Posted on 04/20/2016 7:53:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If this is so, then these delegates are NOT allocated to them or Trump and therefore, UNBOUND.
It stinks
You know it
And the voters know it
Cruz probably even knows it but his ambition is too hot
The process has been in place since the time of Lincoln. If it stinks now, it stunk then.
To be fair to Trump, it is true that life really is unfair sometimes. Furthermore, it cannot be denied that political insiders beget more than their fair share of life’s unfairness (such as when they seek preferential treatment in their private business dealings by buying off politicians).
So we must not let the crybaby antics of a front-running sore winner obscure the possibility that the GOP primaries really are unfair.
Trump claims that Colorado’s caucus rules were unfair because they disenfranchised the voters of that state. On its face, this is analogous to screaming “censorship” when your sister asks you not to swear in front of her children during Christmas dinner at her house.
This is not a free speech issue. It’s her home; you were free not to accept her dinner invitation, and she is free to protect her children, in her home, from language she dislikes. If you accept her invitation, then you have to play by the house rules.
Similarly, a party nomination process does not represent a citizen’s franchise, because it is not a vote for public office. It is the process whereby a non-governmental club chooses its candidate for public office.
Members of the club who are invited to participate, and neither deceived nor defrauded out of that participation, have no grounds for claiming even a figurative disenfranchisement, regardless of whether they like the rules governing the process.
In Colorado, Trump was invited, but chose not to participate actively.
In short, if you want to swear your head off on Christmas Day, host your own dinner; likewise, if you don’t like a party’s nominating rules, start your own party.
But then, “stinks” cut both ways.
Is it “fair” that Trump should receive all fifty delegates in South Carolina with only 32.5% of the vote, while Marco Rubio receives less than half of Minnesota’s delegates though winning with 36.5% of the vote, and while Ted Cruz receives only 60% of the delegates in Kansas despite earning 48.2% of the vote?
Is it “fair” that Trump gets 100% of the delegates for 45.7% of the vote (1,077,221 votes) in Florida, while Cruz gets only 67% of the delegates for 43.8% of the vote (1,239,370 votes) in Texas, or 52% of the delegates for 45.9% of the vote in Maine?
Shouldn’t other candidates be whining about the unfairness of these Trump-friendly results? No — because they knew the rules, just as Trump knew the rules in Colorado.
Thanks
Trump made lemonade with the lemons that Colorado dealt him. Making the corrupt GOPE sound even more dirty has been his appeal day one. I’m a Cruz supporter but Trump made hay with the Colorado loss. Smart play on his part.
Why is Kasich even in the race?
Maybe if your ‘best insights’ weren’t lame Cruz campaign talking points, someone might bother reading your posts.
Because the voices in his head told him to run?
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