{"id":8220,"date":"2016-01-11T11:28:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T19:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/?p=8220"},"modified":"2016-04-16T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T03:26:09","slug":"full-disclosure-the-consequences-of-continuing-to-support-ted-cruz-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/full-disclosure-the-consequences-of-continuing-to-support-ted-cruz-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Disclosure – The Consequences of Continuing to Support Ted Cruz for President"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0<\/strong>The Consequences of Continuing to Support Ted Cruz<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“The Spoiler”<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Scott Rohter, January 2016<\/p>\n

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John Ellis Bush (Jeb) Still waiting in the wings?<\/p><\/div>\n

Many conservatives are\u00a0breathing a welcome sigh of relief\u00a0because we\u00a0think we got rid of\u00a0Jeb Bush and we stopped him from becoming the\u00a0Republican Party Presidential nominee in 2016, but\u00a0did we?\u00a0Don’t be so sure. Jeb Bush\u00a0and\u00a0some other\u00a0high profile\u00a0people who are acceptable to\u00a0Republican\u00a0Party bigwigs aka “The Establishment” are waiting\u00a0in the wings\u00a0right now just biding their time. They are\u00a0waiting\u00a0for an opportunity to\u00a0step in and “save the day” for the RNC, and\u00a0 guess what? Ted Cruz is giving\u00a0them just the opportunity they need to do that…<\/p>\n

Ted Cruz won the Iowa Caucus. Then he won three Republican primaries on Super Tuesday. He won in\u00a0Texas, Oklahoma, and Alaska.\u00a0Then he won in Maine and Kansas. He has won nine state primaries so far and he is trailing Donald Trump by less than 100 votes. \u00a0Trump has won in\u00a0ten states\u00a0and he has 382 delegates. Cruz is\u00a0 second in all of the national polls with about 300 delegates, and while Senator Cruz could never beat Hillary Clinton in a General Election\u00a0He is simply too polarizing to appeal to moderate Democrats. He\u00a0could never persuade enough\u00a0middle of the road, blue collar Democrats to vote for him the way that Donald Trump can, nevertheless he can continue to\u00a0site phony push polls published by liberal news organizations that actually want\u00a0Ted Cruz to run against Hillary Clinton. These\u00a0push polls show that\u00a0Ted Cruz\u00a0could\u00a0beat Hillary Clinton in a head to head matchup, but\u00a0let’s get real. There are\u00a0not enough evangelical Christians in America to\u00a0beat the hordes of \u00a0Hillary Clinton supporters and her progressive compadres.. The\u00a0only thing that Ted Cruz can do is deny Donald Trump the nomination on the first ballot which will lead to a brokered convention where the RNC will pick the next Presidential nominee for us… Enter Jeb Bush, or\u00a0John Kasich…\u00a0 or maybe even Mitt Romney who\u00a0has been patiently waiting\u00a0in the wings. Romney would not refuse the\u00a0nomination and neither would Paul Ryan if he was asked to run.<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney came out with this week with a scathing\u00a0attack on Donald Trump. He called him every name in the book. If Mitt Romney\u00a0would have\u00a0attacked Barack Obama that way\u00a0in 2008\u00a0then\u00a0Barack Obama wouldn’t have\u00a0won a second term, but Mitt Romney\u00a0reserved his fiercest criticism for\u00a0the current Republican front runner who so graciously endorsed him back in 2008.\u00a0 You can listen to Donald Trump’s endorsement of Mitt Romney in 2008<\/a>\u00a0 here. \u00a0I think Mitt Romney’s recent speech at the University of Utah<\/a> revealed a lot more Mitt Romney\u00a0than it did about Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The magic number to win the Republican nomination is 1237 delegates..\u00a0Yesterday that number was 1227. It just went up by ten\u00a0delegates overnight..\u00a0Is the RNC\u00a0already moving the goal posts back and\u00a0changing the rules so that Donald Trump cannot possibly win the nomination, or\u00a0did Bloomberg News<\/a>\u00a0just have faulty information? The powers that be in the GOP are\u00a0seriously considering changing the Rules at the Convention in Cleveland so that\u00a0 Donald Trump cannot get the nomination\u00a0even in the event that he actually does get the 1237 delegates he needs to win outright. \u00a0Is the R.N.C. playing us for suckers again? Do you remember what the R.N.C. did at the last Republican National Convention?<\/a> They changed the rules to make it harder for\u00a0grass roots conservatives to affect the process.. They drove Morton Blackwell<\/a> and the entire Virginia delegation around in circles on a bus while they voted to change the rules. That is the kind of Republican Party\u00a0we belong to, and Mitt Romney was deeply involved in\u00a0changing those\u00a0rules along with Reince Priebus.<\/p>\n

At this point it looks like Ted Cruz is all the RNC needs to prevent Donald Trump from\u00a0winning the nomination on the first ballot. John Kasich is waiting around to see what kind of support he can\u00a0drum up at a deadlocked Convention… but as of April 15th Donald Trump is leading with 744 delegates and Ted Cruz has 559 delegates.\u00a0\u00a0The nominee for President needs\u00a01237 delegates in order to win…\u00a0No candidate has consistently won more than 50% of the vote in\u00a0the primary so if any one is going to actually win the nomination outright before Cleveland then someone is going to have to do a lot better than they have\u00a0been doing\u00a0up till now…<\/p>\n

Jeb Bush\u00a0suspended his campaign, but that doesn’t mean\u00a0he wouldn’t accept the GOP nomination if\u00a0it was\u00a0offered to him at\u00a0a brokered convention. He still has all the money he raised to use in\u00a0the General Election to defeat Hillary Clinton if he\u00a0becomes the Party’s eventual nominee. \u00a0John Kasich or Mitt Romney would be quite happy to be drafted as well…<\/p>\n

Ted Cruz can never get enough moderate Democrats\u00a0or independents to vote for him in a General Election the way that Donald Trump can. He is too far to the right to appeal to middle of the roaders. The moderate Democrats that Donald Trump will\u00a0be able to bring over to the GOP will be\u00a0the\u00a0margin of victory\u00a0against the Democrats in the next election, but at a brokered convention\u00a0the Establishment\u00a0would pick\u00a0our next Republican nominee for us so I\u00a0caution\u00a0anyone who is supporting Ted Cruz\u00a0to rethink your decision. Think long and hard about supporting\u00a0this Trojan Horse.\u00a0 A vote for Ted Cruz is really a vote for a brokered convention, and the elites that will be choosing the nominee at a brokered Convention won’t be picking Ted Cruz to represent the GOP.<\/p>\n

I know you\u00a0want to put the most conservative\u00a0person at the top of the\u00a0ticket, but the chances of\u00a0Cruz beating Hillary are nill and nada in spite of what\u00a0some of those Democrat pollsters are telling you. They are trying to mislead you… The\u00a0consequences of continuing to support Ted Cruz will not only siphon votes away from the clear leader in the Republican Primary who is\u00a0Donald Trump,\u00a0 but it will also usher in the inevitability\u00a0of a brokered convention in which neither\u00a0Cruz nor\u00a0Trump will be the eventual Republican Party nominee for President.<\/p>\n

Many of the valid arguments\u00a0I have made about Ted Cruz\u00a0not\u00a0being a Natural Born\u00a0Citizen because he was born in Canada and\u00a0because his parent\u2019s were not both American citizens\u00a0at the time\u00a0he was born have fallen on deaf ears up till now, but the prospect of a brokered convention should scare the\u00a0daylights out of you. Do you really want to have\u00a0the\u00a0Republican National Committee\u00a0 pick\u00a0your next GOP candidate for President? Do you really want the RNC to manipulate the process behind closed doors? Do\u00a0you really want to allow Jeb Bush or\u00a0John Kasich or Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan to be the\u00a0Party’s alternative to Donald Trump\u00a0or Ted Cruz because that\u00a0is exactly what will happen\u00a0if you don’t withdraw your support for Ted Cruz immediately.\u00a0 The man you are supporting for President is not even eligible to be President according to\u00a0Article 2 Section 1 of the United States Constitution.<\/p>\n

Let me ask you a question. Who stands the most to gain from the Ted Cruz’s campaign for President…?\u00a0Isn’t it the Establishment ?\u00a0 Even though Jeb Bush suspended his campaign that does not mean that he wouldn’t be happy to accept the Party’s nomination if they drafted him.<\/p>\n

Think of what you are doing. Consider the consequences of your actions. Remember how\u00a0Republicans wound up with Mitt Romney\u00a0during the last election. It was\u00a0because there were\u00a0too many conservatives and pseudo conservatives all vying for our votes. Remember how\u00a0divided\u00a0conservatives were between Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain.\u00a0 It was this division that\u00a0Mitt Romney\u00a0exploited\u00a0 to win the Republican nomination for President. This time their is one clear leader in the race.\u00a0If we don’t\u00a0unite behind \u00a0him we are going to get a brokered convention where the elites will pick\u00a0our next\u00a0nominee for President. We all need to\u00a0get behind the clear leader in this race.\u00a0That is Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Senator Cruz\u00a0can only be\u00a0a spoiler\u00a0who denies\u00a0Mr. Trump the nomination on the first ballot and that will inevitably lead to a brokered convention in which\u00a0GOP\u00a0movers and shakers\u00a0will pick\u00a0our next nominee for us\u2026 Why else do you think Kasich and Rubio are still hanging around\u00a0plus don’t\u00a0forget about Jeb Bush. Don’t ever forget about Jeb Bush.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The typical Cruz supporter<\/p><\/div>\n

I predicted almost a year ago when Ted Cruz first entered the race that his campaign for President would\u00a0only prove to be divisive. I said all he would succeed in doing is\u00a0split the conservative base of the Republican Party\u00a0over the question of his eligibility. That is exactly what he has done.\u00a0Ted Cruz\u00a0is\u00a0 the main reason that Scott Walker and Rick Perry\u00a0dropped out very early in the race\u2026 Both of those candidates were at least born in\u00a0the U.S.A.\u00a0to\u00a0citizen parents\u00a0 and they were perfectly eligible to be\u00a0the next Commander in Chief. Whether or not you liked\u00a0Walker or Perry\u00a0is not\u00a0 the point. At least they were constitutionally eligible to run. Ted Cruz is not.<\/p>\n

I supported Scott Walker\u00a0when he was running, but all of\u00a0the “Cruztitutionalists”\u00a0made sure that\u00a0Walker’s plane never got off the ground\u2026 Now you\u00a0are hell bent on denying Donald Trump the nomination too. He is the only candidate in the race that can get enough moderate Democrats and Independents to vote for him so he can beat Hillary Clinton. Furthermore he can’t be bought or sold. If Cruz supporters keep doing\u00a0what\u00a0they are doing\u00a0then they\u00a0will\u00a0allow someone else to sneak in through the back door… If you don’t\u00a0want that to happen then for Pete’s sake stop supporting Ted Cruz for President. It’s time to\u00a0get smart.<\/p>\n

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