Found this on twitter.
Posted on 04/16/2016 2:36:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
All the analysts seem to be persuaded that Donald Trump doesn’t understand the Republican Party rules that cost him some delegates in Colorado.
The rules were published last year. They were there for all the candidates to read and understand. Any of them could have done what the Ted Cruz campaign did in wooing those delegates. It wasn’t against the rules. It was part of the rules.
I’ve heard newscasters and pundits say the Trump organization just didn’t get it. Maybe they overlooked the rules. Maybe they didn’t understand them. Maybe they never read them or acted on them.
But what if Donald Trump, the master negotiator, the brilliant media tactician, the unparalleled manipulator of public opinion, DID know all about the rules? What if he didn’t bother going after those delegates because he knew it would benefit him more profoundly if he didn’t – turning what was perceived by his supporters and the general public unfamiliar with the arcane rules of the GOP into a national cause célèbre that would help his campaign steamroll over the competition in upcoming primaries in New York, Maryland, California and elsewhere?
Am I the only one who thinks Donald Trump didn’t earn $9 billion by being stupid?
I’m frankly really surprised that so many bright people, cynical people, suspicious people haven’t considered this possibility.
I have.
We all know Trump uses unusually harsh rhetoric in attacking people. He calls them liars. He calls them cheats. This is not the kind of talk we normally hear in American political campaigns, unless someone doesn’t know the microphone is live.
Trump does it routinely – every day.
*snip*
I have always believed it’s calculated behavior.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Nice one.
Thanks! But I can’t take any credit. They’re from Twitter Trumpaholic pages. (:^D)
Thanks for sharing, I’m not a twitter traveler as yet so they are fresh and spot on target.
Another way of looking at it, is that the voters are the Party's customers. The primary process is a way for the Party to find out what the customers want.
What we are seeing is the party deciding that the customers are too stupid to know what they SHOULD want, and deciding to shove their vision down their throats. The GOPE risks going the way of the Whigs, as the people are increasingly fed up.
I’ve often thought the defining characteristic of the American people is that each any every one of them is an expert in religion, and politics.
Yep. In a better world, the people would be the shareholders or owners ;-) Either way, deliver or die.
What if this article is right up to the point that he planned to use it to steamroll to the nomination?
What if he is purposefully planning to fall short?
Good to see you too. I miss the enthusiasm of the Whitewater days when we were sure we were going to effect a positive change. Then we had Bush’s spending, electing Obama a second time and now a possibility of Hillary becoming president. It is discouraging. A decade ago I would have thought someone like Cruz could also make a difference but after seeing so many conservatives beginning with Newt Gingrich getting rolled I don’t have faith in that prospect. Trump with all his flaws seems to be immune from the attacks and gives me a glimmer of hope in our system.
I remember Farah was one of the main ones who highlighted Obama’s lack of a birth certificate. He collected money to put up billboards to question Obama’s eligibility.
Now he endorses Cruz who is playing the same game with his citizenship documentation.
I no longer go to his site.
For a while, people have been saying about things like Facebook, twitter, and such "If you are not paying for it, then you are not the customer, you are the PRODUCT".
People are slowly coming to the realization that, for the Republican party, the "donor class" are the owners, and the product is the GOP Establishment delivering votes for politicians who will do what the donor class wants. That if you are not a major donor, or an active party worker putting in hundreds of hours, then you are nothing, you are just "product".
You see the contempt in the postings of Cruz supporters celebrating Cruz getting pledges from "Trump delegates" to switch their support to him on the second ballot (or before).
Of course he knows. The ESTABLISHMENT rules are there to help ESTABLISHMENT candidates. There are established and entrenched people and systems in various places that decide who can and who cannot play. The ONLY way to win in the short term is to join the ESTABLISHED system and do what they want. That’s what Cruz did. The way to win in the long term though is to go AROUND the established system wherever possible and make them irrelevant. That’s what Trump decided to do. There is zero gain by pouring time and money into areas where GOP political operatives are fully established. It doesn’t do any good because they’ll simply move the goalposts to make it harder. They turn it into a money pit.
I've come to the conclusion that the Establishment will not allow any politician to rise, unless they have the means to bring him down the moment he does anything against the Establishment's desires. Newt, Cruz, and the rest -- the Establishment ALLOWS them to portray themselves as conservatives, as long as they obey orders when anything important is on the line.
The hysterical response against Trump is based on their not having sufficient leverage against him.
Who send the word vicious, I used the word attack, don’t put word in my mouth, you dishonest trumpanzee.
YES, Colorado WAS Rigged. Breitbart found a smoking gun
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3421308/posts?page=2#2
‘Mizel took a photograph of a ballot in Congressional District 7 that included ONLY the ballot numbers of delegate candidates, NOT the names of the candidates as required by state bylaws.’
[Article Xiii of the Colorado Republican Convention bylaws, Assemblies and Conventions Section A.]
I started to wonder why the GOP was not pushing conservatives as their primary nominees. None of these guys were conservatives. And they all lost in the general. Could a conservative really win anything but a republican primary I wondered?
Fast-forward to today and we have a conservative in Cruz, who the establishment hates because he is an agitator in the Senate. I supported him early on until Trump showed up. It was clear as the summer went on, that the GOP establishment did not like Cruz but hated Trump even more. When they started ACTIVELY AND OVERTLY sabotaging their own front-runner's chances, I knew the fix was in. If they were against Trump, then I knew I had picked the right guy to win.
I believe, if they would just embrace their delegate leader, Trump, and support him, the GOP will win in November. But they shoot themselves in the foot again by undermining his every move. So, I've come to the conclusion that the GOP really doesn't want a conservative nominee who can win. They just keep manipulating the arcane system behind the scenes to get someone who will not upset the apple cart and their gravy train in DC, even if it means letting a democRAT win.
Time to stick it to these GOPe chumps with a big 3 Stooges, two-finger poke to the eyes. Trump's just the guy to do it. I think in a head-to-head matchup between Trump and Hillary this fall, Trumps wins going away.
Found this on twitter.
Trump also understands the larger issue... that this country was founded on the radical idea (at the time) that THE PEOPLE could be trusted to run their own government.
Other countries were run by self appointed elites... we were run by THE PEOPLE. It was a revolutionary change - and for the first time inalienable RIGHTS were given to THE PEOPLE. And systems were put in place to restrict the power hungry from stealing power from the people.
Trumps the ONLY one who ‘gets it’....
You are either ignorant of how the RNC works at state and local level or part of the problem.
You understand. These Cruz whackos need to attend a few local RNC meetings plus see the older lawyers in the RNC at a Young Republican meeting hitting up on the Young Republican members who are female college students. These girls are younger then some of their daughters. Sick.
These women get it.
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