Posted on 04/12/2016 4:09:24 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
AMEN!
I don’t necessarily agree that Trump’s efforts (actually, lack thereof) in Colorado speak to his “leadership skills”, but more to his arrogance and the overall lack of organization within his campaign apparatus. Those “rules” - agree with them or not (and I don’t) - were established almost nine months ago. Trump and/or members of his campaign staff had more than ample time to establish a ground game in Colorado and do the very same thing Cruz did, i.e., woo delegates over to his campaign. As we will see in a few months, even Cruz’s efforts will ultimately fall short when, after two votes at the convention, “The Party” reached down below Trump and Cruz and selects its savior.
Pimpin blogs. It’s unseemly. Why post and run? Become a part of the discussion. Oh, that’s right, just here to post your crap.
Excellent column. Thanks for posting
I have the feeling we will all figure this out together since this is something new
Trump is not afraid to speak to the people and we can sure speak to our elected representatives if they think they can continue business as usual
But then- that is the scenario they fear the most
actual accountability to a mass of informed and involved citizens who interfere with their rules and procedures and customs that have gotten us where we are today
I do trust Trump to choose brilliant advisors and action people and - in an unusual move for any political bureaucracy- to actually hold them accountable for their results
As I see it, Cruz’s game now is “Gimmee the Money.”
He figures the more times he gets his name is in the news, the higher his post-election speech fees and book deals will command.
Seriously? As you will soon see, Cruz is no insider. WE Trump supporters can’t have it both ways. Cruz is either hated by almost every other member of the Senate or he is an insider; he can’t be both and the “stalking horse” conspiracy is pure, unadulterated B.S.
If “The Party” has its way - and it will - neither Cruz nor Trump will be the nominee. The party “leadership” is using Cruz to stop Trump, but don’t think for a nanosecond that they’ll ever allow Cruz to be the nominee. Yet another instance of conservatives (i.e., US) engaging in a circular firing squad watching Trump, Cruz and their respective supporters destroy one another while the true insiders in both parties (assuming there’s any difference) sit back and smile.
mark my words
Ted Cruz will come out of all this a very rich man
Rich enough that he and his wife who will be equally set up to reward her loyalty can lead the lives they want
without ever even having to live together
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That Colorado could not afford to allow over a million voters vote for their Presidential Nominee.
Or we won't have another Rick Santorum or we can't afford Donald Trump. Really?
No way am I clicking the link on this BS.
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Yeah it might make you think and we know how dangerous that is.
First sentence pretty awkward, but no argument. The others, nonsensical.
The point, Scooby, is that NEITHER Trump nor Cruz will be the nominee. Neil Bush is a crooked, lying co*(sucker who’s acting on behalf of the party and using Cruz to stop Trump.
Unfortunately, because Cruz, Trump and their supporters have been destroying one another while the Washington insiders sit back and egg them on, we’ll end up with a contested convention and a nominee neither of us wants. Good plan dumbass!
If Trump can make a deal with delegates who is he gonna make a great deal with the chicoms?
Says the guy supporting the candidate who has the support of 10%.
You think those delegates who are hundreds of brown shoe party small donorns and operatives, car dealership owners, Sunday School teachers, Rotary presidents, Chamber of Commerce member, insurance salesmen - are on the same level as dealing with Chinese trade negotiators trained by our own Ivy league schools, and with Putin?
Ted’s excellent adventure of squeezing party operatives to claim a TKO after the match is over, and take the nomination from a popularly elected candidate who scored a KO, is and end game to itself
His style of backroom dealing with little fish who think they are big fish has no comparison to winning in a general election - or in dealing with national and global issues. We prefer to give the job to the man who built a multi billion empire dealing with the big fish, not to a Harvard lawyer who studied the republican rule book
“Now let’s be clear....Trump was not ill-prepared or disorganized. Trump’s running his campaign like a businessman....when you win, you win. There’s no going back to redo the deal. It’s iron-clad.”
Not really an accurate statement. How many times has Trump been involved with lawsuits after a deal, or threatened one? Business deals can be very complex, especially multimillion dollar real estate deals. So too can politics be complex, especially in a presidential race. If Cruz tried a multimillion real estate deal for his first one I would expect he would have similar problems.
You are blinder than a bat.
Cruz is all in for the GOPe plan to stop Trump.
That makes him a temporary joined at the hip insider.
Cruz couldn’t get more GOPe support if he had been a GOPe insider for four decades.
What part of that do you not understand. Are you honestly of the opinion the GOPe doesn’t favor either of these men?
You know better than that.
No question...lawsuits commence IF AND WHEN a business contract's terms are violated.
Happens oodles of times.
Of course Cruz is trying to stop Trump, just like Trump is trying to stop Cruz; they’re candidates for God’s sake! Not everyone worships at the altar of Cruz or Trump. In my case, I’d vote for either one of them, but I will NOT vote for Kasich, Ryan or some other party-anointed candidate. At this point, I’m convinced that both Cruz and Trump have their heads so far up their asses they need a periscope to see.
Just watch, dumbass. The party will destroy or simply abandon Cruz as soon as the “Never Trump” movement is convinced they’ve stopped him. Neither Cruz nor Trump will be the nominee if the party has its way - and it will.
>> Trump’s efforts (actually, lack thereof) in Colorado speak . . . more to his arrogance and the overall lack of organization within his campaign apparatus <<
Yes, agreed.
But not only that:
Mr. Trump has been known for years as a man who is extremely reluctant to deploy his own money in risky enterprises, as the investors and lenders who have lost money on his business failures can attest.
Therefore, I think all his talk about “self-funding” is basically smoke and mirrors, especially since there have been reports that he has no more than a few hundred million in liquid funds — clearly not enough for a General Election campaign.
So perhaps Mr. Trump’s lack of a ground game in places like Colorado, North Dakota and Louisiana may have been due at least in part to a lack of funds from donors — funds that Mr. Trump would never want to supply from his own pocket.
Mr. Trump has done an absolutely masterful job of getting free TV coverage, not to mention priceless propaganda from sources like Drudge, Breitbart and National Enquirer. But the free-media strategy did not provide paid staff to run asuccessful delegate-harvesting operation in Colorado. Nor will this strategy produce an adequate GOTV operation in California. And it’s pretty clear now that California will decide whether Mr. Trump can reach 1237 on the first convention ballot.
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