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The writing’s on the wall in the Republican Party: John Kasich will be the Party’s nominee in 2016, with Marco Rubio as his running mate. Only the media’s delight at continued Trumpian drama is keeping politicos and pundits from coast to coast from stating the obvious.


So as not to belabor the point, here are eight single-sentence reasons Kasich/Rubio is now almost certain to be the Republican ticket in 2016:

1.Donald Trump needs 1,237 delegates to win on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, and not only will he not get to that figure prior to the Convention — he’d need to win well over 50 percent of the remaining delegates to do so, and even during his current run as front-runner he’s only won 46 percent of delegates — he won’t even get close enough to that mark to pass it via uncommitted delegates at the Convention.
2.Ted Cruz and John Kasich staying in the race through Cleveland not only will ensure that Trump can’t get close to 1,237 delegates via primary and caucus votes, it will also ensure that both men have a reasonable delegate total by the time they arrive at the Convention — more than enough to keep both of them in the picture in the view of Convention delegates.
3.Republican Party elders have more than enough clout to make sure that “Rule 40(b)” gets changed prior to or at the Convention, thereby enabling Republicans like John Kasich who haven’t won a majority of delegates in eight states to nevertheless be considered for the nomination.
4.After the first ballot in Cleveland — during which no candidate will have the require delegates for nomination — most of the delegates will be free to vote for whomever they wish, and while Ted Cruz has craftily planted his supporters in many delegations, it’s not nearly enough to get him to 1,237 delegates on the second ballot.
5.Whereas Ted Cruz is loathed by the Republican Party elite, has lost to Hillary Clinton in head-to-head polls 55 percent of the time since November 2015, and has no actual accomplishments in government to point to, John Kasich hasn’t lost a single head-to-head poll to Hillary Clinton in 2016, is broadly if imperfectly acceptable to both Party elites and movement conservatives, and is far and away the most accomplished Republican primary candidate left.
6.Marco Rubio has deliberately held onto his 172 delegates so that he can create a unity ticket with John Kasich in Cleveland — a ticket that will begin with somewhere between 350 and 600 delegates on the first ballot at the Convention, depending upon how many delegates John Kasich wins going forward.
7.Rubio is certain not to give his delegates away for free, nor to give them to his arch-enemies Cruz or Trump, nor to — as some suppose — merely fade into the background when he was and remains among the most ambitious politicians in the Republican Party.
8.A Kasich/Rubio ticket would appeal to both mainstream Republicans (Kasich) and Tea Partiers (Rubio), to both white and Latino voters, to younger voters who want to see someone relatively young on the ticket, to those looking for a ticket whose members run the gamut from executive to legislative experience at both the state and federal levels, and to those who believe all members of a presidential ticket should hail from a major battleground state.

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100% guaranteed losing ticket

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The writing’s on the wall in the Republican Party: John Kasich will be the Party’s nominee in 2016, with Marco Rubio as his running mate. Only the media’s delight at continued Trumpian drama is keeping politicos and pundits from coast to coast from stating the obvious.


So as not to belabor the point, here are eight single-sentence reasons Kasich/Rubio is now almost certain to be the Republican ticket in 2016:

1.Donald Trump needs 1,237 delegates to win on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, and not only will he not get to that figure prior to the Convention — he’d need to win well over 50 percent of the remaining delegates to do so, and even during his current run as front-runner he’s only won 46 percent of delegates — he won’t even get close enough to that mark to pass it via uncommitted delegates at the Convention.
2.Ted Cruz and John Kasich staying in the race through Cleveland not only will ensure that Trump can’t get close to 1,237 delegates via primary and caucus votes, it will also ensure that both men have a reasonable delegate total by the time they arrive at the Convention — more than enough to keep both of them in the picture in the view of Convention delegates.
3.Republican Party elders have more than enough clout to make sure that “Rule 40(b)” gets changed prior to or at the Convention, thereby enabling Republicans like John Kasich who haven’t won a majority of delegates in eight states to nevertheless be considered for the nomination.
4.After the first ballot in Cleveland — during which no candidate will have the require delegates for nomination — most of the delegates will be free to vote for whomever they wish, and while Ted Cruz has craftily planted his supporters in many delegations, it’s not nearly enough to get him to 1,237 delegates on the second ballot.
5.Whereas Ted Cruz is loathed by the Republican Party elite, has lost to Hillary Clinton in head-to-head polls 55 percent of the time since November 2015, and has no actual accomplishments in government to point to, John Kasich hasn’t lost a single head-to-head poll to Hillary Clinton in 2016, is broadly if imperfectly acceptable to both Party elites and movement conservatives, and is far and away the most accomplished Republican primary candidate left.
6.Marco Rubio has deliberately held onto his 172 delegates so that he can create a unity ticket with John Kasich in Cleveland — a ticket that will begin with somewhere between 350 and 600 delegates on the first ballot at the Convention, depending upon how many delegates John Kasich wins going forward.
7.Rubio is certain not to give his delegates away for free, nor to give them to his arch-enemies Cruz or Trump, nor to — as some suppose — merely fade into the background when he was and remains among the most ambitious politicians in the Republican Party.
8.A Kasich/Rubio ticket would appeal to both mainstream Republicans (Kasich) and Tea Partiers (Rubio), to both white and Latino voters, to younger voters who want to see someone relatively young on the ticket, to those looking for a ticket whose members run the gamut from executive to legislative experience at both the state and federal levels, and to those who believe all members of a presidential ticket should hail from a major battleground state.

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1.Donald Trump needs 1,237 delegates to win on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, and not only will he not get to that figure prior to the Convention — he’d need to win well over 50 percent of the remaining delegates to do so, and even during his current run as front-runner he’s only won 46 percent of delegates — he won’t even get close enough to that mark to pass it via uncommitted delegates at the Convention.

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I will vote for any of the Republicans. No fucking way I would even think about Hitlery or the Bern.

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It was good to see you finally come out closet.  The last exchange we had, you denied being a Trump supporter.

By the way, if Trump is the nominee, I'll be standing in line when the polls open to vote for the Republican nominee.

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Bernie is going to get hosed too.  Put up a third party with Trump/Sanders or Cruz/Sanders and watch the show.  

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Say goodbye to the republican party.

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No. The motion must be supported by the majority on one delegation.
It must be seconded by the majority of seven delegations.
The majority of all delegates must vote in favor of the motion before it is adopted.

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Perhaps he recognizes that HRC's lead is provided by super delegates.
Perhaps he recalls what happened in 2008, when the super delegates promised to support her and then abandoned her. (Imagine - politicians who don't keep their word.)
Perhaps he figures that screaming isn't the way to convince the super delegates to abandon her this time.

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I'm sick of people who don't know the difference between a primary and a general election trying claim Trump is our only hope for defeating Hillary. It's nonsense.

Whether you you support him or not one thing is clear, he has the highest negatives of any candidate, well, pretty much ever. Worse than Hillary. All indications at this point is he the worse possible choice if your criteria includes the ability to win in November.

Hell, he can't even secure a real majority in any state in the primaries. In other words, he doesnt even have strong support among Republican voters.  To the contrary a tremendous number of Republican voters have sworn not to support him should he get the nomination.  A Donald Trump nomination pretty much guarantees an abysmal turnout of Republican voters in November.

So everyone can stop with this foolish idea that Trump is our only hope of winning. The opposite is true. Now personally I think "electability" is a bullshit reason to vote for someone. I pick a candidate based on their principles.  I say support someone who's values you believe in and let the chips fall where they may. If that's Trump for you then go for it. But stop pretending that the Trump juggernaut is some unstoppable force that will roll over Hillary with ease. The much more likely outcome is she will trounce him.

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Republican primaries have had record turnouts and these people are not showing up to vote for Cruz or Kasich. Democrats however have had record low turnout because most moderate Dems hate Hillary and don't want to vote for an avowed socialist. Hate him all you want but Trump has a pretty hardcore base of supporters who are big enough to torpedo the Republicans chance of holding onto both houses if the nomination goes to anybody else and that's a fact. I'm pretty bleak in my outlook of Trump beating Hillary but I know what will happen when the GOP selects a turd like Kasich.

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You live in a fantasy world.

Cruz is not going to get the nomination.

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If polls were accurate Ron Paul would have won by a landslide in 2008. Polls are meaningless bullshit and a Kasich/Rubio ticket will perform just as poorly as McCain/Palin did but with the added bonus of Trump supporters voting against every other Republican on the ballot in protest. That's the ticket Hillary wants because it will probably give her both houses and then she can really do some damage.

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The writing’s on the wall in the Republican Party: John Kasich will be the Party’s nominee in 2016, with Marco Rubio as his running mate. Only the media’s delight at continued Trumpian drama is keeping politicos and pundits from coast to coast from stating the obvious.


So as not to belabor the point, here are eight single-sentence reasons Kasich/Rubio is now almost certain to be the Republican ticket in 2016:

1.Donald Trump needs 1,237 delegates to win on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, and not only will he not get to that figure prior to the Convention — he’d need to win well over 50 percent of the remaining delegates to do so, and even during his current run as front-runner he’s only won 46 percent of delegates — he won’t even get close enough to that mark to pass it via uncommitted delegates at the Convention.
2.Ted Cruz and John Kasich staying in the race through Cleveland not only will ensure that Trump can’t get close to 1,237 delegates via primary and caucus votes, it will also ensure that both men have a reasonable delegate total by the time they arrive at the Convention — more than enough to keep both of them in the picture in the view of Convention delegates.
3.Republican Party elders have more than enough clout to make sure that “Rule 40(b)” gets changed prior to or at the Convention, thereby enabling Republicans like John Kasich who haven’t won a majority of delegates in eight states to nevertheless be considered for the nomination.
4.After the first ballot in Cleveland — during which no candidate will have the require delegates for nomination — most of the delegates will be free to vote for whomever they wish, and while Ted Cruz has craftily planted his supporters in many delegations, it’s not nearly enough to get him to 1,237 delegates on the second ballot.
5.Whereas Ted Cruz is loathed by the Republican Party elite, has lost to Hillary Clinton in head-to-head polls 55 percent of the time since November 2015, and has no actual accomplishments in government to point to, John Kasich hasn’t lost a single head-to-head poll to Hillary Clinton in 2016, is broadly if imperfectly acceptable to both Party elites and movement conservatives, and is far and away the most accomplished Republican primary candidate left.
6.Marco Rubio has deliberately held onto his 172 delegates so that he can create a unity ticket with John Kasich in Cleveland — a ticket that will begin with somewhere between 350 and 600 delegates on the first ballot at the Convention, depending upon how many delegates John Kasich wins going forward.
7.Rubio is certain not to give his delegates away for free, nor to give them to his arch-enemies Cruz or Trump, nor to — as some suppose — merely fade into the background when he was and remains among the most ambitious politicians in the Republican Party.
8.A Kasich/Rubio ticket would appeal to both mainstream Republicans (Kasich) and Tea Partiers (Rubio), to both white and Latino voters, to younger voters who want to see someone relatively young on the ticket, to those looking for a ticket whose members run the gamut from executive to legislative experience at both the state and federal levels, and to those who believe all members of a presidential ticket should hail from a major battleground state.

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I so want to punish the GOPe  for their failure to live up to their promises to the party and for caving to the Zero on every.......fucking......thing.   Including passing the buck on the Iran Nuke "agreement" not Treaty.

But we wind up punishing ourselves.     The laws and rules never apply to these congressional parasites, they have their armed security, they have their secret money deals with lobbies and worse.    They are exempted from the ZeroCare that was forced upon the entire nation just so the DNC could buy more votes.


The 2016 is a diarrhea-covered shit sandwich,   Bite, Chew, Swallow, Repeat


I'll do what I got to do to allow me and mine to buy more beans, rice, bourbon and bullets, to give the young ones four more years to grow up and be more prepared for the coming world.

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But if you got a situation where no one gets 50 percent of the primary delegates it doesn't seem like they would stay with something like the 8 state rule of Rule 40 to my way of thinking because the GOPe HATES Trump and Cruz.

And let's face it...........the delegates are more in the tank with the GOPe than they are with the voters.