Indiana hasn’t cast its ballots for president yet, but Donald Trump is already losing.
Republican Party insiders in the state will select 27 delegates to the national convention on Saturday, and Trump is assured to be nearly shut out of support, according to interviews with a dozen party leaders and officials involved in the delegate selection process.
Free and fair elections? That is for third world countries. In the first world we do things differently.
In Iran the mullahs will only allow on the ballot people who are acceptable to the Supreme Mullacracy. In the old USSR the Supreme Soviet used to decide. In America we have two parties who filter the candidates. Democracy!
Maybe it has something to do with this: Convening a New Constitutional Convention. At such a convention – unlike the Amendment process which is usually limited to a single item, like alcohol prohibition, what can be done is wide open. Perhaps they intend to create a North American Union parliament where your vote need not be counted. That would certainly be more convenient for the vote buyers. Just as it has been in the European Union.
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Our system has political parties, it’s not Periclean Athens. I grant that the party may pick its candidate, and that individual state parties may set their rules. What I’m fed up with this year is the blatant Calvin Ball played with the electorate, changing the rules on the fly to keep Trump and Sanders out.
Cruz is fighting for every available delegate according to the rules, just as Reagan did. And who is Trump to complain? Trump defends his businesses’ multiple bankruptcies by saying he had simply “taken advantage of the laws of the country” that are available to all Americans. Well, Cruz is taking advantage of the rules of the state parties that are available to all the candidates.
If Trump can’t compete, he has no one to blame but himself. Back in February, after losing Iowa to Cruz, Trump admitted he “never realized” the importance of building a field organization. But instead of going out and building that field organization, he has done the opposite. Politico reports that “Since March, [Trump] has been laying off field staff en masse around the country.”
CapitalistRoader,
In 1980 all that was mostly behind the scene and “inside politics”.
In 2016 we have the ‘net and the insiders are public.
Yes. Ted is playing by the rules. But in a year where many think the rules are favoring the corrupt the optics are bad.
You are making logical arguments. Logic is useless in an election year. Generally.
Trumpbots amuse me.
Cruzbots amuse me.
Just as
True Believers amuse me.
Cruz does very well at the insiders game. Trump does well with the voters.
In a year when “elected not selected” matters who do you think has the better optics?
Advantage Trump.
@Simon:
“Logic is useless in an election year. Generally.”
Agreed. I was working in my front yard in late summer 2008 when a couple of Obama volunteers walked by and asked me who I planned to vote for. I told them the Libertarian candidate. They walked away with smiles on their faces.
What a terrible year for presidential candidates: The warmonger McCain, the empty suit Obama, and the clown Bob Barr. Difficult to make a logical case for any of them.