Posted on 04/22/2016 12:48:10 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
We started writing about Ted Cruz using shady tactics to steal delegates a while back. What makes this even more appalling is we also pointed out that Lyin Ted Cruz had claimed he was against a Contested Convention. The only way Ted Cruz or John Kasich can win is via delegate theft. They both have been mathematically eliminated from the race by the voters.
We also pointed out that delegates can be bought. As Hot Air notes;
“But if you want to pretend these conversations aren’t taking place in the Cruz and Kasich camps, well… I’d love to know what color the sky is in your world. The campaigns are allowed to provide travel expenses, deliver “gifts” and make promises of future meetings and events in the home states of the delegates. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck you can all it an eagle all day long but you’re not going to be inspiring much confidence in the voters.”
Donald Trump previously called the RNC and Reince Priebus a “disgrace” and blasted the party’s delegate system as “absolutely rigged.”He discusses the delegate buying with Sean Hannity in this video.
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Good, all these delegate rigging games need to be exposed and given as much publicity as possible so the voters can stage uprisings in their states and bring about change.
No doubt the party insiders will use any trick in the book to thwart the will of the voters and have things the way they want them.
The RNC is a private organization. It can do what it wants. The lawsuits have failed before.
The Democrat Party’s work is never done.
Why would anyone give credence to an article that uses slur names for the candidates?
And get rid of the electoral college and have popular votes for Supreme Court justices as well!
Don’t you know Trump supporters can’t write a post without using vile and nasty names.
Until such time as Trump actually secures 1237 delegates Cruz has a realistic chance of putting together a coalition to beat Trump. If Trump does not reach 1237 on the first ballot it is very likely Cruz will win on the second or third ballot. That’s the way politics works!!
Failed to do what?
Lawsuits aren't needed, simply that the people who make up a political party in a state demand that the selection of delegates reflect the will of the voters and not the will of a small number of party insiders and activists.
This election has been a lesson in how these things are done in various states, and people don't like what they've learned.
Is that supposed to relate to something posted here?
Private businesses and organizations get sued all the time for fraud. “Those are the rules” that we wrote doesn’t cut it. There are class action lawsuits all the time.
Candidates and donors spend millions of dollars to win a primary and delegates and the party can change the results after the vote.
That is clearly fraud.
There was a lawsuit against the Republican party a few cycles ago about some issue with delegates or getting delegates. The courts have ruled political parties are private and this can make any rules they want.
The question is that, with all the (deservedly) negative press they've received...is it a victory at all?
The party insiders who have asserted their "right" to disregard the will of the voters...what do you think they've won?
How many of these farces of an electoral process do you think will survive?
And finally...in an election year where the outsider railing against insider influence has won the great majority of votes...how stupid is it for the party to be caught where it is?
Just sayin’, might as well get rid of all checks on democracy while we’re at it.
A delegate selection system controlled by party officials and insiders is not a check on democracy, but a means of denying democracy to the citizens and voters.
Why would anyone give credence to an article that uses slur names for the candidates?
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Why would anyone give credence to a candidate who uses lies to slur other candidates? That would be Ted Cruz.
I am pretty sure this year the RNC no matter what would be hated
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