Posted on 04/18/2016 3:48:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
To refresh your memory: Washington State has 44 delegates, winner-take-most (majority takes all) proportional primary (20% threshold), with statewide and CD delegates. Closed primary (deadline to switch is next week; deadline for first-time voters is next month), but it’s all mail-in. …And, just think! Five months ago, I would have had to write another three or four sentences to explain all of that. Now I can just assume that most of you folks will be able to follow along. It’s an ill wind, huh?
Anyway, it turns out that Ted Cruz has already done the work – before the deadline – that will ensure that the people picking the actual delegates (and the delegates themselves!) will be people who rather like Ted Cruz. As usual, his team started early: “In Washington, Cruz named a state leadership team in November and had slates of delegates lined up for recent county conventions and legislative-district caucuses.” And, given that the pool of potential delegates has already been created, it’s pretty likely that the end result in Washington State will be the same as in other ones: to wit, one where Ted Cruz steamrollers his opposition when it comes time to picked pledged delegates.
It’s darkly entertaining when people – very, ah, enthusiastic people, – call this ‘cheating.’ To be fair, those people have been carefully misinformed by television and other media about what the rules are in primary elections. So of course they’re upset to find out that it matters that Washington State is a closed proportional primary! Or that there’s a statewide/CD split! Or that delegate selection is so absolutely important to the state political parties that it get its own system! Nobody told them otherwise, and somebody should have. And now of course they’re being lied to, by politicians and political flunkeys who are becoming uncomfortably aware of all the new enemies that they kind of didn’t mean to make – so I’m not entirely unsympathetic.
But I am unsympathetic, because I didn’t know any of this stuff at first either. I just educated myself on the process. It’s not exactly hard to learn, either. If it was hard to learn, they’d just have to dumb it down further so that politicians could understand it.
Another attack from the left. But on FR? Just lovely.
Exactly.
So how exactly does a candidate such as Colon Bowel get "placed"?
I can’t wait for April 26th and the calls for Cruz to GTFO start up. He needs to be gone.
Are Trump’s business practices legal?
Well, yeah, in a way, if cheating and stealing is okay.
The only problem is that it requires Trump supporters to remember way back, back to the days before the primordial ooze was formed, six whole months ago, which is farther back than any Trump supporter can recall at all.
At the time, Trump was being pressed gently about two facts: 1) that his companies tended to go habitually bankrupt, leaving his creditors in the lurch and 2) that he once attempted to use eminent domain to screw an old woman out of her home so he could build a limousine parking lot for one of his casinos.
Trump’s response to these undoubtedly true charges was “I took advantage of the laws of this country and did what any businessman would have done.” There was no justification offered for why these actions were right or fair; they were legal and they helped Trump get ahead, so his minions actually used them as evidence that Trump was a brilliant business man possessed of great foresight.
The operative word is ‘gently.’ Trump has never been pressed hard about any of his multitude of business sins... and he may not be ... unless ...
Unless we should be so unfortunate as to nominate him.
Then the media will go full bore with enough ammunition to defeat Mars if they attacked.
Big Brain vs Big Mouth.
Ted Cruz gets a lot of hate and lies thrown at him but nobody can deny his smarts.
Better a Competent Brainiac than a Carnival Barker in the White House.
So how do you square your support of Cruz with your post from a few years ago below? Did the constitution change? Is it a living breathing document?
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Those are two VERY different things! Dr. Fukino should stick to medicine and not dabble in constitutional law. I don’t care if he was born in the Lincoln bedroom! If Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama, Senior (A British subject from Kenya) is Mr. Obama’s father, there is no way he is a natural-born citizen!! Native-born, perhaps, but that’s not what the constitution calls for.
Most of us do admire hard work.
The trumpers refuse to see that Trump is lazy. He does have a lot of events but they are easy. He hires a hall, flies in, gives the same 45 minute rant and gets back on his plane to New York.
He never bothered to put together a competent campaign team, he thought he didn’t need one, plus never hiring anyone smarter than himself was a disadvantage.
Now, that Cruz has outworked him, he has decided that hard work equals cheating and his supporters cry, Amen.
Hard work is cheating.
Trump is plenty smart.
Plenty. He is well-educated, and he is very, very successful. He is not taking donations, and cannot be bought.
We need a president like Donald Trump.
Trump will tell you that he is smart. Very, very smart.
But is he?
While Heidi was Phi Beta Kappa at Claremont, under Dr. P. Edward Haley, we only have Donald’s word that, “I went to the Wharton School of Business.
I’m, like, a really smart person.” He also claims that he was a top student there.
But as the New York Times disclosed in 1984, Trump merely took classes at Wharton, but did not achieve an MBA.
Furthermore, Trump was not on the Dean’s list, which he would have been, if he’d exhibited any academic excellence, and there were no mentions of his name in the graduation program of attaining any honors, in any category – curricular or otherwise.
So as usual its the State party GOPe people already in position to keep out the dreaded outsider with a rigged selection. NeverTrump is not For Cruz, but you knew that...
tRump is supposed to be the fighter. Looks like Cruz is the fighter and has had an excellent ground game going for a long time.
Of course I hope he doesn’t, but tRump may get enough delegates to be the outright nominee. Are you really certain that he’ll fight for you, build that wall, make America Great Again, and whatever else he’s pinkie promised? What if it turns out he’ll fight for himself and himself only, as he’s always done? Just asking.
Cruz is scary smart and he’s on our side.
I watched a CNBC business panel with Cruz and 3 economy wonks.
Cruz totally had them on their heels. They could not catch him out on anything from Japanese economy to esoteric economical questions.
He fully explained his tax program and its goal which is to improve the landscape for small business, the biggest job creator in the country, as well as make things better for all business by limiting over-taxation and over-regulation.
He gave a wonderful explanation of the flaws in the minimum wage scam.
It was dang impressive.
One who has spent a career buying politicians can indeed be bought.
Trump brags that he is self-financed but so far, he has spent very little money.
He got over a billion in free advertisements from the media and he’s still getting it.
All he’s really spent so far is the cost of hiring halls for his big rallies.
When it came to simply paying for Sarah Palin to go to Wyoming as a surrogate, he pulled back, saying that he didn’t want to spend any money there as he didn’t think he could win.
He is now begging for money, not because he ‘needs it’ but as a way for people to show a commitment to him.
What a laugh.
Trump couldn't pass a middle-school civics test.
As I posted back in March, I was emailed twice and got a phone call to attend my precinct caucus in Washington by Cruz volunteers. Was elected to my district caucus. At the district caucus it was almost all Cruz supporters. We elected about 20 Cruz folks out of 27. Three or four were Kasich and the rest could not tell us as they were GOP committee people (the rules).
I have spoken with two other delegates from other districts (like a county) and they said it was the same thing as mine. Most likely due to the fact that Cruz got people moving on it. Normal, every day people.
Many of us are newbies at the whole thing - including me and my teen daughter. It irritates me, getting to the point of disgust, where people; including Freepers, discount our little bit of effort to get out there and be a part of the process. Getting called the GOP “elite” or a POS.
And I owe it to my daughter’s interest in conservative politics, and to Cruz’s reminders. One Freeper (also a delegate) got a phone call from Cruz people the week before his caucus and he was glad they had reminded him as he had forgotten. He had to cancel his other plans and went to his caucus (different than mine).
Anyway - it all be a moot point if Trump wins the Washington State primary and gets 50%+1 on the first ballot. All of the Washington delegates are bound to the primary on the first ballot. After that they can vote for whoever they want. Although as the article says, the Cruz Team is trying to get them to vote for Cruz.
I imagine that our State Convention will be primarily Cruz supporters due to his efforts. Both my daughter and I are going as delegates for Ted Cruz. It will be a blast!
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