No. The GOP does not want Trump as the nominee and will work to stop him if he doesn't lock it up.

Posted by bad_luck on 4/27/2016 5:20:00 PM (view original):
No. The GOP does not want Trump as the nominee and will work to stop him if he doesn't lock it up.

They can try, but at this point it's a totally transparent process, and they will have to explain to the 15 million or so that voted for Trump that their voters mean nothing. Good luck to them if that's what they choose to do.

Posted by moy23 on 4/27/2016 5:49:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 4/27/2016 5:20:00 PM (view original):
No. The GOP does not want Trump as the nominee and will work to stop him if he doesn't lock it up.

They can try, but at this point it's a totally transparent process, and they will have to explain to the 15 million or so that voted for Trump that their voters mean nothing. Good luck to them if that's what they choose to do.

Allowing Trump to be the nominee doesn't shield the GOP from anger from Trump supporters. Trump will lose and then his supporters will blame the GOP establishment for not backing Trump from the start. The GOP is in a lose/lose situation with Trump supporters.

Better to nominate a candidate that actually has a chance at winning.

Posted by bad_luck on 4/27/2016 5:54:00 PM (view original):

Posted by moy23 on 4/27/2016 5:49:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 4/27/2016 5:20:00 PM (view original):
No. The GOP does not want Trump as the nominee and will work to stop him if he doesn't lock it up.

They can try, but at this point it's a totally transparent process, and they will have to explain to the 15 million or so that voted for Trump that their voters mean nothing. Good luck to them if that's what they choose to do.

Allowing Trump to be the nominee doesn't shield the GOP from anger from Trump supporters. Trump will lose and then his supporters will blame the GOP establishment for not backing Trump from the start. The GOP is in a lose/lose situation with Trump supporters.

Better to nominate a candidate that actually has a chance at winning.

Well one of us will be right, and the other wrong. I've been right about Trump since July. You, Tec, And MikeT have been wrong about him over and over and over. You're all making me look like the resident political expect, thank you for that!

Trump just started on Hillary last night so come July he will be in a much better position to win the general election against her.... Even in the polls.

Posted by moy23 on 4/27/2016 6:23:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 4/27/2016 5:54:00 PM (view original):

Posted by moy23 on 4/27/2016 5:49:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 4/27/2016 5:20:00 PM (view original):
No. The GOP does not want Trump as the nominee and will work to stop him if he doesn't lock it up.

They can try, but at this point it's a totally transparent process, and they will have to explain to the 15 million or so that voted for Trump that their voters mean nothing. Good luck to them if that's what they choose to do.

Allowing Trump to be the nominee doesn't shield the GOP from anger from Trump supporters. Trump will lose and then his supporters will blame the GOP establishment for not backing Trump from the start. The GOP is in a lose/lose situation with Trump supporters.

Better to nominate a candidate that actually has a chance at winning.

Well one of us will be right, and the other wrong. I've been right about Trump since July. You, Tec, And MikeT have been wrong about him over and over and over. You're all making me look like the resident political expect, thank you for that!

Trump just started on Hillary last night so come July he will be in a much better position to win the general election against her.... Even in the polls.

I think "resident political expect" is a nickname that should stick on you.

WELL WELL WELL! Here we go again. Haters telling lovers how to think and act and what to do. I suppose it's genetic with fascist libs.

I voted Cruz. Trump took all 5 states. MORE impressive is the fact he took EVERY COUNTY in EVERY STATE.

With that being said and what happened with Cruz appointing Forina, I love the fact that the remaining States still have a choice. The democrats don't have a choice because their nominee is selected by crony capitalist super delegates. The democrats aren't even democrats anymore. They need to lose that name and rename themselves the new socialist party.

Trump should get the needed delegates now. It's pretty much over in spite of what Cruz did today. Everybody I talk to has the same idea. BEAT HILLARY! They don't care. We would vote for ANYBODY over hillary. She should have a restraining order on her. No closer than 500 yards to the White House.

And it's going to be wonderful to see all the Republicans come together to defeat the new american Nazi party.

RUSH: I clearly said on this program 24 hours ago that what was gonna happen yesterday and last night was not gonna shake anything up because it was already expected to happen. And that's not true. This was a tsunami that happened yesterday. It was incredible what happened here yesterday... Do you realize, folks, that Trump won every county in every state that was holding elections yesterday? Every county in every state. Nobody predicted, even the most favorable predictions, even the most supportive predictions, nobody came close, really, to what happened yesterday.

FIORINA..... HA HA HA HA HA HA. ITS SO PAINFUL TO WATCH. CRUZ IS GOING TO BE THE LAST PERSON TO KNOW HOW FOOLISH HE LOOKS!!!! HA HA HA HA HA

Posted by DougOut on 4/27/2016 6:36:00 PM (view original):
Trump should get the needed delegates now. It's pretty much over in spite of what Cruz did today. Everybody I talk to has the same idea. BEAT HILLARY! They don't care. We would vote for ANYBODY over hillary. She should have a restraining order on her. No closer than 500 yards to the White House.

And it's going to be wonderful to see all the Republicans come together to defeat the new american Nazi party.

This actually explains a lot. Your worldview is shaped tremendously by the fact that you apparently surround yourself only with entirely like-minded individuals. That and listening to Rush explain how you're so convinced you're part of the silent majority.

But seriously, try to be remotely aware of the rest of the world. As of right now, all early polling has Hillary utterly destroying Trump. I'd say there are plenty of people in the country thinking of things other than beating Hillary.

Like beating Trump?

Early polling?

Utterly destroying?

This actually explains a lot.

Posted by DougOut on 4/27/2016 7:39:00 PM (view original):
Forina is classy and smart as a whip. We all love Cruz. Trump is classy and smart enough to bring them in and have them working with him.

No, we DON'T all love Cruz.

Cruz is a creep. He's Uriah Heep, presidential candidate. Yes, he's intelligent, in an "evil genius" kind of way; he's an anti-science religious nut and a skilled, eloquent lawyer at the same time. It's disturbing. I'm (mostly) conservative and Cruz has disgusted me from the beginning. If he's the nominee instead of Trump, I won't vote. Trump says things to appease the religious right and isn't interested in social conservatism as a policy initiative. When Trump is asked to speak about religion, instead of giving us garbage about believing in the Bible literally (etc), he usually pivots the question and discusses how ISIS is murdering Christians all over the Middle East, which is an actual issue.

Also, Fiorina is a TERRIBLE candidate, even as VP. She laid off a combined 500,000 people at HP and her previous company before that. That's 500,000 personable attack ads for the Democrats. Fiorina may as well do her campaigning while wearing a hat with a big target/bullseye on it.

Posted by bad_luck on 4/27/2016 11:41:00 AM (view original):
Makes sense. The 2.58 is all eligible voters regardless of party. Roughly half of the GOP population voted in the primary, and a little over half of that number voted for Trump.

I still don't understand your point.

If you're going by CT vote totals for Trump as some sort of "litmus" test, I'll just point out that only around 170,000 out of around 776,000 registered Democratic voters in CT voted for Hillary on Tuesday. That's only 22%. That's a smaller percentage than the 28% (123,000 out of 429,000) registered Republican voters in CT who voted for Trump on Tuesday.

Posted by bad_luck on 4/27/2016 1:39:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tecwrg on 4/27/2016 12:49:00 PM (view original):
And what's your point?

Just that a relatively small percentage of people are actually voting for Trump. Which is why he can be winning individual GOP primaries with 50%+ of the vote and still look like a sure loser in November.

Just trying to understand this.