Posted on 04/21/2016 6:47:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
Sounds like a whole lot of whining to me...
And we are fine with the primary process when people get to vote, and it’s easy and accessible. But not when it’s a month long process with multiple conventions leading up to the state convention where 600 delegates give 10 second speeches to get people to vote for them.
The average voter is busy trying to make a living and take care of their family. They want to go out, vote and be done with it.
They want a nominee who gets on the ground, walks the neighborhoods, shakes hands and does the hard retail work at the grass roots.
The GOP needs a winner. Trump is winning. And he is doing it cheaper and more effectively than Cruz, Trump is master of social media. Michael Reagan is stuck in the past.
Michael, I’m not whining. I’m just pointing out that Cruz is a natural born liar.
Communications from Cruz supporters seem to often have an element of condescension.
Exactly! Don't you people realize that only the elites, the well-placed, well-educated, chosen ones among us have the wherewithal to choose our leaders? This nation has grown too big to leave decisions like this to the great unwashed uneducated in flyover country! Now get back to your jobs and let your Republican Party leaders manage this enormous undertaking!
So, Michael appears to be implying that he thinks the Electoral College, which is in the Constitution, is the same thing (or at least similar) as the nominating process of a political party (which is not in the Constitution at all)? Neglect of context is a prescription for error.
And M. Reagan is a whiner, too. All he does is whine anout Trump and those who know what a good.man he is.
This entire article is a non-sequitur
I’d have no problem at all if Cruz were lining up uncommitted delegates.
What reeks is his strategy of working to install his supporters in place of Trump delegates earned by votes.
A simple question for Cruz. He claims 1.3 million people voted for a candidate in the 5 so called “voteless primaries.” In each State what percentages of the 1.3 million votes were for Cruz, Trump, and Kasich respectively? Without even a straw poll you have no connection (4 step CO process) between who the majority of voters support and which candidate got how many delegates.
That “Flying a 757” comment by Michael Reagan sounds a bit like classy envy to me.
“Communications from Cruz supporters seem to often have an element of condescension.”
That is probably because the thoughts of Trump supporters are often asinine. :-)
The Trump reality distortion field is strong.
“It’s the same representative principle at work in the Republican Party’s primary system.”
This man has lost his reason. Unelected party bosses choosing the presidential candidate by shutting out the people’s opportunity to choose, as in Colorado, is definitely not what the Founders had in mind.
Exactly.
I am always surprised to see Trump supporters hope that their leader becomes head of a party that they despise.
The Founding Fathers were against parties. So, that shoots down the whole notion that somehow a mafia party would be respectful of the Republic, Democracy or anything.
Secondly, it is one thing to not be democratic, but to use the vote against people as a statement used against one in a court of law, is utterly illegal. The only reason for the vote is one man one vote, and not one state subsidized party with a state vote and the rest of smaller participants shoving their views up their a$&es.
Mao also had a “Republic” by these standards, letting people talk and vote during the cultural revolution so as to draft lists of enemies to kill and then murder them in a huge repression.
The way the GOP picks and chooses after people voiced their opinion is trash
wrong michael.
electoral college delegates are backed by popular vote in state and not selected at some moronic convension.
electoral collegeis there to just protect interest of small states against big states.
Michael Reagan is committing a huge logical fallacy.
He is saying that Trump supporters are upset about the whole entire process, when what we were upset about is the places where Cruz finagled to “win” without the voters.
Overall, we are not upset when fair primaries selected actual winners.
Sorry Mike. You don’t get it at all
Was he even at Nancy’s funeral?
I didn’t see him there.
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