Posted on 04/18/2016 3:48:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
To refresh your memory: Washington State has 44 delegates, winner-take-most (majority takes all) proportional primary (20% threshold), with statewide and CD delegates. Closed primary (deadline to switch is next week; deadline for first-time voters is next month), but it’s all mail-in. …And, just think! Five months ago, I would have had to write another three or four sentences to explain all of that. Now I can just assume that most of you folks will be able to follow along. It’s an ill wind, huh?
Anyway, it turns out that Ted Cruz has already done the work – before the deadline – that will ensure that the people picking the actual delegates (and the delegates themselves!) will be people who rather like Ted Cruz. As usual, his team started early: “In Washington, Cruz named a state leadership team in November and had slates of delegates lined up for recent county conventions and legislative-district caucuses.” And, given that the pool of potential delegates has already been created, it’s pretty likely that the end result in Washington State will be the same as in other ones: to wit, one where Ted Cruz steamrollers his opposition when it comes time to picked pledged delegates.
It’s darkly entertaining when people – very, ah, enthusiastic people, – call this ‘cheating.’ To be fair, those people have been carefully misinformed by television and other media about what the rules are in primary elections. So of course they’re upset to find out that it matters that Washington State is a closed proportional primary! Or that there’s a statewide/CD split! Or that delegate selection is so absolutely important to the state political parties that it get its own system! Nobody told them otherwise, and somebody should have. And now of course they’re being lied to, by politicians and political flunkeys who are becoming uncomfortably aware of all the new enemies that they kind of didn’t mean to make – so I’m not entirely unsympathetic.
But I am unsympathetic, because I didn’t know any of this stuff at first either. I just educated myself on the process. It’s not exactly hard to learn, either. If it was hard to learn, they’d just have to dumb it down further so that politicians could understand it.
“Anyway, it turns out that Ted Cruz has already done the work – before the deadline – that will ensure that the people picking the actual delegates (and the delegates themselves!) will be people who rather like Ted Cruz. As usual, his team started early: “
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So you’re saying Cruz is once again attempting to scam, yet another state delegation.
Got it.
Every day in every way I hate Cruz and his minions just a little more.
So when did Cruz’s campaign slogan become “ I will do anything legal to win even if it is immoral”?
Oh. When he first took Citizen’s United empowered campaign donations?
Think about this Vet. Did you fight for a country led by such?
Since when is hard work and preparation a “scam” in America?
Cruz just out prepares and out hustles Trump.
Trump could have done the same, but was either ill-informed or lazy (or just not serious).
It’s the difference between the silver-spoon rich guy and the guy whose father washed dishes.
I personally admire hard work.
“So when did Cruz’s campaign slogan become “ I will do anything legal to win even if it is immoral”?”
Interesting definition of “immoral.”
I think Cruz should get his guys on the rules committee for the convention and make a rule that says whoever has won more delegates in Colorado will be the nominee... YAY Cruz— what a ground game that would be.. /s
People can actually vote in Washington? Terrible news for Cruz
It does not matter what Cruz does: if Trump does not win first balloting round, the RNC intend on placing Colin Powell as Repub. nominee for President, and Jon Huntsman, Jr., as Vice Pres.
Cruz and all his supporters are just useful tools; too bad, so sad.
Glad to here it, he’s getting my vote. :-)
Hard work, as you say, is what Donald is doing actually winning primaries.
Cruz is violating primaries. He is increasingly trying to win this by ... almost by cheating.
I’m not saying he is literally cheating, but he is not focused on winning votes, which is what he should be doing.
hear not here! HA!
Trump strategy: Win with the voters.
Cruz strategy: Win despite the voters.
We did not last time around in 2012. There were caucuses rubber stamping Romney.
This year? I do not know yet.
Colin Powell is almost 80 years old. Fax me whatever you’re smoking.
Oh, I know...rules, the rules.
That process has been well under way for quite a while - not only for the Rules committee, but for the Platform Committee and for the Credentials Committee. While Manafort has been making threats about challenges to Cruz delegations, Cruz has been busy getting the committee that will decide those challenges loaded up with his supporters.
Ask Reince Priebus. It is he fulfilling the NWO’s wishes.
Straw man baloney. If he wins it he wins it. Nothing to argue about winning a primary.too bad it’s a where state George Washington would lose to Bernie Sanders. Be like HRC winning Utah.
Wait a minute - you oppose the Citizen United decision? and you are on a CONSERVATIVE forum? Wouldn't you be more comfortable over at DU?
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