Here is a video of Cruz punching his wife!
Here is a video of Cruz punching his wife!
I don't see a lot of ideological similarities between Reagan and Trump. Trump has no "conservative reflexes" and he responds emotionally and from the hip. In a sane political climate he would have been eliminated very early in the primary season. I don't see him winning over Hillary. The media will turn on him in even more fierce fashion than they did to McCain when he got the nomination. They've already got hit pieces planned for strategic release once he's secured the nomination.
Bull. Martin Luther King got his objectives done with his peaceful demonstrations. The Civil Rights law was a landmark one. He insisted his protests be done within the Constitution and no harm be done to anyone else.
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He means there are some very similar circumstances in that this time of the year during that presidential race, he was down in the polls by double digits to Carter. And a lot of the media and other high sources where saying he would get crushed by Carter. By the time the voting came around, the polls showed them to be in a virtual tie. Reagan won by 61% of the popular vote and a landslide in the electoral college. No one would have predicted that much of a lopsided victory by Reagan back then.
The 'Elite' has decided months ago that Hillary will win... they always decide who they want in power.
"The pen is mightier than the sword.. and considerably easier to write with."
I look forward to listening to Glenn "#NeverTrump" Beck's radio show today.
nevermind that he dropped out... he elbowed his wife on the face because of it
This unfortunately is quite true, the battle for delegates is quite close between Hillary/Sanders (1682/1361 with 1000+ remaining) however Hillary also has 520 superdelegates compared to Sanders 39, giving her a total lead of 802. The superdelegates are essentially a safety net for the Democrats so that unless the is a landslide in the regular delegates they can still pick the nominee they want to win.
What now. Wife or daughter?
Make up your mind
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With a system where you can essentially have Schroedinger's Cat (to exaggerate slightly) run for nomination, a safety net is required.
Those delegates are just that. It might not be what the Sanders supporters like, but in the end it works as intended. For now, Hillary leads, and carries it home without those SD's anyway.
"The pen is mightier than the sword.. and considerably easier to write with."
Only if and when Trump loses (which does seem far more likely than not, but I regrettably wouldn't count him out yet) - if Trump somehow wins, then the new Trumpublican primary system will probably be "whoever the sitting Trump nominates". Either way, I suspect we may be looking at a major realignment - the Trumpers aren't going to come to their senses anytime soon, making them ripe fodder for future demagogues, and the GOP misleadership class isn't going to suddenly start actually caring about the general welfare instead of "the 1%". Still not sure how it'll shake out though.
"In today’s America, conservatives who actually want to conserve are as rare as liberals who actually want to liberate. The once-significant language of an earlier era has had the meaning sucked right out of it, the better to serve as camouflage for a kleptocratic feeding frenzy in which both establishment parties participate with equal abandon" (Taking a break from the criminal, incompetent liars at the NSA, to bring you the above political observation, from The Archdruid Report.)
I agree the media will be against him, but what makes you think the media wouldn't be against Cruz? Let's not forget this is the guy who is actively against gay rights and thinks we should govern America based on whatever the Bible says. The same problems of it being impossible to attack Hillary exist for Cruz, but he has a lot more stuff that can be criticized and that the left will hate. If Trump is Hitler, Cruz is Satan, there is no way he would have a better race against Hillary than Trump would.
Also, the media has already proven rather ineffective against Trump. They have convinced a bunch of 16 year olds on the internet to hate him, but those people would have hated him anyway because it's trendy to hate republicans. When it comes to people who actually can and will vote, the RNC has across the board spent ten times what Trump has trying to demonize him and he has ended up sweeping every state and gaining more and more ground regardless. I don't think he's the best candidate, I think he's the only candidate. Cruz would have lost 70/30 at best, if Trump loses it will be extremely close and people are already projecting him to win before the real campaigning even starts.
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Both the DNC and the RNC wants Trump to lose.
Makes both parties kind of suspicious if you ask me.
I do agree that I feel Cruz would lose harder than Trump. Trump seems actually moderate on social issues. However, despite this, the media has already slandered the hell out of Trump.
If I listened to only mainsteam media, you would think Trump was going to bring back slavery or some utter garbage.
Rather surprised that Cruz dropped out as he was key to the GOP's plan to fight Trump at the convention. The sole purpose of Kasich was to help support the contested convention approach (basically, just suck out at least some of the delegates from Trump), so I don't think he has any real role anymore.
With Cruz out, I don't think there is a realistic chance of a contested convention anymore. Trump is only 190 delegates away from securing the Republican nomination, which will be trivially easy for him to obtain with Cruz out of the race.
Unless the GOP pulls some amazingly dumb stunt at the convention, the Republican nomination race is over. And the GOP certainly knows that pulling something at the convention that doesn't give Trump the nomination will only serve to ensure Clinton's victory and would almost certainly result in heavy losses in the congressional races.