Posted on 04/13/2016 12:59:59 PM PDT by grumpa
https://youtu.be/QpKAU60Wigs?t=105
This should be interesting.
Truth.
Why then is the Colorado legislature so embarassed they are returning to an actual primary?
As someone who was involved in CO politics in 2012, they are really tired of the DC GOP showing up every 4 years to ask for votes and never helping with the Boulder power grab.
Boulder has been grabbing much of the Front Range politics.
Gun control, Fracking, Green Agenda...
All being pushed in conservative Front Range towns.
As a Trump supporter, I understand what they are fighting.
link?
65K Coloradans voted--they just voted against Trump. That's 11 elections in a row we've won.
#WhiningIsntWinning https://t.co/m0NrRh5mFu— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 11, 2016
Under regulations established in the 1980s, delegates cannot take money from corporations, labor unions, federal contractors or foreign nationals. But an individual donor is permitted to give a delegate unlimited sums to support his or her efforts to get selected to go to the convention, including money to defray the costs of travel and lodging.
And, maybe, just maybe, Trump is smarter than he is given credit for. How do we know he didn’t just allow this to happen to out the dirty campaign tricks of Cruz? Or should I say - to add to the list? The whole country is in an uproar over this event, and it makes Ted look like the scum that he is.
Highly doubting more than a couple thousand voiced their vote.
The stupid fools must want to lose. Colorado has over a million Independent voters, thats more than the registered CO Republicans. These would be crossover voters in the GE for Trump. Trump could win Colorado in the GE as opposed to Cruz with his little cadre of bullwhipped pledges.
As of April 1, 2016, there were 957,266 registered Republicans in the state of Colorado. Now we have around 920,000+ people disenfranchised from their voice and vote. Gloat all you want with as a stolen victory now. In November their is no way in hell that Cruz would win Colorado:::Many of the Colorado’s million Independent voters, would love to support Trump.
Way to go GOP Republicans, Shame on Colorado!
I guess it’s time to re-tally the who voted for Cruz in relation to the population. It gets more embarrassing each time he wins and % shrinks deeper into single digits. He’s good at manipulating back room deal caucuses in low turnout states. He’s the exact opposite of what we need to win the real election in November.
http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VoterRegNumbers/2016/March/VotersByPartyStatus.pdf
There was no presidential caucus in Colorado.
Be easy on the boy----the buzz is he's mentally unbalanced. He hears voices telling him "you won, Teddy," usually heard when he just took a licking at the polls. That's when he makes his victory speech.
Cruz saying: “65,000 people voted in the state of Colorado. They didn’t vote for you Donald Trump. They voted for our campaign.".... is Cruz's fave ploy-----labeling votes he received (or stole) as anti-Trump-votes. But Cruz never applies Trump's voluminous vote-getting as being against him.
Trump is winning by staggering numbers....that means Cruz lost by staggering numbers.....many many more rejected Cruz than they did Trump.
Does this look like Trump was rejected?
Trump.....8,256,309.... 37.0 1%....758 delegates
Cruz......6,319,244....28.33%.....533 (plus all he can steal)
Cruz keeps losing and losing. About time he gets medical help, bows out gracefully, and admits he lost.
As a disabled veteran and a Colorado Republican, I cannot just show up at the local precinct. I was given no say or input (vote), nor anyway to voice my opinion.
Grumpa, you sound like an elitist know it all. I hope you live long enough for your fellow elitist to tell you they don’t give a damn about your opinion. Just like my fellow Colorado Republicans have done to me.
They go on and on about how wonderful of a system it is - but that system totally discourages voter participation and representation. If you don’t believe that, then why does it attract a fraction of what a primary attracts (closed or open)? It’s a stupid, tilted system that needs to be phased out. Anyone who thinks that the anti-Trump forces didn’t game the system in Colorado is being dishonest. That’s why there’s such an outcry about it. It was unfair and unrepresentational of the overall Republican voters in Colorado.
Since you so want to have a revolution of the vein of the French, tell me who are the first people you are going to behead? Priebus? Mcconnell? Paul? Lee? who? People who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I don’t know about the revolt of 1381, but I know about the French Revolution. Our founding fathers wanted nothing to do with it for a reason, I want nothing to do with anything like it either for the same reason.
> “These are our friends and fellow grassroots activists, Tea Party members and long-time Republicans, county chairs and first-time caucus attendees, young and old, very conservative and not-as-conservative, all gathered together to move our country forward, select senate candidates for the June primary election, and to elect delegates to the GOP National Convention, who will help to select our next president.”
The same could be said about good Germans in the 1930s, not Nazis, just everyday German working stiffs.
> “These are the Patriotic Americans that the Donald Trump Campaign compared to Nazis, using Gestapo tactics.”
Yes, indeed such tactics are being used similarly to those used in the 1930s. Inserting delegates into Trump slots leaving out those that did not hold their view. Yep, it’s the same human behavior.
The Cruz people are actively shutting out Trump delegates and installing their own into Trump slots that Trump won.
But it won’t matter. People that do this sort of thing will get a payback. Trump’s people will take over the GOP apparatus and controls, and those that thought they were clever now will be hurting in the future. They can always join the democrats which is where they belong.
Think in a bigger picture.
People should never get stuck staring at one tree until they are so cross-eyed they think the fuzzy thing they see is the whole forest.
Part of the bigger picture;
FULL Interview: Donald Trump & Family at CNN Town Hall, Anderson Cooper, April 12, 2016
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3420377/posts
Great interview with Paul Manafort;
Trump’s convention manager on abuse of delegate process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqx3Zf-sOI8
You got that right.
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