just consider that it is like saying that a murderer’s exoneration was completely legal because he confessed to the police before they read the Miranda rights to him. Maybe it’s perfectly legal, but it’s totally wrong.
More like if I sign a contract, and some part of the contract is enforced that may be unfair, it was my responsibility to read the contract before signing it.
Since Trump signed onto running for president, it’s his job to learn the rules. Not demand that party bosses lead him by the hand. Right or wrong, that’s the game.
My personal opinion is both Trump and Cruz are too badly damaged to win in Nov. Neither one is really going to unite the base to it’s totality as Reagan did. Too much bad blood between supporters.
Trump supporters keep saying on one hand that we shouldn't expect Trump to know all the rules about the way delegates are selected because "he's not a politician"; and on the other hand, they say we should support Trump because he is a really great businessman, who hires really great people, and he has been really successful in completing very complex projects, so he will be able to fix our very complex government...
Let's not forget that this is not the first time Trump has considered running for president. He has been toying with the idea for a couple of decades at least. We must assume he decided to run as a Republican because after investigating running as a third-party (Reform), he realized he could never win that way. So he decided to hijack one of the existing parties, and decided the GOP would be the easiest. But if Trump was such a good businessman, you would think he would have hired some of those "really great people" with actual experience in presidential campaigns last summer if not long before that, and had them investigate the primary process and the delegate selection process in each state early on. No one can anticipate the unexpected, but nothing about the delegate selection process was unexpected - those rules have been in place for years in most states. For Trump to not have people that know the process is political malpractice. It would be like starting to build a skyscraper and getting halfway done, only to realize you needed an environmental impact report, you didn't file for building permits, and you didn't dig a deep enough foundation.
It all comes down to poor planning, management and organization on Trump's part. And he wants us to put him in charge of a MUCH more complex job than just running a presidential campaign. And now he wants to whine about his failures. And because his supporters all have the same mob mentality as the BLM and OWS crowds, his whining gets them worked up into a frenzy.
Are you a lawyer yourself? That would explain why you are so insistent that Cruz actually won by fair rules, when to any impartial observer, it looks like the system was rigged. It is no different to me than getting a clearly guilty suspect exonerated on technicalities.
Quit trying to excuse the CO debacle. It does not matter what the rules are, or how convoluted the explanation is of how they were actually fair. The perception is that the CO GOP cheated to keep Trump from getting delegates. The perception is that CO voters had no input into the delegate assignment.
Perception is reality.
Have you ever heard the old adage about winning the battle but losing the war? Because that is what is happening here—Cruz picked up a few delegates because of a technicality, but Trump capitalizes on the obvious lack of voter input, just like Trump capitalized on the emails that some Cruz supporters sent to Iowa voters wrongly telling them that Carson was out of the race when he was still in. These might have been tactical wins for Cruz, but Trump has used them for strategic advantage.
Also, don’t kid yourself. If Cruz is the nominee, he goes down in flames against any Democrat. These very tactics that he’s used to get delegates assigned without voter input will be thrown in his face. The Democrats might have stacked the deck with their superdelegates, but they at least are holding elections.