Free Republic 2016 Caucus Open Discussion Thread LV

Free Republic ^ | 13 March 2016 | Windflier

[Windflier]

DO NOT VOTE ON THIS THREAD.

This is the nightly DISCUSSION thread for the ongoing 2016 Free Republic Caucus. Per caucus rules, no comments are allowed on the caucus thread itself - hence this open chat thread.

If you'd like to vote in the caucus, please look in the sidebar for the link, or check downthread here.

Thanks, and let 'er rip!

Windy

[Windflier]

FR Caucus discussion ping

[DoughtyOne]

Good evening

[Windflier]

Howdy howdy

[Lonely Bull]

Table 1: Free Republic Caucus 2016 threads, most recent 15 days

Date	Voting thread	Discussion thread	Results [on www.hotr.us]	Sequence no.
3/14	[link]	[link]	[available later]	55
3/13	[link]	[link]	[link]	54
3/12	[link]	[link]	[link]	53
3/11	[link]	[link]	[link]	52
3/10	[link]	[link]	[link]	51
3/09	[link]	[link]	[link]	50
3/08	[link]	[link]	[link]	49
3/07	[link]	[link]	[link]	48
3/06	[link]	[link]	[link]	47
3/05	[link]	[link]	[link]	46
3/04	[link]	[link]	[link]	45
3/03	[link]	[link]	[link]	44
3/02	[link]	[link]	[link]	43
3/01	[link]	[link]	[link]	42
2/29	[link]	[link]	[link]	41

Table 2: tables with older threads

Dates	Table	Sequence nos.
2/24 - 3/09	[link]	36-50
2/17 - 3/02	[link]	29-43
2/10 - 2/24	[link]	22-36
2/03 - 2/17	[link]	15-29
1/27 - 2/10	[link]	8-22
1/20 - 2/03	[link]	1-15

[DoughtyOne]

Results on my site:

http://www.hotr.us/fr/caucush160313.html

Results on the forum:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3408542/posts?page=237#237

[DoughtyOne]

[DoughtyOne]

There were 17 more votes on the 13th vs the 12th.

None the less, the percentages were only 0.02% different.

Looks like the new normal for Ted...

[Vision Thing]

It’s heartening to see Trump’s vote count jump so significantly ever since Chicago. Many here at FR are able to discern the meaning of Chicago (the Uniparty malfeasance, the utter compromised status of Cruz, the spectre of looming political violence in our nation).

As Sarah Palin said in her endoresement for Trump: no more pussyfooting around. This $h*t just got serious.

[bigbob]

Would it be possible to come up with a screwier more convoluted system?

People like sports because the basic rules are simple; “three strikes you’re out”...if sports had rules like primaries nobody would play because they’d always be fighting over the rules!

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, I agree with that.

I am sad to note that some Ted folks can’t see how compromised he is.

[sargon]

Interesting. There's been a clear drop in support for Ted Cruz, on the order of 5% or so, apparently as a result of the shameful statement he issued in the aftermath of the lawless Chicago thug attacks on the Trump rally.

I'm sure Cruz supporters will continue to resist that obvious conclusion, but it's undeniable at this point.

Ted Cruz f----d up. His blasé statement failed to show any leadership; it was just a cheap shot, and an act of naked opportunism.

Ted Cruz made a yuuuuge mistake. He forgot who he was.

Live and learn...

[Bobalu]

[Nita Nupress]

Ted Cruz f----d up. His blasé statement failed to show any leadership; it was just a cheap shot, and an act of naked opportunism.

Ted Cruz made a yuuuuge mistake. He forgot who he was.

Live and learn...

My interpretation of his actions are different. He and the other 2 said what they did because they didn't have a choice: It's what their donors and handlers told them to say.

GOPe desperation --> GOPe cabal/Donors meeting at Sea Island, Ga ---> Jeb (at the meeting) meets with the 3 candidates to inform them of what's coming --> Friday night violence in Chicago at Trump rally --> Stern condemnation by the 3 Musketeers

If Trump doesn't wrap the primary up soon on Tuesday, it should be an eventful summer.

[jobim]

This is the best essay yet on the subject of Cruz, Trump, and electing a Conservative:

https://hotgas.net/2016/03/the-hollow-men/

This is the end. What has con­ser­vatism come to, when its lead­ing advo­cate on the cam­paign
trail, after decades of cor­ro­sive lib­er­al­ism, and seven years of a malev­o­lent,
America-hating nihilist in the White House, blames a can­di­date from his own party and,
worse, that candidate’s sup­port­ers, for the sorry state of the Repub­lic and the vicious­ness
of its polit­i­cal dis­course? Barack Obama and the Demo­c­rat Party have done every­thing
in their power to set per­son against
per­son, group against group, and party against party, exploit­ing divi­sions, and inflam­ing con­flict, until that con­flict and hatred has
become insti­tu­tion­al­ized as a means of gov­er­nance, and Ted Cruz can only blame those
that oppose the degra­da­tion, and the man who rep­re­sents them. I can’t think of any­thing
more opposed to the spirit of con­ser­vatism than that.

[Windflier]

Geeeez...

Is that picture real?

[Windflier]

I honestly can’t see what keeps Cruz supporters going at this point, unless it’s just a willful refusal to look at all of the things he’s said and done to break faith with the conservative right.

It’s becoming something like Stockholm Syndrome.

[Vision Thing]

Lol! Scary.