Posted on 04/04/2016 8:10:36 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Here’s a simple question that desperately needs an answer.
Donald Trump won the Arizona primary in a landslide, 47.1 percent to Ted Cruz’s 24.9 percent, giving the GOP front-runner all 58 of that winner-take-all state’s delegates.
Right now, the Cruz campaign is engaged in a “furious” on-the-ground campaign in Arizona – and in other states won by Trump, including Louisiana, Georgia and Tennessee – to convert Trump delegates into Cruz delegates on a second ballot, should there be a contested GOP convention this summer.
The question is: Is this moral?
Trump calls it “crooked as hell.” But let’s back up a little.
As the Washington Examiner reported Monday, in a story headlined “Cruz snaring Trump’s Arizona delegates” and posted in the lead position of the Drudge Report:
Sen. Ted Cruz is out-hustling Donald Trump and looks set to ensure many Arizona delegates will defect to him in a convention floor fight.
The Texas senator, who ever since Iowa has played a stealthy ground game in contrast to Trump’s chaotic populism, is taking steps to snatch the Republican presidential nomination from The Donald at the convention in July.
The New York businessman easily won last month’s Arizona primary taking 47 percent to Cruz’s 25 percent, scooping up all 58 of the state’s delegates. That’s nearly 5 percent of the 1,237 Trump needs for the nomination, and they’re tied to him on the first ballot.
But Cruz, exploiting deep opposition to Trump among grass-roots Republicans, has been far more active in Arizona than Trump, insiders say. He’s recruiting candidates for the available 55 delegate slots, that along with the other three delegate positions filled by party leaders, would be allowed to vote for him in a multi-ballot contested convention.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
By the way - be sure to check this out:
http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/cheating-ted-cruz-sex-scandal-dc-madam-died/
Post it here if you wish, I just figure the usual supects will ignore it and whine until the actual proof is made public (which it sounds like will be soon). Not that it will convince them after it is...
Your vote entitles you to the first ballot at the convention. Nothing more. Lest you forget you voted in the Republican universe.
That was implicit when you voted in a Republican primary and consented to the rules of the party.
If you didn't like it you should have abstained from voting or voted third party.
To hear our founders through their writings they sure cared about morality and God granted rights and wisdom
If Trump gets to 1237, he's the man and the will of those people are duly exercised. If he doesn't, then those delegates are obligated to vote for him on the first ballot. And the RNC set these rules up.
Neither Ford nor Reagan got the necessary requirement and the convention went with Ford. Well, we see how that turned out.
Once the convention heard that speech, they realized they nominated the wrong man. Let's hope we don't have to go down this path. But if it's Trump, a can of orange juice or a waffle, I'm voting for any of those over Hillary. All three are far superior to her. :-)
If you believe that it doesn’t matter, why do you feel the need to say it over and over and over again?
Jeff Sessions is on the Trump team. As compared to Neil Bush, Glenn Beck... now, what was it you were trying to say?
Moral? bwahahahahaha, since when has DT been moral?
Not only is Lyin’ Ted Cruz NOT a moral man, neither are the delegates who participate in this corruption. Note who they are in your respective areas, and see what it takes to get rid of them.
It’s NOT moral, not even a little bit. UNfortunately however, I don’t think Trump has, until this point, realized exactly HOW dirty politics can be. He needs to learn it to become a better ‘chess player’. Even war has rules of engagement, and a Geneva Convention to enforce it, but politics is a much dirtier war in many ways.
Trump needs to learn it because as a president, he’s going to have to be aware of it, and be able to work with it. This is a hard way to learn, but it’s better he learn now, than on the job when the consequences are much higher.
The most valuable lessons I ever learned, and I KNOW many of you can also attest to such in your own lives, are those hard, unfair, life altering and even life risking at times, dirty, blindsided hits that always come along, and hit the good ones, the hardest.
Trump needs to learn political strategy. That’s his weak spot.
Does anybody remember one of the earlier debates when he was asked what he weak spot was? He hesitated..didn’t want to say, but I think he’s finding it out.
He has to learn to walk quietly and carry a big stick...to be one step ahead of the game, AND not violate his moral principles in the process.
Sure, he screwed up when he was younger, and he learned. He’s still a learner. This lesson must hit hard because he needs it, and he needs it NOW.
God is good.
So...negotiation and trying to get the best deal and cut out competition when the rules allow it is “immoral?” Mm...Kay.
I guess you haven’t read any of your hero’s books then.
That’s patently ridiculous and just an excuse because you are an anti-Trumpster.
“If you didn’t like it [GOP rules] you should have abstained from voting or voted third party.”
GOP keeps this up, a LOT of people who voted in the Republican primaries will be voting third party in November. You can count on it.
You better believe it’s moral. It’s also very smart. The only reason it’s “crooked as hell,” is because Mr. Scorched Earth didn’t think of it himself.
I call Alinsky tactics on this “Cruz can’t do this and be a Christian” bs.
“Why are Cruz’s supporters cheering these sleazy moves??”
I was wondering the exact same thing. Some FReepers ought be ashamed of themselves for not only condoning this crap, but reveling in it.
Spare me. I’ll take the one with the majority of the votes.
Cruz would get slaughtered in the general election. He’s not very likeable. The media isn’t after him yet because they want to eliminate Trump. If Cruz somehow got the nomination, the media would bury him.
Which is exactly what Trump is going to get; if not more !
No argument from me there. But here we are...as far away from them as possible. We need something to ebb the tide of Washington until we enough states can implement Article 5. They won’t fix themselves.
Give me Trump. Give me Cruz. Give me a can anything but Hillary. We can’t afford it.
You support someone who tried to hire the attorney working for the lady he was trying to take a house from by eminent domain, wanting that lawyer to fight for property owners against a competitor’s eminent domain case (creating a conflict of interest which would have possibly caused the lady to lose her home), and you want to lecture me on whether my candidate is moral?
He is what he needs to be.... to get what he wants. Soon he will be trying to act like a New Yorker, I’m curious to see how he’s going to play it.
Read up again on narcisstic personality disorder
All I can say is hmmmm
Here we go again
Something is fundamentally wrong with a man who is obsessive about multiple sexual affairs and even purchasing sex, always on the chase for a new thrill, never connecting with multiple woman beyond slap and tickle
There is something deep and unsettling if he cultivates a religious image and assumes he can achieve a grandiose goal by technical means that his unpopularity have failed to achieve
and somehow thought and thinks these things will never emerge
The unscripted faces of his family show us...
Considering that, why would we assume that a Cruz presidency would be anything but the same old corrupt DC game? Think of all the deals Cruz is making with those delegates who go along with his scheme.
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