Quote:I don't know, dude... I think you are seeing the split of the republican party...


Evangelicals and fiscal conservatives and and the establishment republicans are the main wings of the party.


If you look at the south, trump ran away with it--and that was after all his religious gaffes! I'm sure you remember 2 Corinthians. :-) and don't forget he's chill with the transgender...


What that tells us is that the evangelicals are not the power house they were thought to be. Cruz panders to evangelicals like Gus Bradley panders to Baskin Robbins. Losing the south tells me that his core constituents are a niche of the party.


Now, can he pander to the fiscal conservatives? possibly. But he's lost the establishment, and he ain't never getting them back...


If half the republicans stay home, and the angry trump voters don't have trump on the ticket, they will leave the party, at least for this cycle.


the republicans won't have a chance. Cruz, no offense, is almost as big a joke as little Marco..

 

You kind of make my point as far as Trump being a Clinton plant.  In my opinion, it's already been decided.  If Trump gets the nomination, then conservatives will pretty much stay home ensuring a Hillary victory.  If it goes to a contested convention and they nominate Cruz, then many of the low information voters registered republican will stay home.  If they nominate anyone else including Marco Rubio, I don't think that the support will be there to defeat Hillary.

 

In any scenario, Trump will have fulfilled what he intended to do, ensure the coronation election of Hillary to The Oval Office.

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