Posted on 04/11/2016 6:27:26 AM PDT by FR_addict
Yep, anything to deny the voters a choice. Disgraceful. St. Ted should be ashamed as to what his creepy campaign has become.
Are you seriously insulting fellow freepers by insinuating that we lack the ability to evaluate a candidate with our own intellects and that we must rely on pundits and magazines in order to form our views? I will put my intellect and integrity up against the cult of personality surrounding Trump any day of the week.
No matter how hard you try to build up a ball of crap, it’s still a ball of crap.
Was trump aware of how the primary works in Colorado? could he have done something to insure that his voters were represented? Don’t try to miscast his incompetence in that regard as theft by someone else, who knew the process and worked it to his advantage.
They got to vote for delegates. Is the problem that Trump failed to organize and Trump voters are too low info to be able to figure out which delegates to support?
It should be interesting to see how the Trump camp fails to give its voters any direction on voting in PA’s primary. They will have to select delegates by name from the ballot without any indication who supports whom.
I expect the Cruz camp to inform his voters. That dirty cheater.
I’d like to second that note of appreciation, even though I’m supporting a different candidate. I think this election cycle has opened a lot of eyes about the process. The rules are (deliberately, IMO) obscure, with easily-missed deadlines to he come involved.
As a Jerseyite, I think I’ve already missed whatever cutoff dates there are.
That's what we've been saying about Ted Cruz and his FR crluzers this whole time!
Glad to see you've come around to our way of thinking. :)
The master negotiator businessman should have better people in place if he wants to insure his nomination. But we should trust that he will appoint competent people if elected....
Which I did. :)
You're welcome, BTW.
Nice try and I have to say the only person to have been able to do so thus far, so I do give you credit. But you’re assuming facts not in evidence ie; that Trump was a sure thing. Trump was never inevitable, and his viability suffers directly from his own flaws. Can one of you possibly acknowledge that his ridiculous behavior has caused people to view him unfavorably. I DID see a supporter either on TV or on Twitter acknowledge that he has a twitter problem. Acknowledging it is the first step to curing it. For every voter he attacts with that kind of childishness he turns off two more.
Acknowledging that the Republicans formed their usual circular firing squad, and failed to pick the brass ring of the presidency lying at their feet, would be your first step to curing your illusions about what's actually going on here.
Trump was unelectable from day one. The NR magazine issue was a response to him being unelectable, not the cause of it.
If I am reading it right, on the first ballot Trump gets 30 and Cruz 27. Period. So some NC Cruz supporters must vote Trump, but only on first ballot.
From
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/NC-R
Trump average popular vote over 13 districts, he got around 35,000 per. Cruz got around 32,000 per. What a ground game does is find enough of those to take the next step, actual delegate selection.
I am laughing at your superior tone, oh enlightened trumpbot. So the GOPe should have fixed on trump, booted the rest of the candidates and presented Trump to us run of the mill generic republican voters as a fait accompli? Do we have no say? Trump was never my choice nor the choice of anyone I know, so you’re mad that the party didn’t ram him down our throats just because 37% of you want him?
so are you excusing his ridiculously childish behavior because it’s 2 mo later? how does that make sense. he’s LOSING voters because of it, the field has narrowed and he should be trying to attract the rest of us. Twitter meltdowns and position changing every few minutes isn’t going to do it.
No matter how hard you try to build up the ball of crap that was the GOPe's response to Trump, it’s still a ball of GOPe crap.
If the election is lost to the Democrats, the GOPe & Cruz’s ego own the failure.
That's not what I'm saying at all.
The GOPe and the rest of you bought Lotto tickets, expecting to win the Big Enchilada, when the winning ticket for the presidency was already in their hand.
I play the sure thing, not pie-in-the-sky expectations.
I guess there’s no convincing you otherwise, but I happen to know from my own experience and the people that I know and talk to in many different states, it comes down to Trump’s intemperate behavior. He was never going to beat Hillary. like I said, I will vote for him bc IMO there’s a 5% chance he will be better than she would be, and that’s good enough for me.
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