Posted on 04/13/2016 12:59:59 PM PDT by grumpa
the real story is that the colorado caucus process is a sick, insider, anti-democratic joke. About half a dozen people show up for each precinct caucus, and “elect” people to attend county assemblies and Congressional district assemblies; the county assemblies “elect” people to the state convention. The CD and State assemblies then “elect” delegates, who are supposedly unbound.
A few thousand people out of a population of 5 million participate.
if all registered republicans actually showed up, there wouldn’t be enough meeting rooms to hold them in the entire state and the caucuses wouldn’t ‘work’. in fact, the GOPe is counting on just a very, very,very few showing up. that’s why the reserved caucus rooms are always so very, very, very tiny.
family members who have children to take care of, meals to prepare, and work to prepare for don’t have time to waste on a meaningless process where party insiders are going to steal the whole thing at the end anyway.
on the other hand, colorado is a mail-in ballot state for ALL elections, so a few hundred thousand would have voted in an actual primary, whereas the caucuses were held on a weeknight when people have to take care of their families and then go to work the next day.
btw, if this is such a wonderful process, shouldn’t all of our elections for everything require everyone to show up at 7pm to 8pm on a Tuesday night in order to vote on people who then go to a county assembly which elects people to go to a state convention who then elect everyone for all elected offices?
Well, I don’t know about you, but the direction the French Revolution took was based on the fundamental foundations of the people who undertook it. It is Trump supporters who make the comparison making me wonder why? Why do they reference that revolution, rather that the one that won us our freedom. Could it be that the nature for which Trump supporters want to take it is that different and more closely aligned with the French Revolution, which leads me back to who are you going to behead first?
You are getting stuck. I tried to help.
Trump is a deductive thinker - he begins with the goal and works back from there - no wasted motion - only what contributes to the result.— Bill Mitchell (REAL) (@mitchellvii) March 21, 2016
Guys like Cruz are inductive thinkers. They are so obsessed with the ideological front end, the actual result is an afterthought.— Bill Mitchell (REAL) (@mitchellvii) March 21, 2016
So today, Trump used the PRESUMPTIVE CLOSE and the TAKEAWAY CLOSE. Damn, he's good. :-)— Bill Mitchell (REAL) (@mitchellvii) March 21, 2016
Trump acted all day like he is ALREADY the President. That's a PRESUMPTIVE CLOSE technique and he performed it masterfully.— Bill Mitchell (REAL) (@mitchellvii) March 22, 2016
What we're seeing by Trump in DC today is a classic PRESUMPTIVE CLOSE. He is showing America what Trump BEING President will be like.— Bill Mitchell (REAL) (@mitchellvii) March 21, 2016
Doesn’t every smooth talking lawyer always have a smooth explanation for why it’s all your fault? “Oh so sad you should have had your lawyer read the fine print.” The no longer surging Slick Teddie is that kind of a Harvard lawyer.
But hey Rush loves him and Rush is sure he and the thugs in the Colorado GOPe are just a few guys trying to run a clean campaign like they ran in Iowa.
I still want to know who you plan to behead?
In case you were unaware, the French Revolution was bad. So bad our founding fathers went over to help them and abandoned them.
I may be focusing on the tree and missing the forest, but I think that this comparison is one that should be called out when made.
Trump learned that building a 10B company during his lifetime. He signs 22k paychecks on the FRONT. Watch the Trump family town hall - Cruz will NEVER EVER be close to Trump. The tweets by Bill show why.
Note how much Cruz reacts - that is because Trump is controlling the narrative. Trump is proactively playing Cruz like a cheap violin - and Cruz is helpless to stop it.
Big picture reality.
You still haven’t answered my question, Who are you going to behead first?
Why would you choose the French Revolution and not the American?
Was the French Revolution bad?
How was ours different?
“I still want to know who you plan to behead?”
Logical fallacies; strawman, ad hominem.
It’s NOT about me personally. I know why people like to try and make it personal so don’t bother going there.
Step back and THINK.
Like I said- you are getting stuck. I’m trying to help.
If you are a student consider this a learning experience. That is what it is. So don’t fire off the first tiny picture things that come to mind.
If you think Trump or anyone else is going to fix party politics, you are fooling yourself. Trump will also fail to heal the waters and clean the air we breathe. The fact that Trump openly admits and even brags he used a corrupt process to enrich himself is all I need to know about Trump.
Who are you going to behead?
What was the difference between the two revolutions?
Was the French Revolution bad?
Can something be both good and bad?
I know the answers to these questions, and I realize the points your making. However you can not answer my questions, or more like will not because you would have to either admit to being willing to turn towards the mob rule violence of the French Revolution to solve the problems.
Independents chose not to be in a political party and cannot be further disenfranchised as they CHOSE to disenfranchise themselves. What they might or might not do in a general election has nothing to do with the primary.
You are stuck, I’ll give you time to consider the bigger picture and think it over.
I know that this is hard so I will limit this to one question.
Can something be good and bad at the same time?
I already now the point you are making about politics, the only thing we disagree on is which candidate will produce the product we want, which is our country back, without turning us into the republican french, or the soviets
I don’t know how that question pertains to the conversation.
Do you seriously think Trump means turning the US into the Soviets?
He’s my view. The parasite vote is over 50%, the parasites are the people who are on the government dole in one way or another. That percentage is a fact. Anyone concerned about the survival of American needs to understand a pro America candidate has to overcome the parasite vote. That means they will have to capture all the crossover democrat and independent votes possible. Cruz can’t and will not do that. Trump can. That is the stark reality, primary vote numbers prove it.
This reality is why JR said what he said in these posts;
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3418598/posts?page=62#62
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Cruz has lost it fair and square and should step aside for the sake of the country.
If his continued efforts at thievery split and destroy the party, we’ll be saddled by Hillary or burned by Bernie.
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62 posted on 4/7/2016, 8:03:29 PM by Jim Robinson
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Cruz lost the primary vote and is now aiding and abetting the enemy (the GOPe)
in their treasonous attempt to deny the nomination to the winner.
Cruz is a sore loser turned traitor against the grassroots voters.
And the foolish neophyte thinks the GOPe is going to let him have a shot at the presidency if he helps them block Trump?
Laughable if it wasn’t so serious.
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51 posted on 4/11/2016, 4:58:07 PM by Jim Robinson
It goes to show that you cannot answer the question and see the logic, but alas I will explain it to you.
If you say that the French revolution was bad, then it should not be an example for where you want to take the country.
Since it appears to be such an example, then that means you think it is ok.
Now you may say that it was bad for its methods but a good example.
Which leads to the question can something be morally Good and Bad at the same time.
Was the French Revolution Good or Bad?
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