Posted on 03/28/2016 9:47:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Oh, how cruel the game of politics can be — especially if you don’t have a ground game.
On Sunday night, Donald Trump tweeted, “Just to show you how unfair Republican primary politics can be, I won the State of Louisiana and get less delegates than Cruz — lawsuit coming.”
It’s true: On March 5, Mr. Trump took 41.4 percent of the Louisiana vote compared with Ted Cruz’s 37.8 percent and Marco Rubio’s 11.2 percent. Mr. Trump was awarded 18 delegates, so was Mr. Cruz, and Mr. Rubio got 5 delegates.
So what happened between March 5 and Sunday? Mr. Rubio dropped out, and under Louisiana delegate rules, those pledged to Mr. Rubio became unbound — meaning they were free to choose whatever remaining candidates were left in the race. Looks like they chose Mr. Cruz.
Mr. Cruz knows that in order to secure the number of delegates he needs to take the Republican nomination, he’s going to have to woo over Mr. Rubio’s supporters — and although he’s fallen short of an endorsement from the senator from Florida (as of now), many in the establishment lane are seeing Mr. Cruz as the only way to stop Mr. Trump.
Not to mention the grunt work Mr. Cruz’s team is putting in.
Mr. Cruz’s campaign has worked a state-by-state delegate strategy — both encouraging his supporters to run as delegates and by lobbying them to run and serve on various committees at the Republican National Convention.
As The Wall Street Journal noted last week: “Mr. Cruz’s supporters seized five of Louisiana’s six slots on the three powerful committees that will write the rules and platform at the Republican National Convention and mediate disputes over delegates’ eligibility this summer in Cleveland.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Or perhaps Trump just can’t help himself.
“What do you think about that, vanderkook? “
How about when you grow up, and respond to me using the right name, I’ll continue this?
I hope not...
Looks like Cruz learned a lot from Al Gore.
Seeing how the game is played what make these GOPee clowns can hold onto their unbound delegates? Trump goes ok - we’ll see about that... I would not bet against Trump taking them for his side by the July Rep CON.
Cruz was opposed to the “Washington cabal.” That was his name for it. Now he is part of it.
We both know months ago, if Jeb was the one with the lead that Trump had - the oligarchy would have been shout that primary “selection” was over. Pulled the splitter candidates out.
As in, no self-control or restraint? More reason we don’t want him in the WH with that much power then. Another rogue president. No thanks.
He just demonstrated leadership by taking LA, and you come back with unproven allegations. I’ll take the constitutionalist above all others.
He did not do anything, it was the Bush, Mitt endorsement.
Senator Cruz’s promise was that “if elected president”, he would break the Washington cartel. He has to be elected first. The Washington insiders opposed him with all they had until the field winnowed down to the point there was no viable establishment candidate. They then tried to get him to come to them and make nice but he refused. The ones who support him now are doing so because they have no other alternative. In essence, they have accepted the fact that they have lost but their calculation is that they will lose less with him than with a democrat. If they thought Mr. Trump could defeat a democrat, they would probably support him as he would be much easier to co-opt after election.
I am sure Mr. Trump understands this situation. In his large real estate ventures he has almost certainly taken on partners he was not in total agreement with but he needed them to make the venture work. Many business have owners with a minority interest but while it is better to be a sole owner, it is often better to be a majority owner than to let the project die.
I believe you've got it backward. Instead of Cruz becoming a part of the "Washington cabal", it is the GOP-e that has been isolated and left with no choice but to support Cruz.
ROTFLMAO!
Threatening to sue is his MO, whether he has a case or not.
No. That's not a logical summary of my comment.
Thank you - I feel much better since you confirmed that my vote does not count according to "the" rules.
No. I didn't confirm that by any stretch of the imagination.
Why lie?
Is your TDS and butthurt so bad that you can’t ever tell the truth about Trump?
He did not do anything to cause the previous owners to default on their mortgages and in fact willingly sold the surrounding acres to Trump voluntarily. Trump put up the signed only after the bank did the foreclosure and he bought the winery and the house from the bank of a song. The previous owner had no idea on how to run a winery and after getting a Billion dollars from a divorce settlement from her husband, she spent it all and the winery was losing money. Trump even hired her for the winery after he took it over but she was eventually fired because she was useless.
Facts, something people who suffer from severe TDS and butthurt just can’t comprehend
Well know and indisputable fact that Trump and Eric the Punk purchased property surrounding the winery and put up no trespassing signs to discourage potential investors.
So why do you cover for a crook. If he will steal from others, he will eventually steal from you.
Moron.
If many of the delegates around the country that are currently pledged to Donald are actually Cruz fans. Then, when Trump does not get to 1237 on the first round, who do you think will win on the second round?
I certainly do not disagree with your point, only the degree to which it applies to the current situation.
I just don’t think ‘the line’ is quite where you have drawn it, or that Trump has crossed as far beyond it as you say he has.
Again, I do agree with the substance of your argument, that a fighting style would be more advantageous if it did not alienate more than it enlisted.
Trump has said things that I have wished he hadn’t said, or had said a different way. I sort these into three categories:
First, things he simply should not have said. For example, questioning McCain’s heroism based on his having been captured.
Second, things that should be said and need to be said, but that are deemed taboo by the political correctness enforcers on the left. These things sound harsh and shocking to many ears because even the most vigilant and liberty minded among us are at least partially brainwashed, and many are completely brainwashed. For example, saying “All lives matter” instead of “black lives matter” or “the minimum wage should be $0 per hour” are considered horribly insensitive and racist statements, even though true, and Trump seems to be the only one that dares utter them.
Third (and this is the most difficult one), things that do not need to be said and are perhaps rude, boorish, even cruel, but which we have a right to say - a right which must be exercised regularly to make it clear that no one can dictate what we can say for any reason, whatsoever. If we can be censored on the grounds that something is unsubstantiated, racist, or rude, then there is no right of free speech. What better way to demonstrate this right than to say something rude, racist or unsubstantiated? Examples of this are the cartoons making fun of Allah or Mohamed, or any number of Trump comments.
I don’t like the limits of what can be said being dictated by the left, and being enforced only when a Republican crosses the line. Trump is purposely defying those standards (double standards, really) on a daily basis with the aim of destroying them along with their inherent duplicity, and I think that’s a good thing.
I look forward to resurrecting standards of decency in a post Trump society, as long as they are not double standards, which favor leftism, and obliterate all reason and accountability.
What investors?
The place was going into foreclosures
Trump bought the land from the people who own the winery
They still owned the road to the winery (or at the very least owned an easement)
I am not covering for a crook, you want a crook, vote Cruz, that dude is as slimy and dishonest as they come
Trump didn’t steal anything, he made a great deal and you are just jealous. Again, beta males worried about what Alpha males do.
Why couldn’t the winery just pay their bills? Oh wait, it was being run by an ex porn star who divorced from her billionaire husband who has no darn business sense.
Think about it
But what happens if Trump falls short of a majority on the first ballot?
Will the GOP-e attempt to capitalize by putting forth a "compromise candidate"? Perhaps. But the Cruz and Trump delegates would unite to crush such a bid.
Then, wouldn't it come down to a head-to-head confrontation between Cruz and Trump? And who do you suppose would be most likely to win that confrontation between now unbound delegates?
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