Posted on 04/14/2016 10:45:21 AM PDT by House Atreides
Historically it has been done that way if you want your ass handed to you in the General. Which seems to be the plan here.
>> 50 states with 50 rules <<
Plus six territories, with six different sets of rules to add to the total. So there are actually 56 sets of rules that a candidate’s staff ought to master.
(Curiously, instead of having 56 jurisdictions like the GOP, the Dhims have 57. Obama tried to visit all of them, but I understand that he couldn’t find no. 57, because it’s an abstraction that covers the whole planet. No kidding!)
Whining about "voters" not being involved is disingenuous, at best. The people willing to invest their time/money to become part of the nomination process to become delegates, work the conventions, etc "are the people", just as much as someone who only gets off the couch long enough to pull a lever when an election cycle comes around.
This has got to be one of the craziest primary cycles in Republican history................
They are thinking it's time to cut Cruz.
THIS ++++++ 100%
Trump is running as a populist reformer. I’d think this within the plausible ambit of things that he would complain about from that viewpoint.
>> In florida . . . those delegates after round 1 will change their vote <<
Don’t think so. I understand that Florida law binds the delegates for at least three or four rounds. But eventually, if the conventions keeps voting round after round, the Florida delegates would at some point be “free to choose.”
(Florida may be the only state with rules that are so restrictive. Obviously unfair to everybody except Mr. Trump, no?)
I'm asking seriously here, because I honestly don't understand...are you saying Manafort intends to challenge the credentials of the delegates that have recently gone to Cruz?
Did people actually get to vote in Nebraska? I’ll assume the answer is yes, so why should I complain if the people were actually allowed to vote?
So go on, strut and preen. Try to provoke flamewars because it gives your life meaning.
But what I’m seeing is desperation.
Will Trump fans ever come to an understanding that there are two different things that happen?
1. Selecting who the actual people are who will be delegates and go to the national convention.
2. Determining who gets any “bound” votes of these delegates in the first ballot.
Trump has only focused on #2. If he does not lock up enough first round ballot votes, he is toast because he put no effort into #1.
And this will entirely be his own fault. It’s not cheating or stealing or bribing. It’s people showing up at these local meetings and trying to get elected to be a delegate.
It takes work. It takes local people. It takes relationships. Trump wants to run from Hannity’s set and his big rallies.
>> party organizations are flipping off the ACTUAL voters <<
Yep, maybe like since about 1836, when party organizations were just getting into high gear?
I guess that’s the problem with our having “a republic instead of a democracy.”
Cruz is on the primary ballot in Nebraska. The primary is in May.
This is something different, something Trump has shown no interest in.
This is one of the many reasons I don’t believe Trump really wants to be President. He’s just trying to throw a monkey wrench in the GOPs 2016 election hopes.
>> Trump wants to run from Hannity’s set <<
Excellent observation, but let’s not forget Mr. Trump’s phone calls to just about every network’s morning TV show, plus his madcap midnight tweeting. For those fun-filled frolics, he doesn’t even need to make the tiresome trek from Trump Tower over to the Ailes-run studios.
It’s becoming more apparent that his campaign has been one big troll.
Personally, I think he’s run for president over the years because it was fun. He got his ego stroked and some publicity out of it.
This time, it got away from him and now he’s stuck running and has no ground game because he never intended for it to go this far.
It's not up to them.
Funny, I have been reading the same thing about Trump...
Universal suffrage does not a Republic make.
The true nastycruzers can't handle that simple truth... :)
One problem with that plan is that Cruz is busy getting his people into the committee spots as well - and with the Cruz people and the RNC people holding the majority on the Credentials committee, how do you think Manafort will fare? Unless he has documented proof of crimes, I don't think it will go too far.
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