Posted on 09/20/2015 9:43:07 AM PDT by Jane Long
After the last presidential nomination cycle, where Mitt Romney had to struggle a bit to get the nomination, GOP leaders decided to make it easier for one of their own to get the nomination.
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Therefore, GOP insiders thought that increasing the number of states who award delegates based on "winner take all" – where the largest vote-getter, even if only a plurality, gets all the delegates – would aid an establishment GOP candidate, especially in a fractured primary such as this one. They also condensed the primary calendar, so an insurgent candidate won't have as much time and opportunity to rally against the establishment candidate.
Well, it hasn't quite worked out that way.
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The party compressed its nominating calendar to try to make the process end sooner, limited the number of debates, moved the convention to July from August, barred all but the traditional early nominating states from holding contests until March and shortened the period in which states could hold primaries or caucuses that award delegates proportionally.
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What their rule changes may have done, in fact, is grease the skids for Donald Trump, assuming he continues his lead in the polls. If the GOP hadn't changed the rules, it would have more likely made for a brokered convention, which would offer a greater opportunity to stop Trump.
Of course, it is still a few months to the first primary, and things can change. But if they don't, Reince Priebus and his ilk will have been responsible for helping Donald Trump win the nomination. The nominee typically cleans house at the RNC. If Trump is the nominee, after they have been fired by Trump, what kind of jobs on K Street do you think Reince and his coworkers will be rewarded with?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
GOPee Rules backfire ping.
Serves those establishment quislings right. I am loving it.
I LOVE IT! Serves em right.
Haha Georgia Girl...just read your post above mine...great minds think alike!
The idea of the GOP nomenklatura being led up the steps of Haman’s gallows sort of tickles me.
I agree!!
The best laid schemes of mice and men...
Talk about a backfire, this was big time.
It is as if a loaded shot gun were jammed down muzzle first into mud, plugging the barrel, then when the target came in sight, the easy way to relieve the internal pressure in the barrel was to burst the receiver chamber.
Recoil all right. Recoil in horror.
Wondered about that. Glad to have it cleared up!
Go Trump Go!!!
We are very aware on the rules in the Trunp camp . As yo a brokered convention, Trump wins that easy. The delegates all go for MONEY!!! Its not even illegal!!Trump wins Trump Wins!!
Yes, hoisted on their own petard!
From the NYT point of view, this might also be of interest-——http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/09/19/deconstructing-the-new-york-times-propaganda-on-gop-2016-race/
The nominee typically cleans house at the RNC.
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This is what I’m most looking forward to.......
Thanks for that link!!
Feel good about that.
Thanks...always good to know what (one facet of) the opposition is thinking :)
Awwww.
A little moment of sympathy for Rinse Priapus and the metrosexual amnesty gang.
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