No one planned for Jeb to be sidelined, but Trump did it anyway.
So Jeb dropped out.
Since he has suspended his campaign, they needed an insider to be a place holder for the delegates and that turns out to be Cruz, who will control those delegates until the Convention, then, after a few slight of hand tricks, they are slated to go back to Jeb, or maybe Mitt.
Cruz will never get to enjoy the delegates at the convention.
It’s Iowa on a stick. Yeah. No big deal. Move along Folks.
Like anyone’s vote matters anymore these days. ;-)
Sore Loserman.
RIP Election 2016
Sacrificed on the altar of ideological purity and the RINO rulebook
But keep calling him nasty names - it must feel good. Cruz knows how to campaign. Donald is on a learning curve. Too bad they can't work together.
There is nothing grassroots about what transpired in Colorado. Just a bunch of party hacks selling their support in backroom deals.
Cruz wins when the grassroots (ie.voters) get shafted and are marginalized. This is the Cuban way of winning elections. Fidel Castro is no doubt very be proud.
People voting don't understand or care about the delegate process.
It's not going to work this time. There is only so much whining people can take. It's getting really old.
My concern is that this was some last minute rule change, it clearly isn’t. Even if was 2015 it wasn’t new.
My concern is that until this year I had no idea how little the opinions and cast ballots of actual voters mattered. It is outrageous to me that some of the things that are happening this year are not new, are in fact the norm, and we only noticed because half the party is trying to stop the frontrunner.
“We’ve always done it this way,” and “it’s within the rules” are in my mind weak reasoning for poor behavior.
By this logic, Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire should already be in Cooperstown.
It may perhaps be legal, but they American people, and the party ‘faithful’ deserve better.
If the popular vote doesn’t directly correlate with the delegate assignement, they we have a problem, and it WILL be fixed. One way or another.
But then he will need someone to instruct him that we don't elect Presidents by popular vote.
It is done State by State and then voted by an Electoral College system of those State representatives, representing the people's vote per state.
He doesn't understand the various State primary election systems - So, He literally may not realize that. He needs to hire someone that studied Government in Middle or High School.
Everyone I hear defending this joke of an ‘election’ in CO can’t tell me why it wouldn’t have been better to have had a primary (even a closed primary) to boost voter participation. No, it was just a circus in favor of Cruz.
All States should follow Colorado’s led, the GOP should decide our candidates. signed teddy
You know what, all that patronizing remarks to the contrary, if I lived in Colorado, I would be mad as heck at what happened, even if I was a Cruz supporter, which I am not, and I would be demanding a do-over. There is time.
Goldberg hates the red meat of Trump who’s not interested in his quirky rightwing media matters type movement.
How many illegal things is Obama doing right now?
And Republicans are lecturing us, their voters about the rules - all while they let our President get away with it.
(*here’s my middle finger*)
This is too much information, it contradicts the lies going around.
the colorado caucus process is a sick, anti-democratic joke. About half a dozen people show up for each precinct caucus, and “elect” people to attend county assemblies and Congressional district assemblies; the county assemblies “elect” people to the state convention. The CD and State assemblies then “elect” delegates, who are supposedly unbound.
A couple thousand people out of a population of 5 million participate.
if all registered republicans actually showed up, there wouldn’t be enough meeting rooms to hold them in the entire state and the caucuses wouldn’t ‘work’. in fact, the GOPe is counting on just a very, very,very few showing up. that’s why the reserved caucus rooms are always so very, very, very tiny.
family members who have children to take care of, meals to prepare, and work to prepare for don’t have time to waste on a meaningless process where party insiders are going to steal the whole thing at the end anyway.
on the other hand, colorado is a mail-in ballot state for ALL elections, so a few hundred thousand would have voted in an actual primary, whereas the caucuses were held on a weeknight when people have to take care of their families and then go to work the next day.
btw, if this is such a wonderful process, shouldn’t all of our elections for everything require everyone to show up at 7pm to 8pm on a Tuesday night in order to vote?
(oh,and Bernie Goldberg is one of the ultimate GOP establishment tools and HATES, ABSOLUTELY HATES Donald Trump.)
The Elite never sleep. Would you if the important things in life to you were on the line: Sex, Wealth, Power?
The Elite never sleep. Would you if the important things in life to you were on the line: Sex, Wealth, Power?