tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27654025.post5034280973797723162..comments2024-03-07T03:25:23.835-08:00Comments on Political Pistachio: Colorado Cancels GOP Caucus (kind of). . . Hands Win to CruzDouglas V. Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388639848567082980noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27654025.post-10158014655080955742016-04-15T20:45:11.951-07:002016-04-15T20:45:11.951-07:00When is Blogger going to allow post-posting commen...When is Blogger going to allow post-posting comment editing?<br /><br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br />But the "elite" didn't "bend" anything. The rules were established last September and were the same for everybody. Cruz actually bothered to learn them and played by them; Trump did neither and got shut out as a result. And then he did what he always does: whine and complain and smear the Colorado GOP, inspiring his supporters to barrage the head of the party with an avalanche of lies, vitriol, and death threats against him and his family. The stuff of the sort of "mobocracy" against which the Founding Fathers warned us.<br /><br />The irony is that your post follows the "mainstream" media template of slanting towards the candidate you clearly favor (or against the Republican Party against which you're so clearly biased; I don't think there's a whole lot of difference anymore) by following the dishonest Trump party line on Colorado's results and not telling the ACTUAL story. Besides, do you really expect me to believe that the "elites" are in the tank for ***Ted Cruz***?JASmiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443587501661056533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27654025.post-66101215048980337822016-04-15T20:42:40.365-07:002016-04-15T20:42:40.365-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.JASmiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443587501661056533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27654025.post-39765138218782421922016-04-11T22:38:19.623-07:002016-04-11T22:38:19.623-07:00I was simply reporting the news, and found this in...I was simply reporting the news, and found this interesting. Should I be like the mainstream media and only report what fits my fancy? If I don't, suddenly I'm a Trump fan? And regardless of who the candidate under fire is, or if we like them or not, should we not be concerned when the elite bend rules and play games to undermine a candidate that the voting public has a fancy for?Douglas V. Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09388639848567082980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27654025.post-51407993499510226372016-04-11T07:40:16.522-07:002016-04-11T07:40:16.522-07:00Sorry, I found a more direct quote on how the Colo...Sorry, I found a more direct quote on how the Colorado process works after posting the now-deleted one.<br /><br />From RealClearPolitics:<br /><br />"Delegates in Colorado are selected through a process that starts with the March 1st caucuses and culminates at the State convention on April 9th. Colorado Delegates can go to the national convention as unbound or bound to a candidate."<br /><br />So the caucuses were held six weeks ago, and Cruz so completely skunked Trump in organization and ground game that he was going to sweep Colorado's delegates regardless.<br /><br />The Centennial State was always about organization and ground game. Ted Cruz did his due diligence, Donald Trump did not, and now he's engaged in his usual bitching and moaning. Because Donald Trump "never loses".<br /><br />Well, this time, he did.<br /><br />But I'm sure he'll be back to his braggadocios self a week from tomorrow in his home State.<br /><br />Will you be cheering?JASmiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443587501661056533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27654025.post-23582608862798584682016-04-11T07:32:12.282-07:002016-04-11T07:32:12.282-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.JASmiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443587501661056533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27654025.post-8703639829030724002016-04-11T07:09:17.958-07:002016-04-11T07:09:17.958-07:00You know, Doug, I'm trying to give you the ben...You know, Doug, I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt on your claim that you're not a Trump supporter (yet), but posts like this make that claim look like a deliberate insult to my intelligence.<br /><br />What Colorado convention are you talking about? Here's an excerpt from a report to which you did NOT link:<br /><br />"Pollster Pat Caddell has worked for candidates going as far back as George McGovern’s presidential campaign in 1972. In all this time, during which his politics have evolved into 'raging centrism,' he has never seen Americans so bent on upending the establishment. 'Politics in the United States today is a revolution, not a revolt,' he and co-authors Scott Miller and Bob Perkins wrote at the Huffington Post in February, predicting that 2016 would be 'an election of insurgency.' Evidence of this goes far beyond the Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders insurrections. Caddell’s February polling found that 70 percent of voters agree that the federal government today no longer has the consent of the people.<br /><br />"79% want to support more candidates who are ordinary citizens rather than professional politicians and lawyers. A majority would join a third party if it had a chance to win. 77% prefer candidates who “take on the political elites and special interests” to those who conform to a fixed ideology.<br /><br />"Caddell’s revolutionary moment could be seen up close and personal this weekend at the State convention of the Colorado Republican party in Colorado Springs. What happened was stunning. Ted Cruz, considered a fringe candidate by the media until four months ago, swept thirty-four of the thirty-seven delegate slots for the Cleveland convention. Donald Trump placed second, and there was scant support for any establishment figure."<br /><br />Tea Party "Citizen-politicians" won in routes down-ballot as well (and will most likely get crushed in November, but that's another story). It looks to me like the "establishment" in Colorado got skunked. And yet here you are, putting a Trumplican "WE WUZ ROBBED!" spin on it.<br /><br />Perhaps you're confusing "establishment" with "Republican," the latter of which does not apply to Trump. JASmiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12443587501661056533noreply@blogger.com