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What Trump People Don't Get
Townhall.com ^ | April 21, 2013 | Michael Reagan

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.


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: 2016denyvoters; 2016electionfraud; 2016voterfraud; clownhall; cruz; cruzlimposting; michaelreagan; moosebitsister; tds; trump; usualsuspects
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To: gg188

It is simple. Follow the money. Paid hacks.


121 posted on 04/22/2016 6:03:04 AM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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To: Jane Long

They do seem to be in droves.


122 posted on 04/22/2016 6:14:56 AM PDT by stockpirate (Rush is a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: octex

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.


123 posted on 04/22/2016 6:40:16 AM PDT by Williams (Dear God, please save us from the Democrats. And the Republicans.)
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To: COBOL2Java; gogeo

Now get back to your jobs, pay taxes, and let your Republican Party betters manage this enormous undertaking!


124 posted on 04/22/2016 7:21:40 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When The Ballot No Longer Counts, The Ammo Box Does! Whingat's In Your Ammo Box?(US Conservative)!or)
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To: stockpirate; onyx; Jane Long; PA Engineer; Grampa Dave; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; SaveFerris; ...
The best response to some of these supporters of Ted sCruz is the Iran Nuke Deal that he claims he opposes. The fact is the Corker Bill was created by the republican leadership, Corker is a republican, Ted sCruz cosponsored the bill and voted FOR the Corker bill.

Lyin' Ted's flexible honesty on display. "He was against the Iran Deal before he was for it"

After that just ignore their posts. Most work for the Cruz campaign or the GOPe. We’ve had this every election, paid trolls show up and once the election is over they’re gone.

I think that there has been greater than normal success in outing those despicable sleaze bag trolls this time around, and I can't say enough for those on our ping list who have worked tirelessly to expose them, and I say *BRAVO* to all of them.

One election we had a troll who was posting 24/7, so it had to be several people in an office posting in shifts. Some of course are democrats

Democrats, GOPe, "What difference does it make"(as Hillary Rotten Criminal would say ...)
125 posted on 04/22/2016 7:46:54 AM PDT by mkjessup (Cruz is an oily crap weasel who sold out to the GOPe and his deluded cultists need to wake-TF up.)
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To: altura

Lucky for you, you’ll then have some company.


126 posted on 04/22/2016 7:56:52 AM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: Grampa Dave; COBOL2Java

D@mn straight...Obama has plans for those $$$.


127 posted on 04/22/2016 8:56:54 AM PDT by gogeo (Donald Trump. Because it's finally come to that.)
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To: gogeo

Everyone wants our tax $’s to spend for their personal bs.


128 posted on 04/22/2016 9:03:18 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When The Ballot No Longer Counts, The Ammo Box Does! What's In Your Ammo Box?(US Conservative)!)
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To: Parley Baer

Trump supporters(I am guessing over 50% on this board) want the GOP destroyed. The party needs changed, not demolished.


129 posted on 04/22/2016 9:11:29 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: cornfedcowboy

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.


130 posted on 04/22/2016 9:15:41 AM PDT by dforest (Ted took your money and is laughing all the way to Goldman Sachs)
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To: SERKIT

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.


131 posted on 04/22/2016 9:18:19 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: sargon

Agreed. Spot I analysis. Cruz is a spoiler. And Gingrich is right it’s just outgoing to happen and they know it.


132 posted on 04/22/2016 9:25:30 AM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: SoothingDave

No nonsense about it. Those 54 delegates are unbound. Only the 17 are bound.


133 posted on 04/22/2016 10:01:42 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: stockpirate

The Corker Bill did it for me. And then the Chicago thing only confirmed my decision.


134 posted on 04/22/2016 10:10:37 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Parley Baer
But the voters get to choose the delegates from their congressional district. You said the voters don't get to choose. They absolutely do.

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.

135 posted on 04/22/2016 10:21:48 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Kaslin

“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.


136 posted on 04/22/2016 10:25:23 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: mkjessup

You say tomato, I say tomahto.


137 posted on 04/22/2016 12:02:57 PM PDT by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: LukeL

“then why does Congress pick the president if no one gets a majority of the electoral college? “

Incentive.


138 posted on 04/22/2016 12:09:44 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Grampa Dave

“and let your Republican Party betters manage this enormous undertaking!”

They couldn’t better a compost heap!


139 posted on 04/22/2016 8:26:01 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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