Posted on 04/18/2016 2:36:38 AM PDT by markomalley
Donald Trump's relentless assault on the rules that govern how Republicans choose their nominee is coming far too late to change what even defenders acknowledge is a complicated selection system.
He seems to know it, too.
Instead, his railing against a "rigged" process appears aimed at amplifying his central message to an angry electorate: America is a mess, and only Trump can clean it up.
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It is rigged and corrupt.
>The people have spoken.
You missed spelled GOP power brokers. The people of Colorado were never given a chance to vote for a presidential candidate on the GOP side.
Trump is not campaigning to the delegates. He’s campaigning to the voters. If the party elite’s loyalties lie with party bosses instead of the voters, OF COURSE voters are furious. Saying Trump risks alienating them is just another way of saying they don’t much care for the wrath they endure when their masks are ripped off.
True dat
And Trump and his ilk will continue to stir up the uninformed masses to the point of screeching that states have ‘no right’ to decide how their own primaries are run and that the majority should rule in those states too (we’re supposed to be a democracy, right?), thereby eliminating the Tenth Amendment. And why not? Their ilk has been crapping over or ignoring the US Constitution all along and for decades anyway.
Do you think they'd quit if they actually read the Constitution?
Besides, Trump doesn't like 'flyover country people'. We're 'not worth the effort'.
When Trump goes to the convention with a huge lead and they give it to somebody else they will see annoyed up close and personal
Show me in the Constitution where it mentions political parties. The founding fathers never envisioned private clubs deciding who does and does not get to wield political power in this country.
“The people have spoken.”
How is it that the people in Colorado “have spoken”?
Colorado is easy. The rules may be arcane in various states, but anyone can understand Colorado. The GOP robbed the voters of their vote, and they even stated their reason throughout the process — to stop Trump.
Lol!!! The ignorance is astounding. I mention states rights and the Tenth Amendment and you point to “political parties”. Ah-mazing.
Uh....no. It was originally to stop outsiders from skewing their primary results by an outsider (like Ron Paul). And they have a perfect right to do that.
From Ca Conservative: Actually, they knew Trump was coming way back in 1912 - that is when the delegate selection method they used was first introduced.
EXACTLY!!!
They knew that the Savior of the Country was going to be running against a deep cover double agent for the globalist bankers that was put in place personally by Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev. And they knew that the globalist bankers were going to have a communist revolution in Russia that was going to allow Khrushchev to come to power in order to be able to do so.
FINALLY, somebody understands the big picture here.
Whew!
“And Trump and his ilk will continue to stir up the uninformed masses to the point of screeching that states have ‘no right’ to decide how their own primaries are run and that the majority should rule in those states too (we’re supposed to be a democracy, right?), thereby eliminating the Tenth Amendment. And why not? Their ilk has been crapping over or ignoring the US Constitution all along and for decades anyway.”
I believe Limbaugh was drifting a bit toward your deception about the “states’ rights” and what happened in Colorado.
The only thing wrong with that is, that under the Constitution, state governments are Constitutionally elected and duly appointed to run a state.
As Limbaugh previously pointed out, and then glossed over, political parties are private and have no legal authority to run a state. They can set their party rules. And, as happened in Colorado, the private political party set the rules that aced out an entire state’s electorate. And you seem to be fine with that.
Political parties have NOTHING to do with states’ rights under the tenth amendment.
Nice try at deflection, but it doesn’t work on me. You said, “...
states have ‘no right’ to decide how their own primaries are run...”
States of course do have that right, by the Constitution. What is unconstitutional is that they have ceded that right to private clubs, which wield inordinate power in a system that was never envisioned by the founding fathers.
If party members at all levels were accountable to the electorate, that would be one thing. But unelected, unaccountable Reince Priebus, among many others, having so much power in what is supposed to be a representative republic is not only morally wrong, it is against the spirit of the Constitutional safeguards put in place at our founding.
“Actually, they knew Trump was coming way back in 1912 - that is when the delegate selection method they used was first introduced.”
Someone is being cute by half.
No, the party bosses back then were like they are now — corrupt. They wanted to control who the nominee is, not the voters.
You talk about a joke. To repeat, anyone can understand Colorado. The Republican voters were not allowed to vote when the primary (binding straw poll) was canceled strictly because they wanted to stop Trump. It matters not at all that the strategy was innovated a hundred yeas ago.
Remember, the election was canceled last year?
Oh...so NOW you Trumpsters want to eliminate political parties too then, eh? Let’s see. Get rid of the electoral college. Eliminate states rights and while you’re at it, eliminate political parties. Cause....you know...they’re not fair! (or at least..not fair to Trump) Have I got that about right?
Seriously, you guys are hilarious.
Go back to your sanatorium.
>Seriously, you guys are hilarious.
The fact that your candidate lost 15 points over this issue and you’re still doubling down it is quite humorous. A couple more weeks of this and he’ll be down to the 20% range.
And yet Ted is going to have his ass handed to him tomorrow and on the 19th.
Imagine that!
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