"Your vote doesn't matter, your voice doesn't count"

It's an interesting development.

The Denver Post is kind of amusing on the subject...


No, a Republic is known as a representative democracy, which is a different thing.

This is and isn't quite the same as the tactics used against Ron Paul.  I don't know if the Colorado caucuses were real, Iowa-style caucuses or just polls held in a room.  I don't know what a real caucus, where a discussion takes place, would look like if the room had a number of Trump supporters in it.  On the one hand, people in denial about certain facts that indicate they're mistaken could try to shout down those facts.  On the other hand, if they don't they're liable to learn something--something the media isn't telling them.

One part is the same--they seem to be willing to use any old excuse to eliminate real caucuses in favor of simple 'pull the lever for the name you have heard the most' polls.  That seems to be the only part we can be sure of.  All we have otherwise is their excuses for their actions and everyone else's spin on the subject.  And there is plenty of spin, as we see in the Post article.

But as that same article goes on to point out...



So, the complaint here is that the Colorado GOP is placing the decision in the hands of delegates who have gone to some effort to earn a place in the process, and convince their peers that they are able and reasonable.  Only those who want the decision made by the least well informed members of the party could find this terribly objectionable, provided everyone is welcome to run for a delegate slot and no influence is exercised in the delegate selection process.

We have only just begun to hear the 'smoke filled room' rhetoric.  There's more than one way to fill a room with smoke, though.  You can invite in a bunch of guys who favor cigars.  Or you can just burn down the house.