Super Tuesday Analysis | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Cruz won his home state,which gives him a go-ahead to stay in the race. Things are dicier for Rubio and Kasich, so Cruz may be the anti-Trump, especially if he gets more Cubano votes in Florida than Marco. What a horrible choice! It looks like Trump is getting help from Democrats who want to pick their running mate, although I can't imagine either Hillary or Bernie voters taking their feet off the gas in their won race.
From what I understand from one of my cousins, where Hillary is winning, in at least some states Bernie is staying within spitting distance. I suspect that even if he were out of it, he would stay in to attract crowds and demonstrate how much the future leaders of the party disdain the neo-liberal triangulation the Clintons and their followers are known for. Indeed, if Trump really does break the GOP permanently, I could see the business conservatives and neo-liberals in one party and the libertarians and democratic socialists in the other (as long as they can keep rejecting corporate money).
What will a Trump candidacy, or God forbid, presidency due to the pro-life movement? Will he tape a speech for the March for Life or even take their phone calls? I suspect not. Once he gets the nomination, he will be a pro-choice candidate for November, which actually is good for the movement, since if he mouthed abortion as an issue, the Democrats may well just continue to drive home the point that the right-to-life movement is a Republican front group with no plans and no agenda, now that their Federalist Society hero, Justice Scalia, is out of the picture (and not even Thomas shares the view that this matter should be returned to the states). With Roberts and Alito sitting with Kennedy in the old O'Connor spot on this issue, there will likely be only one Justice in favor of not considering Roe as settled law - and movement that justifies its existence in adding four more justices who would consider changing that (if not five, as Thomas is old) can only be considered Quixotic. Just because the Catholic bishops are helping the GOP sell snake oil does not mean we are under any obligation to buy it.
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