Posted on 04/11/2016 4:11:34 AM PDT by markomalley
He has been at the helm of Trump's delegate team for just three days, but Paul Manafort has already shown he will be pulling no punches when it comes to the billionaire's rivals.
Speaking to NBC's Meet The Press on Sunday, Manafort accused Cruz's team of 'Gestapo tactics, scorched-earth tactics' when it comes to the scrap for delegates.
Manafort also suggested that the Texas senator's team have been resorting to threats and intimidation in order to secure backers.
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TexasCajun can't. It's an ethics issue.
I am a big Trump fan but I do believe he got out maneuvered by the GOPe.
We'll be going from Obama to this pair.
Final destruction of remaiing remnants of manufacturing in America while promoting the invading hordes of Muslim "refugees."
Go Ted!
When your position is so weak you bring in Hitler, you’ve lost the argument.
Grow up Mr. Trump.
Please stop with these silly childish comments.
“I know you are, but what am I?”
Strange. One would have thought that a poster who's been on Free Republic since 1998 would prefer a government that follows the Constitution, not a dictatorship in which we are ruled by the elite few, and who have chosen to manipulate a naive Junior Senator with an outsized ego, clearly in over his head on the national scene.
And those "rules" have been in place since 2012, not 1860.
“but call Cruz a sleaze and a Liar for knowing the rules of gathering delegates”
Here, let me make that accurate for you.
but call Cruz a sleaze and a Liar for “breaking” the rules of gathering delegates
“........ they are failing because they dont understand the rules.....”
Let me fix that for you.
..... they are failing because they dont understand how Cruz gets away with breaking all the rules....
Just what King Trumpy needed .... another person on his team talking trash. You would have thought he would hire people who could persuade delegates and help him win the republican nomination. But no... King Trumpy hired another trash talker that he’s known for many years.
Everyone can stay home and let the GOP appoint the next president.
But back to our naive Junior Senator, who has convinced himself he can take on this same machine - by taking their money and advisers! With the help of the lunatic Glenn Beck! I almost feel sorry for him.
They'll never let him get the nomination; they've got much more sinister plans for this upstart.
Or, about how to con willing sheep into believing a candidate is not actually G O Pe.
In other words Cruz supporters are complicit hypocrites. Here’s to Cruz losing it all, incl Senate seat. Go Ted Douche!
Are you referring to the Uniparty?
Ah, yet another Cruz supporter using the “them is the rules after all” defense for Slick Teddy and his G O Pe comrades. Well, you need this to help you get through the night after learning that your sheep herder is no outsider after all. It is this very type BS that gave us Trump and his support in the first place. If one does not see this truth, then he/she is in denial or a Jeb supporter all along.
.... If Trump Doesnt Understand 156 Year Old Political Rules, How Will He Understand the Presidency?
Excellent question and obvious answer. Whining and inflammatory attacks are not presidential.
"Business Genius" Donald Trump can't close the deal with delegates. When are you going to start holding his campaign responsible?
Cruz has no chance of reaching 1237 so using Cruzer logic the Nomination must go to someone with less Delegates than Cruz. Who has the fewest?
Should we not follow Cruzer logic to it’s end? The Principled Conservative thing to do “by the rules” is to nominate the least popular candidate that we have. Problem solved.
The odds of Trump getting to 1237 is getting slimmer. Odds makers are saying there’s a 70% chance the convention will be contested. Until Trump gets 1237, he hasn’t won anything. This is MAJORITY RULES not plurality rules. Delegates are bound on the first ballot, but after that, all bets are off. And this IS reflecting the will of the people, as Trump will have not won over the majority. And with his recent delegate bungling, Trump is showing he’s not up for the job.
Right, so why nominate the number two guy? Just follow the logic all they way through to it’s conclusion and nominate the LEAST popular candidate.
Patsy, indeed! Look in the mirror!;
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