Actually, we all thought Wisconsin was a bad week-—but it turns out it wasn’t. Trump has gained steadily in every major poll after Wisconsin. Cruz has fallen in every poll. The news of Colorado coming after Wisconsin overshadowed everything.
I think now that was a major turning point in the campaign. Ted could have come out and said “I agree with Donald that the outcome in Colorado was not optimal, and I have faith that a real election process would produce the same result. So, along with Donald, I call on the Colorado GOP to provide some means of allowing Coloradans to vote prior to the convention and the will of the voters be done.”
Now, would this happen? OF COURSE NOT. But it would have allowed St. Ted to get on the right side of the issue, without any real loss of delegates.
But nooooo. St. Ted had to greedily cling to his meaningless delegates and lose the issue.
And the same is likely to be true of this past week. I was just making a relative comparison, the week after Wisconsin, Trump was taking a real beating, not one over manufactured crises.
-- Ted could have come out and said "I agree with Donald that the outcome in Colorado was not optimal, and I have faith that a real election process would produce the same result. So, along with Donald, I call on the Colorado GOP to provide some means of allowing Coloradans to vote prior to the convention and the will of the voters be done." --
Or, better all around I think, if the zealots in Colorado had let the process run "fairly," the delegate allocation would have not caused a ruckus in the first place. I am not a big fan of popular vote. Maybe it works okay in one election or another, but on the whole, universal suffrage and popular vote are poison.
That said, if one accepts the premise that popular voting is good, then yeah, Cruz could have done as you suggest. If, on the other hand, one allows state parties to have a range of means of delegate selection, Cruz could have at least acknowledged that there are serious allegations of impropriety and unfairness, and those allegations will be worked out as objections are filed and dealt with. In other words, don't claim the result is certainly valid, instead acknowledge and admit that maybe some hanky panky was going on.
-- But nooooo. St. Ted had to greedily cling to his meaningless delegates and lose the issue. --
He does the same thing when he characterizes his opponents' positions. Misleading characterizations, and he never backs down. I think he's loopy.
‘But nooooo. St. Ted had to greedily cling to his meaningless delegates and lose the issue.’
It goes way beyond that. Cruz keeps jabbering about his “five landslide wins.” It honestly, no exaggeration, does remind me of Bogart and the strawberries. People sense that, even if they don’t articulate it. It’s why Cruz’ numbers are dropping like a rock through water.