Posted on 04/23/2016 5:40:43 PM PDT by GIdget2004
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz collected the overwhelming majority of Maine's Republican delegates during the state's GOP convention Saturday.
Cruz collected 19 of the 20 spots up for grabs, with the 20th spot going to Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who's supporting GOP front-runner Donald Trump. 
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I just read your post to MrR. He is so taken aback at this turn of events in Maine that he said it was the final straw. After the primary he is thinking of leaving the GOP for good.
Cruz won one majority. Utah. Home of the fake religion. Goes well with fake Cruz.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep telling yourself it’s all good.
I agree with you completely about Cruz's "preacher mode". He seems quite unlikeable.
However, with a few adjective changes, I think you could make the same remarks about Trump..."he's just a fake conservative preacher - the Rev. Bakker of reality TV, golf courses, hotels, Miss Universe, and an international celebrity"...
Calling Trump a "snake oil salesman" would be about as fair as calling Cruz a "snake", but so far I have seen no reason to believe Trump any more than I do Cruz when it comes to their reasons and intentions for seeking the Presidency.
No reason to be obsessed by "the rules", IMHO; that's not what the Constitution is. The Constitution is only changeable and amendable by a two-thirds majority of states ratifying changes, but it's much easier to get local, state and political party "rules" changed. Go for it, and good luck!
It’s too late for cruz to be running a charade of winning 90% not 100% of the delegates, throwing a few bones out to pretend it was a contested caucus/primary/convention.
Can you name a state Trump won where he didn’t get a majority of Republican voters? I didn’t think so.
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I would state those wins of Trump as being a plurality of VOTERS in Republican open primaries. That takes into account all of the crossover votes. ...NY was a closed primary, so everyone knew Trump would win there. However, both Dem candidates drew more votes than Trump, I think.
Sane people don’t continue to live on in a fantasy when confronted with reality.
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Sadly, the “Mayor of Realville” has been living in the land of fantasy for many weeks now.
GOPee delegates to voters are akin to GOPee elected politician to their voters. Neither gives a crap and screws the voters. However they would be nothing and insignificant without us. Let’s make them insignificant.
Trump, nor any other candidate, has one a state with the majority of Republican voters. Trump has won 14% of registered Republican voters and 61% of registered Republican voters have not bothered to vote.
It was originally 12 Cruz, 9 Trump and 3 Kasich.
23 delegates on March 5th at the caucus. Now, 19 for Cruz and one....the governor.....for Trump. Is this for the first ballot, or a hypothetical second ballot?
And what happened to the other three delegates? Originally, there were 23, not 20.
It remains to be seen if the "meme" of Dems and Indies voters is true, and follows through in the actual POTUS race, if Trump is the nominee (likely at this point)...he is always saying how many votes he's won, and how many new people he's bringing into "the party"...
Personally, I have no horse in this race, I regretfully can not be enthusiastic about ANY of them, but I will broken-glass vote for whoever wins the GOP nomination because he will certainly be better than "Hillary!" or "the Bern".
FReegards!
“Might be the angry threads are because some states didn’t give the public the chance to see their votes counted....”
So, let me make sure I’ve got this right. You think this is the very first time in the history of American Politics that the rules have been JUST EXACTLY THAT?
The topic was primaries. Cruz won Texas. Oklahoma. Utah, Idaho and Wisconsin through primaries. Trump won New Hampshire, SC, NC, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Virginia, Michigan, and New York through primaries. When Trump did not win he came in second. Cruz finished third or lower in New Hampshire. VIrginia, Michigan, and New York.
On Tuesday Trump is likely to win five more states through primaries and Cruz may finish third in two or more of them.
Time to rally behind Trump to defeat Hillary.
No fair.
Excuse me?? "and to the republic, for which it stands"...?
Surely you are not suggesting that the mega-states and the mega-cities therein should decide the final choice for presidential candidates simply because they have mega-populations?
IMHO, there is more than one way to actually represent the grass-roots electorate, and following CA rules and campaigning strategies is not tops on MY list..."fly-over country" may have to secede, ha ha!
Yes, I want a president whose primary talents do not lie in organizing and winning campaigns. I want a president who lives in the real world and does real things. If you remember, Obama made a big deal about the fact that his experience running a presidential campaign qualified him to be president.
Furthermore, this is not about Donald Trump or his “whining.” It is about the people of this country who are being disenfranchised by Ted Cruz. How am I supposed to believe Cruz will restore the constitution when he clearly does not believe in a representative republic. He does what he wants to do, never mind the will of the people, or what the constitution may actually stipulate (regarding the qualifications to be president.)
How can you possibly support this kind of thing and claim to believe the constitution is the supreme law of the land and the final authority, and representative republic of the people, by the people, and for the people?
Cruz did not win Maine by 51% of the vote, which he needed to do to take all the votes. Therefore the delegates are to be proprotional. Also, as I recall, there were many many many reports of fraud and cheating in Maine, just as there in so many other contents that Cruz supposedly won. Cruz is a liar and a cheat.
Trump got nearly 45% of the GOP voters in the Nevada caucus, which was closed, and only registered republicans allowed to vote, and that was when there was still a large field of candidates. So you are mistaken.
Not at all. I’m simply describing it strategically. Trump has a path to 1237 without those states. It would have been great if he could have gotten them, but with limited resources and time, it made more sense to focus on states that offer more delegates. That’s all. The thing is, he actually found a way to leverage the losses in Colorado and Wyoming to his benefit. It seems very likely that Cruz’s precipitous drop in the polls as of late has much to do with the bad PR it caused him, i.e., in winning the battle, he lost the war.
It looks to me like the whole GOP is losing the battle and also the war, sorry to say.
Trump's strategy in focusing on the bigger delegate count states is sensible, but a little disheartening for the "little guys" he claims to champion but can't be bothered with right this minute.
Cruz is extremely intelligent, and I think rock-ribbed conservative, but he's also quite unlikeable for a number of reasons, and very possibly unelectable in a general election.
I'm pretty sure both Cruz and Trump have dropped in the polls lately...too many people do not like either one of them, according to polls, which are not worth the paper they're not printed on in the long run!
I will vote for whomever the GOP candidate is, and it won't be the first time I've held my nose to do it. I am just sorry it's all come to this, when the GOP started with such a supposedly stellar field of candidates.
Whoever ends up getting elected in the end, whichever party, will have the unique privilege of being the first President ever to take office by being the least disliked.
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