Posted on 10/18/2015 4:25:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Most American voters believe that “delegates” (ordinary citizens elected by fellow citizens) from all 50 states meet at a national convention and determine the GOP presidential nominee. In truth, a small band of so-called “GOP elders” picks the nominee. If they dislike the delegate’s pick, they gather behind closed doors. Chuckling softly, they re-write the nominating rules.
GOP Elite’s Top Secret Plan
In Tampa in 2012, GOP elders changed the rules at the last minute so a majority of delegates from just eight states would decide the nominee. This rule change forced Romney into the position of nominee despite different wishes from many delegates.
Tipsy from drinking their own Kool-Aid, GOP elders forgot that moderates like John McCain and socialized medicine fan boys like Mitt Romney are unelectable. We handed Obama the White House. Again.
Ego is the greatest weakness of any villain and prideful GOP elders sometimes fail to cover their tracks. Last week, TIME Magazine uncovered their plan to crush populist voters like you and me in 2016. TIME reports: “[The 2012] rule can always be rewritten at the [2016] convention, say party bigwigs, if it will help speed selection of a nominee.”
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What the “GOP Elite” need to do if they want to win the election, is to promote a candidate who is for American jobs, and rebuilding our very own country for a change.
That is what is needed.
That is why Trump is so popular. A huge number of Americans are for building up our own country once again.
THAT is what the GOP needs to pay attention to.
Stupid party. I’d support Trump running as a 3rd party candidate if they pull this crap.
Ping
Yeah...this GOPe thing will really go over well! NOT!!
This article could also be titled the secret plan for the GOPe to throw the election to the Democrats. They are clearly more comfortable being losers at the Rat table getting their portion of the spoils than supporting a conservative or anyone else outside the uniparty power structure.
You are joking are you not? With the idiot Reibus claiming earlier in the week that if the Republicans do not win the Republican Party will become history.
I hope and pray that Trump is aware of this wickedness on the part of the elite. And I hope he goes to the Convention in posession of landslide victories in all the primaries. And then let the GOPe try to monkey with THAT and make it disappear. That could be the setting and triggering event for the complete death of the GOPe as a Party, and the birth of whatever and whomever is going to replace it.
The GOP doesn’t care if Hillary or Bernie or Biden or Bush is the president. Then it’s business as usual.
We dont want thier bullsh$$ anymore
They don’t want to win. They want to be invited to the cool kids table.
Neither party really likes its voters, which is why they are both freaking out. The elite want a Clinton/Bush ticket. The people want a Sanders/Trump ticket. The elite can’t control either one.
Which honestly makes me wonder who put both Trump and Sanders up to this.
“The GOP doesn’t care if Hillary or Bernie or Biden or Bush is the president. Then it’s business as usual.”
Exactly. I was trying to think back to when the GOPe politicians actually cared about what their constituents back home need and want. Couldn’t pinpoint it; maybe the answer is, “Never”. Their focus is living their semi-glamorous, highfalutin lives in DC, even if that means handing over government control to the democrats. The rest of us can just go to hell.
Electability is NOT the criterion. The GOPe does not want to win the election. They want to reward their next-in-line guy with the highest reward in the Republic for a Republican i.e. the Nomination but neither Bush nor the gopes want to actually hold the office. It is more profitable for them to be the designated "opposition." They believe that their seats in Congress are secure no matter what and those are the only elective offices they care about. This is where I believe they may miscalculate. The Republican Party will be flushed out of much of the South over the next two cycles, if there are two more cycles, in favor of at he Democrats or a regional Third Party that will initially not contain any gopes at all. I think that even the states like Kentucky that are enamored of their particularly moronic Republicans will slip from the fold Once the GOPe is a regional and minority party of the North and the Democrats control the MidWest, the West and everything but the most of the old CSA the Republicans will rapidly dissipate even in their fantasized stronghold.
Actually I don't believe it will get that far. If the coming election doesn't go to Trump and if Trump doesn't push to success a Convention of the States while dismantling much of the bureaucracy, we will be a Permanent One-Party Democrat Dictatorship.
They were until Trump stirred things up. Their "winner take all" strategy in some early states would've had the nomination sewn up before mainstream voters were even aware that there is a nomination going on.
The original GOPe plan involves holding back on winner take all primaries until March 15th (Florida), which they had figured Jeb would win. Now Trump would win.
The more conservative states in the South already have rules involving splitting delegate allocations to break up any concentration of conservative support behind one candidate. Those rules are living proof that Republican Party leaders in the South are not conservatives.
After March 15th the RINO’s had set up New York and Connecticut and other more liberal states as winner take all.
The problem for them is that Trump runs well in those states and would win them at this point.
The manipulations to stop Trump would have to be massive but I have no doubt they will be done if the Republican Establishment doesn’t want him.
We keep hearing this myth, but it doesn’t happen. The GOPe has the most to gain from Trump.
I don’t see where you come up with this idea the GOPe has the most to gain from Trump.
All you have to do is read this piece (posted earlier) in order to see why http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2015/10/17/the-chamber-of-commerce-is-bad-for-republicans-conservatism-and-america-n2067145
I think Trump sees the problem here, actually.
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