Posted on 04/15/2016 6:22:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Why are the Trumpists so angry at Cruz? In fact, doesn’t it seem like they are always angry at something or someone? It’s true. It’s either “lyin’ Ted,” the Washington insiders, the press, which is bit surprising considering how much free air time he is given, or whatever. It almost appears Svengali Trump has figured out that he must continually invent new villains to keep his followers amped up. This reminds me a bit of the leaders of the hard left, who must keep some form of “The Man” in perpetuity, holding down the oppressed democrat faithful, who are then told they must “struggle” against.
After Ted’s sweep of Colorado, Trump and his drones began screeching that Cruz has cheated and stole the state’s delegates. Now he is not just lyin’ Ted, but also cheatin’ Ted. As if Cruz and his people snuck in under cover of darkness, swung a gold pocket watch in front of the delegates and told them, “when I snap my fingers you will all commit to me.”
The Trump campaign, such that it is, may not like how Colorado set things up – heck I think it is stupid too, but it’s not the state – it’s the Republican State Committee who set it up and they are perfectly within their rights to do so.
Yet the Colorado rules were set up and publicly available in August, 2015 – 7 months ago – before the Trump campaign took off. In other words, Colorado could not have set up their delegate system as some sort of anti-Trump offensive.
Both the Trump and Cruz campaigns have had 7 months to understand the rules and plan accordingly. The Cruz people, with their demonstrably superior ground game, were obviously prepared – showing forethought, planning and execution, which sure seem like good traits for a president. But it was like The Donald and his rag-tag bunch were blindsided. This should be a lesson to us all. Is this the man we want running the country – one who appears, at least in this arena, to not possess these same traits.
Trump brags about how he’s been intelligent enough to use the country’s bankruptcy laws to his advantage. He also boasts about how he takes advantage of the political system of donations to various candidates in order to purchase influence. He says it’s all perfectly legal, which it is. He understands these systems others have devised and is able to work within them to get things done. Is this not what he claims to have been doing for years? Yet he and his people appear utterly lost regarding the eccentricities of individual State rules.
To me, this is a potentially ominous red flag regarding how Trump may govern. The Constitution is clear as a bell regarding the power of the federal government. Its power is limited to that which is expressed in the document. All other authority is extended to the States and the people. If Trump has ever read the Constitution or the Declaration, which I doubt, he would surely know this. Like elections, 50 States could mean 50 different sets of rules, for virtually everything.
This concept may not sit well with president Trump and his Cabinet full of Lewandowskis. President Trump may not like all that inconsistent individuality. As CEO of Trump Inc., he has probably gotten used to being the end-all decision maker – a top-down authoritarian, if you will. In business, this can work fine, but it is anathema to our nationalist/federalist system of governance, where the president is supposed follow the rules, not make them. It would be a rather radical departure from what he has known and how he has run his company.
This is but one reason a president Trump may be at least as dangerous as a president Clinton.
They changed their rules when they knew who the candidate might be.
Works well in 1920. Not so well in 2016.
Trump has hired a guru that knows all about that subject. Since Trump has never engaged the process, he probably does not know. Trump is accustomed to hiring people to fill out his knowledge. All leaders do that.
Karl Rove is supposed to be an expert at that. Does that make Karl (Turd Blossom) Rove the best man to be president?
Yep, he pulled the curtain back. Good for him.
The nation was a helluva lot more divided then than it is now. And so were the parties.
John, it isn’t mind changing.
We want DC to get the hell out.
I personally don’t recall Russian Fighters doing a Station Pass over my Destroyers in a day.
DC MUST GO!
Cruz = VAT tax. Next, do you think we should join the EU?
Wow what brilliant well thought out logic.
Yeah that lawyer prepared focus group GOPe talking point is a YUUUUGE fail.
See At least in Florida the people got a chance to vote. Nor was Trump in bed with the GOPE to help him steal the votes. Fact was he was not supposed to win. Jeb was. The goal was to cut out Trump entirely for the establishment boy. It backfired when Trump won the State.
But then this is real world not your talking points memo and we can mock you for trying that BS.
Nebraska’s national convention delegates don’t get selected until 5/14. The delegates talked about in the article are ones that go to the congressional and state conventions. At those conventions is where the national ones are selected.
My guess is that Trump’s plan is to arrive in Cleveland with enough delegates. Manafort has said as much.
DC hates Ted. And Trump is unelectable.
Let’s fix that.
Thanks
It is interesting that President Obama, a black man of privilege, was able to structure a campaign based primarily on resentment against the establishment and a few non specific but grandiose plans for making life grand for all those disaffected masses. The only thing he asked was that they place total faith in him.
Now we have a white man of privilege, structuring a similar campaign based on resentment against that same establishment. He also offers a few non specific but grandiose plans for making life better for his followers with a bonus of having someone else pay for it. As with Obama, he only ask that total faith be placed in him.
The three things you could depend on Obama for was to (1) brag and take credit for anything positive, (2) blame someone else for everything negative, and (3) deny responsibility for everything. Those who placed so much faith in him were the ones ignored the most, yet they never turned on him. If Mr. Trump is elected, it will be interesting to see if he continues to follow the pattern and if his most devoted followers stay loyal to him.
I’m sure Mr. Manafort is a competent individual, but will hiring him compensate for Senator Cruz’s delegate team (which numbers in the hundreds) who have been at work since March 2015 if not before?
Well, the first bit of advice he should give his boss is there is no Department of the Environmental, or D.E.P., as Trump called it.
You are a 24/7 slave for scruze,and losing respect with everybody that is not a crazy scruzebot. They must be paying you money or you would be a total schmuck,or worse an obsessed over the top FAN. Ugh...
Thanks for all of your posts.
You have many flaws in your statement. Saying that someone will pay for a wall is first.
Take all of the drug money will do it. No more F-750’s in bum-*uck America. That’s a start.
No more just taking the money to the townhall. It goes to the wall.
(I have stories that can get me killed but drug running in the USA is an operative skill allowed)
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