Posted on 04/25/2016 8:00:56 PM PDT by bigbob
The chairwoman of the Boulder County GOP has admitted that grave errors affected the Colorado Republican caucus, in which Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% won a clean sweep of 34 delegates without opening up the process to voting by everyday citizens.
Breitbart News has obtained an email that Boulder County GOP chairwoman Peg Cage sent to other top Republican officials in Colorado, including to other party chairs, describing the errors in the process that led to “the perception of fraud.” Reached for comment on the email, Cage said that the caucus might have to be done over.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
A lot of those Freepers on your zot list have been here since day 1 and have been loyal donors to the site for decades and loyal warriors in the culture war and the battle to restore the constitution and promote conservative principles.
You post that zot list as if it is something to be proud of.
I guess debate is no longer tolerated here. At least not if it might suggest that Donald Trump is anything other than the perfect Constitutional Conservative anointed by God to lead the nation back to its original Greatness.
What are you guys going to do when Hillary unleashes her army of propagandists into the media against Trump? Just zot anybody that posts any news report that isn’t favorable to him?
I think that this forum will be a worse place without those posters. But then who listens to me?
/rant
This election is about globalism vs nationalism. Period.
That explains everything.
Gosh how could I not see that? I must have been blind! Now my eyes are open!
All this nonsense about Aborting an entire generation of our posterity, the silly persecution of Christians, the irrelevant brainwashing of our children by government schools.... We can obviously make America Great again just by being nationalists.
Of Course. Nationalism. That's the ticket. And who better to lead us into Nationalism than Donald Trump.
God does not factor into it at all. In fact, anyone who thinks that God can do more for our country, if we would just turn to him, is a fool. Donald Trump alone will make America Great Again!
Thanks. Now that I know what this election is all about, how can I do anything other than shout:
Go Trump!!!
You do realize that you just covertly accused Jim Robinson of zotting posters, merely for being Cruz supporters, don’t you?
Apples and oranges. In FL the leading vote-getter got the most delegates. In CO the badly trailing second place Cruz got ALL the delegates.
Do you support what happened in CO?
“I will rephrase. They were zotted for not supporting Trump.”
Are you hearing this, Jim? This poster is straight up lying about you.
LOL!
You Cruzers can’t tell the truth even if your FR membership depended on it.
And it may, I expect JR will do another badly needed round of housecleaning after tonight,
Just a Colorado Freeper ping here.
As always, if you wish to be removed from my ping list just let me know through FreepMail. Thanks!
Can't wait to zot another heretic, eh?
Purity is your goal, eh.
Peace is the absence of opposition. - Karl Marx.
Peace be unto you, windflyer.
“Can’t wait to zot another heretic, eh?”
Don’t be an ass. The poster claims that JimRob is zotting Freepers for merely supporting Cruz over Trump.
That’s a rotten lie, and I was right to call him on it.
Cruz, go take a cruise.
Cruz supporters have been walking on eggshells since last Saturday when JR made it clear that criticizing Trump was not going to be tolerated.
I know I've been very reluctant to say anything negative about Trump or anything positive about Cruz since that thread started.
There have been dozens of zots since that day and most of them were for relatively benign statements either for Cruz or against Trump.
I remember the_doc was being very polite and logical when he was zotted.
Most of the zots in the last week or so have been of long time donors and supporters of this site.
I don't pretend to be able to read JR's mind, but the evidence is clear that unless you are 100% on board with Donald Trump, you are not really welcome here.
So are you going to try to get me zotted for this post?
That is just factually incorrect.
When people openly swear at JimRob, or decalre their "NeverTrump" beliefs, or make despicable insults regarding Donald Trump or his supporters, that's when JimRob drops the hammer.
He also said words to the effect: "if you're here to undermine our efforts to unify behind the presumptive nominee, then take it elsewhere, and your opus will be assumed".
That's the phase that this process has reached.
The time for flooding FR with Ted Cruz "contested convention" propaganda is long over, and those who insist on pissing in the sandbox deserve to reap the harvest they've sown.
Jim Robinson is still showing incredible restraint in many cases.
But people who can't control their words, especially those who are agitating against the presumptive nominee, and in favor of a candidate whose campaign has totally collapsed, and in favor of the GOPe being involved in the nominatoin process, are aiding and abetting the Enemy. That's right: They're helping Hillary.
That's where Jim Robinson has been drawing the line, it's a reasonable place to do so, and hysterical claims to the contrary can be safely disregarded.
So spare us the righteous indignation about the poor persecuted Ted Cruz fanboys and their failed candidate.
It's unfortunate there are still so many unable or unwilling to face the reality of the situation, but the fact is that, collectively, the GOP electorate has turned their back on both Ted Cruz and John Kasich.
In addition to doing that, they are now both happily and cautiously embracing Donald Trump as their nominee. Donald Trump's support has blown through 50% in several states now, and is also doing so nationally.
Thus, each and every Ted Cruz anti-Trump talking point is being systematically obliterated. Ted Cruz can has been dismissed, and the confirmation of that fact will become more evident with each passing day, and each new poll result...
Vote Trump
The general impression I have gotten is that Cruz supporters and Trump critics are not welcome here anymore.
Maybe it’s a false impression, but I have plenty of reasons for criticizing Trump and I am very reluctant to share them on this forum.
I continue to enjoy the Religion and Chat rooms, but the election threads have been very contentious - at least they were contentious until dozens of Cruz supporters and Trump critics found themselves zotted into outer darkness.
Now it has become an echo chamber for Trump supporters.
“I don’t pretend to be able to read JR’s mind, but the evidence is clear that unless you are 100% on board with Donald Trump, you are not really welcome here.”
I’m not going to dig out JimRob’s post to quote his exact words, but he didn’t say anything in that post that he hasn’t said at the close of every Republican primary.
It’s time to coalesce around the clear winner, and stop the drive-by attacks on him, as that is destructive to the overall goal of defeating the Democrat this Fall.
Jim never once said that members would be banned for merely supporting Cruz. I also don’t believe he’d zot anyone for honestly criticizing Trump, or for voicing real concerns or skepticism about him.
But why don’t you ask Jim about his reasons for zotting the folks you’re mourning? I think you know how to reach him.
At this point I would prefer to keep as low a profile as possible. If you think my posts are worthy of a zot, then you can ping him. I can't stop you from that. Obviously you thought that Idaho Cowboy was deserving of a zot. Maybe you think I am too. After all we shared the same concerns.
“If you think my posts are worthy of a zot, then you can ping him. I can’t stop you from that.”
Quit being a whiny baby about this. No one’s persecuting Cruz supporters, and I never told JimRob to zot anyone.
The poster was misrepresenting JimRob’s policy, and I called him on it. The guy straight up lied, so I pointed Jim to the post. As would you, if someone lied about a friend of yours. Funny that you’re not taking Jim’s side in this. He is your friend, isn’t he?
Now, enough with this. Take your butthurt to the boss.
This forum has gone from being almost 100% for Ted Cruz, 6 months ago, to now being 8 or 9 to 1 against Ted Cruz and for Donald Trump.
There are valid reasons for this development, and there won't be any turning back. This community, just like the GOP voters at large, has made its choice, and it's going to stick with him come Hell or high water.
I would think that even Donald Trump's biggest detractors should be able to give credit where credit is due— Donald Trump has withstood an unbelievable campaign of character assassination from all directions, and he is still standing tall. In fact, he's stronger than ever. It's abundanbtly clear that he deserves to be the GOP nominee for President.
The fact that some Ted Cruz die-hards want to remain in denial and see a contested GOP convention is quite unfortunate, because at this point, such elements, wittingly or not, are actively undermining party unity. And the time has come for party unity.
And there will be no party unity until Ted Cruz stands down from his failed campaign and begins the healing process. The ball is in Ted Cruz's court.
This community categorically rejects any efforts fto force a contested convention, as it serves no constructive purpose, and indeed represents a huge risk for destructive consequences.
Ted Cruz, for some inexplicable reason at this point, thinks he can limp into the GOP convention with, at best, about 700 delegates or so.
And then what's he going to do somehow, magically? He's going to seize the nomination from Donald Trump, displacing the party's clear frontrunner.
Then what? This is the most ridiculous part: after swiping the nomination, the only possible result (if Trump were denied) is to:
Such a role is simply no longer operative or legitimate, against the backdrop of the systematic demonization vendetta that Donald Trump has been unfairly subjected to, non-stop, for months on end.
The GOP voters are sick to death of it, and they have no sympathy for either the GOPe or Ted Cruz, even if Donald Trump were to come up a few delegates short of a majority (which he won't).
That's the state of things.
The only plausible path forward for the GOP is to unify the party, and anyone who isn't on board with that is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Don't you understand that?
I know your candidate is important to you. But he has lost this campaign. It really is time to accept that fact, and the fact that there will be no magic for him at the convention. Nor should there be.
It's time to wrap up this process and get on with the business of defeating Hillary Clinton, with Donald Trump as the deserving standard-bearer.
Enough is enough with the irrational Trump-hatred! It's been repudiated. It's a false argument. Donald Trump is simply not the demonic monster/con-man from Hell that the GOPe/NeverTrump crowd, and, yes, Ted Cruz campaign seeks to portray him as. They have lost that national debate, and they have lost it decisively.
If Ted Cruz supporters want to beat Hillary in November, they're going to have to let go of their blind hatred, disrespect, and dismissal of Donald Trump, and they're going to have to accept the fact that Ted Cruz will not be the one to lead this charge under any plausible scenario.
Vote Trump
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