Tyrants ALWAYS have reason for their tyranny...
Why would you disenfranchise 1 million GOP CO voters?
I have a simple question for any who can answer;
How many votes did Kasich and Trump get in Colorado??
1. We don't like big gubmint, 'less it's OUR Big Gubmint.
2. I hate the rules! It's time to change them for term limits. But I LOOOOOOVE these rules that support my candidate.
Lol. If that's what being a "Conservative" is about, count me out.
No one planned for Jeb to be sidelined, but Trump did it anyway.
So Jeb dropped out.
Since he has suspended his campaign, they needed an insider to be a place holder for the delegates and that turns out to be Cruz, who will control those delegates until the Convention, then, after a few slight of hand tricks, they are slated to go back to Jeb, or maybe Mitt.
Cruz will never get to enjoy the delegates at the convention.
IF cruz was any kind of a decent man he would disavow this and say let the people vote
That is what the Liberal Denver Post says, however, last week I wrote the Colorado Secretary of State to ask why the voters here were being disenfranchised and here is the first paragraph I received back:
“Some states conduct a presidential primary election. Colorado is not one of the states that has a presidential primary. Instead, Colorado honors the presidential candidate that is selected by the party at the national convention. Traditionally, political parties in Colorado have held a non-binding straw poll at their caucus. This year, the Colorado GOP passed a rule change that eliminated the straw poll. The justification for this change stems from a rule change at the national level which would have bound Colorado’s delegation to the results of the straw poll. Because of the timing between the date of the caucus and the date of the national convention, this potentially could have resulted in having Colorado’s delegates bound to a candidate that was no longer in the race.”
Please notice the second sentence that states “ Instead, Colorado honors the presidential candidate that is selected by the party at the national convention.” That tells me that the delegates should not be assigned to anyone until the convention. Who do you believe? The Colorado Sec. of State or the liberal Denver Post
“I’m not aware that the CO caucus was tainted.”
the colorado caucus process is a sick, anti-democratic joke. About half a dozen people show up for each precinct caucus, and “elect” people to attend county assemblies and Congressional district assemblies; the county assemblies “elect” people to the state convention. The CD and State assemblies “elect” then delegates, who are supposedly unbound.
A couple thousand people out of a population of 5 million participate.
I hear the song of the ignorant resonating among the Aspen trees. The Constitution did not contemplate political parties, so the notion of primaries, party nominees, and committed delegates to the party convention are modern invention crafted to fit into the political party framework.
The Constitutional thread that hangs on all of this is power of States to select their members of the Electoral College. The States were given great leeway to decide how they would do it. Over time, the political parties have had to more say than the States. It is an adulteration, but one that is probably permitted by the Constitution.
The founders, of course, never granted suffrage for the election of the Office of President to any citizen or voter. Only members of the Electoral College were allowed to vote for President. In their mind, the Electoral College would be selected by the individual states from the wish and venerated citizenry of their state to make a proper judgement in the best interests of the Republic. The states were permitted to choose their method of selecting Electors.
Upon the emergence of political parties, the selection of Electors came to be a result of choosing a particular party nominee within the state, usually by a popular vote. Hence our focus on carrying electoral votes by states. But, until the binding Primary Elections of recent vintage, the selection of Party delegates to their National Convention often followed the Founders model. This have changed in only my lifetime.
One can argue that Colorado decided to follow the original model, at least for the Republican Party. It is certainly permitted by the Constitution and within the rules of the Republican Party. Once upon a time that my father would recognize, it was the common practice of politics in this country. Original Americans were very concerned about the rise of the demagogue and populist. Our political system raises high barriers to the populist which is why we have never had a Herr Hitler or Robespierre.
The rabble of the madding crowd are crying foul, but they may well be foaming rabid dogs that deserve no attention except for purposes of extinction.