Posted on 04/09/2016 8:53:34 PM PDT by sickoflibs
While Donald Trump continues to lead in delegate count, this week has not been his in terms of momentum. The GOP frontrunner was handed a resounding defeat in Wisconsin, where rival Ted Cruz beat him 48.2% to 35.1%. Now all eyes have turned to New York, the next primary in the nominating contest, with 95 delegates at stake — where Trump currently enjoys a commanding 56% to 22% lead over Cruz in the latest poll.
But even before the New York primary in a couple weeks, Trump may be precluded from reaching the required 1,237 delegates before the Republican National Convention, given what’s rather quietly happening in Colorado as we speak. As The Washington Post wrote of the Colorado delegates:
But if the Republican presidential race between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz is decided by just a handful of delegates, what happens in Colorado this weekend might matter most of all.
Nate Silver goes so far as to suggest that if Trump gets shut out in Colorado this weekend, he will definitely fall short of the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention. And that, of course, would leave him vulnerable to the workings of the GOP convention, which many — including Trump supporters — fear could quash his chances of walking away as the nominee.
Many observers — and the Trump campaign itself — don’t expect Trump to do well in Colorado.
Based on what happened in the first two district contests, it is expected that Ted Cruz will sweep the 34 Colorado delegates being selected at the district and state assemblies. The remaining three delegates are the members of the Republican National Committee from Colorado and can remain unbound.
As of Friday afternoon, Cruz has dominated the first five contests in Colorado, while Trump and Kasich remain empty-handed. While neither candidate will make the trip to Colorado this weekend, both Trump and Kasich are putting more focus on the state convention’s weekend proceedings, in an attempt to nab some delegates before it’s over.
While this contest is likely to garner a small fraction of the coverage the upcoming New York primary will get, it’s on its way to quietly tipping the scales further toward a contested convention.
[Note: This article was written by Michelle Jesse, Associate Editor]
Well the “qualified, experienced politicians” have foisted to date $19 Trillion in National Debt on us. And one of YOUR super duper, “qualified, experienced politicians” Paul Ryan just passed an additional omnibus bill that adds an additional $1 Trillion to the National Debt. And you want more of this? Really? Talk about insanity.
And my very favorite crap that these so called “qualified, experienced politicians” have shoved down our throats:
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/04/09/45-Billion-Wasted-Redundant-Federal-Programs-GAO
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/08/billions-spent-on-duplicate-federal-programs/7435221/
The government cannot grow the private sector.
Look up Fiscal Policy. You may learn something.
Trump has not shown he knows how to get government out of the way.
Read this and weep:
http://taxfoundation.org/article/details-and-analysis-donald-trump-s-tax-plan
Again, if I was running a business, this is applicable. Besides, Trumps track record does not establish he understands this either. Trump has more hits than misses, but he has plenty of misses.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/10/22/imagine-that-ahead-of-schedule-and-under-budget/
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-09-29/a-1980s-new-york-city-battle-explains-donald-trump-s-candidacy
http://dc.about.com/od/washingtondchotels/a/Trump-International-Hotel-Washington-DC.htm
http://qz.com/461688/a-list-of-everything-donald-trump-runs-that-has-his-name-on-it/
The President can't just fire the lot of them.
Want to make a bet? POTUS is the CEO of the Executive Branch. Let the the Congress argue that those redundant agencies and programs need to be continued. If Nixon can invent the EPA with a stroke of a pen, then Trump can un-invent it with a stroke of a pen. Congress would be smart not funding many of the agencies in the Federal Government.
Regarding Cruz supported by the Uniparty/GOPe/Bush Family
Are you really that delusional?
A lot of what you posted is actually irrelevant to my point. Trump supporters wanted someone who knew nothing about the process. That’s Trump. Why is any Trump supporter surprised when someone who actually knows the game plays it better than him. If I wanted a hotel built I suppect Trump would know exactlly how to play the game and I wouldn’t be surprised when my guy who doesn’t know the business was out maneuvered.
Hell, Trump even bragged that he knew how to work the system when it came to bankruptcies, but Trump and his supporters whine when the shoe is on the other foot.
An we’re sure Trump is not a snake too? We wouldn’t know until he got into office.
We know that Trump is a Patriot because we are already seeing The Trump Effect in action!
It appears that, even though he is still just a candidate and not the President, Donald Trump’s foreign policy, the Trump Doctrine, is being implemented on the world stage! Consider.
Trump formally announced his candidacy for the presidency in the 2016 election on June 16, 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
He sat down with Bill O’Reilly in June 16, 2015 and said:
“I say that you can defeat ISIS by taking their wealth,” Trump told the Fox News Channel star. “Take back the oil. Once you go over and take back that oil, they have nothing. You bomb the hell out of them, and then you encircle it, and then you go in. And you let Mobil go in, and you let our great oil companies go in. Once you take that oil, they have nothing left.”
The Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War began on 30 September 2015, following a formal request by the Syrian government for military help against rebel and jihadist groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
Around December 17, 2015, Putin offered high praise for the billionaire businessman-turned-Republican presidential front-runner on Thursday during an annual news conference with reporters.
“He is a bright and talented person without any doubt,” Putin said, adding that Trump is “an outstanding and talented personality.”
And in remarks closely mirroring Trump’s assessment of the campaign, the Russian leader called Trump “the absolute leader of the presidential race,” according to the Russian TASS news agency.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/politics/russia-putin-trump/index.html
Now, in March 2016, the Obama Administration is implementing Donald Trump’s Un-Fair Trade Tarriff policy by slapping 265.7% anti-dumping duties on China.
Donald Trump said that NATO was obsolete, the United States was paying to much, and the free-loaders would have to pay.
Senators Slam NATO ‘Free-Riders’ in Closed-Door Meeting With Secretary General
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/06/senators-slam-nato-free-riders-in-closed-door-meeting-with-secretary-general/
Mitt Romney has NOT endorsed Ted Cruz. Google it.
Excerpt from George Washington's Farewell Address in 1796.
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.
However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
Of course not. You are a coward and what newspeak would call a snowflake. You have your safe-place. Thank your skill to the freedom the US military gave you.
Oh, like a Lutheran Caucus would be on the Religion Forum?
I don't know because I haven't "invaded" one of "your" Trump rally threads in open forum.
But once they end up in a Trump rally thread it starts and vice versa. Though we’re reminded to stay off Cruz threads.
I see, it's reciprocal.
I's sorry bozz, I dinsee no sign. Yowsah, us niggaz stays outta de boss' shittah. Where be da water fountain for us Cruz peeples?
Don't blow smoke up my hindparts. The whole point of the "Family" thread was to assemble a pinglist, first to commiserate (like a 'safe space', whatever), then to call in the troops to spambomb anyone posting anything positive about Cruz:
If there inboxes are full (especially graphics) they will not be able to ply their trade. Just one a day is enough. The second rule is to ignore the others. Just focus on one. The rest of the lurkers on FR then will be able to identify the troll in the future. A concept refined here
Get an effing grip, people.
If you think the same Conservatives you played well with a year ago, but now characterized as "evil" and "trolls" are the enemy, then you may well be right.
Where do you think that leaves you? Not even socialist democrats believe in the rule of the plurality.
When the Republic goes down in flames, you will all be standing there with torches and empty gas cans wondering who started the fire.
I have never "invaded" your rally threads, the syncophantic reverb there would crack my monitor. But I have been spambombed with the sort of graphics posts described.
If anyone's idea of debate is to shout down the opposition and declare themselves the winner, they missed the point.
We have real enemies out there.
But to use the 'game' metaphor, we're facing the other team in the super bowl with the offense ready to strangle the defense and the special teams pillaging the lockers.
The other side has no such problem. THEY (the democrats/Socialists/Communists/criminals) are the enemy.
Wow, you need to get back on your meds, ASAP!
Project much?
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