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.
(Excerpt) Read more at elections.ap.org ...
Tead is only 37 points behind in New York.
There’s still hope.
ROFLMAO
It’s all about the Donald.
Reading comprehension challenged much? I never said that.
This was my ONLY statement about that:
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.
I don’t expect Cruz to win NY. Not going to be surprised when he loses ‘that’ state.
Lol!!!
Trump is at or above 50% in the New England states where the public actually gets to vote.
That’s so cool.
Yeah, and if you will notice, Trump does really well in those open primary states....where Democrats can and do cross over to vote for Trump so Hillary can win in November. You’re ok with that, I take it.
The concern of AP is duly noted.
Not.
As those of who voted for Reagan recall, we were happy to have Blue Dog Democrats crossing over to vote for Reagan.
I know Ted will never get crossover, so I feel your pain.
“And they have a perfect right to do that.”
No, they do not. Once again you are trying to conflate party officials with elected representatives. The former are extra-Constitutional, the latter are Constitutional.
The former has taken over the Constitutional role of the latter. Just because this corrupt system has been in place for a long time doesn’t make it any less corrupt.
It is time to re-establish a Constitutional system for deciding who gets to run for office.
Parties are not "extra-Constitutional, unless you have a very left-wing view of the Constitution. The Constitution does not speak, at all, to how states choose their electors. That is up to them, so the primary systems established by states are perfectly consistent with the Constitution.
The real issue here is that you have a lot of people who hate the GOP and want to play by a different set of rules. So fine -- do what some disaffected Whigs and Free Soilers did, and start your own party. Or, put forth a candidate who either gets on the ballot in each state, or gets written in.
But it is juvenile as hell for a candidate to enter a primary election knowing ahead of time what the rules are, then whining because those rules are followed.
It is rigged and corrupt.
And Trump is toast if he doesn’t win on the first ballot.
Speak for yourself there. I don’t care for Democrats or liberals of ‘any’ color or breed. And Reagan might have won even without those rats voting for him...but we will never know. Bottom line....I don’t trust liberals or Democrats or their motives for voting for ANY Republican, supposed or otherwise. We already know how well that worked out for the right in this country back in 2008 and 2012.
“Trump is at or above 50% in the New England states where the public actually gets to vote.”
None of which he could actually win against either Democrat. Funny how Trump does best in the most leftist states in the country.
No, actually...it's time for the Trump whiners to pull up their big boy pants/panties and stop acting like spoiled, bratty LOSERS. Wanting to change decades-old systems just because it didn't go your way in some states is asinine. Hell, just like the idiot left in America, it seems like Trump followers are never happy, even when they or their candidate is winning.
Nor did they envision women voting ...
The standard should be getting the most citizens to participate in the election by voting. Instead it is a raw and corrupt grab for political power in backrooms.
From George Washington’s Farewell Address:
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.”
“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.”
He was prophetic. We now have the consolidation of power into the R wing of the oligarchy and the D wing of the oligarchy, the end result of political parties who seek to keep each other in power to the exclusion of those who would make real change.
Advocating for much-needed change to a demonstrably corrupt and unresponsive system is not whining.
that is not only naive, it is irrelevant
Forgot to add, George Washington must have been a big ol’ lefty, huh?
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