Posted on 03/14/2016 10:42:00 AM PDT by Starman417
It explains the 7 Southern states with open primaries (but not Kentucky or Louisiana).
Don’t throw punches if you object to being hit back.
Snickering at your babble is not "objecting to being hit back."
Hey, if the Publican party wants to have loyalty oaths, all day meetings, and other distractions to keep Trump from winning the nomination go ahead.
Just remember — if they don’t want my vote they won’t get it in November.
That's what McLame supporters said.
Facts are a bitch.
I think Republicans, and Republicans only, should choose their nominee. I think open primaries are crazy (or worse).
Sure, like when the GOP pragmatically selected Gerald Ford over the unelectable Ronald Reagan.
What a pile of Bovine Scatology! The GOP and the Democrats don't want Trump. They are the same party with 2 names. Trump is killing them all.
Dunno, I wasn’t alive back then. Millennial here.
It is madness to have Democrats pick the Republican nominee, especially where the nominee is only getting 35% of the popular vote.
Head to head match ups that show Republican preference between two candidates show Trump loosing.
I re-watched Cruz’s first presidential candidate speech from March 2015. I wanted to see what he said on immigration.
He spent about 30 seconds on it and mostly he talked about reforming our immigration system. He did say ‘seal the border’ but thats it! No wall, no detail, nothing, just ‘seal the border and ....we need to fix our broken immigration system’.
He’s just another politician who will do nothing to fix the illegal alien issue and that is why Trump is whooping him.
We should have told Reagan Democrats to stay home.
If it gets down to Trump-Hillary the debates and the results could get very interesting, and “unexpected”...:^)
It’s insane to let left-wing “journalists” like George Stephanopoulos and Candy Crowley, etc., moderate Republican primary debates because they have a conflict of interest and are allowed to control the narrative.
It’s also insane to let Democrats, posing as an “Undeclared” or “Independant”, vote in Republican primaries. They negate the votes of actual Republicans.
My sister in law in FL and her mother have both been democrats for their entire lives. The mother retired from working in the democrat party in FL.
They are both voting for Trump IN NOVEMBER! Why? Immigration, terrorism and safety. My SIL turned when Obama traded the 5 terrorists.
“That’s what McLame supporters said. Facts are a bitch.”
It is also what Reagan said and did.
History is a bitch.
Oh, you should have mentioned that you’re just an incoherent nutbag who lacks basic language skills.
So my question is, if all this support for Trump is just thousands upon thousands of democrats engaging in an Operation Chaos, but planning to vote for Hillary, why are so many of them to his rallies?
These rules were put in place by the Republican establishment to attract non Republican cross over voters to make sure the Conservative base did not hijack the primaries and block “moderate” presidential candidates (i.e. establishment candidates approved by and beholden to the Republican power brokers and special interests) from winning the primaries.
They loved the system when it allowed candidates like John McCain and Mitt Romney to thumb their noses at the Republican base and still win the nomination.
The Republican establishment had become so arrogant and dismissive of their base that Jeb Bush, the the quintessential Republican establishment candidate, publicly crowed that his strategy was to “lose the primaries to win the general election” or, in other words, Bush openly told the Republican base to f**k off in order to win support from voters who detest Republicans and have no intention of voting for one in the general election. In, fact Bush worked so hard, spent so much money ($150+ million) and did such brilliant job of executing his " losing the primaries to win the general election" strategy that he lost the primaries and was out of the race before it even started. Jeb and his high powered , snarky and oh so much smarter than the rest of us "brain trust", did fail to appreciate the one minor, but quite significant flaw in their campaign strategy :-(
But they can be excused for that minor oversight.
And for very good reason - that strategy worked perfectly for McCain and Romney and allowed them to win the Republican nomination while abusing their base at every opportunity . In fact, Mitt Romney executed that strategy so well in 2012 that he managed to alienate 4 million members of the loyal Republican so badly that they refused to turn out and vote for him in the general election - taking down a huge number of Senate and House Republicans with him - against Barak Obama, no less, the weakest incumbent Presidential candidate in modern history
Now Trump is using their bad faith rule strategy against them and beating them like a drum with their own rules. Ironically, the Republican establishment is being hoist on it's own petard because Trump is using the rules enacted by Republican establishment to secure their lock on power to enable voters disgusted with the Republican leadership to oust those same leaders from the power and control
Well played
If McCain had campaigned for himself as hard as he campaigned for his opponent, he might have won.
“Doesn’t explain Cruz being completely shut out in the South.”
LOL, yea it kinda does.
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