Update: We’ve put the Ted Cruz section at the top!
4. Choose Cruz.
Yes, I’m serious. Force Never Trump conservatives to back you by making a private and sincere apology to Senator Cruz. And then nominating him for the Supreme Court. Look, allow me:
Morning, folks. It’s good to be here in the great state of Texas. You folks invented plain speaking before I got started. I’m here to tell you that like most of us, I’ve made some mistakes, and one of the biggest mistakes I made was to attack a great American and your fine senator, Ted Cruz.
No, no, folks, it’s true. I’m not a man for self-reflection a lot of the time, but running for President forces that on you. And I realized I owed a deep apology to Ted and to Heidi Cruz. The rough and tumble of politics can’t set our Republican family against each other. Before you ask, yes, I have indeed apologised also to Khzir and Ghazala Khan. I’ve made a donation in the name of their hero son Capt. Khan to veterans’ charities.
If there is one thing that Ted and Heidi, and Khzir and Ghazala, have in common, it’s love of this country and its Constitution. And as President I would take an oath to defend that Constitution. We cannot Make America Great Again without defending the document that made America.
That’s why Hillary Clinton can never be our Commander in Chief, folks. She will appoint judges to the Supreme Court that will twist how the Constitution is read for a generation. I will appoint strict constitutionalists only. You have read the list of judges that I floated earlier this year, including Justice Willets, right here in Texas. He hasn’t been a fan of mine. But that’s OK with me. I’m a fan of his. We joke and have fun, but I assure you, my friends, that I am focused more on the Oval than on my ego.
And I said at the time that I might add names to that list. Now there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, right now, and I’d argue that after national security, filling that vacancy right is the first and most important job of your President. Hillary Clinton won’t tell you who she’d appoint. She won’t level with the American people. I’ve called her ‘Crooked Hillary’ and so that means I’d better play it straight.
And so here, today, in Texas, I’d like to tell you that if your support, and the American people, elect me this November, I want the best – you know me folks, I only want the best – the best fighter for our Constitution to fill the vacancy on that court. There is only one man who understands the Constitution better than anybody else alive, who’s appeared nine times before the justices, who won for President Bush in Bush vs Gore. It’s a man to whom I had to apologize, and he dealt with me firmly but fairly (smile) – yep, that’s the sign of a good judge. I’m so privileged to announce that if I am elected your President, that at my very first opportunity, I will nominate the best constitutional lawyer in America to sit on that Court and be our life-long guard of America’s values. And that man is your very own Senator Ted Cruz.
(extends arm, Ted and Heidi Cruz walk onstage to rapturous applause and the sounds of Trump’s polling shooting through the roof in all conservative states)
Original Article…..
We’ll see a different tone with Donald Trump now, his surrogates keep saying hopefully.
Of course, it never happens. And it probably can’t happen, because Donald Trump is what he is.
But like all political junkies, I love engaging in counter-factuals. So as an intellectual challenge, what advice would this Never Trumper give to Donald Trump – what should he do, if he actually wanted to win the election?
1. Fire Corey Lewandowski.
Sorry, Ivanka and Jared, I don’t think this ever actually happened. You’ve had no change of tone, and your Dad still follows the man on Twitter. What’s the betting Corey is coaching Donald on ‘ways to mess this up’ ?
2. Attack Clinton’s policies – not individuals you don’t like.
Secretary Clinton plans to admit Syrian ‘refugees’ into America. Why don’t you attack this policy, and at the same time share an alternative, such as creating a safe zone in Syria and forcing the UN (not Mexico – the UN) to police it, a zone into which you would demand refugees settle?
3. Lose Lewandowski Junior, Dan Scavino
Dan Scavino, your social media “manager”, is the man who’s deeply involved with alt-right and Russian bots.
That ‘sherrif star’? Dan “4Chan” Scavino. You can have fun on Twitter, or you can make a run at the White House. Need I say more? The guy’s a loser – like you will be in November if you stay loyal to cucks who are Stumping the Trump.
5. Sorry isn’t the hardest word – ‘Concession’ is
You need to make a bunch of heartfelt, or well-acted, apologies. Get on with it, starting with the Khans, Cruz and Bloomberg.
6. Ditch Putin. Embrace free trade. Warn Erdogan.
You can’t peacock like a hard man when your Putin-dictated policies, coming from Manafort, are to Make America Grovel Again before the Russian strongman. You, Donald Trump, are a free-trade king, making goods all over the world. Embrace it. Tell Putin you will strike hard at him the day you are elected. Make it clear Assad’s palace will be reduced to rubble the day you are sworn in. Islamism? Repudiate Turkey, and rip up the Iran deal. Tell Saudi Arabia to stop discriminating against women or be deposed. Offer Aayan Hirsi Ali a job in your administration.
7. Keep the tough guys and girls on side. Make Chris Christie Secretary of the Interior. Make Joni Ernst (Lt. Col ) Secretary of Defense. Announce a strong team conservatives can trust. Back Brexit louder and offer a free trade deal to Britain direct, bypassing the EU. Tell Juncker and Merkel there will be consequences for messing with your ally. Tell Erdogan he can release all the journalists he holds or America will place sanctions, and more, on his state.
8. Offer Marco Rubio a position in charge of Hispanic outreach and immigration reform which you combine with building an actual wall across the border with Mexico, which is in fact a perfectly sound strategy against illegal immigration and human trafficking.
9. Please remember Tiffany Trump. It’s gross how much you overlook one of your children. Include Ivana and Marla in that apology tour.
10. Pledge to fight for a bill to amend the Constitution so that immigrant citizens like Arnold Schwarzenegger can run for President. Building a wall will be enough to keep your promise on illegal immigration; if you do both together, you can come clean about your touchback Amnesty plan.
11. Clean up your old websites and delete bygone positions that aren’t constitutional, like “Muslim ban” which becomes “ban from new immigrants from terror hotspots”. Any questions on this, ask your Supreme Court nominee Ted Cruz.
You can be offensive, sexist, have said racist things and still wind up a hero in politics, Donald – and stop asking people to call you ‘Mr. Trump,’ you’re not our history teacher. Ask LBJ – he was a sonofabitch too, but also a civil rights hero, and history is now judging him fairly.
Do all of the above, and you will not only win back Never Trump, you’d keep all your existing support – and win the White House from a standing start.