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.
Very condescending.
“There’s no joy in Mudville...
The mighty Cruz has STRUCK OUT!!!!!!!”
Yep, another piece of condescending tripe from the bowtie crowd at Townhall.
Oh goody, another Klownhall post. At least Michael Reagan called us Trump people instead of one of those cutsy names.
Hey Mike, you people need to learn that we are in the midst of a rebellion.
Get out of the way and take Lyin’ Tedster with you.
Or as it’s called, “The Spanish Archer”, El Bow.
then why does Congress pick the president if no one gets a majority of the electoral college?
Further, they think their idea of what the process shoukd be, what the methods should be are sacrosanct for time immemorial unless they ok any changes. There used to be a soviet union too. But there isn’t anymore.
Reagan in name only.
Nothing more simple then that.
Yet another Salem Media Townhall flunky panicking at the realization their club just doesn’t matter anymore.
They want a nominee who gets on the ground, walks the neighborhoods, shakes hands and does the hard retail work at the grass roots.
This might be realistic in a small town election, but in a national race where the nation is 3,000 miles wide, get real.
What a ridiculous article that misses the point. Limbaugh is wasting half his show with similar garbage.
When you win delegates in the primary they should actually be your delegates. What’s happening is the establishment is selecting Cruz people to fill those slots.
He lives in Midtown.
I’m sad Mike doesn’t get it. I think his dad would have.
Imagine turning to Rinse Penus as the authority figure here. F the parties!
This isn’t a general election and there isn’t an electoral college for a primary.
This isn’t the 1800’s either, where the farmer would rely on someone to do his bidding in a primary because he could not, and would not leave his farm for 3 weeks at a time to go vote in a primary, and couldn’t be bothered to vote again and again for each run off, so they had set up a system of delegates to represent their best interest.
This is the 21st century. Our interests are pretty damned clear. This is the information age, and we don’t have to come down from the hills with a mule train to vote..
The author knows this, as do many on this forum.
but lets not let common sense get in the way of partisan politics.
The ONLY reason the system is kept in place is exactly for the reason of keeping an outsider from winning.
LOLOL!!
Love it!
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