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Wah wah, widdle Crewzie Cultist can’t stand to hear that he supports tyranny, so he has to call everyone else a liar instead.

Ok, let's address this last claim of "proof" that "The Fix Was In" with Colorado because of something a single Colorado Republican said against Trump.

Your claim:

When the CO GOP party officials (Not the delegates; not the lobbyists; the party officials who are running the caucus) pass around resolutions basically saying that Trump isn’t going to get any delegates,

I've seen that claim here multiple times. This originally appeared in "American Thinker" - see: Colorado GOP Resolution: No Voting for Trump

(NOTE: Though this appears at first glance to be posted by a reputable author in a reputable magazine, I clicked on their Authors link and my text editor counts nearly 4000 "authors," including such world-renowned literati as, "A soldier" and "WordWayze" and "letter to the editor" and "unsigned" and so on. You get the picture. Their "list of our authors" = "anyone with internet access".)

Excerpt from first paragraph:

In the caucuses March 1, I was elected an alternate delegate to the Colorado State GOP convention ........ Accordingly, I have drawn up a resolution which is now being circulated which will forbid Colorado delegates ....

This is total nonsense. The guy who wrote this is delusional or severely truth-challenged.

Because you don't "circulate" resolutions.

You can "circulate" rumors. You can "circulate" petitions. You can "circulate" lots of things. But you can NOT "circulate" resolutions within the Colorado Caucus System's process for submitting resolutions.

Colorado's Resolution process (I don't know about other Caucus States) has three stages:

Caucus Participants (on March 1 this year) could submit any Resolution they wanted, saying anything they wanted. This is *not* voted on by the Caucus-goers. A submitter can choose to read their resolution out loud - assuming the other attendees are agreeable, or they can just submit it quietly. Each is supposed to include a signature and phone#. All submitted resolutions are thrown in with the other paperwork coming out of the meeting - eg secretary's notes, newly-elected delegate's paperwork, etc, and is forwarded to the County GOP apparatus.
Each County GOP has some type of Resolutions Committee who decide how to consolidate up to thousands of these slips of paper into a manageable-sized list that's short enough (in the dozens) to be usable. They sort them all by "type" - eg pro-2ndA, pro-life, anti-IRS, pro-secure-borders, anti-NSA, etc ... and then combine like-worded resolutions together wherever it makes sense. Though I can't be sure, it's a good bet that bizarro "unique" resolutions that obviously won't receive a single vote other than from the submitter himself, will be discarded. This consolidated list is printed and passed out to the County Assembly participants to vote on. Resolutions receiving a majority at County are then forwarded to the State GOP.
A State GOP Resolutions Committee basically repeats this process, except they are consolidating 67 lists of Resolutions, one from each County. Prior to this stage the worst crap should have been filtered out, making their job easier than the County Resolutions committees'. At the State Convention, we were all given a consolidated list of exactly 50 Resolutions printed on a separate ballot. If anyone wants to see these I'll scan my ballot - which I had zero time to fill out and so still have - and post all or some of it.

A couple of things shaking out from the above:

Not a single one of the 50 State-wide resolutions mentioned Trump or any other candidate. So I'm willing to entertain a motion that the deep-sixing of this anti-Trump resolution could only have been due to the machinations of the secret pro-Trump cabal that controls the Colorado GOP behind the scenes. I mean hey, that makes as much sense as the accusations flying in the other direction.
There is nowhere within this process that a resolution is "circulated".

That doesn't stop you from "circulating" a resolution on your own time. This dodo who made the claim could have "circulated" it by mailing it to a newspaper or his Congressman or his entire email Address Book. He could have posted it to FB or FR. He could have printed paper copies and stood on a street corner somewhere.

But his statement that, A) He had attended his Precinct Caucus on March 1, and then B) He now had in his hands a resolution he planned to "circulate" is of absolutely no importance, because the means that are open to him to circulate his ideas are no more and no less than the means open to you or I to "circulate" our own ideas.

Once Caucus night was over, the fate of that resolution was entirely out of his hands, except possibly the right to vote it up or down at the County Assembly. But I *seriously* doubt his County's Resolutions Committee would have included such a nasty off-the-wall resolution in the list they presented to the County Delegates. If his County's anything like mine, partisans of *all* the Presidential candidates would have been incensed and quite vocal about the idiots on the Resolutions Committee insulting our intelligence.

Yet another Blood Libel against Colorado bites the dust.

DON'T MESS WITH COLORADO!"

"Wah wah, widdle..."

Hey, Luircin, glad to see you've managed to add a few more words to your vocabulary!

That's a great leap forward from your previous milestones of "mama" and "dada" and "No!" and "poopoo" and "binkie".

Keep up the good work! (And don't worry, I promise not to tell your parents you figured out some way to crawl up to the family PC's keyboard & mouse)