Posted on 04/21/2016 6:47:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
Trump people kill me.
They've been whining for weeks about how the Republican Party primary system works.
They say it's rigged because their hero is pulling in the most votes and the most delegates but still might not win the nomination.
They say it's all very simple: Trump's getting the most votes and therefore it's only fair that the person with the most votes from the people should win the nomination.
As I tweeted earlier this week, if that's the way Trump's followers think, then they should all be supporters of Al Gore.
In the 2000 election Gore got 540,000 more votes than George W. Bush, but Bush ended up in the White House because he accumulated the most Electoral College votes.
The Founding Founders & Framers knew what they were doing when they set up the Electoral College to indirectly choose the president.
They didn't want a popular vote and they didn't want Congress to pick the chief executive.
And they sure didn't want a candidate for president to be able to just campaign in three or four big states and rack up huge vote totals and win that way.
The Founders deliberately set it up so each state got its electoral votes in proportion to its representatives and senators.
They wanted every part of the country to be part of the process of choosing a president, not just one heavily populated region or one strong faction of nut balls or extremists. (Not that Trump people are nutballs or extremists.)
It's the same representative principle at work in the Republican Party's primary system.
The GOP doesn't want some guy to be able to win the nomination by flying a 757 into a handful of big states like California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Ohio and Florida, holding campaign events for 20,000 people at the airport and then flying home to Upper Upper Manhattan.
They want a nominee who gets on the ground, walks the neighborhoods, shakes hands and does the hard retail work at the grass roots.
That's what Ted Cruz has been doing to win his delegates while Trump has been doing TV interviews and zooming back and forth over Flyover Country.
Trump people might not like the primary process because their hero is not winning, or think there is cheating and rigging going on.
But they have to understand there is a process and it's not about vote counts, it's about the delegate count. It's not that tough to get.
Meanwhile, what really concerns me lately is how Trump is wrecking his ability to unify the GOP around his candidacy in the fall if he does win the nomination.
He spends parts of every speech and press conference announcing that he hopes that his supporters don't make trouble if he doesn't win. He hopes they don't riot in the streets.
I'm getting tired of his veiled threats, because that is what they really are.
It's time for Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, to stand up at a press conference and tell Trump to cut it out.
Maybe threats and intimidation are part of the Donald's winning strategy in business. But it's not how it's supposed to work when you're trying to win the presidential nomination of the Republican Party.
It is simple. Follow the money. Paid hacks.
They do seem to be in droves.
Total bull dingy. Did you see the Missouri party chair says he will remove Trump and Cruz supporters with “badges and guns”?
The “citizens” don’t know about or attend party conventions and there is no venue that could hold the numbers that voted in the primaries.
Now get back to your jobs, pay taxes, and let your Republican Party betters manage this enormous undertaking!
Lucky for you, you’ll then have some company.
D@mn straight...Obama has plans for those $$$.
Everyone wants our tax $’s to spend for their personal bs.
Trump supporters(I am guessing over 50% on this board) want the GOP destroyed. The party needs changed, not demolished.
You are wrong. We are going to change it. The GOP as it is now is not acceptable. The oligarchy has to end.
No Trump supporter is calling for a new party unless it is necessary.
You are spot on. The spineless leaders of the last eight years of Republicans have brought the party to this place. I don’t car if you are a Trump or a Cruz supporter. We are both wandering in a political desert searching for a home.
Agreed. Spot I analysis. Cruz is a spoiler. And Gingrich is right it’s just outgoing to happen and they know it.
No nonsense about it. Those 54 delegates are unbound. Only the 17 are bound.
The Corker Bill did it for me. And then the Chicago thing only confirmed my decision.
Yes, they are unbound, but the different campaigns have put up different people (or the people have volunteered) to run. It is becoming public knowledge who supports whom or who pledges to support the choice of the CD.
I have gotten mailers telling me to vote for Smith, Johnson, and Williams if I support candidate X.
“The Founding Founders & Framers knew what they were doing when they set up the Electoral College to indirectly choose the president.”
Certainly Michael isn’t comparing state party bosses to the Founding Fathers & Framers, is he?
There is a single process, nationwide, to elect the POTUS. There are nearly 100 ways to select delegates to do the nominating. Each state has (at least) two parties, each with different rules. This is apples and oranges and I am frankly disappointed in Michael Reagan for so poorly understanding the reaction of mere commoners to the way some of the states choose to select their delegates.
You say tomato, I say tomahto.
“then why does Congress pick the president if no one gets a majority of the electoral college? “
Incentive.
“and let your Republican Party betters manage this enormous undertaking!”
They couldn’t better a compost heap!
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