Rush Limbaugh Responds to Trump's Accusation That Ted Cruz's Superior Delegate Operation is "Unfair:" "He's Not Cheating, He's Winning"

From Ace of Spades HQ:

Well, as AllahPundit notes, there's some truth in this: The game was set up to favor Establishment picks in Colorado. The problem is, no establishment candidate actually survived to this point, except for the deeply weird and unthinkable John Kasich.

So yes, the rules were set up -- long ago -- to favor an Establishment choice. But none showed up for the big dance, so Ted Cruz waltzed out with the prize.

This exposes Trump in major ways, beyond the fact that he's lost Colorado.

"[T]wo key Trump claims have fallen apart thanks to his inability to fight for delegates properly," writes Ben Shapiro: "[H]e's not a great dealmaker, and he doesn't hire all the very best people."

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If anything, in fact, the delegate-wrangling process should be a godsend for Trump. It moves the race out of the ballot box, where he's vulnerable to a surge of #NeverTrump votes as the primaries near their conclusion, to the backroom, where he can work his fatcat dealmaking magic. In practice, Cruz is beating the pants off of him, something that should never happen per the mystique that surrounds Trump of being a master negotiator. Noah Rothman claimed this morning that the fact that two of Trump's kids failed to register in New York as Republicans in time to vote in this year's primary is a microcosm of Trump's disorganization generally, which is fair enough. But I'd add to that that him getting consistently beaten by Cruz at the delegate level is a microcosm of how Trump's image as wheeler-dealer extraordinaire is oversold. An ingenious salesman should not be at this sort of chronic disadvantage against a guy who’s not very personally likable, whose methods are loathed by the establishmentarians who "rigged" the system, and who’s operating at a financial handicap compared to Trump. But he is. How come?

Trump's sales pitch has been -- implicitly -- "Sure, I've done a lot of shady deals and exploited the US bankruptcy laws for my advantage, but now I'm offering to bring my high level of caginess, toughness, and smarts and use them on behalf of you, the Republican Primary Voter."

Okay, sounds good.

What happens when Trump turns out to not be particularly cagey, tough, and smart?

The rules of the game were laid out from the start: A real #Winner should be exploiting the rules for his own advantage, not reduced to whining, essentially, "The other guys is better at this game than me and it's not fair."

As said by John Mason, played by Sean Connery, "Your "best"! Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen."

Yes, Melania Trump may look like the prom queen, but remember, she's the third try, and Marla Maples definitely wasn't the Prom Queen.