Posted on 04/11/2016 3:49:55 PM PDT by bobsunshine
... In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, the National Border Patrol Council wrote:
"In our March 30th endorsement statement of Donald J. Trump, we, the National Border Patrol Council called upon the American people to stand with border agents in support of Mr. Trump and his pledge to end illegal immigration. We fully expected that the will of the American electorate, whatever they decided in this primary, would be upheld. It is now clear that voters are being disenfranchised in order to protect established interests.
By cancelling the election in Colorado, the Republican Party has found a brand new way to disenfranchise voters who want secure borders and safe communities. Once again, the will of the public – who have pleaded for immigration enforcement – is being overridden by special interests with agendas. We see the same thing happening across the country, where delegates won by Mr. Trump – through a popular recorded vote – have made secret arrangements to support other candidates, thwarting the will of the millions of voters they collectively are supposed to represent. This is insidious."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The voters simply DO NOT MATTER in Colorado?
I find that astonishing.
I was 50% for Cruz, 50% for Trump, but I must say that in view of Colorado my scales have suddenly tipped in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIRECTION.
The voting in Colorado took place on March 1.
Maybe these guys will get around to contesting the results of the general election after Christmas.
Not true - the caucus took place, for local candidates, but the actual presidential caucus was cancelled by the State GOP last year. While there was caucusing going on for local & state candidates, there were no caucuses for the presidential candidates.
Overall, Trump gets 22% more delegates than his proportion of voters.
45% of delegates
37% of voters.
I don’t know why he is crying considering that the system gives him more delegates per voter than it does to the other candidates.
I’m leaning toward Trump, and have been.
However, this ISN’T about who you support. This has revealed a process of delegate bribing that’s been around I guess for a long time.
Now, when we ACTUALLY NEED the process, we come to find the GOP had essentially wrecked it a long time ago.
In my opinion, Cruz still has time to disavow this stuff. I frankly don’t see that he has a choice, since if he doesn’t his career in politics is over, and Ryan will be the nominee anyway.
Trump, however, is just going to pull a Reagan, “See, there you go again . . .”
Cruz seemed to be a strict constructionalist, and I bought it.
This seems to be smoking out Rush Limbaugh too, who today essentially endorsed all of this as smart gamesmanship.
I can’t help thinking when anyone thought any of this was a game, and that at some time real lives were no longer at stake in any of this.
Trump touts Made in America except when it comes to women ...
Noting that I prefer to vote for Trump, while I think that the Border Patrol is genuinely concerned about citizen suffrage, I suspect that the Patrol is clueless about the Founding State's procedure for electing a president as enumerated in the Constitution.
From a related thread …
Patriots, please don’t overlook that political party conventions for nominating a president don’t have anything to do with the procedure for electing a president that the Founding States enumerated in the Constitution.
”Article II, Section 1, Clause 2: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.…
12th Amendment: The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; ..."
The main problem that patriots seem to be having with the political parties is this. Since patriots today have grown up with political parties, they wrongly think that the parties are in integral part of the constitutional republic.
But not only are political parties not defined by the Constitution, they exist to control 10th Amendment-protected state powers and associated state revenues that the corrupt Washington cartel has been stealing from the states since the end of the Civil War, and arguably since the administration of President George Washington imo.
In fact, note that one of the very few powers that the states have actually delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, to decide domestic policy is to regulate, tax and spend for the US Mail Service (1.8.7).
So the key question concerning the political parties is how many political parties does it take to manage the US Mail Service?
I say none.
Remember in November !
If patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they will also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to not only support the president, but also surrender back to the states state powers and state revenues that the corrupt feds have been stealing from the states.
In fact, note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
How about Ted’s Bang of Eight?
Glad to see the Border Patrol got a bite of this. They don’t screw around. Not old school.
I find it very interesting that the Border Patrol Union supports a NY “liberal” instead of a southern border state U.S. Senator.
Cruz probably knows this. He must think he can overcome the party hacks on a second or third ballot. Even so, he should know that he will lose massively in the fall, after Trump's supporters stay home or refuse to vote for the Republican nominee.
Maybe Cruz does know this. Maybe...just maybe....his game is even more slick. Not only does he want to steal the nomination, but he wants to do so in a way that makes Trump so angry that Trump tries to run on a third party ticket, or supports someone else on a third party ticket. (Trump may have trouble getting on a ticket after the Republican convention, it will be too late).
Could Cruz be angling for a 3 way race? Or even a 4 way race? (If Sanders gets shut out on the Dem side). What if that's what Cruz wants. Since he knows he can't get to 270, even in a 2 way race, he needs Trump to take enough votes from Hillary so she can't get there, either. Then, the House of Representatives decides who is President. That's where Paul Ryan comes in. Given a choice between Cruz, Hillary and Trump, even Ryan will pick Cruz.
Sounds far-fetched, but it really is the only way Cruz could possibly win election. The way he is not just insulting Trump and his voters, but almost goading them into leaving, makes it seem like it may be what he is up to.
We will see how this plays out, but it sure has been a crazy election season, one that portends of the end of an era and the beginning of something. Something bad, if the elites keep up their games.
Tell me friend, aside from Trump and his campaign, is there ANY EVIDENCE of bribery, etc. Go to the video of Cruz speaking before the state convention. These are Cruz people. It’s really easy to throw around accusations but where is the proof.
Trump wouldn’t even come out to speak to the state convention! Ya think that sat well with Coloradans? And the campaign was almost non-existent. Guess Cruz should have played nice and gave little Donnie Trump some of the marbles just because he didn’t have any! Trump thought he would win easily and didn’t do the ground work. Guess what? He’s getting out played. If he can’t outwork Cruz how is he gonna compete in the big show! Just play dumb as a box of rocks!
“The voting in Colorado took place on March 1.”
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Hush, FACTS such as that go against narrative of Trump and his campaign. And hearing facts such as that induces COGNITIVE DISSONANCE within the closed minds of a certain vocal subset of Trumpsters.
Answer: probably a lot more than Trump.
The primary system rewards the winner more than those farther downstream. It is the way it is set up, to start winnowing out the field. As the process goes on, some of the states become winner take all, which helps narrow the field even more. It does make some sense. If you have winner take all early, and someone wins with 21 percent of the vote, that may not get you your best candidate. But if a leader emerges afte 15 states have voted, and 10 other guys have dropped out, and you are now getting down to the end of the process, it will help put an end to it to have some big winner take all states in important states, like Ohio and Florida. The party has to have those states, so who wins there should get a benefit.
Point being, no one ever raised the point you made in history, ever, when it was benefiting Romney, McCain, Dole, Bush, etc. It is a meaningless truism spoken by someone repeating a talking point, probably handed you by a campaign shill.
Cruz likes Paid in America, when it comes to women.
There is NO constitutional provision for primary elections.
This is a PARTY process to select the PARTY nominee.
If folks feel cheated, join another PARTY!
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