The party rules that allowed Ted Cruz to sweep Colorado's Republican delegates without a popular vote are perfectly legitimate and designed to curb "mob rule" — despite Donald Trump's howls of protest, veteran GOP consultant Mary Matalin tells Newsmax TV.
"It's been the process in the Republican Party for 160 years and it's been the process that our entire country was founded on," Matalin said Wednesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show.
"We're not a democracy and the reason the Founders made it like that was to guard against mob rule…. I can understand why people would think it is counter intuitive to one-man, one-vote — but everybody's had this access to the same information, the same rules."
Colorado Republicans canceled their presidential caucus last August and instead picked 37 delegates at the state convention, 34 of them Cruz supporters.
After last week's loss, Trump accused the Republican establishment of trying to destroy his chances of clinching the party's nomination, calling the process "a sham" and "a rigged, disgusting, dirty system" that's "stacked against me."
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus fired back on Twitter that there was "nothing mysterious" about the Colorado GOP deciding last summer to drop a statewide vote.
"Nomination process known for a year + beyond. It's the responsibility of the campaigns to understand it. Complaints now? Give us all a break," Priebus said in his tweet.
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And what it produced is a protest and disenfranchising over a million voters from having any say as to who gets the delegates for Colorado. It's an outrage no matter how you look at it and ALL voters not just Coloradians should be very upset at this miscarriage of justice and deprivation of the people's constitutional rights. This can also happen (and has) for Democrats as well so it affects all.
ReplyDeleteOnly the elite would refer to the will of the people as Mob Rule. We are governed by consent. What happens when we no longer consent? Well if you are a frat boy and your drunk date says no then anything further constituents rape.
ReplyDeleteOur country is being raped every day. Over and over with hundreds of millions emphatically saying no.
Wake up people. How does it make you feel to hear that your vote means NOTHING. Shut up peasants. We will tell you who you can vote for.
He knew about the rule changes in February and said not a word about it.
ReplyDeleteAll this does is ironclad more Trump supporters. We are really pissed, and our voting rights are being taken away every election. We all know Trump and what we will get with his Presidency. All others are a crapshoot of Establishment followers willing to do whatever the money tells them to do.
ReplyDeleteTrump, on the other hand, is for the betterment of America.
You can't argue that point intelligently.
One person on vote it's that simple. You Republicans better wake up!
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