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To: georgiarat
Public caucuses such as Maine, Guam, Iowa and Nevada are fine. People have a chance to weigh in on the election in a fair manner. Insider Caucuses such as we see selecting delegates in Colorado, North Dakota, Wyoming, and others are strictly to ensure the inside party people control who is the nominee. Requiring multiple day, attendance for precincts, districts, and state is too difficult for people who have a life beyond politics.

With all due respect.....the fact is, we live in a Republic form of Government. The states have the authority to say how they will run their primaries to pick their candidate/delegates.....and Colorado fought the GOPe to retain their right to do things "their way".

If you are a Colorado, North Dakota or Wyoming resident....you have skin in the game....so you might want to push for changes next election season. If you aren't.....you have no business telling them how to conduct their state's primary business.

Those recently reviled "insider party people"? They are just normal people, and have as much right to make decisions as you do, maybe more, since they are willing to do the hard work for that right.

You understand that also....or you wouldn't be trying to push the "Requiring multiple day, attendance for precincts, districts, and state is too difficult for people who have a life beyond politics"

I'm sure you realize that's the same type drivel a liberal uses when they tell us.... "I don't want to work, but give me all your money because I deserve it."

The bitter truth is......Trump, is playing a "Pied Piper" tune. He wouldn't be whining about all this "unfairness", or saying it was "crooked", if he had beaten Cruz, using these same rules.

He would be all over TV "crowing" about how smart/superior he was....and how he did nothing but "win, win, win".

115 posted on 04/16/2016 1:38:19 PM PDT by TXSearcher (The anti-RINO rebellion is being won by a NY RINO.......truth IS stranger than fiction.)
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To: TXSearcher; georgiarat
If you are a Colorado, North Dakota or Wyoming resident....you have skin in the game....so you might want to push for changes next election season. If you aren't.....you have no business telling them how to conduct their state's primary business.

Bravo! Hear, Hear!

Those recently reviled "insider party people"? They are just normal people, and have as much right to make decisions as you do, maybe more, since they are willing to do the hard work for that right.

More than that - Folks forget about the massive turnover in state and local offices at the midterm. Particularly out here in the Rockies (and the West generally), that means those 'insider party people' are TEA Party Patriots. Caucus states are much easier to take over meaningfully from the ground up.

Trump lost the Rockies. Complete shut-out. Only Montana is left, and she won't give him anymore than her sisters did. Maybe folks should ponder the reason for that, and Colorado in that context.

118 posted on 04/16/2016 3:16:58 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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