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Trump the Sore Loser (Again)
National Review ^ | April 11, 2016 | The Editors

Posted on 04/11/2016 7:54:01 PM PDT by reaganaut1

Donald Trump is right: The system is rigged. It’s rigged in favor of front-runners. That’s why Trump, who is leading the Republican nominating contest, has a larger percentage of delegates (46 percent) than of votes (37 percent). Unsurprisingly, Trump never mentions when the rules have helped him. He much prefers to whine and peddle conspiracy theories when they don’t.

Trump’s latest tantrum is over Colorado, where Ted Cruz just swept all 34 of the state’s available delegates. Trump is calling the results “totally unfair” and on Twitter he asked: “How is it possible that the people of the great State of Colorado never got to vote in the Republican Primary?” If Trump is so concerned about states’ not holding primaries, perhaps he should renounce his victory at Nevada’s caucuses.

Colorado is one of ten states and four territories that opted for caucuses or state conventions over primaries. That does not make it undemocratic. In fact, on March 1, in community centers, gymnasiums, and churches across the state, 60,000 Colorado Republicans attended 2,917 precinct caucuses to elect delegates to the county assemblies and congressional-district conventions that convened during the following weeks. The district conventions send 21 delegates to Cleveland; and at this weekend’s state convention, more than 600 people chosen by the county assemblies competed to be one of Colorado’s 13 statewide delegates. Nothing was “stolen.” This is how Colorado’s delegate-selection process works.

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To: austingirl

“I do not have to justify my choice of candidate to you. “

Certainly, I was just making an observation!


141 posted on 04/12/2016 8:29:27 AM PDT by vette6387 (Obama can go to hell!)
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To: TXBlair

I disagree with the article and think the author is lying when he said that conventions and caucuses are not undemocratic. I think that making it purposely more difficult for rank and file republican voters to actually vote is inherently not democratic. I do not see where I am wrong.


142 posted on 04/12/2016 8:52:13 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: ar1295
“Your trying to trick me. Go away dummie. I don’t fall for percent questions.”

See, you said: I’v foudn in life that people use percents when they want to fool you. (sic)

So I said . . . aaww, forget about it.

143 posted on 04/12/2016 8:53:54 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Most people probably did not even know about this until shortly before it happened. I am sure the republican party hacks, the same people who have been screwing over their own voters for decades, did not run bunches of ads letting people know about the changes they instituted in August. I disagree with the article. I think that making it purposely more difficult for rank and file republican voters to actually vote and register their opinion is inherently not democratic. I do not see where I am wrong.


144 posted on 04/12/2016 8:58:49 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: ExGeeEye

That is not what I said. I think that republicans should vote for the republican nominee. The problem I have with this is that the party hacks in Colorado purposely instituted a process in August to make it much more difficult for rank and file republican voters to actually vote so they could control the outcome. I think this highlights the contempt and distrust the party hacks have for their own voters. They would love to just cut everybody but themselves out of the process and present us party hack turds like Jeb!, Romney or Ryan to vote for in the general. I do not see how I am wrong.


145 posted on 04/12/2016 9:05:18 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Rational Thought

It’s the rules?

That’s a strange argument coming from a party that HAS DONE NOTHING as our president and his friends have BROKEN THE LAW for the past seven years.

Why aren’t they going after Hillary for violating State Department email rules?

Or Bernie Sander’s wife - who’s ripping off the college she works for?

Why is it the rules only apply to the little people?


147 posted on 04/12/2016 11:20:27 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: MaxFlint

>>You’re really winning us over.

I’m under the considered judgement that is not possible. Those for him this long, almost nothing he does matters - maybe up to “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”

>>”Cheat Trump supporters..” Trump supporters seem to follow his lead no matter how far fetched. He either wins or was cheated. He’s either a genius or, like his view of America, a victim of others.


148 posted on 04/12/2016 5:30:47 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: dynoman

Again: It’s a caucus/convention state. determined in stages by attendees by precinct, county, congressional delegation, state convention.

Again.

Your guy - the youtube Trump caucus whiner - skipped the county meeting and then tried to go to state anyway.

So, he was cheated.

All you need to know is Trump lost, so it was unfair and he was cheated. Rinse and repeat.


149 posted on 04/12/2016 5:49:21 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: dynoman

>>>I’m more convinced than ever that Trump planned Colorado to happen the way it’s happening.

Brilliant! He planned to lose and planned to scream “I was cheated!” Gee who saw that coming?

Whenever Trump loses, he was cheated, because Trump never loses.

This actually works on a lot of folks; same folks, but he needs to keep them and they seem to buy whatever excuse he offers.

I predict, wildly, that he will claim to be the victim again and again, and the same folks will parrot it.


150 posted on 04/12/2016 5:53:27 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
I’m under the considered judgement that is not possible.

Are you conceding the election to Hillary?

151 posted on 04/12/2016 6:54:33 PM PDT by MaxFlint
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To: MaxFlint

Non sequitur and of course not.

That’s just one of the reasons I don’t support Trump’s nomination; I believe he would lose badly and be bad news on the down ballot as well.

YMMV.


152 posted on 04/12/2016 6:59:00 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
That’s just one of the reasons I don’t support Trump’s nomination; I believe he would lose badly and be bad news on the down ballot as well.

What states will your favorite candidate win that Romney lost?

153 posted on 04/12/2016 7:01:37 PM PDT by MaxFlint
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To: MaxFlint

We all have our opinions and analysis for what little that’s worth.

But, non-subjectively, if we look to what data we have, most indicate that Trump is the worst choice for victory over Hillary, particularly in battleground states.


154 posted on 04/12/2016 7:17:18 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
We all have our opinions and analysis for what little that’s worth. But, non-subjectively, if we look to what data we have, most indicate that Trump is the worst choice for victory over Hillary, particularly in battleground states.

You're so lacking in confidence in your candidate you won't even say "X will win Ohio"? And you think that vague promise is sufficient that we should abandon Trump for some chump who's so weak he can't beat sure loser Trump? That's your plan?

This only proves what I suspect. Anti-Trumps are much, much more worried about Trump winning than they are about Hillary. What is it about patriotism that scares them so much?

BTW, Trump will win Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Florida and he has a shot at New York.

155 posted on 04/12/2016 7:30:57 PM PDT by MaxFlint
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To: MaxFlint

I’m happy with my response to your question. I don’t think us arguing our analysis on Ohio is worth much.

>>>we should abandon Trump for some chump who’s so weak he can’t beat sure loser Trump?

Primaries are different than general elections of course. And we haven’t yet seen whether Trump will be the winner of the primary.

>>>What is it about patriotism that scares them so much?

Trump’s problems in winning the general are, as I said, not the only reason I don’t support him for the nomination. And it’s not his nationalism. It’s his governing philosophy - or lack thereof - his failure to address the real issues and his solutions. I think he’d make a bad president economically, socially and in foreign affairs.

I don’t think it would be much of a win in terms of good for the country.

I realize you disagree, but it’s not for lack of patriotism on your part.


156 posted on 04/12/2016 7:41:21 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr

Look at the big picture and THINK!


157 posted on 04/12/2016 9:18:27 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

I gave the big picture. It’s pretty simple to figure out.

As Donald said: “I only complain about the ones where we have difficulty.”


158 posted on 04/12/2016 9:22:57 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr

No you are not looking the big picture, you are flat out ignoring the obvious media play against the cologop and Cruz. Cruz is having to justify and react, he’s on the defensive. Think about it.


159 posted on 04/12/2016 9:29:25 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

If we envision a bigger picture, a grander strategy for Trump it would be: Get your supporters so full of drama and convinced that if Trump doesn’t win, it’s a criminal travesty, have Trump threaten a riot... so the delegates will be too afraid not to to support Trump.

Intimidation. That would be in Trump’s wheelhouse.


160 posted on 04/12/2016 9:32:37 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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