[Hoot Gibson]

Excuse me? LOL

Two things, first Laffer is all-in for Trump, I've heard him speak too many times about his support for Trump and his financial plan for that to be in question, even in your mind.

Secondly, I knew you would eventually run home to bring that back up, since in your mind getting the last word, or thinking you got the last word seems to seal the deal for you. And even though you can't seem to get your story exactly straight about what I actually said, still, it is hard to believe you would stick your head back into that same noose but here you are doing it anyway. So, even in watching the video, confusion still clouds your better judgment I see?

As fate would have it, I had actually conversed with Joey Bunch on a personal level in times past. According to the article the staff of The Denver Post do not agree with you. And it is as I said before and not that you will listen this time, but I will lay it out again just this once. If you're right, that means the staff of the Post either lied or they are wrong. You went to Politico or some such site and checked to make a point with me and they have it wrong according to the understanding and the words of the Coloradans I've read. The Colorado delegation of 2012 was bound to vote for Santorum in the first round. That according to senior political correspondent Joey Bunch.

Now, don't get me wrong. I know you're a front line economist, a psychiatrist, and a news anchor. I had just not considered that you were a lawyer and an expert on Colorado GOP rules and a historian as well. I know, I know, I should have been able to figure that out on my own. nicker:

But please, don't give up on this. Heck, you could probably bring it up a couple hundred more times before you could accept you're wrong.

I have you a direct quote by Laffer, with a link, to a Washington Post article and you dismissed it as if it was heresay. I have you three links previously that contradict your misguided opinion that there was a binding primary held in Colorado in 2012 and you offer nothing but heresay as a response. And then you close with another personal insult. This gas become you're template for a post.

Delegates voluntarily pledged support to candidate's in 2012, which is why the winner of the 2012 Colorado non-fiction binding straw poll entered the national convention with only one more pledged delegate than Ron Paul and far fewer than Romney.

There was no straw poll this year because the national GOP had adopted a rule that would have forced Colorado to bind delegates to candidate's based on the vote had the state GOP held another presidential straw poll.

Colorado voted down a proposal that would have resulted in a 2016 GOP primary election, which would have awarded delegates to candidate's based on the results.

2012 Colorado Caucuses Results

2012 Caucus Process
Delegate Allocation: None of Colorado's 36 delegates will be bound to any candidate as a result of the Feb. 7 precinct caucuses. The state's delegates will be elected at county assemblies, held mostly on March 24, but before March 28, and allocated at district and state conventions in mid-April.

Eligibility: Caucus attendees must be registered to vote and affiliated with the Republican Party at least two months prior to the caucus, and must be a resident of their precinct for at least thirty days. Participation by absentee ballot or by proxy is not allowed.

Colorado Republicans cancel presidential vote at 2016 caucus

In 2008 and 2012, die-hard Republican voters gathered at caucus meetings to begin the delegate-selection process of selecting delegates to the national convention and voice support for presidential candidates in a straw poll.

The votes, however, didn’t require Colorado delegates to support any particular candidate at the national conventions. This allowed for delegates that supported a losing candidate to vote for the nominee and demonstrate party unity at the convention.

But the freedom also opened the door for political mischief, as Colorado saw in 2012 when Ron Paul supporters managed to win a significant portion of the delegate slots, even though Paul finished far behind other candidates in the Colorado caucuses.

The RNC tightened the rules in 2012 to eliminate nonbinding straw polls and help prevent similar stunts in the future, forcing Colorado Republicans to re-evaluate their process. An effort earlier this year to switch to a presidential primary system failed amid party infighting.