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So, let me see if I understand your points correctly.
Only because he will be the only one close in number of delegates and votes to Trump. I think they have to avoid completely disregarding the people's actual votes. And by far the majority of their own party's voters clearly want either Trump or Cruz.
South Carolina can't do anything because Trump hasn't officially violated his pledge. It's a Catch-22.
I did but all it showed was a Minion dropping a microphone onto a black guy.
This isn't quite true. Higgs and Dr. Oadi jumped to his defense.If you noticed last night, during dfsguy's meltdown, even the most staunch Trump supporters backed off and left him on an island. His "sorry but I have to put you on ignore" shtick sounds like something a fourth grader would come up with. Bottom line is, this white supremacist crap is not a good look for the board. And then him sitting here trying to defend it is just
1. I didn't say it's ok, I said its his fault he did not organize and show up for the fight. Donald didn't get beat, he didn't show up. Btw there are 4 states left on the schedule where the state's will also be appointing unbound delegates - CO, WY, ND, & PA, IIRC. Is Donald going to show up there or just let Cruz do whatever he wants?
I think it would be a fairly logical thing for Repubs to do. I'd just like to know if they're really doing it. Because I'm thinking more than ever that America isn't going to come close to electing anyone in the GOP stable this year and the smart guys better focus on protecting the down ticket where they can remain strong and relevant.
Agreed but there's a big danger for them. If it looks to people like Trump is getting robbed it could make things even worse.
If dfsguy was a poster who truly was willing to engage with others in discussion this might be true no matter how reprehensible his beliefs. But I think it's his style as much as his content that Anthony was commenting about.
Early on. Out of instinct. Once they saw the direction he was going, they disappeared.
More than partially why I registered my disagreement respectfully. I understand emotion, frustration, and antagonism, and I am far from immune to those feelings, or from natural reactions thereto. Certainly the tool of marginalizing by not engaging is a tool I have used, as is denigration. I recognize my own hypocrisies. In the ultimate hypocrisy I view my own as paradoxes I am comfortable embracing, rather than merely as hypocrisies. The connotation difference comforts me, I guess. My own disingenuousness and hubris no longer shocks me. A surrender perhaps. There was a time when I struggled to do better, to be more. In the end my search for truth lead me no further than the efforts by most others in that noble folly.
I think there is something a bit off because the ballots don't reflect it. It's kind of sad but I think that many of Trump's supporters are afraid to admit they are voting for him and in these types of polls will say the opposite because they don't want to feel judged.
He has polled under 50% at the ballots too. Why do you think its a bit off?
Also the ballots only reflect the preferences of voters in the GOP primary, that poll is from the general population. When it refers to white men as a "Republican-leaning group" that only means that white men tend to vote that way on the whole, not that the subset is limited only to GOP-leaning white men.
You are correct that something is a bit off, but that is because the ballots only count the people who vote in the primary.
This is why I said they will just go with the next most popular candidate. They cannot completely disregard what their own voters want.
He's working his way out of the predicament he got himself into. The only true way for him to think he is victorious is to lose a brokered convention, have Hillary defeat the R candidate and then he proclaims that he would have won. It's all setting up perfectly for that scenario.
So your prediction is that if he loses the nomination at the convention, Trump will not run 3rd party?
He can do that and still proclaim victory. It think he definitely takes it into consideration. All he has to do is say that the R siphoned off the votes he would have received.
You may be right. I think I read or heard somewhere that Trump's original goal was to run for president, make an impact and that would be an accomplishment. I'm not sure he wants to be the nominee, or maybe he doesn't (didn't) know what to do now that it's within his grasp. He's a pontificator and a point maker and maybe that's where he is best served and where he best serves all of us. If he affects the GOP in a good way in the end, that's great. Right now, he's not. Personally to me he should have run third party or independent to begin with and he never would have been slowed up by all this party stuff. I don't know who made a bigger mistake, Preibus for letting Trump in or Trump demanding to be let in.
He's coming close to accomplishing what I hoped for and that is the destruction of the existing 2 party system.
Neither party is remotely close to being destroyed. Republicans may lose in 2016, but they'll come back as strong as ever in 2018 and 2020 -- maybe even stronger if the country experiences another recession while Hillary is president.
If we are all being dry and neutral here there is no doubt the left and the right want reform. More people than ever are not registered to either party. A large number of people want integrity in government or the pretense of it, and they want the parties to be responsive to lower and middle class voters (and non voters who have abandoned the system btw) on fair enforcement of the laws in big banking/finance and immigration, employment/jobs/trade, and foreign policy. A good portion of the people who do the heavy lifting fairly or not feel ignored left and right. Personally I do not think Hillary as president is going to ameliorate these feelings, I think they will worsen. I think it's unfortunate that Donald has proven so personally unsuited to the task, and it's unfortunate that Bernie Sanders, while truly IMO the reform candidate in this race, that his policies are not more centrist or at least enough to get the Dem nomination, because clearly the people do want a reform oriented, honestly speaking candidate who will be responsive to their desires. Eventually the system has to provide that, and it will.
I agree. Best case scenario for Trump and his ego is for the GOP to give the nomination to someone else so he doesn't get destroyed in the general. I also agree with what Lod01 said about him carrying on that he would have won after Hillary ultimately wins the election. Win/win for Trump.
"I would've been a terrific president, the best president. I had lots of great ideas and, you know, words."
In related news, Paul Ryan introduced Wanda Al-Ibrahim to the party in a much-anticipated move by the Republican Party to vet a possible VP pick.
Its actually funny that he won the state, without any ground game. I think its kind of strange that the RNC doesn't get control of all the different rules and kind of standardize everything.
Unless she screws it up between now and then, which is totally possible, what are the other possible outcomes with a serious probability attached?
