When Donald Trump applied the bankruptcy laws to "screw" suppliers, creditors, employees, joint venturers and potentially many others with the bankruptcy of the Taj Mahal and other properties in Atlantic City, was Trump employing "dirty tricks" or was he, as his defenders on these threads maintain, simply playing by the rules?
If the Republican Party plays by the rules after Trump fails to get the requisite 1237 delegates votes, why is that dirty tricks? It is playing by the rules, by definition. We conservatives demand the government play by the rules, or is that a principle for thee and not for me?
These people oppose Trump not just because they are stinking establishment Republicans but because they do not believe the Trump will defeat Hillary with his 2 to 1 upside down negative over positive ratings and with the decided disadvantage with voters of color. If we have Hillary we all agree prospects for continued liberty in America are made dramatically unlikely. If we have a third-party candidacy, we should all agree that Hillary will be elected.
Right now, Trump is not the winner under the rules, under those rules he must become a majority not a minority candidate. Until he does so the enforcement of the rules is perfectly proper. The egotist is not exempt from the rules merely because he is a narcissist. He cannot claim protection of the bankruptcy rules when he wants them but then avoid application of the party rules which have coexisted with the Republican Party since time immemorial.
...He cannot claim protection of the bankruptcy rules when he wants them but then avoid application of the party rules which have coexisted with the Republican Party since time immemorial. "Since time immemorial", my hairy purple donkey.
The rules were changed in 2012. And they were changed specifically to help establishment candidates. Trump has worked within those rules and is leading every other candidate. In fact, he may be to only one to meet the "8 state" rule.
Stealing the nomination from him is going to rile up a lot of us peasants.
When the RNC called me with a plea for money last Friday I told the hapless phone solicitor that they were getting nothing, nada, zip, zero from me until they started supporting Trump instead of conspiring against him. I gave him a full earful, hoping he would pass along my dissatisfaction to the upper echelons.