Posted on 04/11/2016 7:54:01 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Donald Trump is right: The system is rigged. It’s rigged in favor of front-runners. That’s why Trump, who is leading the Republican nominating contest, has a larger percentage of delegates (46 percent) than of votes (37 percent). Unsurprisingly, Trump never mentions when the rules have helped him. He much prefers to whine and peddle conspiracy theories when they don’t.
Trump’s latest tantrum is over Colorado, where Ted Cruz just swept all 34 of the state’s available delegates. Trump is calling the results “totally unfair” and on Twitter he asked: “How is it possible that the people of the great State of Colorado never got to vote in the Republican Primary?” If Trump is so concerned about states’ not holding primaries, perhaps he should renounce his victory at Nevada’s caucuses.
Colorado is one of ten states and four territories that opted for caucuses or state conventions over primaries. That does not make it undemocratic. In fact, on March 1, in community centers, gymnasiums, and churches across the state, 60,000 Colorado Republicans attended 2,917 precinct caucuses to elect delegates to the county assemblies and congressional-district conventions that convened during the following weeks. The district conventions send 21 delegates to Cleveland; and at this weekend’s state convention, more than 600 people chosen by the county assemblies competed to be one of Colorado’s 13 statewide delegates. Nothing was “stolen.” This is how Colorado’s delegate-selection process works.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Now, putting aside my unanswered question of whether you support primary vote proportionality in delegates selection...
Why was Trump unable or unwilling to get enough of his supporters to participate in the Colorado delegate selection process to win it?
Show me a sore loser, and I will show you a loser.
There goes National Review again, bashing Trump in order to help Ted Cruz force a “contested convention” so then they can install some loser like Kasich or Jeb. It’s turning into another rag.
National Review still gets pimped here?
Hilarious
Alternatively, they're a bunch of greedy hogs feeding at the public trough.
In my few encounters with campaign staff they've barely been able to conceal their contempt for anyone naive enough to support a candidate without being on said candidate's payroll.
Excellent point, he's gotten only 37% of the vote (which people would poopoo as a meager plurality if it was Romney or someone else they didn't like) and yet he's very close to having half of the delegates, and he's complaining it's rigged AGAINST him.
Trump’s been winning with the voters while Cruz wins without the voters through GOPe corruption.
Never forget that the CO GOP posted: We did it #NEVERTRUMP on their official twitter after the steal was complete.
Paid staff is a tiny fraction of the party.
And my experience even there is quite different.
There isn't a state Romney lost that Cruz, Ryan or Romney rerun can win. You know it.
Well, at least you stuck to one leftist rag and didn’t cite the others that have become so popular among the “Cruz or Lose”ers these days.
http://www.cnn.com/election/primaries/states/co/
Where are the numbers??
It’s a black hole - there is no way to make the case it’s above board, honest and ethical.
No you moved the goal posts away from my question; Does anyone know how many people voted for Cruz, Kasich and Trump in Colorado?
That is a stand alone question. It really doesn’t matter anyway, the damage the CO GOP did to their process is irreparable.
I’m more convinced than ever that Trump planned Colorado to happen the way it’s happening. Trump knew all about the CO rules - he said so in this press conference yesterday. He’s said over and over he likes to be unpredictable - and talks about the comment a business associate said - “We couldn’t figure you out”.
Many people in Colorado was very angry at what the GOP did with the rules last year. Here’s what the former CO GOP chair said;
Former CO GOP Chair: Message We’re Sending Is “Your Vote Doesn’t Matter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3419763/posts
And here’s the perception;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=Colorado%20GOP
Colorado GOP has lost the perception battle, big time. That cat will never be put back in the bag.
The worst thing to do in a war is underestimate your enemy - that gives the enemy a HUGE advantage. Trump is perfectly capable of the strategic thinking required to analyze and execute exactly what is happening in the fallout of the CO fiasco. Bet on it. People don’t get here;
http://www.trump.com/real-estate-portfolio/
http://www.trump.com/hotel-collection/
http://www.trump.com/golf/
And signing 22k paychecks on the front with out serious stragetic thinking skills.
It has it’s own thread. Not many visitors. People are too lazy to watch.
“The Donald has taught us all how to poison the well.”
Spoken like a true Texan for Lyin’ Ted! Myopic to the end! ( which will come in a couple of weeks)
I chose Cruz because of his record in Texas- where I live, intelligence, and because he is a true Constitutional Conservative. Cruz had nothing to do with the structure of the Colorado convention. He benefited because he was smarter and better prepared. Trump is very far behind in learning the rules and having people on the ground.
Yes, it is a different forum these days. I remember when Conservative principles were held by the members- I still have mine and they are not going away. Cheers.
Evidently then, you would not recogize a “constitutional conservative” if he were to bite you where you sit! Tell us all how in the world you can go with this guy who intends to destroy this nation’s soverigty with his North American Union (with his worthless wife’s help over at the CFR and Goldman Sachs)? It’s long past time when we should consider aliens for our president. Cruz is a resident alien.
I do not have to justify my choice of candidate to you. Trump’s talking points do not sway me. I totally disagree with your premise and we have nothing to discuss. Neither one of us will going to change the mind of the other.
Since Trump just flies in to the various states to give a speech and then flies out, he did not know there is a ground game and Ted's playing that game.
Flame on
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