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Of all people to send out claiming someone else is a phony, Mitt Romney??? These RNC nitwits just don't get it at all. They still believe if someone can just make the right speech, people will forget they've been let down by those do-nothing clowns in DC and actually want to keep them in power. Fat chance!

When I heard Romney's list of problems with Trump, it sounded to me just like the list I have of RNC promises. "We'll overturn Obamacare if we can just get control of the Senate." Yeah, that's about as worthless as a Trump University degree, I suppose. Trump's not a business wizard, he's had bankruptcies and caused loss of jobs. Well gee, nobody I see on the R side of the aisle is distinguishing themselves as a business wizard either, yet we've had to pay for their bankruptcies in the form of bailouts. Their idea of lowering unemployment is to change the way unemployed are counted - how's that, Mitt? That strike you as ethical and full of integrity?

The bottom line is this. The RNC can do anything, say anything, and run anybody they want. But no one is going to support those back-stabbing losers again. Fool me once, as the saying goes. Trump could go club baby seals with a baseball bat tomorrow and people are still going to support him not because he's Trump but because he isn't the RNC favored son.

Mitt was spinning like a top, and it struck me as the act of someone really desperate. How does it look when the guy who pledged to support the eventual nominee is out there calling him a whack job? And these are the same people who demanded a loyalty oath from Trump.

If I was Trump I would announce at the debate tonight that unless the RNC disavows Mitt's comments in 48 hrs he's rescinding his oath and will be exploring running as an independent while still kicking everyone's ass in the R primaries.

Do these fools really think Romney is going to dick around with the convention process, become a candidate, and actually have people turn out for him like they didn't last time? Something must be in that Washington DC water supply making people into total idiots.

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Lets face it, they would rather lose every presidential election than lose control of the party and the cash cow it is for them to a bunch of neanderthal people in fly over states.

IF the RNC thinks its making inroads using a previous loser, they truly are ignorant of what is happening in this country, and need to be abandoned, dispersed or kicked out of the party which ever is easier and quicker.

I actually went to our county caucus, and was volunteered to be a delegate to the county convention. For one I wanted to know how it worked and how much BS was really involved in that process. I figured before I pick up a rifle, I would see if any of this is salvageable. The convention is next weekend so we will see.

Our straw poll, and a couple others I have heard about have went overwhelmingly for Cruz, with Trump in second, everyone else was single digit percentages.

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Well the results would coincide with what I would expect out of WY, to go with the one with the most valid conservative credentials. Cruz is not a bad choice at all, and I truly believe he would smear Hillary in a head-on-head race, but apparently many republicans don't believe it or they see Cruz as being too much like Barry Goldwater. One thing is for sure, if there is a Scalia-like judge out there, Cruz will nominate him for SCOTUS. He took a lot of heat over Roberts in the debate last night, but Cruz was no more fooled than anyone else who expected more from Roberts. He's just one example of a guy who looks great on paper but doesn't perform as expected. That happens, what can one say?

WY has a very odd caucus, and last presidential election didn't release the voting results, only the delegate allocations. I suspect this may be to keep political forces outside the state from trying to jimmy their fingers into the process, but perhaps that's one thing you can shed some light on as you go through the process. Who knows, with all that inside knowledge and making some connections there might be some truth in that Honcho for Congress bumper sticker someday in the future.

Of course I expect one of those cushy government jobs where you don't do anything and can't be fired as a reward for coming up with the bumper sticker.

[Grug - American Neanderthal]

They have changed how they did caucuses since the last one because it was defacto closed to the rank and file. IF you knew who was holding it and when, which was not publicized and many times it was in someones house then you could maybe go. That's how WY ended up picking Romney last time. After a lot of criticism they changed it to hold district caucuses at the same time in a public venue, in our case the fairgrounds and publicize the time and day. They do straw polls at every step, and announce them now, but I am not sure if the official tally will be a hard commitment or not after national delegates are chosen.

Heh, 'inside connections', I will just be disliked even more than I am already by the political insiders when I get done speaking my mind. But I won't be alone from sound of it. Our county had a large turnout, more than expected, but the county south of us, which Cheyenne is in had double the number they expected or ever had before, and from what I hear people were pretty pissed at the party.

Of course I have never heard anyone say is so goes WY, so goes the country, so it may be moot except in a civics lesson.

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The record turnouts are happening all over the place. VA's turnout was a 278% increase over the previous (2012) presidential primary.

What's happening is people are coming out this time so much to vote for as to vote against. They are sick and tired of voting for a party who promises everything and delivers nothing, not even trying or making the most token attempt. So this time around I think people are coming out and see Trump as the universal anti-establishment candidate. This is the personification of all the anger from the last two elections where people were tempted to vote third party but had no viable candidate. Now they have a viable candidate and he can't be any worse than those DC clubbers who believe they are untouchable. This is their payback - whoever they show support for will be destroyed in the voting booth. They were big on Bush, he was flushed forthwith. Now they're leaning Rubio, and he won MN but is getting trounced elsewhere and likely will in FL.

The local paper over in Ft. Walton Beach (east of here) carried a story the other day about how young Marco made some dismissive comments about NW Florida. On a state level, think of us as fly-over country. All the power is focused on SE FL, Miami and Sarasota and Orlando in central FL. Rubio basically said he'll win FL because he has appeal in the parts of the state that are meaningful, which pissed off the entire NW red-as-they=get counties. People are still talking about it at the barber shops and convenience stores. That's going to cost him big time. He seems to forget that when the networks called FL for Al Gore in 2000 without them realizing NW FL polls were still open because we are in the central time zone, it was those votes in NW FL that turned it around and gave Bush the ultimate victory both before and after the hanging chads thing.

The latest polls have Trump at 45%, Rubio at 25%, and Cruz at 15%. I expect the vote to be closer to Trump 38%, Rubio 27%, Cruz 24%, and Kasich around 5 or 6%, the rest for other candidates.