Here's the Republican front runner...

[GH2001]

In retrospect sure.  Easy to figure it out in retrospect.

She had something in her hand.  He was exiting the place. She wasn't supposed to be that close.  He made split second decision.

End of story.

Sure

Fits nicely into your narrative. End of story. Topped with a nice bow. Got it.

[AUChizad]

In retrospect sure.  Easy to figure it out in retrospect.

She had something in her hand.  He was exiting the place. She wasn't supposed to be that close.  He made split second decision.

End of story.

Anyone afraid of pens is a gigantic pussy. You. Trump. Anyone.

[Kaos]

Anyone afraid of pens is a gigantic pussy. You. Trump. Anyone.

A presidential candidate who is wary of someone walking up to them with something concealed in their hand has nothing to be worried about. 

A handler/adviser/guard/whatever who is part of the entourage guaranteeing the safety of said candidate does not have the luxury of taking the millisecond to identify the pen and must act quickly if there is any question. 

I looked at the video. 

It's not obvious it was a pen.
It's not obvious she was a journalist
He was making his way through a crowd
She came in behind the forward security and ahead of the rear security
She impeded Trump's progress AND had something in her hand

It's an easy call.  Put out an arm and open space for the candidate to keep walking. 

That anyone could make anything nefarious out of that is mind boggling.  I've refrained from calling people in this thread morons or idiots, but if you watch that video and come to any other conclusion than I did?  You're a pussified dumbass.

[AUChizad]

A presidential candidate who is wary of someone walking up to them with something concealed in their hand has nothing to be worried about. 

A handler/adviser/guard/whatever who is part of the entourage guaranteeing the safety of said candidate does not have the luxury of taking the millisecond to identify the pen and must act quickly if there is any question. 

I looked at the video. 

It's not obvious it was a pen.
It's not obvious she was a journalist
He was making his way through a crowd
She came in behind the forward security and ahead of the rear security
She impeded Trump's progress AND had something in her hand

It's an easy call.  Put out an arm and open space for the candidate to keep walking. 

That anyone could make anything nefarious out of that is mind boggling.  I've refrained from calling people in this thread morons or idiots, but if you watch that video and come to any other conclusion than I did?  You're a pussified dumbass.

Nah. Pussified dumbasses are afraid of pens.

[Snaggletiger]

Look, this stuff happens.  I met Dr. Martin Luther King in 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee. I walkin' down the street minding my own business, just walking on. Feelin' good. I walk around the corner, a man walk up, hit me in my chest, right. I fall on the ground, right. And I look up and it's Dr. Martin Luther King. I said 'Dr. King?' and he said 'Ooops, I thought you were some body else.'

[WiregrassTiger]

A presidential candidate who is wary of someone walking up to them with something concealed in their hand has nothing to be worried about. 

A handler/adviser/guard/whatever who is part of the entourage guaranteeing the safety of said candidate does not have the luxury of taking the millisecond to identify the pen and must act quickly if there is any question. 

I looked at the video. 

It's not obvious it was a pen.
It's not obvious she was a journalist
He was making his way through a crowd
She came in behind the forward security and ahead of the rear security
She impeded Trump's progress AND had something in her hand

It's an easy call.  Put out an arm and open space for the candidate to keep walking. 

That anyone could make anything nefarious out of that is mind boggling.  I've refrained from calling people in this thread morons or idiots, but if you watch that video and come to any other conclusion than I did?  You're a pussified dumbass.

Do you want me to call him a cock sucking, racist, fag?
I don't mind.

[Token]

Pen, feather, knife. In a crowded area with mere seconds to react, statistics have proven that it is nearly impossible to determine the difference. For people trained in protection details, it is nearly impossible to make a judgment call in that environment.  Which is why normally you'll see someone getting their ass kicked in that situation. You do not approached celebrities, politicians or anyone else who is being escorted by a group of trained people whose sole job is to keep you from approaching.

Did they know who she was?  I wouldn't have had a problem if they would have dumped her in the floor.  But why not just say that?  She approached a presidential candidate and in the seconds we had to react, we couldn't see if she was concealing a weapon or had a press pass. Let that be the statement. They fucked up there.

But let's not pretend that anyone here could have been in that situation and known she only had a pen.

[Saniflush]

Look, this stuff happens.  I met Dr. Martin Luther King in 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee. I walkin' down the street minding my own business, just walking on. Feelin' good. I walk around the corner, a man walk up, hit me in my chest, right. I fall on the ground, right. And I look up and it's Dr. Martin Luther King. I said 'Dr. King?' and he said 'Ooops, I thought you were some body else.'

Man you ain't never met no Dr. King.

[bottomfeeder]

Da bitch should have waited until she was called on ask a fucking question. Fuck that bitch. I hope she and Killary both get body slammed before all of the shit it over. And, that pussy RNC fuck Prissybus, screw him too.

[The Six]

I just want to know can Auburn win right away this year?

[dallaswareagle]

I just want to know can Auburn win right away this year?

Do we have a political team? 

[The Six]

Do we have a political team?

Does this thread even have a point any more?

[Kaos]

Does this thread even have a point any more?

^
Fails to grasp subtle political discourse.

[bottomfeeder]

I just want to know can Auburn win right away this year?

We better win, and win big, or that's it for this country.

[The Six]

Ran across this quote and thought it apropos :

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. --Mark Twain

[Kaos]

Ran across this quote and thought it apropos :

It's a good point and I think it encapsulates the fear of Trump very well.  Very rarely are "they" (meaning the elite class and the media) unable to break a candidate at will.  The list of bodies -- men who would have made capable, effective leaders -- is long. 

[Kaos]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/13/reports-trump-campaign-manager-not-prosecuted/83013314/

Well, well. That clear cut video was clear cut. 

No prosecution.   Guess "feelings" don't trump (pun, son, get it?) facts. 

[CCTAU]

Are the rules really being abused?

By DONALD J. TRUMP April 14, 2016 7:18 p.m. ET On Saturday, April 9, Colorado had an “election” without voters. Delegates were chosen on behalf of a presidential nominee, yet the people of Colorado were not able to cast their ballots to say which nominee they preferred. A planned vote had been canceled. And one million Republicans in Colorado were sidelined. In recent days, something all too predictable has happened: Politicians furiously defended the system. “These are the rules,” we were told over and over again. If the “rules” can be used to block Coloradans from voting on whether they want better trade deals, or stronger borders, or an end to special-interest vote-buying in Congress—well, that’s just the system and we should embrace it. Let me ask America a question: How has the “system” been working out for you and your family? I, for one, am not interested in defending a system that for decades has served the interest of political parties at the expense of the people. Members of the club—the consultants, the pollsters, the politicians, the pundits and the special interests—grow rich and powerful while the American people grow poorer and more isolated. No one forced anyone to cancel the vote in Colorado. Political insiders made a choice to cancel it. And it was the wrong choice. Responsible leaders should be shocked by the idea that party officials can simply cancel elections in America if they don’t like what the voters may decide. The only antidote to decades of ruinous rule by a small handful of elites is a bold infusion of popular will. On every major issue affecting this country, the people are right and the governing elite are wrong. The elites are wrong on taxes, on the size of government, on trade, on immigration, on foreign policy. Why should we trust the people who have made every wrong decision to substitute their will for America’s will in this presidential election? Here, I part ways with Sen. Ted Cruz. Mr. Cruz has toured the country bragging about his voterless victory in Colorado. For a man who styles himself as a warrior against the establishment (you wouldn’t know it from his list of donors and endorsers), you’d think he would be demanding a vote for Coloradans. Instead, Mr. Cruz is celebrating their disenfranchisement. Likewise, Mr. Cruz loudly boasts every time party insiders disenfranchise voters in a congressional district by appointing delegates who will vote the opposite of the expressed will of the people who live in that district. That’s because Mr. Cruz has no democratic path to the nomination. He has been mathematically eliminated by the voters. While I am self-funding, Mr. Cruz rakes in millions from special interests. Yet despite his financial advantage, Mr. Cruz has won only three primaries outside his home state and trails me by two million votes—a gap that will soon explode even wider. Mr. Cruz loses when people actually get to cast ballots. Voter disenfranchisement is not merely part of the Cruz strategy—it is the Cruz strategy. The great irony of this campaign is that the “Washington cartel” that Mr. Cruz rails against is the very group he is relying upon in his voter-nullification scheme. My campaign strategy is to win with the voters. Ted Cruz’s campaign strategy is to win despite them. What we are seeing now is not a proper use of the rules, but a flagrant abuse of the rules. Delegates are supposed to reflect the decisions of voters, but the system is being rigged by party operatives with “double-agent” delegates who reject the decision of voters. The American people can have no faith in such a system. It must be reformed. Just as I have said that I will reform our unfair trade, immigration and economic policies that have also been rigged against Americans, so too will I work closely with the chairman of the Republican National Committee and top GOP officials to reform our election policies. Together, we will restore the faith—and the franchise—of the American people. We must leave no doubt that voters, not donors, choose the nominee. How have we gotten to the point where politicians defend a rigged delegate-selection process with more passion than they have ever defended America’s borders? Perhaps it is because politicians care more about securing their private club than about securing their country. My campaign will, of course, battle for every last delegate. We will work within the system that exists now, while fighting to have it reformed in the future. But we will do it the right way. My campaign will seek maximum transparency, maximum representation and maximum voter participation. We will run a campaign based on empowering voters, not sidelining them. Let us take inspiration from patriotic Colorado citizens who have banded together in protest. Let us make Colorado a rallying cry on behalf of all the forgotten people whose desperate pleas have for decades fallen on the deaf ears and closed eyes of our rulers in Washington, D.C. The political insiders have had their way for a long time. Let 2016 be remembered as the year the American people finally got theirs.

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=15080

[Ogre]

Are the rules really being abused?

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=15080

That reads like one long post by RWS.  Sad!

Really though, Trump is playing the victim card (which he is good at, btw).  Colorado had a vote on March 1. 

On March 1, thousands of Coloradans met at precinct caucuses. They elected delegates to the county assemblies. Those county assemblies sent delegates to state and district assemblies (conventions). There the delegates were selected. Exactly as they had been in 2004, 2008, and 2012.

Link

[bottomfeeder]

Sorry, wrong video. My apologies folk. I need to upgrade my phone.