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GOP’s Ryan Loses to Clinton, Sanders

Some top Republicans see House Speaker Paul Ryan as the party’s savior if they can just make him the GOP presidential nominee. But Ryan loses to both major Democratic candidates in head-to-head matchups, with roughly a quarter of Republicans looking somewhere else.​
 
Cruz Campaign Outmuscles Trump in Colorado Delegate Sweep

In Colorado, the balloting continued a troubling trend for Trump, whose lack of a robust campaign infrastructure has left him vulnerable to losses in states with more complex delegate selection systems.

Cruz, as well as much of the party’s establishment, is trying to deny Trump enough delegates for a first-ballot nomination in Cleveland. As of late Saturday, Trump led the race with 743 delegates, according to Associated Press estimates. Cruz had 532 including the weekend’s pickups, while Ohio Governor John Kasich lagged far behind at 143.​
 
Trump erupts as Cruz sweeps Colorado without votes

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump erupted on Twitter Sunday night after a weekend that saw Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sweep all of Colorado’s 37 delegates without any votes being cast by citizens in a traditional primary process.

“How is it possible that the people of the great State of Colorado never got to vote in the Republican Primary? Great anger – totally unfair!”​
 
I hope he literally erupted... Saying that he just posted something on twitter would be so dull and accurately truthful


But if it's adjectives that you need... How about whined, spewed, vomited or oozed?
 
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Colorado GOP blundered on 2016 presidential caucus

The Colorado Republican Party's decision last summer to jettison a presidential poll at its caucus on Tuesday looks worse with every passing day.

Except for the actual delegates to July's national convention, Colorado Republicans who want to have a say in the future of their party have mostly been stripped of a role in the most interesting and surprising nominating struggle in decades.

They'll stand on the sidelines on Super Tuesday while other states determine whether Donald Trump continues his march toward a possible nomination or whether his rivals can slow him down.​
 
Donald Trump will almost certainly not be the Republican nominee if he cannot win on the first ballot in Cleveland

If Donald Trump cannot get 1,237 delegates on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in July, his campaign will be all but over – except for the shouting.

Many delegates who will be bound to support Trump on the first, and in some cases second, ballot tell us both publicly and privately that they will defect to Ted Cruz or whoever has momentum once they’re freed up from their obligation.​
 
RNC member predicts: Trump can win with 1,100 delegates

Republican National Committee member Randy Evans predicted Wednesday that Donald Trump would likely be able to secure the Republican nomination if he captures anything more than 1,100 delegates, short of the 1,237 delegates needed for a simple majority.

"If Donald Trump exceeds 1,100 votes, he will become the nominee even though he may not have 1,237," Evans said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

The RNC stressed Wednesday morning that under the rules, 1,237 delegates are still needed to officially clinch the nomination, and said Evans' comments are more of a comment on what might happen in the hypothetical situation in which Trump falls just short.​
 
Dear GOP: If Trump or Cruz Are Robbed of the Nomination I'm Out

The Republican Party will probably not even miss my presidential vote (assuming it counts), which is what it will lose if I sense that the nomination is being finagled away from either of the two likely nominees, Donald Trump, and my second choice, Ted Cruz.

I’m over sixty, so unless my longevity is above average, there are not that many election cycles left for me. The GOP has got to think about the future, and the fact of the matter is that I’m one of those old, white, nationalistic conservatives that Kevin Williamson hopes will die soon.​
 
Certainly in most parts of the world, Hillary Clinton would be considered as a Center Right/Right rather than a left wing candidate. So perhaps it isn't that much of a surprise.


However, I've just realized that as she isn't running on the republican ticket, we're both posting in the wrong thread ;)
 
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Apologies to those who still don't accept the inevitability of a Donald Trump candidacy in the Republican Party -- I feel your pain, as a famous prevaricator/predator once said -- but, disappointing as it may be to Fox and CNN executives, not to mention the millions or hundreds of thousands of voters loyal to Messrs. Cruz and Kasich, it's all over but the shouting and the backbiting. Cleveland in July may not be Christmas in July, but it's not going to be the second coming of the 1992 L.A. riots or the 1968 Chicago convention either.

It's going to be business -- relatively -- as usual with a Republican nominee comfortably in place before the festivities begin. And we all know who that is, like it or not. The fat lady has sung -- with a Queens accent.

I know that many see this as a disaster. The Republican Party will disintegrate. The Congress will turn blue never to return, etc. etc.

I don't. I'm sure that since I am a Trump supporter -- even though an intermittent and ambivalent one -- people will disqualify my opinion, and perhaps they should, but I don't have that worry. I think, as the old saying goes, things happen for a reason. I agree with Tucker Carlson, who said on The Kelly File Monday night that Trump was the only candidate with a chance of defeating Hillary Clinton in the general election. It is only Trump, of all the Republicans, if indeed he is a Republican, who is enough of a wild card to overcome the new American demographics that so favor Democratic candidates in presidential elections. They were bad enough when Obama ran against Romney. They are worse now.

So the fat lady's been singing for a while. But she started to hit the high notes when, just the other day, Cruz and Kasich got more desperate and decided to team up (sorta) to defeat Trump. They didn't, however, seem to have their hearts in it and only hours after the announcement Kasich appeared to be backing halfway out, saying he still wanted his supporters to vote for him. He just wasn't going to campaign in Indiana. Cruz wasn't acting particularly enthusiastic either. This wasn't exactly the Bryan Brothers going for that last Wimbledon. No real team play for these guys. Trump called them "colluders," but I'm not sure they could do a good job of even sharing crayons.
 
Then our nation is good and screwed.

The sad thing I'm seeing is how smug Trump supporters have been lately about their all but guaranteed victory in the primaries.....as if that's somehow something to be happy about.
 
Trump A Fascist? NOPE, They Said The Same Thing About Reagan!

According to Fears of Trump as Fascist Echo Similar Warnings Against Ronald Reagan:

“First of all, such Hitler hype has happened before, and been unwarranted. Steven Hayward, author of “The Age of Reagan,” recalls the rhetoric:

Democratic Rep. William Clay of Missouri charged that Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.” The Los Angeles Times cartoonist Paul Conrad drew a panel depicting Reagan plotting a fascist putsch in a darkened Munich beer hall. Harry Stein (later a conservative convert) wrote in Esquire that the voters who supported Reagan were like the “good Germans” in “Hitler’s Germany.”​
 
How the Rest of the Delegate Race Could Unfold

If Mr. Trump maintains his current level of support in the remaining races, he could win a delegate majority before the convention, but it will be close.

No other candidate has a realistic chance of capturing the delegates required to win the nomination outright. Even if Ted Cruz were to win all of the remaining delegates, it is a near impossibility for him to reach the 1,237-delegate threshold.​
 
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Trump A Fascist? NOPE, They Said The Same Thing About Reagan!

According to Fears of Trump as Fascist Echo Similar Warnings Against Ronald Reagan:

“First of all, such Hitler hype has happened before, and been unwarranted. Steven Hayward, author of “The Age of Reagan,” recalls the rhetoric:

Democratic Rep. William Clay of Missouri charged that Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.” The Los Angeles Times cartoonist Paul Conrad drew a panel depicting Reagan plotting a fascist putsch in a darkened Munich beer hall. Harry Stein (later a conservative convert) wrote in Esquire that the voters who supported Reagan were like the “good Germans” in “Hitler’s Germany.”​
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He doesn't give any reason to support his assertion. Just because those people were wrong about Reagan doesn't mean we're wrong about Trump. They're two entirely different people.


But I guess logic would be too difficult
 
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