It bears repeating.
The delegates Cruz acquired in Colorado and Wyoming were obtained not by the results of an open primary election or caucus, but by the election of delegates by GOP party activists who favor Cruz at the party conventions of the two states in question.
Those delegates were not earned by winning the vote of the people, but by selection by party insiders and activists. Anyone not blinded to supporting Ted Cruz with the “by any means necessary” mindset can see the difference in how those delegates were obtained and we don’t like it.
One needs only to look at Cruz’s polling numbers since for proof that the majority of people NOT supporting Cruz didn’t like the way he got those delegates.
Cruz and his supporters will soon find out that those 48 delegates Cruz obtained at those two conventions where the people of Colorado and Wyoming didn’t get to cast their vote for the candidate of their choice will end up being the most costly delegates in election history.
As the article said (my bold below), "Colorado's process is hardly "voteless." We've got votes coming out of our ears. Tens of thousands of people voted -- I've seen 65,000 reported, I've seen 70,000. No, they're not "party insiders." I mean, 70,000 "party insiders" in one state? Come on."
Have you ever been selected as a delegate to a state Republican convention? I have, and I'm no party activist or official. We elected a college student to be our district's delegate to the Republican National Convention. He wasn't any kind of party official or insider. There is a lot of voting at the local, county, and state meetings/caucuses/conventions and lots of discussions and voting on platform and party issues.
If you really want to make a difference in your party, go to those meetings. Better yet, organize a group that thinks the same way you do, and go make your voices heard. Or you can sit home, and, having chosen not to make the effort, you can grouse and complain about the results and how unfair and rigged they were.