- Victim status for Cruz
- Cruz delegates didn’t know how or when to get to their convention
- Interesting comment from Illinois Congressman to Trump “If system was rigged you and Cruz would not be winning”
- Strangely, Trump bypasses “losing Steve Grubbs” to replace his campaign manager
Don’t expect to see this confusing stuff on Drudge, and don’t expect any high dudgeon from #Trumponly supporters.
Scanning the day’s mail last night I was a bit irritated to notice a Cruz mailing directed at me as a presumed Republican Second District convention delegate. The main theme of the mailer being “Please vote for Ted Cruz delegates” and included the address and time of the convention. The irritating part besides the shamelessness of a forthright appeal to delegates was that the mailing arrived April 18th (ten days late) as the convention was on April 9th.
What makes this interesting, besides irritating, is that the mailer was postmarked from 50266, a West Des Moines Zip Code, on April 5th! If it had been sent standard “bulk” rate and “red-tagged” as a time sensitive political mailing (presuming the Post Office still allows for that) one could expect delivery from anywhere in Iowa to anywhere in Iowa with virtually first-class attention and a delivery time-frame of from next day to three days, tops. Then I did a double take seeing that the postal indicia indicated it was mailed “First-Class” and the rate paid as “$00.98” on “04/05/2016.” Folks that’s about a dollar for a two-week delivery time when a couple days should do it. Clearly the Cruz people do have cause to complain, why not to the national media!
Now if such a mailing delay happened to Trump, the Trump complainers would be referring to the matter as a conspiracy, an arrangement between “Lying Ted” and the establishment machine in control of the post office out to “disenfranchise the people.” The whole matter would be described as “disgraceful” and “highly irregular” because “everybody says so” and the opportunity would be taken to assure everyone everywhere that Trump people were ready to go but they got no notice as to where to go. How could they possibly have known what to do!
Does anybody seriously doubt that would not be the clamor from Trump supporters?
From The Blaze (pro-Cruz): GOP Congressman to Trump: If System Was ‘Rigged,’ You and Cruz Wouldn’t Be Winning
Illinois Congressman, jerk, and Kasich supporter Adam Kinzinger has a partial point as expressed in the title of the report. Given their druthers the Republican donor class/ establishment would not put in place either Cruz or Trump. We feel the animosity toward Cruz from them is grounded more in fear as to the results of his winning, with Trump the fear is more the implications of trying to get him over the top rather than any fear that his policies would not be “flexible,” as among friends. But they really don’t like either. Better a Ryan or Mitt 3.0, and if he would only win another primary, Kasich.
But the Republican establishment is not ALL powerful. It is a political party at issue after all. The grassroots can overcome, and the more intelligent the grassroots, combined with fervor, the better. But if Kinzinger is acknowledging that there is gnashing of teeth among the establishment trough feeders, we have no doubt. But the gnashing of teeth is more the result of some things being out of their control, even when they try their damnedest. Survival becomes their approach, and they survive easier maybe even grander with Trump. But they will surely miss the opportunities lost with the likes of Jeb and Lyndsey and Chris absent.
Can this help?
According to CBS News, Lewandowski’s role within the campaign has been relegated to that of a “body man” and scheduler. Replacing him is Paul Manafort, who the campaign brought on last week to help coordinate their convention plans and delegate strategy.
Trump’s national field director, Stuart Jolly, also tendered his resignation Monday, after he was informed he would have to report to newly hired national political director Rick Wiley, according to the Washington Examiner. Wiley was previously campaign manger for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R).
We understand from Michelle Fields that Lewandowski will make an effective body man. Maybe that is his forte after all. We also remember Scott Walker, the great guy who was going to make Iowa incontestable but ended up not contesting it. So Trump picks the campaign manager of Scott Walker, a Midwestern governor (when conventional wisdom said a governor would be the nominee) a proven conservative who had logistics and name ID on his side and “manages” to fold? Walker did go up against unions in Wisconsin getting some blue collar support. But that is said to be Trump’s forte so what does this manager guy bring to the table not already there? National experience? We don’t quite get it. Maybe Steve Grubbs, who has even more experience as a losing manager of presidential campaigns in a Midwestern state, was too expensive or not available. But then we never quite got the appeal of his track record either.
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