drsmooth wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:now you are banking on a brokered convention? the goal posts keep moving.

I've asserted that I don't believe Turnip will be nominated. You try to put words in my mouth Calvin, I'll bite your arm off (after punching you in the face)

pacino wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:So that ceiling of 35 percent. Definitely want to hear more about that.

Calvin, you'll be pleased to know I had Turnip winning NV 14 delegates. He underperformed in NV.

He's still a loser. And will still lose. asshat are losers. Losers are asshat. And Mitch McConnell, with the help of Chuck GrASSley, has assured that at the margin anything labeled R will lose, perhaps catastrophically for Rs, in November.

NV polling is like NV Rs, and NV generally. A deplorable #$!&@ (Sorry 702).

Turnip still repels anyone with anything resembling brains or character. So the majority of Rs, and especially of Americans.

he under performed at 45 percent?

Rubio isn't going to win a single state on Tuesday. how will things be looking then?

I found a picture of doc

The legal dispute goes back to the 2013 legislative session, when Perry threatened to veto money for Lehmberg’s Public Integrity Unit in an attempt to force the district attorney from office after her arrest and conviction for driving while intoxicated. When Lehmberg refused, Perry cut all of the unit’s $7.5 million from the state budget.

Roger Dorn wrote:I can't believe there is still denial that Trump is going to be the nominee...anyways here is a sobering article from Matt Taibbi...pretty good read.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224

I mention that Trump's plan is virtually identical to Dick Gephardt's idea from way back in the 1988 Democratic presidential race, to fight the Korean Hyundai import wave with retaliatory tariffs.

Donlon says she didn't like that idea then.

Why not?

"I didn't like him," she says.

pacino wrote:

Roger Dorn wrote:I can't believe there is still denial that Trump is going to be the nominee...anyways here is a sobering article from Matt Taibbi...pretty good read.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224

I mention that Trump's plan is virtually identical to Dick Gephardt's idea from way back in the 1988 Democratic presidential race, to fight the Korean Hyundai import wave with retaliatory tariffs.

Donlon says she didn't like that idea then.

Why not?

"I didn't like him," she says.

CalvinBall wrote:Rubio isn't going to win a single state on Tuesday. how will things be looking then?

drsmooth wrote: "Very close"? what good will that be for Turnip? Rs get him to Cleveland, they punch him in the face. And he cries, and goes home.

mozartpc27 wrote:

drsmooth wrote: "Very close"? what good will that be for Turnip? Rs get him to Cleveland, they punch him in the face. And he cries, and goes home.

Earlier in the thread I suggested the Republicans are playing Russian roulette with a three chambered revolver and two of them are loaded. Well, maybe this revolver has four chambers, and this here is the third bullet.

First of all, if Donald Trump makes it to Cleveland with more delegates won by popular vote than anyone else, but not enough for the nomination, there is NO WAY he takes his marbles and goes home. He tells the Republican establishment to jump on it and spin and runs anyway. And this is to say nothing of what this would do in terms of the party base: how could they justify, politically, to the people who voted that the person who got the most votes is not the nominee?

This would be tantamount to conceding the 2016 election for the purpose of purging the Republican party of a certain type of voter. You could argue the Democrats did this in 1972; it'd be an interesting move, but I can't see the Republicans making it when the presidency is an open seat.

TenuredVulture wrote:Those deals will also piss off trump supporters the party needs to have even a whisker of a chance, and may even cost them the Senate. I don't think anyone would expect Trump to accept any of this quietly.

jerseyhoya wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Those deals will also piss off trump supporters the party needs to have even a whisker of a chance, and may even cost them the Senate. I don't think anyone would expect Trump to accept any of this quietly.

OK and if we nominate Trump we've nominated Donald Trump. That may also cost us the Senate, makes it fairly unlikely that we'd win the general, and even if we did win it would come with the slight problem that Donald Trump was president of the United States.

pacino wrote:a new bloomberg poll shows people are misinformed:

“A quick question about the deficit – which is the difference between what the federal government spends and what it takes in in taxes and other revenue each year. Over the last six years, do you think the deficit has been getting bigger or smaller?”

Bigger: 73%
Smaller: 21%
Not sure: 6%

more inside

jerseyhoya wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Those deals will also piss off trump supporters the party needs to have even a whisker of a chance, and may even cost them the Senate. I don't think anyone would expect Trump to accept any of this quietly.

OK and if we nominate Trump we've nominated Donald Trump. That may also cost us the Senate, makes it fairly unlikely that we'd win the general, and even if we did win it would come with the slight problem that Donald Trump was president of the United States.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:maybe this is the event will bring us together finally!

Roger Dorn wrote:I can't believe there is still denial that Trump is going to be the nominee...anyways here is a sobering article from Matt Taibbi...pretty good read.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-america-made-donald-trump-unstoppable-20160224

He used a German term, backpfeifengesicht, literally "a face in need of a good punch," to describe Cruz.