Posted on 04/14/2016 9:51:48 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Going to make an entire country “Great Again”, yet cannot effectively manage a campaign or find the right people to do so. Seventy years old in June and it shows.
You’ve nailed it.
The GOPe owns the party. The party makes the rules and can change them, just before the convention.
Yes, gaming the system is part of the game.
However, it could be that there are a substantial chunk of conservative voters out there who are just absolutely sick of GOPe gamesmanship, weasel words, sleight of hand and claims that “the system” keeps them from doing the right thing, or “the system” makes them do the wrong thing.
Maybe these voters see the clever diligence that lawyer Cruz and his team are using in an effort to wriggle around that lil’ ol’ problem of lack of voter support, and they think of the way the GOPe has treated them.
Spirit of the law? Not if you can use the letter as a tool to ignore what’s right or those damnable voters.
Hell, we haven’t had a budget since Obama got elected, and Paul Ryan just said we aren’t going to have one again this year.
“Conservative” GOP politicians spend like drunken sailors via a continuing resolution farce that uses the Porkulus bloated baseline every damn year. Why vote on a stimulus boondoggle when you can just build it in? It’s in the rules, depending on how you look at them. Debt ceiling? They just changed that rule, it’s gone.
That way there’s no voting on the debt ceiling, no government “shutdown” and no nasty budget to use as a yardstick to see how fast these “conservatives” are shoveling steroids down the maw of Fedzilla. It’s a great way to game the old and tiresome constitutional obligation to have an actual budget.
This might not be a year when gamesmanship plays well with the electorate.
It also might help, if people really feel so strongly about Colorado's delegate selection process and they are Republicans who live in Colorado, to actually attend the off-year organizing conventions and caucuses.
No. Trump and his people needs to learn to follow directions. This isn’t about him>>> this is my opinion but should we all obey the rules because they are the rules or should we seek a better process. The rules at one time stated women couldn’t vote and blacks where slaves. there was a lot of stuff that kept that engine running. just my opinion.
Callimg the number one Cubnadian fanboy....oh Mr. Beck, someone is trying to steal your gig!
It is my understanding Hawaii has the same system as Colorado. I’m sure you are for eliminating their results too. Right?
[[Is there a whinier and deceived bunch of sore losers than Cruz fans?]]
Yes Trump fans
not only that but florida trump didn’t complain when he walked away with 90% of delegates, nor in Missouri he was nearly tied with Ted for actual votes but walked away with over 70% of delegates- the voters were ‘disenfranchised’ in those states as well- they might as well not even have voted-
No. They followed the rules, but barely. Instead the officials who put cost over Freedom should lose their positions.
I can't remember her name, but the GOPe in Colorado was trying to run a moderate for governor, but she hadn't even lived in the state long enough to establish residency.
There were enough conservatives at the convention to kick her to the curb, so that was a good sign, but it was a bad sign that there were any squishes at all in the party, let alone a large minority.
“When you add his low level of support to his non-existent get-out-the-vote effort for national delegate, you get a shut-out.”
Based on the earlier, smaller Wyoming caucus results (mostly to Cruz) I wouldn’t be surprised if Cruz gets them all in Wyoming.
I’m in Washington and left my precinct as a delegate, and was elected at the district level to go to state. First time I’ve ever been involved. Pretty sad that the local involvement was pretty low. At the district level where we picked 27 delegates there were only about 200 to 300 precinct delegates to vote on us.
90% of the delegates from my district are Cruz supporters. I think that was maybe due to a lot of email and calls reminding us to get to the caucus. It will be interesting to see if the state convention is also primarily Cruz supporters. Or - maybe it was just my area, but I sort of doubt it. I read where Trump sent out a mailing but lots of areas had already had their precinct caucuses. AND he sent them to Washington D.C. oops!
But we are “unbound” delegates. Even if I was to go to the national level I would be unbound on the second ballot and vote for whomever. But, here in Washington we will be having a primary election, and our delegates are bound to the winner of that for the first ballot. So maybe if Trump comes in and does some big rallies and media buys he could win the primary.
What one needs to remember is that the back in the day, and even now, the delegates in a caucus were elected for their good judgement as much as anything else (hence so many states having unbound delegates). I’m guessing that is even more so at the state level where we will no doubt be voting in some of the more famous people, like the wannabe politician that is always running in my county and pushing stuff at the capitol, or the local radio talk-show guy.
Anyway - it should be interesting at the state convention. If Cruz can make it to Wyoming, I’m guessing he will be in Washington. Depending on how things look for him in May.
Only if winner take all states like Florida are excluded also. It’s so unfair! Wa wa wa.
40 years ago Colorado was a wonderful, conservative state. We have become victims to the Californication of our wonderful state. Tourist season should be a no bag limit, year round event. You a$$holes have ruined what was once a paradise.
Shame on Liberals, Californians, Texans, and all the other vermin that are ruining a once beautiful state.
Sorry. I really didn’t mean to tone down my piseed-off-ness.
I am getting to the point I would welcome CWII.
Bwahaaaaahaaa
Keep up the whine, care for some cheese?
Seriously, listen to us. We are Republicans, Federalists. We believe in the compact that we call our Constitution, and in the sovereignty of the individual states. It’s up to each state to determine it’s method of candidate selection, and even more importantly, up to the party. Do you want Dem legislators writing Republican party rules?
Why do we have the electoral college? Why does the House decide a contested election? Because this is a Republic, not a democracy. Ask Robespierre how well that worked out.
If you are so certain that democratic processes always produce the best result, I think I found a party you might like.
Kind of reminds me of John McEnroe having a case of the vapors.
Not pretty at all.
We should just exclude all the delegates that don’t like Trump. That would be fair.
Why were you not on this PRIOR to the Colorado convention? The means by which these delegates were to be selected was publicized and well known to anyone with enough interest to investigate. That includes Trump.
That all of this commotion is happening after trump was shut out looks like whining.
Perhaps Donald should not have waited until 30 states had voted before bringing in the establishment guys he’s now hired to stop the bleeding.
If he should gain the WH I hope he doesn’t rely on only his own counsel, as it’s become pretty clear he wants little part of the detail work.
I thought I’d read, somewhere, the other day that they ARE, in fact, excluded from the first round.
I think they should be excluded, period.
LOL to your spot on post!! Agree 100%.
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