Posted on 04/09/2016 2:48:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The assumption for months was that everything would fall into place. That there was no need to really dig in, that the outcome was obvious. And then, too late, it became clear that this optimism was unfounded. Or maybe not too late, but late enough in the process to mean that folks would have to scramble. And now everything is up in the air.
The paragraph above describes the Republican establishments attitude about Donald Trumps candidacy, obviously. But it also describes Trumps push for the nomination itself.
From the moment he stepped onto that escalator on Trump Tower until about a month ago, Trumps assumption was that he could power his way to the nomination through sheer force of will. That the scene when he strolled through the Iowa State Fair, pulling people into a tight cluster around him as he moved through the crowd, would work at an electoral level as well. And, despite the skepticism of the establishment (and myself), it nearly did. With remarkably little effort beyond bopping around the country in his private jet, Trump vaulted into the lead and stayed there.
But that strategy has hit its limit, thanks mostly to Ted Cruzs dogged campaign efforts....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
LOL!
>The RINOs dont want Trump more than they dont want Cruz.
And yet they funding him to the hilt, campaigning for him, and even have the media coordinating their hits on them with Cruz.
Then NAME THEM!
Provide a source.
Haiti fund?
Katrina fund?
(What a "looser")
Is DC Whispers a sundance blog? It is his style.
They have local conventions who elect delegates, and a final state convention where some further delegates are selected. ALL BY VOTE.
Cruz is likely to sweep all 37 Colorado delegates.
In effect, you just threw nearly every union member under the bus.
("looser")
Could be. Sure sounds similar.
>They have local conventions who elect delegates, and a final state convention where some further delegates are selected. ALL BY VOTE.
So if I vote for a local delegate who says he’s for Trump and that local delegate votes for Cruz at the convention... how exactly did my vote mater?
There are people on payrolls here, but most shills work for free. This is the worst campaign season I can remember.
The Trump likker is wearing off and folks are waking up with the New York pig in their beds and screaming “OMG!!!”
Nobody actually voted. Some victory.
See this for explanation of Colorado, another Trump stumble and bumble. Lookin’ more and more like Trump is something of a rube; a bumbler. Nothing at all like his carefully honed public image of confidence and competence. What’s the old story about the delusional Duke walking around with no clothes on?
http://www.redstate.com/diary/apkyletexas/2016/04/08/boom-cruz-crushin-colorado.-21-21-far/
> This is the worst campaign season I can remember.
It’s going to get worse. Cruz’s troll army and data driven approach is the wave of the future for politics. Trump’s campaign may be the last clean campaign we ever see.
No, you are seriously wrong on this. Ted is now completely funded by the GOPe.
To continue to claim he is an “outsider” free of PAC control is now a complete fraud.
It would matter the same as if you voted for Trump and HE threw you under the bus instead of his surrogate.
Besides, so far your fellow Trumpites in Colorado have not managed to elect even one local delegate, so your question is entirely hypothetical.
You have to go far into the articles to read anything relevant:
Colorados delegate selection process is a messy one, thanks to a variety of causes. (FrontloadingHQs Josh Putnam, whose site is an invaluable resource on the rules guiding the Republican contests, has a distinct air of exasperation as the Colorado process is explained.)
Our Ed O’Keefe outlined it in detail on Wednesday. In short, the states individual congressional districts and, on Saturday, the state as a whole, hold votes to pick delegates to attend Julys national convention in Cleveland. Those delegates have either declared their intent to support a candidate or not, meaning that they are either bound to support a candidate or they arent. Its bound delegates that Trump wants, because he needs to enter Cleveland with as close to a solid, unwavering majority as he can get. If he shows up with 1,100 bound delegates and 140 unbound ones, the Republican Party will do everything it can to get those 140 to change their minds. The convention isnt a Super Bowl, played on neutral ground. Its Stalingrad, and Trump doesnt want a siege.
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