Posted on 04/16/2016 5:51:19 PM PDT by bobsunshine
Donald Trump supporters walked out of a delegate election in Georgia Saturday to protest a vote that robbed Trump of all of his slated delegates from a district that he won in the primary.
A Cruz-Rubio alliance at the district convention in Buford, Georgia helped to knock Trump supporters out of the district’s national delegation altogether. Cruz supporters implied that Trump’s people would “embarrass” the district at the convention in Cleveland. Then things got heated.
“This morning, I attended Georgia 7th Congressional District GOP convention as a delegate and a Donald Trump supporter. We were there to elect the 3 delegates and 3 alternates to the national convention,” Ronnie Kurtz told Breitbart News. “Per the primary results, two slots were for Trump, and one was for Rubio. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% Cruz finished third in the primary and had no delegates allotted to him…Nonetheless, the hall was stacked with Cruz delegates.”
On the first ballot, the party voted on a delegate slate that would have taken away one of Trump’s delegates but would have, at least, still given him one representative. That bloc would have given Trump supporter Debbie Dooley one of the slots and a Cruz supporter named Carolyn Fisher another slot, with a Rubio slot going to local party convention chairman BJ Van Gundy. But Cruz supporters voted down that slate.
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And what if the will of the people is to ban all guns and outlaw churches?
Thanks for the link. And thanks for showing up.
Cruz is the only conservative in the race. Marco Rubio agrees.
None of the trumpers can tell us how this happens. The article didn’t say but apparently there was a vote.
Yep, a vote.
Are you sure about that, bob?
Just wondering. Because the article didn’t say but implied that Trump had lost is votes.
If the delegates must vote for him on the first ballot, he hasn’t lost his votes .... yet.
All the delegates are due to Donald Trump.
Whether he campaigns or not.
I’m amazed you didn’t know that.
I couldn’t agree more.
Example: wyoming. Trump announced himself on Fox that he didn’t want to spend the money campaigning there because he didn’t think he could win.
He didn’t win.
All the little trumpers are convinced it’s because Ted Cruz stole the election from him.
Just when I think they cannot get any more delusional ...
Typical delusional post.
Cruz talks about the issues constantly. He was in a panel on CNBC where he dealt in depth with all the issues and the panel was in awe of his knowledge and ability to express his opinions on the issues.
He seldom even mentions Trump.
You people need to get therapy before it is too late.
It may be too late now.
Getting rid of judicial rule is high on Cruz’s agenda.
He will definitely try to accomplish this. It can’t be done over night but Cruz is willing to work at programs.
Whereas Trump is pretty casual about the Court. Was he joking about nominating his sister? No one knows.
Cruz did not point out these things about Trump.
Trump himself supported Planned Parenthood; announced he thought the federal government should control health care.
As for Soros, Trump was deeply in bed with Soros when he needed help with a loan.
2016 Republican presidential candidate and billionaire real estate investor Donald Trump borrowed money from progressive-leaning billionaire George Soros back in 2004 to build the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago.
In October of 2004, Thomas A. Corfman wrote in The Chicago Tribune, “Donald Trump has lined up three New York hedge funds, including money from billionaire George Soros, to invest $160 million in his Chicago skyscraper, a key piece in perhaps the largest construction financing in the city’s history, according to real estate sources and public documents. …
The $160 million investment is in the form of a mezzanine loan, a kind of second mortgage that typically charges a much higher interest rate than a first-mortgage construction loan.”
Trump and Soros were also listed as co-defendants in a 2008 RICO lawsuit disputing the sale of a Manhattan General Motors building. A report on the case by Pensions and Investments listed Trump and Soros as investors in the property.
“Cruz set out several years ago to make himself a deep-cover operative of the Bush Crime Family.”
No. He set out to go deep cover when his parents brainwashed him with conservative, Christian views that are just untenable in today’s world. He just can’t seem to keep his mouth shut when it comes to being pro-life, pro-states rights, pro-gun ownership, pro-religious liberty, and pro-border enforcement.
These things make the left hate Cruz. Just not quite as much as Trump supporters seem to hate him, but almost.
The reality is that Trump has pledged to govern conservatively. He will. Cruz is ideologically conservative and will also govern that way. All of the nonsense in this campaign is a huge distraction from the big picture. The Titanic is sinking. Neither Trump nor Cruz can stop it. Either one can help more passengers get to life boats than Clinton or Sanders will. With a Dem, it will sink much faster.
Regardless of who wins the nomination or election, put on your life vest, find a life boat, bring your family and friends.
Cheer up. I’d buy you a beer if I could.
This is true. The Republican Party will probably trigger enough damage to be a marginalized party for at least a decade.
Do the scenarios. Trump doesn’t win on first ballot....suddenly delegates flip around and either Cruz wins on second ballot or another unknown character arrives to be the nominee. You can figure that 35-percent of the voters throughout the US who voted for Trump will be peeved. If Cruz is edged out and a unknown gets the nomination, then another 35-percent of the voting public will be peeved.
You can figure that roughly half of the normal crowd that would vote Republican will either stay home in November or vote Democrat. They aren’t doing anything to help state or local elections....so everything will slide to Democrats. This isn’t just for 2016....it’s for 2018, 2020, 2022 and probably even 2024.
Lobbyists will be sitting there and spending millions...on Republican candidates who can’t win.
Sad but true
That is probably one of the most convoluted and disjointed collection of a logical fallacy that I have seen here in a long time.
Thanks. I’m not really depressed though. More angry. But not out of control rage. Just disgusted with the state of affairs. It goes much, much deeper than this stupid Republican bloodbath and political maneuvering.
There’s no way that this ends well.
Even if Trump wins the hostility is so deep and the corruption is so embedded that he will have to start running counter-candidates immediately overthrow the rino Congress that will be in place to resist him this coming January.
In the interim there will be riots. Bloody street riots for probably another 2 years until we can resolve some of this garbage we called government.
Carry Me Back = Willis
The irony is they’re having to support a guy they hate ...
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Just on the first convention ballot; then, they can vote for Cruz on the second ballot.
There’s an awful lot of past tense in that post. In fact, it’s ALL in the past tense.
But Cruz says Trump IS pro-abortion. Cruz says Trump SUPPORTS single-payer healthcare.
Cruz IS a liar. In the present tense.
Cruz is also physically and vocally repellent. These are fatal flaws in a politician.
Cruz has lied about so many things that I can verify, that I don’t believe him about all the stuff I can’t verify.
He had Canadian citizenship until recently. He MAY be an American citizen, and thus be a validly elected Senator. But DUAL citizenship is absolutely incompatible with NBC status.
So there’s a major Cruz lie.
Cruz says Trump is for “single-payer, socialized healthcare for every American.” A lie. Trump’s website lays out his proposal for healthcare. It isn’t single-payer or socialized.
Cruz says (in robo-calls) that Trump (and his wife) are for partial-birth abortion. Another vicious lie.
Why should I believe what Cruz says about his INNER THOUGHTS, which can’t possibly be verified?
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