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ORIGINAL: Greta75

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Ooohh, the picture has became clearer. Ah I was in Australia last few days and every time being in Aussieland feels like I never get news from the rest of the world! Their local news can't be bothered with anything about American elections.

Anyway, Trump bringing attention to the conspiracy theory that Cruz's dad was involved with Lee Harvey Oswald.

I saw the video of how Cruz hugged his father so tightly after he announced his withdrawal. From everything I saw, CLEARLY there is something implicating that will come out IF they investigated the involvement of his father further. And this abrupt drop out, could be due to some revelation about his dad that he doesn't' want to come out. It's just too coincidentally close.

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whom I believe to be the anti-Christ.

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whom I believe to be the anti-Christ.

Oh dear me.

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My suspicion is that every liberal is secretly delighted with Trump claiming the GOP nomination. How could liberals not be delighted as they witness the GOP commit political suicide?

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There is simply no way The Mop is going to win the general election. How can someone like Trump win the independents and swinging voters?

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How can people like Cruz ask or recommend people to vote for someone he called a "pathological liar" (and worse) only a week ago?

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How can any genuine conservative vote for a race baiting woman hating demagogue billionaire like Trump? The Mop is the antithesis of genuine conservatism.

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Personally I am enjoying watching the GOP self-destruct so spectacularly. I wish things like this could happen more often. The USA and its citizens will be the real winners in this election.

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She seems to be an expert at lying and manipulating things, I'm sure she could help.

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul
Greta,maybe the Aussies, unlike certain Trump supporters, bother to fact check their news before they report such utter crap.

Trump's claim is entirely baseless, laughable, and one of the prime examples of how he relies on shit to back him up. His sole source for this claim is a National Enquirer story-The National Enquirer. The most laughable and discredited magazine in the world. And their basis for the story was because someone claims that a picture of Oswald with a guy whom no one can identify looks like Cruz's dad 'might have' back then.

Every agency that has investigated this since the Enquirer published it in April has discredited. None of the people cited as sources in the original story will confirm or deny anything. Because it is entirely un-credible and anyone with an ounce of sense or dignity should cringe at the idea of reading the National Enquirer for the source of political news. I would give more credence to something written in the Onion.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/03/donald-trump/donald-trumps-ridiculous-claim-linking-ted-cruzs-f/

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle
Yes Trump is certainly a "wild card", which is precisely why he is so unsuited for the Presidency.

Do you want a "wild card", a person who lies so often he can't remember the last time he told the truth, an unpredictable maverick to be in charge of the world's largest nuclear arsenal with his finger on the button? Is this the kind of personal who should be charge of the world's largest and most effective military?

No one in their right mind would put such a person in charge of so much destructive power.

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whom I believe to be the anti-Christ.

Oh dear me.

Indeedies.

Should we laugh or cry?

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That's why Cruz left.

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No it's not. He explained why he left: because he no longer saw a viable path to the nomination.

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ORIGINAL: epiphiny43

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow~

I'm not reading the Cruz has quit, he's 'suspending' his campaign. No real politician closes the door on future opportunity? Given what the donald has said about fellow Republicans, no telling what he'll outrage with attacking HRC. It's remotely possible he could even embarrass himself? Leaving a zero chance of winning, a withdrawal from candidacy leaves the field again open.

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
GWB is absolute proof that anybody but anybody...could be president. All this country can do, is go up from there.

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That explanation didn't make any sense.

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That conclusion was obvious a long time ago.

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His goal was just to stop Trump from getting 1200+ delegates needed, not to win nomination and then battle him at convention.

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He quit this goal, because of something else.

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ORIGINAL: Greta75
To me, Cruz withdrawing so suddenly after vowing to fight all the way, and getting a VP, is like right after this incident. It's great nobody found anything yet, but I think there is something to be found. That's why Cruz left. As I said, I'm so convinced of this, at body languages at his speech of giving up this race, and the way he looked at his dad and embraced his dad. Like he was saying, "I'm doing this for you dad!" And the fact that he embraced his dad first before his wife.

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I think the Republican party is gelling very very quickly behind trump. Ya'll thought there was no way he was really running. No way he could win to be the candidate - no way to win the election.

You're wrong. At some point very soon the republican establishment is going to realize they are stuck with trump. They can win or lose with him - or they can cause a disaster and split from him. My bet is on the former.

My suspicion is that every liberal is secretly delighted with Trump claiming the GOP nomination. How could liberals not be delighted as they witness the GOP commit political suicide?
There is simply no way The Mop is going to win the general election.

Except of course by getting more votes, eh?

It's pretty obvious in every opinion poll going that Trump will lose against either HRC or Bernie. Despite your claims, Cruz who called Trump a "pathological liar" and his support base is hardly "gelling" behind Trump. When hardline Rightwingers like Bounty44 express their reservations about Trump as candidly as he did in post 27:

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i don't know if it quite call it a "fear" but trump is so polarizing and so dislikable, i suspect a lot of people who would have voted for another candidate, will not turn out for him.
i so dislike Hillary, but im not sure i like trump much better.

It's a telling sign that the Right is hopelessly split about Trump, and that lots of Right wingers are going to stay at home rather than being forced to vote for such an objectionable, truth-allergic, principle-free zone as The Mop. So what I think hardly matters. Trump is damned by his own 'side'.

Finally re: your personal predictions. I remember your repeated claims that Romney would romp it in over Obama in the last election. How did that turn out? The score on Presidential elections is Phydeaux's predictions 0 - reality 1. I don't see you lifting your game this time around, so my prediction is that the tally will read Phydeaux's predictions 0 - reality 2 after the votes are counted this November.

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My suspicion is that every liberal is secretly delighted with Trump claiming the GOP nomination. How could liberals not be delighted as they witness the GOP commit political suicide?

If sop, then they are rather foolish. Trump, for all his idiocy has tapped into a real groundswell of support among a good chunk of the electorate.

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There is simply no way The Mop is going to win the general election. How can someone like Trump win the independents and swinging voters?

I do not know, but here's the thing... he has already. Independents, and swing voters make up a healthy part of his support.

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How can people like Cruz ask or recommend people to vote for someone he called a "pathological liar" (and worse) only a week ago?

That's easy...politics. All that matters is that the party wins, it really doesn't matter who or how, just as long as the party wins.

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How can any genuine conservative vote for a race baiting woman hating demagogue billionaire like Trump? The Mop is the antithesis of genuine conservatism.

Actually, it is his policy proposals that ought to be worrying "genuine conservatives", as his proposals will increase the debt enormously. As for the race baiting and woman hating, well those are actually things that appeal to a lot of his supporters. See, in the US (and in most countries to be honest), most people who identify as "conservative" or "liberal" or "socialist" or whatever, don't really know what those terms actually mean, in many cases it is simply that they oppose something the other side supports (another weakness of the so-called two-party system). A good number of Republicans are Republican simply because they hate the Democrats (and visa versa), yet if you ask them why, they are very hard pressed to give a real reason, they will repeat the talking points spouted by their chosen media, whether Fox or MSNBC or whatever.

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Personally I am enjoying watching the GOP self-destruct so spectacularly. I wish things like this could happen more often. The USA and its citizens will be the real winners in this election.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch here, an electorate is a fickle and unpredictable thing, and Trump has defied all expectations. Most pundits and supposedly in the know commentators gave him no chance at the outset, and yet here we are with him as the presumptive nominee.