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.
That’s not what Cruz does, anyway.
I took some editorial license, hope you don't mind!
Sorry Parley Baer — but you’re wrong.
Can YOU document 101 lies by Cruz as has been done for Trump?
And shame on Trump, you and other Trump supporters for already working to encourage MORE abortions. Tell your weasel boss to keep praising the henchmen at Planned Parenthood. They do a great work killing babies — and your man likes them.
The comment is the latest in a long line of comments from Trump upsetting pro-life voters — including multiple remarks praising the Planned Parenthood abortion business, saying abortion laws should not be changed and saying women should be punished for having abortions and flip-flopping hours later.
So it’s either stupid or evil, eh? No possibility of principled disagreement?
And just an aside, I know of no Cruz supporters, on FR or in real life, who support an open border, a North American Union, or any of that other stuff. In fact, I can recall quite clearly facing off with a bunch of La Raza hooligans here in Cali with some folks who are now Cruz supporters back in 2006 during the last round of immigration “discussion”. Don’t recall seeing you there, so I won’t pretend to speak for you, but I’m pretty sure that I, and the other Cruz folks are not open border advocates.
That document is utter smear-filled garbage, which anyone with even the smallest a modicum of experience recognizing propaganda technique can discern.
I couldn't get through more than the first few "lies" without snickering at the feeble smear tactics being employed.
The document does not stand up under even the mildest scrutiny.
On the other hand, like most lawyers, Ted Cruz casually lies without even realizing it. It's utterly routine for him. And he expects everyone to overlook his gross distortions.
There's little need to produce a document, just record the man speaking in response to almost any question lately, and within 45 seconds he will have prevaricated half a dozen times...
I heard one of the local “conservative talkers” here defend the whole “play the game or your claim is lame” line the other day. He’s been a player in our state GOP.
I like the way the guy thinks on most issues, and to hear him defend the system was interesting. There was the poll tax in commitment and organization argument, that individuals and campaigns too lazy and disorganized to play the game deserved to lose. There was the fairness argument, that the rules were known to one and all. It was a pretty good argument.
What stuck with me, though, was not his logic or his words. It was his tone. A condescending note, with just a hint of suppressed anger and exasperation. It was extremely grating.
That tone stuck with me, and it made me instantly want to oppose him.
I don’t know if Mr. “Art of the Deal” is clever enough to set them up, but those who attack Trump with this tone in their presentation are solidifying the Trump base, if not adding to it.
They are working to elect Trump, for free, or in some cases, on his opponent’s dime, but they seem incapable of losing the tone.
I can’t recall anything quite like it.
At this point, I think Cruz is through. I think now the choice is between Trump or another nightmare like McCain or Romney. I refused to vote for Romney and I will refuse to vote for Karl Rove's next creation.
Reality is our friend. The time has come to get behind Trump.
Nailed it.
Congratulations cssGA300005,
You are the first and only person in 10 months who gets it.
Electoral College protects small states from bigger ones.
cssGA300005, this is a small club of only 2 members so far.
I am thinking of a club membership card for starters.
The EC Club: People who understand the election.
“Yet another Salem Media Townhall flunky panicking at the realization their club just doesn’t matter anymore.”
I get a warm feeling every time I think of this.
“I get a warm feeling every time I think of this.”
~~~
Yup, indeed. Know whatcha mean.
Good comments from Michael Reagan. I’ve always considered him to be level-headed and Conservative. ...Thanks
Yes! It is almost criminal how Trump is inciting violence in what he thinks is a subtle way.
Gee, I hope my followers don’t go all postal if I’m cheated at the Convention.
The system has worked in Trump’s favor a lot and nobody mentions it ... at least trumpers don’t.
He won tons of delegates in early states when he didn’t get much over 35% of the vote.
He won tons of delegates in New York with fewer votes than Ted Cruz got in Wisconsin.
It’s only when he gets outmaneuvered that he starts whining and crying.
Calling in the zombies.
Good idea. All the previous trumpers have posted nonsense.
Maybe one of the ‘squad’ can come up with something better.
By the time this is over, you will be in a mental institution if you actually believe what you said in that post.
Tell me about it.
None of their posts responding to this thoughtful article deal with the points made in the article.
They cannot deal with reality.
They are in trumpville, where the sun always shines and there is a pony in the yard.
Me, too. I’ve always liked the guy.
Your unprincipled spoiler candidate is collapsing in the polls, and rightly so.
His dream of winning a contested convention is evaporating.
Do you realize what Cruz is trying to do?
Apparently, Ted Cruz plans on limping into the GOP convention with, at best, about 700 delegates or so.
And then what's he going to do somehow, magically? He's going to seize the nomination from Donald Trump, displacing the party's clear frontrunner.
Then what? This is the most ridiculous part: after swiping the nomination, he will:
Ridiculous, isn't it?
And for this selfish goal, Cruz is willing to sacrifice his party, or even the country, on the altar of his peronsl ambition. Ted Cruz's arrogance, conceit and narcissism make Donald Trump supposed character deficits pale in comparison.
I'm seriously beginning to wonder about Ted Cruz's character.
Ted Cruz has lost. He has now been mathematically eliminated from securing a delegate majority before the convention, and he will limp into the convention itself with fewer than 2/3 of the needed delegates. His fantasy of garnering the nomination, if successful, would irreparably splinter the party, and guarantee a GOP defeat in November.
As Newt Gingrich so aptly noted, that's simply not going to happen. Not even the crooked GOPe is that stupid.
Vote Trump
What’s happening is the establishment is selecting Cruz people to fill those slots.
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The local voters attend meetings at the district/county/State levels to elect the delegates to represent them. Has nothing to do with the “establishment”.
Impatiently waiting with little expectation.
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