Posted on 03/23/2016 5:49:58 PM PDT by Steelfish
It’s the End of the Line for GOP as We Know It By JONAH GOLDBERG March 23, 2016
(snip) Nominating Donald Trump will wreck the Republican party as we know it. Over the weekend, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus showed the first public signs of acceptance about what’s in store for the party. He finally acknowledged that the Republican nominee was probably going to be determined on the convention floor in Cleveland. Priebus explained, rightly, that the rules are the rules, and that if Trump can’t secure the required 1,237 delegates before Cleveland, it’s anyone’s game. “This is a delegate-driven process,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash.
“The minority of delegates doesn’t rule for the majority.” Donald Trump Doesn’t Have the Character to Be President Trump’s response to this floor-fight talk was to vomit up the usual word salad. “All I can say is this, I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Trump told ABC’s This Week. “But I will say this, you’re going to have a lot of very unhappy people [if I’m denied the nomination].
And I think, frankly, for the Republicans to disenfranchise all those people because if that happens, they’re not voting and the Republicans lose.” Even through the syntactical fog, Trump’s point is clear: If he can’t reach 1,237, he should get the nomination anyway. Because he is Trump. If that doesn’t happen, his supporters will stay home, defect from the party, riot, or all three.
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By the way, this poll was conducted by a GOPe PR firm, same one behind all the other negative polls that have come out this season.
The ones who should really be concerned are all the GOP running down ticket if they plays games at the convention and appoint Yeb or Mitt. If people sit out the general or vote against GOPe there will be a lots of losers in a lot of states.
“No fan of Mr. Priebus but he is right. If Trump doesn’t have 1237 locked down when he shows up in Cleveland then the nomination is not his for the demanding. An open convention is dangerous but thems the rules.”
That’s absolutely true. GOPe propagandist Hugh Hewitt has been spouting this same line since January, and he expressly reiterated it today. He’s a lawyer, like most of the scum running the GOP, and like Priebus he was at Sea Island.
He said that if Trump is even one delegate short with 1236 then Trump will be denied the nomination. The GOPe will use enforce rules to the letter to get what they want.
If that happens I think that there is a 50-50 chance that we will witness the Republican party implode this November. I won’t be sad if it does.
I used to exchange emails on this very subject with Jonah years ago....I was warning him of this.
He told me I was being too dramatic.
Give me a break, carp.
You know as well as I do if Jeb was winning by just several hundred delegates, the rulebook would be completely thrown out and he would have the nomination gift-wrapped to him.
You need to remember to take your meds.....
What the HELL has the Republican Party as we knew it done for me and other conservative voters for the past eight years except lick Obama’s boots and kiss is Muslim ass.
Good point.
Looks like Trumpism like this has infected you. “You’re a liar”
Go check the number of times Fox Polls were acclaimed by Trumpkins when it showed Trump in the lead.
The reality is that millions of Americans see the two parties as two heads of the same medusa. Screw Trump out of the nomination and you get hitlery. It’s just as simple as that.
You seem absolutely thrilled that Hillary is going to win.
What is the evidence for your allegation?
"The polls are all lies" - is going to be the self-soothing mantra of Trump voters (including me at that point). Right up to the bitter awful end.
(then it's "Melania looked elegant at the concession speech")
So “no” then.
You are! You're claiming that Trump supporters have praised Fox and Wapo polls. You can go look at TheConservativeTreehouse.com and read all the articles tearing apart Fox and WAPO polls for months. You're making stuff up because you're a nasty liar.
Easy, The GOPe is so predictable and so are the Hillary via Cruz supporters.
OMG, not its a “nasty” liar. Are you a Trumpian aide?
Yep. I've a case of popcorn; plenty to enjoy until the general.
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