Let Me Ask America a Question

[AnybodyButaDem]

How has the ‘system’ been working out for you and your family? No wonder voters demand change.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/let-me-ask-america-a-question-1460675882

By DONALD J. TRUMP
April 14, 2016 7:18 p.m. ET
442 COMMENTS
On Saturday, April 9, Colorado had an “election” without voters. Delegates were chosen on behalf of a presidential nominee, yet the people of Colorado were not able to cast their ballots to say which nominee they preferred.

A planned vote had been canceled. And one million Republicans in Colorado were sidelined.

In recent days, something all too predictable has happened: Politicians furiously defended the system. “These are the rules,” we were told over and over again. If the “rules” can be used to block Coloradans from voting on whether they want better trade deals, or stronger borders, or an end to special-interest vote-buying in Congress—well, that’s just the system and we should embrace it.

Let me ask America a question: How has the “system” been working out for you and your family?

I, for one, am not interested in defending a system that for decades has served the interest of political parties at the expense of the people. Members of the club—the consultants, the pollsters, the politicians, the pundits and the special interests—grow rich and powerful while the American people grow poorer and more isolated.

No one forced anyone to cancel the vote in Colorado. Political insiders made a choice to cancel it. And it was the wrong choice.

Responsible leaders should be shocked by the idea that party officials can simply cancel elections in America if they don’t like what the voters may decide.

The only antidote to decades of ruinous rule by a small handful of elites is a bold infusion of popular will. On every major issue affecting this country, the people are right and the governing elite are wrong. The elites are wrong on taxes, on the size of government, on trade, on immigration, on foreign policy.

Why should we trust the people who have made every wrong decision to substitute their will for America’s will in this presidential election?

Here, I part ways with Sen. Ted Cruz.
Mr. Cruz has toured the country bragging about his voterless victory in Colorado. For a man who styles himself as a warrior against the establishment (you wouldn’t know it from his list of donors and endorsers), you’d think he would be demanding a vote for Coloradans. Instead, Mr. Cruz is celebrating their disenfranchisement.

Likewise, Mr. Cruz loudly boasts every time party insiders disenfranchise voters in a congressional district by appointing delegates who will vote the opposite of the expressed will of the people who live in that district.

That’s because Mr. Cruz has no democratic path to the nomination. He has been mathematically eliminated by the voters.

While I am self-funding, Mr. Cruz rakes in millions from special interests. Yet despite his financial advantage, Mr. Cruz has won only three primaries outside his home state and trails me by two million votes—a gap that will soon explode even wider. Mr. Cruz loses when people actually get to cast ballots. Voter disenfranchisement is not merely part of the Cruz strategy—it is the Cruz strategy.

The great irony of this campaign is that the “Washington cartel” that Mr. Cruz rails against is the very group he is relying upon in his voter-nullification scheme.

My campaign strategy is to win with the voters. Ted Cruz’s campaign strategy is to win despite them.

What we are seeing now is not a proper use of the rules, but a flagrant abuse of the rules. Delegates are supposed to reflect the decisions of voters, but the system is being rigged by party operatives with “double-agent” delegates who reject the decision of voters.

The American people can have no faith in such a system. It must be reformed.

Just as I have said that I will reform our unfair trade, immigration and economic policies that have also been rigged against Americans, so too will I work closely with the chairman of the Republican National Committee and top GOP officials to reform our election policies. Together, we will restore the faith—and the franchise—of the American people.

We must leave no doubt that voters, not donors, choose the nominee.

How have we gotten to the point where politicians defend a rigged delegate-selection process with more passion than they have ever defended America’s borders?

Perhaps it is because politicians care more about securing their private club than about securing their country.

My campaign will, of course, battle for every last delegate. We will work within the system that exists now, while fighting to have it reformed in the future. But we will do it the right way. My campaign will seek maximum transparency, maximum representation and maximum voter participation.

We will run a campaign based on empowering voters, not sidelining them.

Let us take inspiration from patriotic Colorado citizens who have banded together in protest. Let us make Colorado a rallying cry on behalf of all the forgotten people whose desperate pleas have for decades fallen on the deaf ears and closed eyes of our rulers in Washington, D.C.

The political insiders have had their way for a long time. Let 2016 be remembered as the year the American people finally got theirs.

Mr. Trump is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Let 2016 be remembered as the year the American people finally got theirs.

America is requesting patience, a lot of lube, and some poppers.  I, however, am not afraid.  I've seen the size of Trump's hands.

[Frank Cannon]

If America is requesting patience, a lot of lube, and some poppers.  I, however, am not afraid.  I've seen the size of Trump's hands.

LOL. Man is that funny.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

LOL. Man is that funny.

Thank you, thank you.  I'm here all week. :rimshot:

[Wingnut]

Thank you, thank you.  I'm here all week. :rimshot:

I shall tip the bartender.   

[Chosen Daughter]

Trump needs to stop whining. 

https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/04/yes-donald-colorado-did-vote-on-march-1

[Frank Cannon]

I shall tip the bartender.

Don't worry. I already gave him a tip. Told him not to mix his whites and his colors in the washing machine.

[Wingnut]

Don't worry. I already gave him a tip. Told him not to mix his whites and his colors in the washing machine.

That is worth 20% in my book.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Don't worry. I already gave him a tip. Told him not to mix his whites and his colors in the washing machine.

Albert Schweitzer returned his Nobel Peace Prize and asked that it be given to you.  With all the famine, in the areas the he created cures for disease, I have to agree.  Who wants pink socks?

[EasyAce]

Says Donaldus Minimus:

Let 2016 be remembered as the year the American people finally got theirs.

Said Mr. Mencken:

Democracy---That system by which the common people know what they want and deserve to get it,
good and hard.

America is requesting patience, a lot of lube, and some poppers.  I, however, am not afraid.  I've seen the size of Trump's hands.

The American prayer: Lord, grant me patience---and I want it right now!

[Wingnut]

Albert Schweitzer returned his Nobel Peace Prize and asked that it be given to you.  With all the famine, in the areas the he created cures for disease, I have to agree.  Who wants pink socks?

Cliff Clavin was a fan of Dr. Schweitzer.  It is a little known fact that Schweitzer's research proved that drinking Beer made you smarter.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Cliff Clavin was a fan of Dr. Schweitzer.  It is a little known fact that Schweitzer's research proved that drinking Beer made you smarter.

What did he say about drinking NyQuil...the liquor store was closed.

[Wingnut]

What did he say about drinking NyQuil...the liquor store was closed.

It is just the same.  Only when you puke it is a different color.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

It is just the same.  Only when you puke it is a different color.

I'm enjoying your sense of humor Wingnut.  When we all are political animals...trying to make sense of the scary world around us, it helps to laugh and remember that the Earth will keep spinning, the sun will still rise, and summer will still come.

I feel conflicted.  There are many pro-Trump advocates on this forum.  Men and women who I have read for several years.  People who I feel connected to by policy but disconnected by strategy.

and I wonder...

If I choose not to post for week would you miss me?  Or a month.  Or even a year.

Would you remember me a year from now?

[Wingnut]

I'm enjoying your sense of humor Wingnut.  When we all are political animals...trying to make sense of the scary world around us, it helps to laugh and remember that the Earth will keep spinning, the sun will still rise, and summer will still come.

I feel conflicted.  There are many pro-Trump advocates on this forum.  Men and women who I have read for several years.  People who I feel connected to by policy but disconnected by strategy.

and I wonder...

If I choose not to post for week would you miss me?  Or a month.  Or even a year.

Would you remember me a year from now?

It's a rare gift to find a person on the interweb who you can duke it out with in one thread and then leave that behind when you move to the next thread and laugh and joke together.

You, and a few others here seem to have that ability.    Now those are the people I will remember.  A week later. A month later.  A year and more!

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Do you really think Trump wrote that? Be honest.

[R4 TrumPence]

I'm enjoying your sense of humor Wingnut.  When we all are political animals...trying to make sense of the scary world around us, it helps to laugh and remember that the Earth will keep spinning, the sun will still rise, and summer will still come.

I feel conflicted.  There are many pro-Trump advocates on this forum.  Men and women who I have read for several years.  People who I feel connected to by policy but disconnected by strategy.

and I wonder...

If I choose not to post for week would you miss me?  Or a month.  Or even a year.

Would you remember me a year from now?

Sounds like you are busting out in a song.....

We could do  TBR the Musical! 

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Once-ler, I dedicate this to you:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz16ngdsG0

[Wingnut]

Sounds like you are busting out in a song.....

We could do  TBR the Musical! 

We are going to sing show tunes later.  Wanna Join in?   

 :nometalk:

[sinkspur]

Do you really think Trump wrote that? Be honest.

Of course not.  Too many multi-syllabic words.

[R4 TrumPence]

We are going to sing show tunes later.  Wanna Join in?   

 :nometalk:

It depends on which songs
Anything from Caberet is good

[Wingnut]

It depends on which songs
Anything from Caberet is good

Once does a mean Carol Channing rendition of Hello Dolly!  Just a heads Up Tracy......Don't get in his way when he is working his feathers..

[R4 TrumPence]

Once does a mean Carol Channing rendition of Hello Dolly!  Just a heads Up Tracy......Don't get in his way when he is working his feathers..

oh so we are doing la cage aux folles?

[Wingnut]

oh so we are doing la cage aux folles?

Well other than we are not in St. Tropez and that whole alternative life style part thing ..... Yeah.... other than that!  LOL  :)

[andy58-in-nh]

Do you really think Trump wrote that? Be honest.

Yes. And I wrote Henry IV.

O, Donald! Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed, able to corrupt a saint.