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Release the GOP Delegates
Wall Street Journal ^ | 6 /13/2016 | Eric O’Keefe, David B. Rivkin Jr.

Posted on 06/14/2016 9:16:49 AM PDT by poconopundit

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The latest in the conspiracy to take the GOP nomination from Donald Trump. The story is written by a Russian born Bushie, and a French-born political activist.

Is this why Ted Cruz has not endorsed Donald Trump?

Pretty clear that we are going to see 24/7 attacks over the next several months by NYT, WaPo, and WSJ.

If anything, it looks like the attacks will intensify as the GOPe, donors, and MSM pull out all stops to stop a Trump presidency.

1 posted on 06/14/2016 9:16:49 AM PDT by poconopundit
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A candidate who cannot win the support of a majority of Republican delegates voting their consciences does not deserve to be the nominee and certainly has no legal right to be.

Instead of a majority of delegates, how about a majority of the voters? Or is the intent of the author that a small, select, unaccountable group should independently determine what is best for we, the "little" people?

2 posted on 06/14/2016 9:20:11 AM PDT by Shanghai Dan
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If I didn’t know better, I would think the GOP was trying to commit suicide.

5.56mm


3 posted on 06/14/2016 9:22:05 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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Exactly, Shanghai. We the “little people” must be kept in our place. We are simply not smart enough to run the country into the ground like the GOPe has done.


4 posted on 06/14/2016 9:23:01 AM PDT by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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How’s it possible to be this delusional, and yet functional enough to type out this article in coherent English?


5 posted on 06/14/2016 9:24:15 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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Ashley Goldman Cruz endorsed ObamaTRADE, proving
he is a lying globalist cheating EXEMPT scum.


6 posted on 06/14/2016 9:24:19 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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The dying WSJ is owned and controlled by Rupert the Trump Hater.

Anything they come out with should not be considered any more than their polls this year predicting disaster for Trump in the primaries.

Those polls turned out to worthless wet dreams created by the losers of the WSJ.


7 posted on 06/14/2016 9:26:39 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (La Raza thugs in America are Mexico's form of Isis terrorism/terrorists/invaders!!)
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If these hacks keep this nonsense up, there will be a ballot down
wipe out of GOP nominees in the general election.


8 posted on 06/14/2016 9:28:19 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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After what has transpired over the last 72 hours, with the key point by Trump’s speech yesterday, I say - FINE. Release all the delegates - once they are on the floor. I’d say Trump would still win it going away.


9 posted on 06/14/2016 9:30:16 AM PDT by jimjohn
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These guys are nuts. The former Cruz supporters I know are on board to vote Trump if they are supposed to support Trump. The delegates at the district and state levels made it clear that they want the voters wishes respected on the ballot.

Those of us who actually GO TO THE COUNTY/DISTRICT/STATE CONVENTIONS as regular Republican worker bees KNOW that there is no stopping Trump, and if we want to defeat Hillary Rodham Clinton in November, a half-a**ed attempt to subvert the process will further destroy the party and cost seats in both chambers.

I am a former Cruz supporter whose stomach is turned when Eric Erickson bloviates on the Beck program that Trump was liberal before this race and can’t be trusted. HELLO? Have you ever heard of Willard “Mitt” Romney?

I want Cruz delegates at the convention to keep Trump in line on watering down any pro-life planks in the platform, but Trump has earned the nomination itself, and he shall get it.


10 posted on 06/14/2016 9:31:21 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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Of course this is why Cruz, and Ryan I might add have not endorsed.

They do not care about losing the Presidency. In their way of thinking, they have already lost all with Trump.

The only calculation is whether to sabotage Trump while still giving him the nomination in a lame attempt to hold some of the base, or replace Trump and just hold on to what they can calculating the base will rally against Hillary in 2018 and return the GOPe to power.


11 posted on 06/14/2016 9:32:37 AM PDT by phoneman08
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The Cheap Labor Express is not giving up.

The WSJ is their mouthpiece.


12 posted on 06/14/2016 9:33:12 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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There is an important twist to this. Cruz’s efforts do not seem to be directed to a nomination-snatch, but to *prevent* efforts by whoever to “soften” the party platform, to make it less conservative.

Remember that while Trump is in the conservative camp, he is only about 70-80% in agreement with longstanding conservative values. What about that other 20-30%?

While it is to his credit that he is not a lock step ideologue, and pragmatic enough to not insist on means as long as he achieves ends; it does make him susceptible to straying from what is tolerable for conservatives.

That is, he needs some parameters. And the party platform is a good way to let him know what these are.

As the prospective nominee, he has lots of influence on what the party platform says. But by pushing for his supporters to be on the platform committee, Cruz can help insure that none of “Trump’s people” insert non-conservative or even liberal agenda items into the platform.


13 posted on 06/14/2016 9:35:34 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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I agree.

"Pull!"

14 posted on 06/14/2016 9:37:20 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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15 posted on 06/14/2016 9:38:42 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: Shanghai Dan

Are they writing this about Hillary?


16 posted on 06/14/2016 9:50:59 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Radical Gay - A feminazi with a penis.)
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To: M Kehoe

They want a civil war. They are begging for one.


17 posted on 06/14/2016 10:00:22 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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The government has no business telling parties how to select their candidates or leaders: That would be a serious infringement of the rights to free association and speech.

Then why go thru the charade of a primary with voters voting. You don't like voters. You want to pick your candidate from month the chose elite. Fine. Don't bother us.

But to have gone thru the process, a process in which the voters choose, and then try and squirm out of because you don't like the result? Tough.

18 posted on 06/14/2016 10:18:14 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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Show me the current platform for the GOP and then I dare you to show me how well they have followed it.

Cruzifer and his minions are delusional if they think anyone abides by platform guidelines. Maybe at Harvard while preparing for a debate, but not in real life.


19 posted on 06/14/2016 10:41:06 AM PDT by datura
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To: Dr. Sivana
Great attitude Doc. I think Manafort put an end to the convention shenanigans. That's why I was surprised to see this article in the WSJ.

Maybe the WSJ already paid these guys to write the article, and they said, "What the hectic, let's just run it so we can try to take Trump down again."

20 posted on 06/14/2016 10:43:23 AM PDT by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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