Bill Quick – Daily Pundit has this excerpt from the Washington Post.
The outcome [in Colorado] prompted a daily stream of complaints and allegations this week from Trump, who wrote in an op-ed published in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that the “system is being rigged by party operatives with ‘double-agent’ delegates who reject the decisions of voters.”
A senior Republican National Committee official fired back with a thinly veiled response, writing in a Friday memo to reporters that “each process is easy to understand for those willing to learn it.”
Ah. Yes. A willingness to learn. Like where to send “donations” and how much.
The New York Times notes (link at Daily Pundit) that Trump’s “screaming” may be producing results.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Republican National Committee has privately urged members of the party’s rules committee not to make changes to the guidelines governing the presidential nominating process, an effort to avoid the appearance that the party is seeking to block Donald J. Trump from becoming its nominee.
Bill had this to say about the Times deviating from “the rules are the rules” party line.
The NYT doesn’t seem to be fully on board. Maybe because it is headquartered in NYC, and is afraid the locals might burn it to the ground:
There is a LOT of that kind of talk going around. It is not just that we don’t have representative government. No one who has been around for a while expects that. It is that we have Totally Unrepresentative government.
Mr. Trump seems to be putting the brakes to some of the shenanigans. If he gets into office I wonder if he will maintain that drive. Well that is the hope. For the others running, since they are already bought and paid for, there is no hope. They depend on the corrupt system. Totally.
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11 responses to “There Seems To Be A Division In The Ranks”
Oh please, enough of this bullshit! Trump is complaining because he didn’t know how to play the game in Colorado? What utter and complete hypocrisy coming from a man who has played the game his entire adult life, from bribing every politician in view to get what he wants, to using eminent domain to oust old ladies in his way, to threats, lies, and strong arm tactics. This man knows how the game is played because he helped write the fucking book.
He complains because he is only getting 45% of the delegates and yet his total average in votes is about 35%. If he wants one man one vote rules then he needs to give up about 10% of his delegates. Like that is going to happen. He’s a whiny, my way or the highway, immature and spoiled brat who never grew up. He was the one who figured out a way to game the system by conning every sucker in sight. And now he has the audacity to bitch because things aren’t as easy and peachy as he would like? What he needed as a kid was a good working over. Instead he got pampered. Only the finest schools, a few million from daddy to start his business, and an easy out from the draft and the Vietnam War that sent 50,000 young men his age home in body bags. Bone spur my ass. He dodged the draft and then lied about it.
http://reverbpress.com/politics/time-hypocrite-slimebag-donald-trump-lied-dodging-vietnam-draft-video/
You may have legitimate reasons to vote for this slimeball. That’s your business. But the excuses and whitewashing ain’t fooling anyone.
Trump demonstrated to the world how convoluted and confusing the Colorado system is. By doing nothing he showed how enthusiastic and dedicated Trump supporters couldn’t make sense of the multiple local and state caucuses, each having different requirements. This is better than a straight forward primary how? Here, where potential voters can’t even find out where they should be, with which paperwork and credentials.This system is gimmicked, rigged and thumb on the scale dishonest. And Trump just blew it up.
Frank,
How the game is played in Colorado is that the Party did its very best to keep out Trump supporters. I’d say the Party did a very good job.
The Party likes Ted. The voters? Not so much.
And Frank,
You know my attitude towards politicians. “They are all crooks”. To be popular with the Party owners they have to be bought and paid for.
My guess is that their objection to Trump is that he will not come as cheap as most other politicians.
What ruined Ted for me is that he hangs out with “kill the gays” pastors. It is one thing to get endorsed by such. It is quite another to court their endorsement.
And then you have to ask yourself – why would the party prefer a candidate that was not so popular with the GOP voters and who was not getting any noticeable crossover support?
In other words why would the GOP prefer Hillary as President to one of their own people?
What Trump is doing is he is gathering the people who think the system is corrupt. Will he deliver for them if he gets elected? That is a TBD. For now he is a focal point.
I expect that the owners of the system will try to do what they did to the TEA Party. Buy them out.
The TEAs started out as a a secular movement and got turned into a “Christian” movement. Ted is the epitome of that. I don’t care much for it. I have unsubscribed from most of TEAs I used to get e-mails from. They are not interested in the financial health of the country. Just stopping gays from getting married. Which is not an interest of mine. At all.
Simon, what you say about the Republican Party establishment is all true. At the beginning of this I said Trump was exactly what they deserved. The problem is that’s he’s a huge question mark. As you say, what he will do is to be determined.
The fall election may be coming down to a choice between two equally rotten pieces. The people who don’t have blinders on, like you, are willing to take a chance because Trump seems to represent a radical change and a chance to finally squelch the uni-party system. I see the logic. My problem, and what I believe will be the deciding factor in his defeat, is that he borders on being unstable – emotionally and psychologically.
Cruz is disgusting. I can’t stand to listen to or watch his sanctimonious blather. But, I’d vote for him over Hillary in the general. What a messed up, no choice election.
Frank,
All an unstable psychopath can do (if he is that) is take us down the road we are on faster.
Turning up the heat so that the frogs notice is not a bad idea. It will be hell to live through that is for sure.
Unless TPTB are willing to bide their time and wait for a better opportunity. That is the great unknown. They have been at this for hundreds of years. Maybe the long view will prevail.
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I don’t think Cruz can win the general. Too many negatives that can’t be papered over. In that way he is a lot like Hillary.
Read y’all for a long while – then it seemed Trump got things your way kinda crazy, and I only checked in every now and then. Of late, I have noticed the shift, and then today, seeing you and Billy Q chat it up at his joint, you’re back on the daily list.
I, for one, think Trump was well aware of CO and WY and the 2nd ballot solicitations the day he signed up for this election gig. As is now evident, he is using them against Lyin’ Ted.
Ted pretending to be anything but a GOP homeboy was well-known among us here in TX when he used that outsider shtick to beat Dewhurst. Dewhurst just happened to be worse, and “Outsider Ted” beat him. He was nursed at the Bush Family breast.
Donald has fought off every challenge from uncounted multiple directions ever step of the way. And the entrenched GOPe knows the score – Trump gets elected, and none of their homeboy connections are worth a shyte anymore, and the bucks start drying up. They lie through their teeth when they claim it is all about “conservatism.” What a crock! In your lifetime or mine, who was the last “true” conservative ever offered, never mind elected, by the GOP? The Billy K. neocon wing has prevented anything of the kind, and to look at the parade of losers trotted out since HW crashed on his no new taxes pledge. A hall of fame of ABC’s – Anything But Conservative.
Donald has done more for the party and the voters in 9 months than what decades of BS emanating from GOP HQ and the losers put forward. Not your classic conservative?
Who else has been? And Trump keeps outsmarting the supposed smartest “conservatives.”
Ample supply of beer and popcorn for this show. It’s just starting to get really good!
Nice discussion. Just wanted to add one point: Trump has an exemplary family.
Cruz had a kind of strange relationship with his wife; seems to me that both he and his wife are extremely career-oriented. For that reason they had a long-distance relationship for some years; it appears to me that their daughters still don’t have a lot of faith that Dad is a real part of their lives; hope I’m wrong, but that’s my impression. They seem wary of him.
The Donald’s sons and daughters are great people, and openly adore their dad. Even Trump’s ex-wives have nothing bad to say about him. This is quite amazing to me, and says volumes.
The Donald may be loud, blustery and larger-than-life, but as families go, he wins hands down.
pb,
Bill Quick and I have been long time ‘net friends. Then for no apparent reason (these things happen) we faded.
Then I got reminded by a link in comments elsewhere that I hadn’t been there in a while.
We still see things the same way. The rest is history.