Posted on 04/15/2016 5:20:33 AM PDT by bobsunshine
On Saturday, April 9, Colorado had an “election” without voters. Delegates were chosen on behalf of a presidential nominee, yet the people of Colorado were not able to cast their ballots to say which nominee they preferred.
A planned vote had been canceled. And one million Republicans in Colorado were sidelined.
In recent days, something all too predictable has happened: Politicians furiously defended the system. “These are the rules,” we were told over and over again. If the “rules” can be used to block Coloradans from voting on whether they want better trade deals, or stronger borders, or an end to special-interest vote-buying in Congress—well, that’s just the system and we should embrace it.
Let me ask America a question: How has the “system” been working out for you and your family?
I, for one, am not interested in defending a system that for decades has served the interest of political parties at the expense of the people. Members of the club—the consultants, the pollsters, the politicians, the pundits and the special interests—grow rich and powerful while the American people grow poorer and more isolated.
No one forced anyone to cancel the vote in Colorado. Political insiders made a choice to cancel it. And it was the wrong choice.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Can’t stand the truth, can ya!
"He intends to put existing insider politics on trial before the American people."
The fact of the matter is that Ted doesn't want to change a thing in DC except the window dressing and how big his cut of the loot is.
Ted's just one of the whores and wants to stage a coup to be the Madame for the whorehouse the Republican Pimp Machine in DC runs. He doesn't want to shut down the whorehouse anymore than McConnell or any of the othere GOPe big names.
His whole scam is to convince enough saps that he's only a whore because his momma needs an operation, his daddy is a drunk, and poor little Ted had to start selling it on the streets to help his family along with helping all his nice neighbors who couldn't afford to buy a Teddy Bear and a Soccer ball for their chilll ren
Perhaps, but only IF the “party” still exists.
What if Ted got a delegate for every county he carried in SC?
Oh wait, he didn’t win a single county in SC
Besides, you have to decide who is the real whiner in this specious argument about why ted should have more delegates based on popular voting ... The rules let every state make their own rules and if they choose WINNER take all, then the guy who WINS takes all even if his winning perventage is under 50 %
This is one of the key flaws of the Colorado system; and it has been this way for years. The system was already so corrupt that the recent cancellation of the straw pole was just another plop on the cowpie.
The system was not designed years ago to favor Ted Cruz—at least not by name. It just seems that way because the system was designed to favor insiders and whack jobs looking for "legal" ways to usurp power. As a consequence, from caucus packing to double-agent delegates, the whole system favors which ever candidate has the least ethics.
Gloating winners who did not technically break the law should read a book by Frederic Bastiat called The Law. The question the book asks is, "When the ruling class creates laws that "legalize" crime, is crime still crime?"
The system is unfair and rigged to ensure the GOPe controls who is nominated for decades. All that Trump has done is exposed its corruption. You really think the voters nominated McCain or Romney?
“Rules” gave Trump 100% of the South Carolina delegates though he only got about 33% of the vote.
What a rigged corrupt system, Trump disenfranchised 66% of the voters!
Whine whine whine.
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The “WINNER” in America has ALWAYS been entitled to the Tallest Trophy, the biggest purse, the Mostest of anything at stake. That is until the socialist participation trophies and ribbons which remove the Pride and Glory from the winner and spread it all around on the losers. Obviously you side with thhe losers theory. Your argument doesn’t hold water.
Btw ted got 43% of the vote in Texas so that means 57% of his own state got “ disfranchised”?
This is the reason the GOP establishment has always been able to shove establishment “moderates” like Bob Dull, Juan McQueeg, Milt Romley, etc. election after election.
Yeah, I know “it’s the rule,” but the rules have been written of, by and for the establishment.
It’s time for that to change.
Let’s be honest now that Trump exposed the establishment. The Dems and Repubs are just opposite sides of the same coin. In some cases - especially on open borders and globalism trade the GOP and the Dems are nearly identical including on most foreign policy. W Bush supported the Clinton war in Yugoslavia and carried through the same policy in Kosovo for example. The Iraq policy before 9/11 was the same policy as Gore. Obama continued the Bush policy of withdrawing from Iraq (withdrawing was not Obama’s initiated policy no matter how much we want to pretend it was - Bush began that a year before Obama).
The GOPe isn't happy with the result...believe you me.
heh.
Jedi.
Here’s an answer I’m a combat veteran have two college degrees. Had to move to another state to get employment because I dont speak Spanish am living in a one room overpriced hovel and my kid is racking up a college loan debt thatmakes me glad my father’s not alive to see the amount of
And my spouse lives in the woods with PTS after three deployments to a place Obama surrendered. Hasn’t seen us in ten years
Oh and my kid can’t qualify for the scholarship amount she could if she were a Hispanic getting picked up at her Texas high school in a late Cadillac drug cartel bought escapade Or, she tells me, if she were a lesbian.
And if Trump does NOT get the party nomination I am trusting he will run third party and win it for the majority who have similar frustrations we do in our fractured family
“.....He intends to put existing insider politics on trial before the American people.
I’ve learned more about the Republican party and about primaries this election cycle than I ever wanted to know. And, yes, I should have known it before and, yes, I didn’t work hard enough to understand it...”
Very well said. You’ve captured my thinking here.
Most Americans are too busy struggling to make a life for themselves under the weight of over regulation and confiscatory taxes to see the forest for the trees. The Soviet Union collapsed, and, yes, it’s mirror-image—America, has also grown exponentially toward the same type of administrative state.
Common sense tells me Donald Trump is right to raise this important point of the dangers to America’s ideal of one man, one vote.
The question is, will we as Americans wait to do something about it? Or, must America, too, collapses under the iron fist of the regulatory state before we wake up?
Excellent post.
It seems to me that Trump is doing exactly what he should be doing:
He is calling attention to the fact that winning a plurality of votes in a state doesn’t necessarily result in a delegate win, and that the delegates assigned so far are not necessarily committed.
By highlighting extreme cases like Colorado and calling it a rigged system, he is putting his supporters on notice that in the remaining states, they have to turn out to vote and make sure their vote counts by learning as much as possible about the delegate candidates in their districts.
He is also energizing his supporters to hold delegates accountable for how they behave. Many delegates are local politicians with aspirations of their own. They don’t want to be exposed as having betrayed potential constituents.
He is also putting the GOPe on notice that the voters are watching what they do. The GOPe does not want to lose the faith and trust of the voters (what is left of it) or they will become irrelevant.
Trump bashers can call it whining and complaining and crying over spilt milk if they want. I call it energizing his voter base. I call it smart politics.
Trump could do a lot worse than having the voters on his side, and vigilant against a party system that truly is rigged against them.
Ted Cruz may have a better handle on the ‘ground game’ and more control over the party insider campaign operatives, but at what cost to the faith and trust voters have in him? It remains to be seen whether that was the better strategy.
In a few months, we Trump supporters may be asking; “So how did that work out for you?”
>>Team Trump should have studied the rules,
Part of his mission seems to be to expose the level of corruption in our system, even in the parts of it that we trust. If nothing else, he has shown the need to start organizing militias again like we did in the 90s. We got complacent after 9/11 because we thought we had a bigger enemy in Islam. But the real enemy has always been the cancerous Progressive tyranny.
This piece is well nigh perfect. Hope to see a lot of this same rhetoric in appearances going forward.
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