The problem with their position is that it is hypocritical because in other situations where the vote was denied Trump hypocritically scooped up all the delegates and put them in his pocket. If one man one vote is the test, more than half, nearly 2/3, of the people in Florida were disenfranchised when Donald Trump walked off with all the delegates. This happened in several states besides Florida. The Trump forces waxed indignant only about Colorado, and now more recently, trying to extricate themselves from their hypocrisy, they complain about the whole system nationwide.
They attempt to escape blame for their hypocrisy by committing more hypocrisy. They want to deny Ted Cruz the fruits of his labors when he plays by the rules in Colorado but they want to keep the delegates which go to Donald Trump in Florida even though many voters who voted against Trump are not represented. One man one vote sloganeering evidently applies only when the result is unfavorable to Donald Trump.
The fact remains that Donald Trump has 46% of the delegates with only 35% of the vote nationwide so far. That comes because of the system which has until now favored Donald Trump more than any other candidate. Yet Trump complained about Colorado where he did not participate.
For the record, the Colorado Republican Party, a private entity, not the state of Colorado, changed the system because of the rules imposed on them by the Republican National Committee which required delegates to vote for primary winners, even if they were committed to candidates like Santorum in the last cycle who were effectively out of the race. Ted Cruz had nothing to do with instituting the rules, the rules apply to all the candidates, Donald Trump was advised of the rules and simply mismanaged his campaign or cynically disdained to compete to preserve an issue about which he could whine. It is deeply unfair to imply that Ted Cruz's blameworthy for a rule change done by the Republican Party in Colorado.
The rules were fair, they applied to all candidates and they were fairly applied. If the Republican Party in Colorado concluded that it was in their best interests to conduct the contest according to the rules they chose, that was their prerogative. It is a fundamental tenet of conservatism that federalism is beneficial because it provides 50 laboratories to experiment and demonstrate what system works best.
