http://youtu.be/kNa5w9js48s
Posted on 04/15/2016 11:43:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Without Trump, they would have given us Jeb!
They are probably still going to try to do it.
From a strategic perspective, Trump fighting with Cruz and the Republican Party moves him closer to the center and more electable by the Independents and the swing Democrats.
I think the perfect storm is brewing to position him in the center.
Oh so disingenuous with the first caller. Rush tested my patience. My patience failed.
They did this all last fall [...] Colorado set up this procedure to grease the skids for an insider candidate like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio [...] Colorado set it up so that precisely a Ron Paul or this year's iteration of it -- Donald Trump, Ted Cruz -- could not come in and win it.— Rush Limbaugh
The mask briefly comes off...
Of course since that time, Ted Cruz has now been transformed into the de facto insider candidate. He now has the backing of the GOPe.
And whaddya know, just like Jeb would have, Ted Cruz becomes the beneficiary of the "greased skids" rigged delegate selection process in Colorado.
Cruz=GOPe
I agree. He was way off base. The not having 1237 is b.s., Rush knows darn well that if Jeb had done as well as Trump has done so far, it would be over. Nobody would be talking about he hasn’t gotten to 1237, they’d just be getting ready for the coronation at the convention. The caller’s point is that he’s not being represented by the GOP that’s fighting Trump instead of embracing him. So if the GOPe gets its way, then he’s back to the political wilderness, with no one to speak for him. I think a lot of us feel that way . . .
Rush nails it again.
We do not have a democracy. It is a Republic. The primaries were set up to undermine the parties by the media cartel, and now the media cartel does not control the information flow.
Trump and Cruz should unite at the convention. Yes the game is rigged; but it is rigged by the establishment, which consists of the top leaders of the Repulicans, along with the Democrat party, with the media telling them what to do and what is acceptable.
Cruz is organizing a revolution in the Republican party from the ground up, and Trump is appealing to a populist, fed up base.
They are two sides of the same coin.
And this is what we see from the Donald and his followers.
If you want to win, pull your big boy pants up and fix what you missed in the rules.
Do not run out and say it is rigged when you know it is going to be rigged against you.
Cruz knows it is rigged but he is in there fighting to win.
tRump just wants it handed to him by his board of directors
What about the electioneering and outright fraud that is being used? Is that in the manual too?
"Realville" isn't a millionaire's compound on a Florida beach with a G5/6 sitting waiting for your call when you want to go golfing, see an NFL game or go eat steaks with your cronies. He's been waffling for months now, vacillating back and forth based on the candidates' status and the news, sometimes out of both sides of his mouth. The one phrase about "60% of Republican voters don't want Trump" finally tells the story. He's chosen to side with Cruz because he thinks that 60% will give him a large audience that keeps him in coin; the double talking is trying to have his cake and eat it, too. He's read an owner's manual alright. The one that says how play the radio game. He might have more empathy and understanding of things if he'd ever been to the grocery store by himself in the last two decades.
If we are to continue this process (the delegate system), then John Q. must be invited into that aspect of the nominating process to a much greater degree. And it begins with a greater spread of information.
If you want to be dishonest about it, that's between you and God.
You need to provide specifics instead of throwing out a general accusation.
The delegate system is necessary when no candidate receives a majority as well as voting on rules, platform, and other matters.
A Majority is impossible. A Plurality always happens.
You and your multitudes are Mathematically Illiterate.
You are Scientific & Constitutionally Illiterate.
The result is that Delegates & Conventions are criminal fraud.
Feel happy you joined the masses who do not read books.
There is one truism:
“Everything Everybody understands about Elections is Wrong.” - TheNext
The Establishment runs much deeper than that. The "top leaders" wouldn't be able to get anything done without the support of the lower-level state and local party establishment, just like the Mafia Dons couldn't run anything without the lower levels seeing a benefit.
The Establishment is everyone connected to the Republican party who derives a benefit from being a "member of the club", and it runs deep. It includes the donors who expect to be able use their donor status to get "problems" fixed. It includes the lower-level officials who need the cash of the donors to pay their own salaries (and get side benefits from being the "go to" guys for getting problems fixed). It includes the campaign consultants, who get paid millions every election season. The delegates, who have to be individually "wooed", are part of the Establishment.
People haven't really realized this before, when they talked about the Establishment.
The real Wizard of Oz is revealed behind the curtain.
Since you are so literate, perhaps you can tell me what method has been historically used to select the party candidate.
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