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 article is misleading... the electoral college has NOTHING to do with the GOP primaries..
the trump issue is
WY CO
the voters NEVER GOT TO VOTE
never pulled the lever for anyone...
far as trump taking winner take all and otheres get zero.....
who set that up?
not trump...
HIS POINT IS, IF VOTERS DONT GET TO VOTE....IT’S RIGGED...THAT’S ALL
It sounds like he’s saying Cruz and his GOP pals are working hard to loot delegates, while Trump isn’t so Trump should be quiet.
Grifters have a similiar attitude when referring to a ‘mark’: “That’s my money in his wallet.”
It sounds like he’s saying Cruz and his GOP pals are working hard to loot delegates, while Trump isn’t so Trump should be quiet.
It’s an Alinsky tactic. Bully your opponents into shutting up basically.
Sounds like Michael Reagan is treating the GOPe the same as the Founding Fathers. That’s insulting to the Founding Fathers.
No matter what Trump has said, no matter how crass he has been, it is nothing compared to the unprincipled leadership in the GOPe, the lack of leadership in Congress, and the lilly-livered way Congress has folded to the active conversion to Marxism perpetrated by the current occupant of the White Crib. I blame McConnell, Boehner, Ryan, Romney, McCain, Graham, Rubio, and the Gang of Eight shenanigans. Trump is a symptom, not a disease. Mikey has it wrong - the GOPe is dysfunctional and lacks any desire for introspection. Reince will be officiating at the funeral of a big dead elephant in Cleveland unless they kiss and make up with Trump and unify the party. Perhaps then there can be an enema and clear out the GOPe and the corrupt donor class.
What this putz pretends not to get - see tagline...the bottomline.
Who would’a thunk that all of Reagan’s kids would turn out to be dopes?
Must have been the influence of the Hollywood years.
Cruz lost. So let’s all campaign for Hillary. Yay, Hillary, go Hillary. WooHoo Hillary. You go girl.
I resemble your tagline.
Now that is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in weeks!
It’s humorous, but true.
Can’t bribe an elector to change his vote.
“Trump people” don’t get worried about what douches like Michael Reagan say about them.
I can’t believe Michael Reagan is this stupid. In the Presidential election everyone got to vote in every state for the electoral college.
In the primaries not everyone gets to vote in every state for every delegate. Take Pennsylvania. The voters only get to choose 17 of 71 delegates. Colorado is another example of a screwed up state. The system is rigged in favor of the Republican club.
You’re funny. Go to the website —Trump’s 101 lies. What a scoundrel. But you’ll defend him.
“I am always surprised to see Trump supporters hope that their leader becomes head of a party that they despise.”
Trump wants to change it to give the voters more power. I know that is above you pay grade but please try and understand.
And why in sandhill do you like Trump — support the Obama stimulus, Obama car bailout, Obama auto bailout, raising taxes on the rich, sending old men into little girls’ bathrooms, touchback amnesty, dumping two wives, and serial adultery. Keep up the good work.
Trump is going to make you and his other supporters like the biggest fools on Earth — and today was just the beginning, with the men into girls’ bathroom, more abortion and taxing rich positions. You’ll be on your knees begging for Ted Cruz after little Donald kneecaps you a few dozen times — from what you would call a Cruz roach, Trump kneeler.
“Too bad that Michael Reagan feels this way, but he should do his homework before engaging in such pathetic attacks.”
I used to listen to his radio show and really like Michael. However this rant is just stupid as has been pointed out. Amazing what we are finding out in this election.
Trump people kill me.
My thought exactly.
Cruz has Trump beat in a landslide when it comes to lying. Cruz is in a league all his own.
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