Super Tuesday 2016 |OT| The Final Incursion is a double Incursion (Mar 5-15 contests)

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Kusagari said:
All it's likely going to be is Romney saying he isn't going to let himself be drafted.
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I expect the speech, and I can't believe we are even sitting here talking about or caring about Mitt Romney again, to just be about him talking about how wrong Trump is for the party. He will go on and on, and it will just be another Rubio/Cruz/Clinton anti-Trump thing, and that's it.

And it will make people that much more anti-establishment and it will backfire, yet again.
 
Miles X said:
Who is he rumoured to endorse?
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Likely Rubio.

Ketch said:
So is it for sure gonna be Hillary vs trump now?
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99% sure it will be Hillary. Math just isn't there for Bernie. Trump still has work to do. He can end this on March 15 or this can go to the convention.

Downhome said:
Forget endorsing anyone.

He is rumored to being drafted by Republicans to enter the race.

It sounds like this isn't about that, or an endorsement, but it could be setting the stage.
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I seriously doubt he gets in. Way too late. Likely and endorsement or plead to rally around a single candidate to take down Trump.
 
Good Job Bob said:
What exactly would be Romney's play?
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If he entered the race the point would be to get in, win the minimum number of states/delegates required to take part at the convention, and then pretty much have the Republican party hand the nomination to him, and to hell with everyone else.

I thought there was a cutoff for anyone entering the race, but that shows how much I know about all of these silly details of this convoluted process.
 
Macho Madness said:
Romney could get in not to win, but to starve Trump of the delegates necessary to take the nomination.
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That would be the point. It's too late for him to just win it legit now. The point would be to further split things up, and open the door for him at the convention. They would hand it to him on a silver platter as well.
 
Gotta say, for the first time I'm feeling the fear of Trump capturing the populist message and with it the election. He's obviously playing with the message in real time.
 
GoP really gonna try to just give out the nomination via the convention? Trump will run third party, but maybe they don't even care at this point
 
Hillary vs Romney would be a scary race. It wouldn't be fun to watch anymore, as ol' Mittens would actually have a legit chance.

...except not really since there would be third party Trump lol
 
ciaossu said:
GoP really gonna try to just give out the nomination via the convention? Trump will run third party, but maybe they don't even care at this point
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This would be such an egregious mistake and would require a level of tone deafness that I didn't think was possible, even from the Republicans.

Honestly I think their best bet at this point is to get Rubio to drop out and get behind Cruz.
 
kingocfs said:
This would be such an egregious mistake and would require a level of tone deafness that I didn't think was possible, even from the Republicans.

Honestly I think their best bet at this point is to get Rubio to drop out and get behind Cruz.
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The party leadership will never get behind Cruz. Cruz has done nothing but fuck them with the government shut down and his Tea Party non-sense.
 
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Romney will just come out and try to bad mouth Trump just like Paul Ryan did.

"Release your tax records. Too much anger. He is not a good reflection on the party with the KKK stuff. etc. etc."

A last ditch attempt to try to get people to come back to the old R base and take a few delegates from Trump. Too bad it will be too little too late and no one cares about Romney anymore.
 
Isn't it too late for Romney to even be on the ballot in the primary? I thought the filing deadlines were late last year?

Same thing applies to Trump doing a third party run post brokered convention. I thought the filing deadlines would have already passed.
 
vainglorious said:
The party leadership will never get behind Cruz. Cruz has done nothing but fuck them with the government shut down and his Tea Party non-sense.
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They have to get behind Trump or they lose the GE. Sure he might lose to Hillary but giving the nomination to someone else through the convention will guarantee a loss and it will splinter the GoP electorate for a very long time.
 
There is no way Romney is entering the race but god he if he did that would be amazing because it would completely destroy any chance of a GOP candidate winning in November.
 
Grym said:
Romney will just come out and try to bad mouth Trump just like Paul Ryan did.

"Release your tax records.
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I completely and totally invite Romney to keep pressing that issue.

It makes no sense to me at all how he can even bring that point up. HIM of all people.

Even Rubio's very own Nikki Haley doesn't really have room to speak on that subject after what she said about, of all people, Mitt Romney four years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lk6f9F7HXY
 
GOP hates Cruz.
GOP really hates Trump.
GOP is trying to rally around Rubio because there is no one left.

If ego's would be put aside by one person, and they formed a ticket now, this race would be 100% over.
 
Bowdz said:
Isn't it too late for Romney to even be on the ballot in the primary? I thought the filing deadlines were late last year?

Same thing applies to Trump doing a third party run post brokered convention. I thought the filing deadlines would have already passed.
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For Trump running Independent: The first state deadline is May 9th I believe (Texas). Most are August and September. You need X amount of signatures or something most of the time. But I assume that wouldn't be a problem if he has so much support. He'd probably need to get the ball rolling fairly soon though...(late Mar/early April?)
 
Bowdz said:
Isn't it too late for Romney to even be on the ballot in the primary? I thought the filing deadlines were late last year?

Same thing applies to Trump doing a third party run post brokered convention. I thought the filing deadlines would have already passed.
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I believe the FEC allows third parties to register for the general as late as the summer. There was a lot of rumbling around Michael Bloomberg launching a third party bid depending on how the primaries played out - which is looking less likely.
 
vainglorious said:
I believe the FEC allows third parties to register for the general as late as the summer. There was a lot of rumbling around Michael Bloomberg launching a third party bid depending on how the primaries played out - which is looking less likely.
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Bloomberg run is pretty much out of the question at this point. He said he'd run if it looked like Bernie was going to be the Democratic nominee, and that's very unlikely right now.
 
kingocfs said:
They don't like Cruz but they hate Trump.

Either way taking this shit into the convention would truly be stupid.
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They hate both, and they would split on whom they wound up supporting. Graham has joked about rallying behind Cruz (after joking about him being murdered), while Trump has started to collects endorsements from sitting Senators.
 
Macam said:
They hate both, and they would split on whom they wound up supporting. Graham has joked about rallying behind Cruz (after joking about him being murdered), while Trump has started to collects endorsements from sitting Senators.
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Apparently they've started to hate Trump more than Cruz now that they realize he can win. They still hate Cruz a lot, but he isn't threatening the fabric of their party quite the same way Trump is.
 
Downhome said:
I completely and totally invite Romney to keep pressing that issue.

It makes no sense to me at all how he can even bring that point up. HIM of all people.

Even Rubio's very own Nikki Haley doesn't really have room to speak on that subject after what she said about, of all people, Mitt Romney four years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lk6f9F7HXY
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Hah. You're right on that one. No tax record talk. I still think that he will just be coming out to play 'elder statesman" and carefully word some disapproval of folks supporting Trump.
 
silvermember said:
Except it isn't a legitimate issue. The only ones who bring it up are the GOP and sanders supporters. The population at large don't seem to care or think it is a non-issue.
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That's why there's an actual federal investigation into it, right? The hand-waving continues. Queen Hillary can do no wrong.

And I like how you don't realize that conservatives and Sanders supporters make up, what, somewhere around half of the population at large? How about if we rephrase it this way: the only people who think it's a non-issue are Hillary supporters.
 
Grym said:
Hah. You're right on that one. No tax record talk. I still think that he will just be coming out to play 'elder statesman" and carefully word some disapproval of folks supporting Trump.
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Ah yes, because having the embodiment of the Republican establishment come out and shame Trump's non-establishment supporters into seeing the light is going to be SOOO effective....

I love watching the RNC squirm so much over the very real possibility that they'll be represented in the general by someone they can't control. Sure beats the relatively tame (and mostly settled) primary on the Democratic side.
 
Kraftwerk said:
The desperation is palpable. People passing this around social media as some revelation.....at least do some research people. Yikes.

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Just saw this and it's getting some traction on Republican and pro-Bernie sites as well.

What idiocy. Robert Byrd called his past life as a segregationist and racist "the worst mistake of his life" and by the time Clinton was working with him in the Senate, it had been decades since Byrd turned around his political life away from racism.
 
What will it take to get the GOP to realize that this is happening *because* they are such utter shitheads? They seem to be completely incapable of reflection and introspection.

They really can't seem to grasp the fact that people are so tired of them that they will do whatever it takes to make the GOP explode and burn a fiery death.

If they really cared about the country, and if they really represented the people and not their own personal interests, they would take this opportunity to sit down and start asking questions about what people really want, and why they are dissatisfied with the way current Republicans have failed to deliver.
 
ApharmdX said:
It's not going to fade away, because it's a legitimate issue. Let a department head at any sizable organization, public or private, have their own email server, one that doesn't get the same security measures and audits as rest of the organization. I'm a public sector employee and we are subject to the FOIA. This was a deliberate attempt to sidestep that act, and compromised security at the State Department.

I don't think it's disqualifying but I suspect that Trump will resurrect this issue in the general election in a big way.
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She was just using the same system as the two prior Secretaries of State.
 
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