Posted on 04/17/2016 4:26:04 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Ted Cruz on Wyoming win: "This is how elections are won in America."
Once again, voters are not represented in the process. Instead, "votes" for the nominee are gained by backroom politics. Another corrupt process by the GOP establishment.
From Fox News:
Ted Cruz on Saturday won all 14 delegates in the Wyoming GOP convention -- a relatively small number but enough for the Texas senator to declare victory and keep GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump from securing the nomination.
“We are likely to have a battle in Cleveland to decide who is the nominee,” Cruz told party members before they picked the delegates. “If you don’t want to see Donald Trump as the nominee, … then I ask you to please vote for the men and women on this slate.”
The Wyoming process mirrored that of Colorado, which was engulfed by political controversy after hosting a similar convention last week.
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That must have been an awesome show. What venue?
I;m here in FL and you probably don’t trust me , but he cruz will never win this state of FL.
Not having a dig and respect you replied in a mature manner, but cruz really screwed up with his NY comment as south FL is like NY NJ and up here where are many more southern people are just angry at the party.
People have had enough and whether you or I like it the fact is that people see what is going on with delegates being “influenced” and how cruz is not appealing to them.
The establishment can’t keep thinking we hate Clinton so much we will always vote for who they want. That time has gone.
People are made at immigration which is a big issue here, people are angry at jobs being taken overseas.
It is the two biggest concerns I have seen from people around here.
Says you about the fellow who has no Emailgates or Benghazis to his name.
I'm not so sure how hard it is. But it does need to get done. I got two emails and a phone call from Cruz volunteers to go to my precinct caucus. Then later reminded me that I was elected as a delegate to my district caucus.
I am guessing that ground game of emails and calls was why of three people I know from three different districts (Washington State) it was 90%+ Cruz delegates in all three districts that will be going to our state Convention. My daughter and I (first time at this type of thing) are going to the State convention in May. It will be interesting.
good post
I think many are seeing what’s happening in WY and CO and are disgusted that the Republican party endorses/condones this kind of selection process. Without knowing the specifics of each state, everyone would assume it’d be some kind of vote or caucus. When they find out that’s not the case - that the delegates in some states are selected without the Republican voters in that state having a say - they get pissed off.
The fact that these processes exist at all is the problem.
Whine! Moan! Kvetch! Complain! Bellyache!
you nailed it. all of it.
>>>>Cruz’s success in these crooked processes has nothing whatsoever to do with a superior “ground game” or anything of the sort. He’s simply the only alternative to Donald Trump for the party apparatchiks.<<<<
exactly.
When Cruz LOST in NH and throughout the SOUTH where WE actually VOTED, I knew TRUMP WAS THE WINNER and CRUZ WAS THE LOSER, and CRUZ realized that fact, too.
He’s now staying in to try to win via “delegate shenanigans,” but primarily to stop Trump.
Cruz has lost an irretrievable amount of good will within his own party.
This is how a sociopath sees himself as a victor
By outsmarting everyone
Not by team work, not by inspiring or persuading or befriending, not even by caring much for anything
except the ends
Really? You’re on this board for, what, 2 months and you’re telling other folks how to think and act? Kinda creepy.
Dit dah dah dah dit....Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea....
Racist.
(Yes, I inderstand “Cuban” is not a “race.” Maybe “bigot” is more accurate.)
I’ve been a FReeper since 2005.
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What difference does it make how long the rules were in place? Lets say the rules were in place for 853 years.. does that make them better rules?
And that differs from the party picking who people can vote for in North Korea how?
From your forum page:
“Jim Robinson: “I say we drop the vitriol against each other and against our leading candidates as of now”
However, if you are serious, screw you.
Very Wrong about CO & WY.
Constitution forbids a private criminal organization, RNC, with interfering with a Federal election.
What part about injustice do folks not understand?
Remember when Jeb Bush at 3% support smirked & smiled over who would win the election? Y’all been had.
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