Posted on 04/17/2016 4:26:04 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Ted Cruz on Wyoming win: "This is how elections are won in America."
Once again, voters are not represented in the process. Instead, "votes" for the nominee are gained by backroom politics. Another corrupt process by the GOP establishment.
From Fox News:
Ted Cruz on Saturday won all 14 delegates in the Wyoming GOP convention -- a relatively small number but enough for the Texas senator to declare victory and keep GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump from securing the nomination.
“We are likely to have a battle in Cleveland to decide who is the nominee,” Cruz told party members before they picked the delegates. “If you don’t want to see Donald Trump as the nominee, … then I ask you to please vote for the men and women on this slate.”
The Wyoming process mirrored that of Colorado, which was engulfed by political controversy after hosting a similar convention last week.
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Thanks. You get it. All the rest is just BS..we might not recognize our government next year. I am hopeful that we will work our way through it.
I second what you have written.
I am from FL as well, the conservative north-west panhandle section. Heavy military.
NO ONE likes Cruz. NO ONE will vote for Cruz here. Well, maybe one person because I did see ONE bumper sticker. It’s ALL TRUMP here.
I believe if it was a choice between Lucifer and Cruz, Cruz would Luze.
I read something about his father having a questionable heritage in Cuba.
Great!
I hope we go one step further and make these private parties ILLEGAL!
Dare to dream!
I agree.. I just don’t think Cruz has even a small chance...
I heard on the news tonight that Cruz won the Wyoming primary.
That’s way off base as normal by the media, as Cruz won a POTUS candidate selection in Wyoming by elites and delegates, not by the people. Most Americans find that process of political insiders picking candidates as decisively un-democratic.
>>Trump cannot beat unlimited Govt resources with limited personal funds no matter how wealthy. Cruz is just a tool. No one person can beat the US Feds.
Agreed.
I don’t find the two private party system anywhere in the Constitution. They need to be made illegal. I know, fat chance!
A lesson why the primary system is the BEST way to go!
I have only seen one cruz sticker and no yard signs and that was a sticker in Jacksonville. I drive about quite a bit from the north east to central and if one thinks cruz would ever win this state then they are deluded.
That means a cruz vote is a vote for Clinton as she would win out state.
I have explained this time and time again on here but the handful of cruz voters do not seem or choose to understand or they ignore it.
One can hope.
Again, this is NOT an election. It is a nomination for a party. If there are other candidates that wish to run, either as a party candidate or as an independent, they may do so, subject to the Constitution and laws of that state.
Getting together and selecting a candidate for a party is not tampering with an election.
Ahh, I missed your point then.
Generally speaking there are two approches used to select delegates to the national convention. The primary or the caucus/convention. Many states use the primary system. The party at the national level has decided that if you have a poll of the members, it must be used in a binding manner and as such reinforces the primary method. It sounds straight forward but who gets on to the ballot? This is where we in Colorado have seen the national party come in and try to select our candidates for us. We got sick of it and went back to the caucus/convention system.
In the caucus/convention system, a delegate who votes for the interests of the party at the state convention. This is the system that Colorado started with (1912 - 1988) and is the system that Colorado returned to in 2004 and has used ever since. We also altered the state party rules so that ANYONE can run to represent the precinct. And we put a whole lot of delegates to the state convention (3,900+). The idea being that it would be much harder for the national bosses to influence a large group of grass roots locally elected delegates. If you haven’t notice, Colorado has a very strong streak of “Leave me alone, and stop telling me what to do.”
The system is solid. Does it work 100% of the time? No. Sometimes the process aligns with the GOPe, sometimes it doesn’t. Most often it results in a split of the delegates that does not align with the poll. But I would submit that it is at least as fair as a closed primary, winner take all system like Florida.
>The system is solid. Does it work 100% of the time? No. Sometimes the process aligns with the GOPe, sometimes it doesn’t. Most often it results in a split of the delegates that does not align with the poll. But I would submit that it is at least as fair as a closed primary, winner take all system like Florida.
To make it fair all they had to do was introduce a binding polling for presidential candidate. Which of course they scraped because then the party bosses couldn’t choose!
No but it would have been a complete waste of time, unless you feel that those delegates were for sale.
Have you noticed where this practice has brought us? I suspect in years past we didn't have people among the party insiders that were sold out amoral globalists but now we do.
“There is just something wrong with CRUZ. I am thinking maniac.”
Malignant narcissist. Clearly.
That Carlin video was pretty darn good!
Yes, it was. Very applicable to what’s going on, today, isn’t it?
So showing up and working hard under the rules is “cheating” to Trumpers’ New York values.
Sorry, showing up, working hard, and playing by the rules is how we fly-over people do things.
I’ll leave the bloviating and lying to New Yorkers, like Hillary, Trump, Geraldo, DeBlasio, etc.
So we should vote for the man that got even less votes? The logic of that escapes me.
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