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The "Fix" is on in Kentucky

Mike

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Lexington, Kentucky (CNN)Kentucky Republicans selected a group of 25 national delegates Saturday, dominated by top party leaders and insiders.

Saturday's event largely left the Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and John Kasich campaigns sidelined. It was a flash mob of a state convention, lasting just a few hours in comparison to the sometimes days long affairs in other states where Cruz and his vaunted ground game has bested Trump. In fact, campaigns sent higher profile surrogates to Maine, which was battling out how to distribute their delegates on the same day.

Topping the list of Kentucky delegates picked Saturday were Gov. Matt Bevin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul, after being selected by a small group of party leaders led by former Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan.
These delegates will be bound on the first ballot -- but free to support whomever they like after that. The 25 at-large delegates decided Saturday, combined with 21 previously allocated delegates mean that Trump will get 17 delegates, Cruz will get 15 delegates and Kasich will get seven. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who has dropped out of the race, will also get seven delegates.
 

Mike

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Faster horses said:
Would you like to bet that Trump doesn't like that.....???

Do YOU like to have delegates decided by a bunch of party insiders?

Topping the list of Kentucky delegates picked Saturday were Gov. Matt Bevin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rand Paul, after being selected by a small group of party leaders led by former Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan.

What about the upcoming Pennsylvania primary? The people get to vote for the delegates but don't know who those delegates are voting for!

I don't like any of of it!
 

Faster horses

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I don't either. But you can't enter something and expect to change the rules. Trump and Cruz knew going in what the deal was. I don't hear Cruz complaining.

If you don't like the rules, get out of the game.
 

Mike

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Heck no Cruz ain't complaining. (But neither is Trump) Cruz is the insider pretending to be the outsider? Or is he the outsider wanting to be in on the fix. He thinks he's going to win the nomination on the so-called 2nd ballot. He got delegates without the people's vote. The establishment is playing him for a fool to get Kasich the nomination.
 

Mike

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By the way, Trump didn't know what the rules were going in. He entered the race in June and Colorado changed the rules in October.

Plus all the rules may be changed the week before the convention.
 

Brad S

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So teds the insider now? And teds the one that lies? So you know Ted kicked the bush machine's ass in court? Not only is that feat not insider stuff, it's impressive as hell. But a walking combover liberal can take half a lifetime's work with some Clinton campaign tactics.
 

Mike

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Ted was a part of the Bush machine. But aside from that, as conservative as I am, I can't stand the guy. I don't trust anything he says.

I could tolerate him if president, but in my opinion Hillary will eat him alive on the campaign trail. I don't trust him especially on immigration. Politicians that throw the bible up during a speech remind me too much of Jimmy Swaggart.

But there's no need to worry. The RNC is playing Cruz as a patsy...................
 

Brad S

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Ted was a part of the Bush machine.

Bullshit

I don't care much for politicians pimping on the bible-even with a rediculous combover with New York City values.
 

Mike

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http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/10/ted-cruz-a-bush-by-another-name/

The Bush-Cruz connection is clear. Ted was George W.’s brain when he ran for president. A top policy adviser, Ted maneuvered for Solicitor General in Bush World but settled for a plum at the Federal Trade Commission. Ted’s a Bush man with deep ties to the political and financial establishment. Ted and wife Heidi brag about being the first “Bush marriage” – they met as Bush staffers. Cruz was an adviser on legal affairs while Heidi was an adviser on economic policy and eventually director for the Western Hemisphere on the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice. Condi helped give us the phony war in Iraq. Heidi then went to the Bush U.S. Trade Representative as a top deputy to U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Zoellick, who wired Heidi’s membership in the Council on Foreign Relations and job at Goldman Sachs. The bailed-out bank then loaned Cruz $1 million secretly to finance his Senate race. Crux would also borrow an undisclosed $1 million loan from Citicorp. Cruz and his establishment puppet masters are engaged in an aggressive strategy against Trump. The false narrative of course being that Cruz is the outsider while Trump is the insider. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In its most simplistic terms – the power elite have no leverage over Trump – nothing. Cruz, on the other hand, is the establishment’s quisling, spawned by the Bushes and controlled by Wall Street, who became a strident “outsider” only four years ago.
 

Faster horses

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He might have had ties....once....but those ties were broken when he went against Bush. If you will remember, Bush has never spoken against Obama, but of Cruz he said he couldn't stand the man. That was because Cruz bucked him. Does that sound like an insider?

Ted Cruz stopped the International Court of Justice. In 2008 George W. Bush was told by the International Court of Justice that a number of Death Row Inmates would need to be retried. It was to the Europeans a perfect way to assert power over our courts as it was about human life. George W. Bush agreed and told the various States to retry the individuals. Ted Cruz went to the Supreme Court and argued against this, and secured a win where unless Congress gives the authority away no one could enforce a Treaty over the various States. The States have the power!

So you don't like ties to Bush, but ties to Hillary, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi is acceptable because those were/are Trump ties?

And just so you know, Cruz was the first one to mention a wall along the border, not Trump.
Video evidence exists Ted Cruz supported a wall and fighting illegal immigration in 2011. This video, https://youtu.be/T0h3Mu8BbjM will help you prove the history of Ted Cruz. He fought Marco Rubio so strongly Marco Rubio named him as one of those seeking to give a poison pill to the bill. Without Ted Cruz amnesty likely would have passed into law. The NWO does not want borders, nor national boundaries. Ted Cruz made sure we did not give up the value of American Citizenship.
 
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