“Do you have an internal memo you’re quoting?”
Yes. I can’t give detail on it. But if Trump doesn’t start distinguishing between R-Hacks and the conservative tea party folks we have been laboring to put into office here in CO, he’s going to lose a bunch of them.
This is especially true in CO where Trump’s attacks have been nasty and dishonest. People voted, assemblies were held, and Trump didn’t even bother to show up to speak at the assembly. He didn’t have much support to begin with and then he got outworked by Cruz. So he lost. It’s that simple. What pisses us off here in CO is when the Donald runs around saying it was rigged. He’s calling a lot of tea party folks who have just moved into positions of party power dishonest. I know them and they aren’t.
Trump has a whole lot of work and public humble pie to eat to have any chance of getting the support of the Colorado liberty movement folks or the tea parties. We have a GOP E here and they’ll get on board fine. But they are whores and won’t be much help for Trump in a year where everyone hates them. But you don’t call my friends liars and dishonest when you really have no idea what you’re talking about and have much hope for my support and organizational skills until you apologize for trying to ruin our conservative/tea party movement here.
And yes, I’m someone who can turn the grassroots on or off to a candidate. I can make sure a candidate doesn’t see any of my activists out walking, calling, or contributing for him.
I don’t speak alone. The rest of the tea party leaders in the state are appalled at Trump’s nasty and dishonest attacks on them.
I’ll vote for him—so I’m one of the easier going guys in that regard. But voting personally is different than spending three months organizing my people to turn out the vote for a man who didn’t bother to find out what actually went on before he lied about us and, unambiguously hurt the conservative movement in Colorado a lot.
Trump made a major mistake blaming his loss in Colorado on anyone but his own crappy campaign here. If he wants to win Colorado, he has some serious fence-mending to do. Maybe it made him feel better at the time to rationalize his loss. But I don’t give a $hit about his feelings when he lies about my friends.
All politics is local. And Trump blew it big time in Colorado. Colorado is a likely state he has to win.
It’s possible for him to unify the party around him. But his first instinct needs to be to do the smart thing, not the nasty thing. (PS He can be as nasty to HRC as he wants). I’m talking about the way he treats people who are potential supporters.
I hope someone on his team sees this then and gets in contact with you.
We had a few fake Tea Party groups in Nevada freaking out over every little thing.
I’m an insignificant gnat with the opinion those ‘concerned’ types can shove it where the sun don’t shine.