Keep up the fine work, fellow members of the FR Pro-Trump Posse!!! We're heading for TRUMP Country!
Back a little later! :)
(will somebody feed mah dog until I get back? ;) lol
Posted on 04/21/2016 6:47:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
Trump people kill me.
They've been whining for weeks about how the Republican Party primary system works.
They say it's rigged because their hero is pulling in the most votes and the most delegates but still might not win the nomination.
They say it's all very simple: Trump's getting the most votes and therefore it's only fair that the person with the most votes from the people should win the nomination.
As I tweeted earlier this week, if that's the way Trump's followers think, then they should all be supporters of Al Gore.
In the 2000 election Gore got 540,000 more votes than George W. Bush, but Bush ended up in the White House because he accumulated the most Electoral College votes.
The Founding Founders & Framers knew what they were doing when they set up the Electoral College to indirectly choose the president.
They didn't want a popular vote and they didn't want Congress to pick the chief executive.
And they sure didn't want a candidate for president to be able to just campaign in three or four big states and rack up huge vote totals and win that way.
The Founders deliberately set it up so each state got its electoral votes in proportion to its representatives and senators.
They wanted every part of the country to be part of the process of choosing a president, not just one heavily populated region or one strong faction of nut balls or extremists. (Not that Trump people are nutballs or extremists.)
It's the same representative principle at work in the Republican Party's primary system.
The GOP doesn't want some guy to be able to win the nomination by flying a 757 into a handful of big states like California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Ohio and Florida, holding campaign events for 20,000 people at the airport and then flying home to Upper Upper Manhattan.
They want a nominee who gets on the ground, walks the neighborhoods, shakes hands and does the hard retail work at the grass roots.
That's what Ted Cruz has been doing to win his delegates while Trump has been doing TV interviews and zooming back and forth over Flyover Country.
Trump people might not like the primary process because their hero is not winning, or think there is cheating and rigging going on.
But they have to understand there is a process and it's not about vote counts, it's about the delegate count. It's not that tough to get.
Meanwhile, what really concerns me lately is how Trump is wrecking his ability to unify the GOP around his candidacy in the fall if he does win the nomination.
He spends parts of every speech and press conference announcing that he hopes that his supporters don't make trouble if he doesn't win. He hopes they don't riot in the streets.
I'm getting tired of his veiled threats, because that is what they really are.
It's time for Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, to stand up at a press conference and tell Trump to cut it out.
Maybe threats and intimidation are part of the Donald's winning strategy in business. But it's not how it's supposed to work when you're trying to win the presidential nomination of the Republican Party.
The ‘establishment’ has become both a catch phrase and a dirty word here among the trumpers.
They don’t even know what they mean by it anymore.
It is some nebulous force arising out of the atmosphere with the soul purpose of denying Donald Trump his rightful place.
Donald needs to do a couple of things ... now.
He needs to duck tape his mouth for a few days and he needs to put together an organization that can work for votes as Ted Cruz is doing.
Primaries don't determine delegates. They determine the binding of those delegates for the initial ballot.
What’s happening is the establishment is selecting Cruz people to fill those slots.
No, the establishment is selecting Ryan or Kasich people to fill those slots. Cruz is fighting the establishment to get Cruz-supporting delegates instead. If the establishment was seating Cruz delegates, then Cruz wouldn't need to have any of his people fighting at these state conventions.
Think, man.
They don't. Those are all lies repeated ad nauseum by Cruz bashers.
Take TPA and TPP for example. Cruz voted against both. Yet the lie keeps getting repeated that he voted against cloture and voted in favor of final passage. So your question is bogus. It is based upon a premise that is patently false.
What aa bellyacher. A disgrace to his name!
Yup and we all know who’s on first!
Both. Add in the thought that some of these people must be paid to cause havoc.
Much improved!
I hope Michael Reagan doesn't go all Levin too...
Well, there's that whole weird, idolatrous, fetishistic urge to liken our chosen candidate to a living, incarnate Moses, for one thing. We definitely don't get that, thank goodness! ;)
“we are deranged. We are beyond reason.”
Admitting you have a problem is the first step...
“We are legion. Deal with it.”
Oh, I am.
We’ll see if the country has to “deal with” a Trump presidency. I fear he’s a force of chaos, and not at all what he’s been portraying himself to be during his campaign.
I’ve just been looking at this article:
It is not encouraging.
Nonsense. Voters in PA vote for three delegates from their district and have a say in the 17 decided by the statewide results.
It's not a winner-take-all system, but neither are many other states. Each congressional district has its say.
Its very encouraging:
Remove the Goldman Sachs spin and taking out of context and you get:
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform
Which shows you his “tax the rich” is nothing more than removing the special interests tax loopholes the super rich created in the tax code to not pay the same taxes as you and me on their “income.”
“Income” is a term of art created by special interests lobbyists to exclude most of the wealth generation of the super rich. Which is why one of Cruz’s largest backers owes hundreds of millions in taxes. he knows if Cruz gets in he avoids paying the taxes.
The best response to some of these supporters of Ted sCruz is the Iran Nuke Deal that he claims he opposes. The fact is the Corker Bill was created by the republican leadership, Corker is a republican, Ted sCruz cosponsored the bill and voted FOR the Corker bill.
After that just ignore their posts. Most work for the Cruz campaign or the GOPe. We’ve had this every election, paid trolls show up and once the election is over they’re gone.
One election we had a troll who was posti g 24/7, so it had to be several people in an office posting in shifts. Some of course are democrats
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cruz-ryan-urge-senate-to-pass-fast-track/article/2563423
and His Amnesty positions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGzdyt0xOc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CwVrfydjOI
Increasing Foreign workers 500 percent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlGlNwsQb0
Here is why Cruz does the above and is so dangerous for America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXcYCwaBKnQ&app=desktop
I think we have the shift workers posting, again, this election. Fast and furiously.
Rice Bowl Threat Alert.
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