Why didn't Rubio and Carson hang in there after they were mathematically eliminated?

[Jim Robinson]

Well, for one thing, it would be counterproductive. With three, four or five candidates drawing delegates, it simply prevents anyone from getting to 1237 and ensures that the GOPe gets to install one of their own establishment guys at the convention. The malleable "rules" are designed to to preserve, protect and defend the establishment ruling class. Nothing more.

Cruz knows this. He has betrayed the grassroots.

[Agamemnon]

Cruz picked up just 65 of the 94 delegates up for grabs yesterday.

You mean to tell me that quietly, steadily, and playing by the rules Cruz just wiped out the equivalent of 2/3 of all the delegates Trump thinks he got in NY last week?

You mean Trump can't just smash-mouth through this whole thing and make up his own rules as he goes along, as though in the end the real decision makers will care what "rules" Trump thinks he wants to play by?

I think Trump is just now starting to find out what Ted Cruz has known all along and that is that picking delegates is more akin to a representative process, not merely a popularity contest - kind of like the way our Constitution set things up for the Federal Government - a representative government, not mob rule like it appears some favor around here as they are merely looking for their own version of "Il Duce."

Trump is trying to elevate himself with a system where only his rules matter -- like any aspiring dictator in history has ever been.

It's why I tell the Trump worshippers here that willfully choose to ignore what and who the man is and has ever been for the "mensch"-image he's playing up in front of the cameras today to be careful for what they think they are wishing for.

As with any autocrat who comes to power, his acolytes will be the first he'll throw under the bus. If he ever secures the nomination in the end they will have their "strong-man" alright, and they'll be left patching what's left of their bruised egos, when all they'll have left at that point is buyer's remorse.

Given his "business man's" "too bad for you" response to NC standing up for preserving the inherent security of the privy, to his politically correct accommodation of pervertedly mentally ill men in his own bathrooms at Trump Tower, I suspect the mask is starting to slip and his supporters and delegates are starting to wake up, and be reminded about what they didn't like about him in the first place and prior to a mere 9 months ago.

Imagine that I just learned last week that there are some seriously pervertedly mentally ill persons posting as FReepers to this board too who are among the most obnoxious of Trumps acolytes. They may actually be DU deep cover (there's a lot of them around here these days) but Trump's their man just the same.

"Trump just said it's OK if transgendered men share the bathroom with daughters, granddaughters," by "Dynoman" post #137

There's still time left in the race and likely more mask slippage to come that can make sure that his currently Stockholm-syndrome suffering starry-eyed supporters don't ultimately choose to endure what will only be their certain abuse at the hands of "Double-down Donny."

California is going to quite interesting.

FReegards!

[RitaOK]

Keep it up Ag’.

Is this your “opus out”, or just your first real effort?

It might be a good idea to hide on the tail end of threads from here on out and just pick off one Trump supporter at a time that hits a nerve, and add a cohort or two of your own.

[dynoman]

https://www.gop.com/official-2016-gop-delegate-count/

DONALD TRUMP 846

TED CRUZ 544

[dynoman]

“Trump just said it’s OK if transgendered men share the bathroom with daughters, granddaughters,” by “Dynoman” post #137”

The point goes whoosh right over your head. Think man, instead of defaulting to ad hominem and personal attack.

Ok, you make the law XYs are banned from XX bathrooms. How do you identify the XYs dressed as XXs? Then, once they are identified in the wrong bathroom, who reports it? And who is it reported to? Then when that entity comes how do they identify the alleged XY to be in the XX bathroom as an XY??

If an XY dressed as an XX goes in the XY bathroom you have another set of problems.

As long as XYs aren’t peeing in sinks in the XX bathroom or XXs aren’t sitting in the urinals in XY bathrooms how does anyone know??

That was the point of posting the pictures of XYs dressed like XX that no one in their right mind would try to kick out of a women’s bathroom.

[dynoman]

Thanks for the ping. Man I can’t stand these shallow thinking morons who can’t get a point then snipe from the sidelines. Disgusting.

[dynoman]

https://www.gop.com/official-2016-gop-delegate-count/

DONALD TRUMP 846

TED CRUZ 544

[RitaOK]

Gawwwd. I wanna bee a Viking Kitty reeeeally bad.

Sure miss The Old Lady.

[dynoman]

Be a man and ping me when you spew your pathetic ad hominems.

unlearner your soulmate sleeps with the fishes!!!! LOLOL!!!

[dynoman]

Agamemnon sleeps with the fishes, LOL!!

[Jim Robinson]

Out for the duration.

[nopardons]

I am an “original” VIKING KITTY; hear me ROAR! :-)

[RitaOK]

WHAT!@!! Are you serious??

LOL!!!

My first hit? LOL!

After all my swings and misses??? LOL!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

[M. Thatcher]

[TheOldLady]

I'm still here. A year and a few months of surgery and chemo
really laid me low there for a while, but I'm slowly regaining
my strength and health. It's taking a while because I really
am TheOldLady. I'm 69, and if I thought I was going to get
this old, I would have taken better care of myself. ;-)

I passed the torch to OldSarge, and he did a great job for a
while there, but then things deteriorated, and the torch fell.

Anyone can post ZOT graphics and taunts at the zottee, so just
jump in! The water's fine, and it's a lot of fun embarrassing
some silly person who wasn't as smart as the zottee thought it
was.

[exDemMom]

So my theory is that the establishment who started out as "neverTrump" are starting to see the inevitable in that Trump is going to be the nominee. This same establishment is now pushing Cruz to alienate himself from a large segment of voters and therefore damage himself so fully that he will not get reelected in his Senate race.

They may have been forced to accept Trump, but they will have gotten rid of Cruz.

That is a very interesting theory. We should see if it pans out in the next few months or so.

[exDemMom]

Agamemnon sleeps with the fishes, LOL!!

Glad I saw your post before I took the time to respond to his rather lengthy and incoherent diatribe that he posted to me. You saved me a lot of time!

Really, the people who gloat about Cruz's voterless (cheating) victories seriously do not see the irony in promoting him as the "principled" conservative?

[dynoman]

Yeah, he lectures like he’s our dad or something.

[dynoman]

You are Trump’s age!! That’s not old!

[TheOldLady]

That’s true. 69 isn’t all that old, but David Bowie died at 69. Not to forget one of my very favorite
Brit actors, Alan Rickman also passed at 69. I’m gonna miss that guy. I thought he was really great.

For a while there, I thought that everybody was passing away. Heck, Leonard Nimoy died too. That
hit me in the heart. I really liked Mr. Spock/Leonard Nimoy.