Posted on 04/26/2016 10:52:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
:) You’re welcome...
“:^)
The system isn’t “Rigged” — the establishment is just trying to protect us from candidates they don’t like.
As an analogy I’m reminded of a case a couple of years back in Salt Lake City where a cop shot and killed some teenager who was sitting in his car doing nothing. There was some brouhaha but the Department concluded that the cop had done no wrong because he was “following Department procedure”. We see these sorts of excuses a lot. The establishment makes up some rules themselves and then acts as if the rules are mandated by God or State Law or some other such nonsense. It’s like as if, for example, the teachers make up a rule that they can confiscate student’s personal property permanently. Then they take the stuff home and give it to their relatives and then they claim that they were “following the rules”.
This is where we get perversion being forced on children by the schools. Some unelected educrat sicko invents “rules” designed to create oversexualized kids that he plans to obtain sex from. Then they pretend that the “rules” are some sort of mandate from higher authority. Like is happening right now in our schools.
Yeah “Rules”. “Rules” made up by crooks to defend their own depredations.
I don’t like what the article says.
It is not pro-Trump, therefore it is not pro-FR.
Why are we still having to see threads like this on FR? I thought we were free of this now.
Citizen, do you not value your senority on FR? I see you have 9 years. It would be a shame for you to be demoted to newb, just because you can’t get your mind right.
Agreed DO.
In regards to the constant defense on this issue, all I have to say is that at this point it doesn’t just matter. The meme has been set, Cruz is viewed as a smarmy cheater and THAT is what counts today.
That’s the way it should be....
That’s like liberal’s “participation trophies”...
Either you win or you lose...All or nothing...
I'll take a shot at that. We should take away the states right to decide their GOP primary process and let some super-smart operatives in Washington DC decide the system. Or just let John Roberts and Sonia Sotomayor decide. The grass-roots rubes in the 50 states have no right to make any election rules. /sarc
Colorado republicans have no right to decide their primary election rules. We should let Reinse Priebus, or Mitch McConnell, or perhaps a real estate developer from NY decide. These super-smart people in NY and Washington DC are much smarter than the knucklehead in Colorado.
Colorado?
What if no candidate has a majority of the delegates? The GOP should nominate a candidate with 40% of the popular vote?
or the majority of delegates in Missouri when the vote was nearly tied-
Primaries, which are run by state governments, need not be related to political parties at all. The two parties have used laws to favor themselves.
The only practical alternative to private associations like political parties is a jungle primary with the top two finishers facing off, unless plurality decides the winner. A plurality winner system wouldn’t last long. Again, I’m speaking of a situation without political parties.
Yes.
And don’t run 17 people who have zero chance of winning for president next time like a bunch of friggin’ idiots.
Well, he is viewed that way.
Man what a self-destructive course this guy took this last year.
“What if no candidate has a majority of the delegates?”
One candidate will always have a majority, one more than the other guy is a majority
The entire primary system, just like the entire general election is rigged, its rigged by the folks in power to in every way stay in power.... that’s the nature of our system, has been from the get go...
This provides some incredible stability to our government, and also makes it that more incredible when someone or something upsets that apple cart.... it takes incredible momentum and culmination of events to overcome the inertia inherently and intentionally put into the system to bring about change.
Now, with that said, I don’t complain about Cruz or the GOPe trying to use the rules to their advantage, of course they are going to do that, that is why those rules are put into place.... To ensure that they won’t lose their power on a momentary whim of the unwashed masses.
May not be fair, but that’s how it is, and it is that way for a reason... Complaining about it though doesn’t change it, the way to change it is to win in spite of all their barriers.
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