[Always A Marine]

I voted for Ted Cruz and I agree with Huckabee on this.

[Iron Munro]

There more details that leak out the more it seems that the republicans have a system similar to that of the democrats’ “Super Delegates”.

They just have different terminology and have been able to keep it under wraps a little longer.

[Rufus Shinra]

Disgusting indeed...A vote for Cruz is a vote for the establishment and business as usual. It’s just the illusion of change that he is peddling.

[Larry Lucido]

Memo from On High:

1. Forget the bad stuff we said about Huck.

2. Like Krispy and Pyramid, he’s now One of Us.

3. Gooble gobble.

[fireman15]

These nasty tactics are destroying Cruz’s credibility and his chances to ever win any political office again. It wouldn’t be quite as bad if he would just keep his mouth shut about it. It is one thing to be disenfranchising millions of voters; it is another thing to be bragging about it.

[G Larry]

Huckabee will always do whatever he can to keep the most conservative candidate out.

[Randy Larsen]

We Trump supporters aren’t trying to save the GOP! we want them destroyed as in reduced to dust so they no longer can sell us out for their personal gain ever again!

[Bobby_Taxpayer]

How many of you skirt the tax law by claiming every possible deduction and the a bit extra to not pay as much taxes? So now, what’s wrong with working within the rules to get every possible delegate? There is no obligation an any state to hold popular votes in primary elections for President. It ain’t in the constitution folks. Get over it!

[OldNewYork]

I think we're seeing the end of Ted Cruz's political career. It is sad, not just because of his conservative bona fides.

[chris37]

It’s also disrespectful.

I do not appreciate Ted Cruz anymore.

[Charles Henrickson]

So you win the state and the loser ends up more delegates, really. This is disgusting and disturbing.

So you win Florida with 45.7% of the vote and you end up with 100% of the delegates. This is disgusting and disturbing.

See? Works both ways. Stop whining.

[tumblindice]

538 electors in the electoral college, 270 needed to win. One elector for each House critter, two for senators. Simple.
You can believe the left branch, and even the right branch of Uniparty would be screaming bloody murder if one of their electors decided they decided they didn’t want to vote with the voters they are expected to represent.
Resident Cruzers would say, the candidate not receiving the vote s/he earned from American voters didn’t know what he was doing or wasn’t “working hard enough” and/or was “whining” about losing.
When in fact they won.

I suppose it could be explained as a matter of ‘whose ox is getting gored,’ but oddly enough it seems to be only Cruz who is gaining these fickle delegates.

Consequently, we see here the disgust by the rest of us to these lame, no, not lame—risible excuses for delegate theft, similar to the outrage that would be expressed by (at least the left wing of) Uniparty if the same thing happened November 6th.

[WENDLE]

Mike swings million of evangelicals fro lyin’ ted.

[Charles Henrickson]

So you win Missouri by two-tenths of one percent and you end up with 67% more delegates. This is disgusting and disturbing.

[Charles Henrickson]

So you win the Northern Mariana Islands, which has about five people in it and can’t even vote in November, and you win nine delegates out of it. This is disgusting and disturbing.

[Charles Henrickson]

The point being, the rules for awarding delegates vary from state to state. Sometimes that works for my guy, sometimes that works for your guy. Everybody knew—or could know—the rules ahead of time and plan accordingly. Failure to plan on your part is not “stealing” on my part. Oh, well. Get over it. Stop whining.

[Albion Wilde]

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Selected Trump articles on FR, from 2:30 PM to 11:59 PM EST, 4/16/16:
Free Republic Caucus 2016 04/17 –DoughtyOne
Mike Huckabee Defends Donald Trump –Twitter
Nearly 1 in 14 Children in the U.S. Reside with an Illegal Immigrant Parent (Probably 10x that) –Breitbart
The Weirdest Possible Outcomes for the Strangest Election in U.S. History –Brandon Smith
GOP official rails over effort aimed at nomination rules –AP
Priebus tells delegates not to change convention rules –Matthew Boyle
Trump opens up a 27 point lead over Cruz –RedStateWatcher
I was told yesterday that Trump is a liberal Democrat. My reply: –Jim Robinson
Trump Supporters Walk Out of Georgia Delegate Fight after Party Picks Cruz Supporter –Breitbart
TRUMP Likely to Win West Virginia Vote But Lose the Delegates to Cruz –Jim Hoft
Republicanism in action - Convention Report GA 5th –spintreebob AAR
Ted Cruz sweeps Wyoming Republican Convention –CNN
Donald Trump is right about NATO, alliance burden sharing –Fox
Smerconish Presses RNC Spox on Trump’s Complaints: Without His Constituency ‘You Lose’ –Mediaite
Lewandowski Tried Calling Michelle Fields but She Never Returned His Calls –Jim Hoft
Romney's Niece on Being Trump Delegate: 'Pretty Sure I'm Out of the Will' –Fox
Vandal Slashes Trump Supporter’s Tires, Declares He ‘Improved Community’ –Breitbart
Will Chris Christie Body-Block Ted Cruz from New Jersey Ballot –PRNewswire
The end is a lot closer for Cruz than we thought –RedStateWatcher
The Case for Donald Trump –NYT
Clift: Cruz ‘Makes Trump Look Like Raving Liberal,’ ‘Most Dems’ Would Prefer Trump over Cruz –Breitbart
Voter leaving Dems after 30 years to vote for Trump (video)
Ayatollah So: Americans live under an Iranian type of system and didn’t know it –Scott Adams
Ted Cruz is poised to pick up another small win that will narrow the gap –Reuters
New Quinnipiac NY Poll (Trump 55%, Kasich 20%, Cruz 19%)
Trump’s The One –AmericanThinker

[Durbin]

Gotta love how Trump and all of his supporters start complaining now. Was Huckabee conolaining about this last election cycle? What a joke this while damn thing has become.

[matthew fuller]

I think that I’m in the dark about what Huckabee is saying- Is he saying that if Trump gets close but short of 1237, that there should be no second ballot? That everybody should throw in the towel, and just give it to Trump? Is that what he’s got his panties in a twist about? I am under the impression that if no one gets the majority (1237), the delegates go to second ballot, which releases some (not all) from being bound. That’s the way it’s always been.....

[sargon]

Huckabee absolutely nails it.

This is what Gingrich has been pointing out for weeks.

If the GOPe steals the nomination from Donald Trump, the party will be dead by January 1, 2017.

A new party will rise from the ashes of the self-immolating GOP and will become a big force in national politics, and what's left of the GOP will wither and die.

This is why the wishful (delusional) thinking of Ted Cruz supporters is becoming so comical.

For them to think that Ted Cruz can waltz into the convention several hundred delegates shy of a majority, and steal the nomination from Donald Trump, is truly the height of arrogance, naivete, and conceit.

Within a week or so from this Wednesday, Ted Cruz will be calling for unity behind the presumptive nominee, Donald Trump.

Any other behavior on Ted Cruz's part will be foolish, misguided, selfish, and would likely bring on the destruction of the GOP itself, because Trump voters aren't going to be disenfranchised. They are the biggest and most enthusiastic and energized voting bloc, and after all of the shenanigans the GOPe has already pulled, the convention would descend into chaos, the party would splinter, and the Democratic nominee would be guaranteed a win in November.

Even the corrupt scumbags in the GOPe aren't stupid enough to try such a thing. Maybe in the old days of smoke-filled rooms, party "bosses", and limited access to information for the public, etc., such stunts were feasible, but in the modern era of internet and instant media, such criminality would be utterly suicidal for the party.

It's time for Ted Cruz supporters to GROW UP, face reality, and admit defeat. The sooner it happens, the better it will be for the party, and if Ted Cruz cares about the party at all above his own selfish ambition, he will act accordingly, and maybe he can have a significant role in the coming Donald Trump administration...