivities."


Holy shit, this is fun to watch.

 

[in the]

Mitt Romney endorses Cruz and will vote for him in Utah Caucuses on Tuesday. So the guy who last week cut robocalls for Kasich and Rubio at the same time now endorses Cruz. Doesn't he realize how ridiculous this makes him look. Kasich was good enough last week and won Ohio, but now it's all about Cruz?

And Graham, after running himself and getting 0%, then endorsing Jeb Bush in SC only to see Jeb finish 4th and drop out a week or so later.

Romney and Graham in back-to-back days...

Kasich campaign bashes Romney for backing Cruz

 

[COTUR1@43]

Getting tired of Kaisch. He gets his jimmies so easily rustled anytime someone points out the only way he can win is to ignore the top 2 delegate holders and they should just give it to him at the convention. He just went off on Greta on FNC for asking.

 

[ShoelessRye]

Kasich has face zero scrutiny the whole campaign because he was a non-entity. Trump dropped out of the SLC debate on Fox and then Kasich bailed as well because he didn't want to debate Cruz heads up because it would be a wonky policy debate and Cruz would slay him there and dissect Kasich's record in OH - Kasich likes to stand off to the side in debates and pretend to be the super serious man amongst bickering children, so once he would have Trump there to play off of - he bailed as well.
Kasich thinks he'll be coronated to the GOP ticket in a brokered convention because it's in Cleveland this year, and the delegates and king makers wouldn't not have an OH candidate on the ticket when in OH after a contentious process. Kasich will sell himself as "If you want to win OH in the GE I better be on the ticket". But he's been a complete zero the whole primary and is still behind Rubio in delegates and probably maxes out at 300 by the end of the primary. Trump likely has close to 1100 if not a little over, and Cruz comes in around 800.

But he believes a candidate who won one State, his own, out of 55+ contests should be the "unity candidate"? The guy is out to lunch.

 

[in the]

Live Trump Rally stream.

 

[Renard]

ETA? That music is a mess. It's a total mess. The music doesn't win anymore.

 

[in the]

ETA? That music is a mess. It's a total mess. The music doesn't win anymore.

Low energy music.

Hope Trump stops dragging ass. The protesters have made this must-see tv.

 

[in the]

AND IT'S ON

 

[mrsenor]

 

[in the]

Take a look at the fucking retards wanting to riot.


Herman Cain whooped these idiots asses.

 

[in the]

1. Go to Google.
2. Type in aid
3. Look at the first result

Spoiler

AIDs Skrillex

 

[Rhood]

I'm curious if Rubio's statement of being on the right side but not the winning side this election hints at the establishments plans. I was thinking last night that the establishment could completely throw the election in order to stop trump. Whether it means disenfranchising their party base by picking someone else at a contested convention, or even better/more enjoyable a full blown sabatoge by having an establishment candidate run third party to cut into the trump vote. You need someone with deep pockets who's political career is basically over. HELLO JEB!

Oh hell no! Thats not even gonna happen!
They would look like fools going that route. Anyone they throw up there as a 3rd party candidate is definitely not going to take anything away from Trump votes.
If they couldn't beat Trump when they had their opportunity on stage, then they certainly won't beat him for the 2nd time
Just the thought of seeing Jeb Bush again on stage as a 3rd party makes me laugh.

 

[Rhood]

Trump announced he will not attend the next debate. What's worse is Kasich said he won't attend if Trump doesn't meaning that there won't even be a debate which hurts Cruz and Kasich and helps Trump seal this

It's a smart, tactical, & political move. I don't think I've ever seen this before in the primaries. If Kasich & Trump work together, they can completely shut out Cruz and destroy his momentum.

 

[Lead]

You are in a forum that has been discussing Trump for months now and you are going to post a youtube video of the lowest common denominator arguments possible between Trump and non-Trump voters, the only time a person could possibly win an argument defending Trump. They are cursing each other out and every other word coming out of their mouth is labeling or profanity. This is garbage.

So far the best argument I have seen from Trump supporters on this site has been posting character assassination against anyone who opposes him and that isn't a good argument at all.

It's a smart, tactical, & political move. I don't think I've ever seen this before in the primaries. If Kasich & Trump work together, they can completely shut out Cruz and destroy his momentum.

I think at this stage, it is a better call. He can start arguing the race is over. Doing it before Iowa wasn't wise but I'm unsure if it would've changed anything there. If he skips debates, that leaves media time to just him in the headlines rather than about a 50/50 exchange with Cruz.

 

[Oedad]

Trump's an absolute machine. Its 1 am in Arizona, and hes still tweeting. I've also seen him tweet at like 5-6 am in the mornings after tweeting till 1 at night. He really does only sleep 4-6 hours a night crazy.

Now that i think about it they are probably shooting him up with stimulants or something. He goes hard in the paint for like a month and then you see a noticeable break in the energy, and after a few days hes back on again.

 

[JDragon]

Trump's an absolute machine. Its 1 am in Arizona, and hes still tweeting. I've also seen him tweet at like 5-6 am in the mornings after tweeting till 1 at night. He really does only sleep 4-6 hours a night crazy.

You will find that to be true for any CEO or executive of a large company.

 

[Space]

Poor Megyn...