candycorn
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- Aug 25, 2009
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This is all strictly my opinion:
The easiest thing to do is let Donald have the nomination, show minimal support for his unconstitutional, unworkable, impossible-to-implement ideals during the campaign and hope to hell that he loses to HRC. And, for the record, this is NOT the path Reagan took to the Presidency. He was the GOP governor of California, had run as a Republican at least one time before losing to President Ford, etc... Republican Senator Laxhalt was his national campaign manager. Reagan's use of "make America great again" in this ad not withstanding:
The Living Room Candidate - Commercials - 1980 - Liberty Park/Hope Campaign 80
While it is fun to think about palace intrigue and some of it may certainly happen, the prospect of the GOP brain trust conniving to give it to a man who has won one state is farcical on it's surface. So I doubt Kasich will see the inside of the White House anytime soon.
Ted Cruz, on the other hand, has won a number of states including Texas and Iowa. If he had done some ground work in his largely wasted four years in the Senate cultivating relationships and party-building, he may have been an attractive alternative. His behavior has been the stuff that situation comedies are made of and his rhetoric remains a mix of unworkable stances and impractical solutions.
This leaves Mr. Trump. Like it or not, he has had the plurality of support among those voting in republican primaries and caucuses. He is the rightful recipient of the nomination based on that alone.
The powers-that-be in the RNC should let the chips fall where they may and offer neither advice nor support to any delegate or candidate in the event that nobody gets a majority of delegates.
The easiest thing to do is let Donald have the nomination, show minimal support for his unconstitutional, unworkable, impossible-to-implement ideals during the campaign and hope to hell that he loses to HRC. And, for the record, this is NOT the path Reagan took to the Presidency. He was the GOP governor of California, had run as a Republican at least one time before losing to President Ford, etc... Republican Senator Laxhalt was his national campaign manager. Reagan's use of "make America great again" in this ad not withstanding:
The Living Room Candidate - Commercials - 1980 - Liberty Park/Hope Campaign 80
While it is fun to think about palace intrigue and some of it may certainly happen, the prospect of the GOP brain trust conniving to give it to a man who has won one state is farcical on it's surface. So I doubt Kasich will see the inside of the White House anytime soon.
Ted Cruz, on the other hand, has won a number of states including Texas and Iowa. If he had done some ground work in his largely wasted four years in the Senate cultivating relationships and party-building, he may have been an attractive alternative. His behavior has been the stuff that situation comedies are made of and his rhetoric remains a mix of unworkable stances and impractical solutions.
This leaves Mr. Trump. Like it or not, he has had the plurality of support among those voting in republican primaries and caucuses. He is the rightful recipient of the nomination based on that alone.
The powers-that-be in the RNC should let the chips fall where they may and offer neither advice nor support to any delegate or candidate in the event that nobody gets a majority of delegates.
