The one according to YOU
That Makes Cruz Ineligible for POTUS???
20 posted on 5/12/2010, 3:03:41 PM by 2ndDivisionVet (Don’t care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A “Natural Born” citizen requires two US parents!)
Posted on 04/15/2016 6:22:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Why are the Trumpists so angry at Cruz? In fact, doesn’t it seem like they are always angry at something or someone? It’s true. It’s either “lyin’ Ted,” the Washington insiders, the press, which is bit surprising considering how much free air time he is given, or whatever. It almost appears Svengali Trump has figured out that he must continually invent new villains to keep his followers amped up. This reminds me a bit of the leaders of the hard left, who must keep some form of “The Man” in perpetuity, holding down the oppressed democrat faithful, who are then told they must “struggle” against.
After Ted’s sweep of Colorado, Trump and his drones began screeching that Cruz has cheated and stole the state’s delegates. Now he is not just lyin’ Ted, but also cheatin’ Ted. As if Cruz and his people snuck in under cover of darkness, swung a gold pocket watch in front of the delegates and told them, “when I snap my fingers you will all commit to me.”
The Trump campaign, such that it is, may not like how Colorado set things up – heck I think it is stupid too, but it’s not the state – it’s the Republican State Committee who set it up and they are perfectly within their rights to do so.
Yet the Colorado rules were set up and publicly available in August, 2015 – 7 months ago – before the Trump campaign took off. In other words, Colorado could not have set up their delegate system as some sort of anti-Trump offensive.
Both the Trump and Cruz campaigns have had 7 months to understand the rules and plan accordingly. The Cruz people, with their demonstrably superior ground game, were obviously prepared – showing forethought, planning and execution, which sure seem like good traits for a president. But it was like The Donald and his rag-tag bunch were blindsided. This should be a lesson to us all. Is this the man we want running the country – one who appears, at least in this arena, to not possess these same traits.
Trump brags about how he’s been intelligent enough to use the country’s bankruptcy laws to his advantage. He also boasts about how he takes advantage of the political system of donations to various candidates in order to purchase influence. He says it’s all perfectly legal, which it is. He understands these systems others have devised and is able to work within them to get things done. Is this not what he claims to have been doing for years? Yet he and his people appear utterly lost regarding the eccentricities of individual State rules.
To me, this is a potentially ominous red flag regarding how Trump may govern. The Constitution is clear as a bell regarding the power of the federal government. Its power is limited to that which is expressed in the document. All other authority is extended to the States and the people. If Trump has ever read the Constitution or the Declaration, which I doubt, he would surely know this. Like elections, 50 States could mean 50 different sets of rules, for virtually everything.
This concept may not sit well with president Trump and his Cabinet full of Lewandowskis. President Trump may not like all that inconsistent individuality. As CEO of Trump Inc., he has probably gotten used to being the end-all decision maker – a top-down authoritarian, if you will. In business, this can work fine, but it is anathema to our nationalist/federalist system of governance, where the president is supposed follow the rules, not make them. It would be a rather radical departure from what he has known and how he has run his company.
This is but one reason a president Trump may be at least as dangerous as a president Clinton.
Cruz's embrace of the GOPe is an even bigger red flag...
Your TDS is on big display this evening.
He doesn’t know campaign law.
Good thing he knows bullshit when he sees it.
Having someone so clueless in the WH would be different how?
THAT ^^.
That’s your baseline?
Amen.
What you are saying is that pro-Cruz articles cannot be posted on this forum?
2DV, Maybe you haven’t noticed... Trump is winning.
Trump is winning the popular vote as well as the delegate vote and this is his first time in politics.
How many elections has Cruz been through? And this is the best he can do?
If you don’t like Trump you need to learn to love him pal. Your talking about the next Republican Nominee here.
This is a Pro Cruz article?
I thought it was Pro Kasich!
The GOPE is a part of the party. Trump boasted about his good relations with them, when he had good relations with them. But in true Trump fashion, when HE does it, it is “Great! The best ever!” But if someone else does it better than he does...it is “Terrible! The Worst Thing Ever!”
My tagline - We’re a nation of infants, ruled by their emotion - describes Trump well. And the Demoncrats.
No he/she is saying that if you can’t see how effectively overturning elections or canceling elections by parliamentary maneuvers is unethical then pipe down.
It isn’t about following rules it is about the abuse of rues by the Cruz campaign
Oily CanaCuban liar Ashley Cruz STOLE from the People.
This had nothing to do with Mr. Trump.
Nor did Cruz’s GF’s lies about Dr. Carson.
Cruz is a miserable spoiler and lover of rats
and defender of both ObamaCARE and ObamaTRADE and globalism.
Gee, ya think?
Guess Who Just Got Zero Loyal Delegates In Nebraska?
http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/04/14/guess-just-got-zero-loyal-delegates-nebraska/
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