Posted on 04/15/2016 7:06:37 AM PDT by reaganaut1
‘Gestapo tactics.” That’s how Donald Trump’s recently installed campaign manager, Paul Manafort, characterized the Ted Cruz campaign’s successful effort to win all 34 of Colorado’s pledged national-convention delegates at the long-scheduled Republican congressional-district and state conventions.
“Today winning votes doesn’t mean anything,” Trump complained. “It’s a corrupt deal going on in this country and it’s not fair to you people.”
Such complaints typically come from people who are not, in one of Trump’s favorite words, “winners.” Trump conspicuously refrains from complaining about the fact that, even though he has won just 37 percent of the votes cast in Republican primaries and caucuses, those votes have given him 46 percent of the delegates.
That happened because of the rules. Trump has benefited from winner-take-all rules in states such as Florida and Arizona. He has benefited from split opposition: In only one state (Massachusetts) has he won more popular votes than the combined total for Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich.
Anti-Trump candidates could have joined forces and encouraged tactical voting. When they didn’t (exception: Rubio advised his Ohio supporters to vote for Kasich, a favor not returned), Trump had no complaints.
But he did have complaints when Cruz operatives worked successfully to win technically uncommitted delegates in conventions, as they did in Louisiana and North Dakota. Trump’s response: “I don’t care about rules.”
It seems to run in the family. Trump’s son Eric and daughter Ivanka can’t vote for him in the New York primary because, as Trump explained, “They didn’t know the rules and they didn’t register [Republican] in time.” Even though the rules have been in force for years and are readily accessible online.
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The TrumpTard sock-puppets on here are not worth engaging with. They are either paid shills, utterly craven fools or just plain stupid. Either way, they are not worth the keystrokes.
Free Republic used to be a damn good site...
Free Republic used to be a damn good site... until the nastycruzers over-ran it...
No sir. Your ‘reminder’ is as fallacious as your arguments. I did not qualify which ‘voters’ in Colorado were denied the opportunity. Only that the ‘en masse’ was completely denied. Bias much?
The truth is that I’d have been completely happy with a total vote of registered Republicans deciding the winner. You on the other hand go to extremes to excuse party manipulation and wholesale refusal to consider ALL the voters’ preferences over party politics that are evidenced by the #NEVERTRUMP victory announcement on their own damned website (that was ‘ooga booga’ mysteriously hacked).
Get real.
You’re the fraud.
I know that I am about to be overbourne with devastating logic when I encounter a reply that starts with “sorry” or ends with “LOL”
Wonder why.
Two can play that game, mofo:
Said the TrumpTard who posts four and five times on every thread.
Seriously, are you getting paid per post?
Geez, I'd be rolling in it if I did.
But speaking of money, you reminded me that it's time to pony up for the 2nd quarterly.
You in on that with me? I'll try to have my screen name up on the donor board before the weekend is out.
How about YOU, BrewingFrog? After all - Free Republic used to be a damn good site! :)
BTW - LOVE "the Golden Dumpster Fire" as a nick for Trump. You have some wit, I'll give you that much. Do it in colors. :)
National Review | April 15, 2016 | Michael Barone
How did I guess.
YouTube: “Trump Finds Out That Cruz Is Really Kim Jong-un”
I don’t waste serious thought on lightweights like you, bedford.
I have donated for years. $50 last Freepathon.
Are you the front end or the back end?
Ya got me by thirty. Of course, I'm upping it this quarter to match a monthly.
I'll see your two lions, and raise you a Trump lion:
The only reasonable interpretation of that is that we were talking in that context about voters en masse.
In reply you said,
And which 'vote' is that? The ones where normal voters actually were allowed to vote en masse
We are clearly talking about mass voting in which Trump was getting delegates in fact more delegates than their percentage of Trump of voters voting in mass would warrant.
At this point I simply acknowledged the possibility that Trump voters we were talking about could be "normal." I now know that is as questionable about Trump supporters in this forum who are clearly are even less normal in their reasoning powers.
I come to the judgment about you for the purely gratuitous and unwarranted remarks at the foot of your reply:
Get real.
You’re the fraud.
At least you had the good grace to refrain from ending your fatuous reply with "LOL."
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