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Conservative backlash grows against brokered convention
The Hill ^ | December 11, 2015 | Jonathan Easley

Posted on 12/11/2015 3:44:47 PM PST by jazusamo

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To: Parley Baer

Establishment RATpubbies showed their colors after Trump’s statement on halting muslime invasion. Their reaction to the leader in polls and representing GOP is unprecedented and traitorous. They should be all fired.
Forget the futile talk about third party, what is needed is the transfusion of GOP, back to Reagan party, representing decent, conservative Americans.
Go TRUMP, sweep the garbage into dustbin of history!


81 posted on 12/11/2015 6:22:18 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: jazusamo

The GOP has not listened to their base for 8 years (and longer). What makes any of us think they will listen to us now? on this? They have not changed their minds on how important they are and how they know what is best... FOR THEM.

I’m sure jeb would approve of the threat of a brokered convention.. and so would some of the other GOP picks. This is exactly why Trump is in the race.. same for Dr Carson. The deceit, the ‘closed door mentality’, dissing their base, the lying, all of it still in action.


82 posted on 12/11/2015 6:34:08 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: jazusamo
Supporters for Bush and Rubio attended the meeting, according to the Post...

GOPe are certainly trying to ram the amnesty whores through.

83 posted on 12/11/2015 7:09:32 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: jazusamo

Trump should make Priebus sign a pact vowing not to have a brokered convention.


84 posted on 12/11/2015 7:11:45 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

The meeting was clearly in a public place, but the issue discussed was revealed, I believe, by someone who wasn’t supposed to.


85 posted on 12/11/2015 7:12:53 PM PST by Calpublican (Ryan = Boehner minus spray tan and alcohol dementia)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Ha! He certainly has!

Good stuff ~ Thanks!


86 posted on 12/11/2015 7:20:21 PM PST by IwaCornDogs ("There Will Be Bamboozeling" ~ Nobama 08')
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To: Dr. Sivana

A near majority of delegates do not come from the caucuses or primaries. They are sent by the state parties to the convention and vote as the state “establishment” leaders say. Conservatives must get control at the local and state level to keep the process honest.


87 posted on 12/11/2015 7:26:03 PM PST by georgiarat (Obama, providing incompetence since Day!)
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To: Sybeck1
First thing President Trump should do is out Priebus on the unemployment line


Why wait until the election?

The evening the GOP nominee is picked at the convention is when Rinsing Priapus should be fired and escorted from the convention hall.

In fact, the nominee should insist upon it as part of his acceptance speech.

88 posted on 12/11/2015 7:33:55 PM PST by peyton randolph (I am not a number. I am a free man.)
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To: VRWCarea51

I think the house and Senate “leaders” figure if Trump or Cruz wins they will ALSO lose their power. We are really witnessing (forcing?) an epic battle folks...


89 posted on 12/11/2015 9:22:19 PM PST by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: georgiarat; All

YES!!!What YOU said. You all need to find out who the delegates and Super delegates are in your county and state GOP parties..


90 posted on 12/11/2015 9:38:21 PM PST by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: CottonBall
It's the first time someone not beholden to donors has been leads by a lit for months and months.

Myself, I always like to proofread before I hit the 'post' button.

91 posted on 12/11/2015 10:15:32 PM PST by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Logical me
Republican party is in the toilet. They are basically as corrupt as the communists Democratic party. It may be time to disband most of the party and rebuild during the next House and Senate elections.

This seems to dovetail with a theory that I have recently heard: That some people want to destroy the Republican Party, in order to rebuild it in their own preferred image...

92 posted on 12/11/2015 10:37:12 PM PST by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: sergeantdave
The GOPe needs to lose its mask and join the traitorous, bigoted, racist, neo-fascist, commie democrat party. Then we sharpen our weapons and proceed from there to bring the whole thing down on their heads.

This sounds like the talk of insurgency--and not just political insurgency, either.

93 posted on 12/11/2015 10:55:40 PM PST by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: Rockitz
Trump should make Priebus sign a pact vowing not to have a brokered convention.

How do you imagine that he would accomplish that?

94 posted on 12/11/2015 11:00:16 PM PST by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: Parley Baer

Right on!

In the meantime, more information keeps rolling in. Here’s one from a democrat who could not easily be considered unreasonable about immigration:

Loretta Sanchez: Five to 20 percent of Muslims have a desire for a caliphate

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3371366/posts

California Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, said as many as 20 percent of Muslims desire to form an Islamic caliphate, ‘to institute that in any way possible,’ and go after Western norms, ‘our way of life.’ [snip]

~ ~ ~ ~

Here is a friendly neighbor of Farook’s ...

Sources: Enrique Marquez said he and Farook built pipe bombs as hobby

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3371616/posts

~ ~ ~ ~

They gripe themselves blue in the face about ‘Islamo-phobes’. Who are they? The ‘Islamo-philes’. They suffer from ‘Islomo-philia’.

A brokered Deal reeks of ‘Islamo-philia’. They should broker their deal in Syria — move there and stay there with their dear buddies. Then they can defend refugees personally and have skin in the game.


95 posted on 12/12/2015 2:41:18 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC's 2012 Convention actually 'booed' God three times.)
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To: jjotto

God bless Ben Carson. Might not be perfect on the issues, but he’s a good man.


96 posted on 12/12/2015 2:44:28 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC's 2012 Convention actually 'booed' God three times.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Impy

Many times people on this forum called for a Third Party to replace the ‘G’ OP. I told them we would need key leading figures to make that happen.

We are getting very close to that now as well as a constitutional amendment that allows official excoriation of corrupt and wildly unpopular politicians and judges in some strictly limited way. [More on excoriation in a followup post.]

Back to Third Parties ...

Looking back in history, even Teddy lacked the clout to replace the RNC with his Progressive Party. Thank God he failed, but being progressive was very popular back then.

Communication has come a long way since Teddy Roosevelt. Media power can come from credibility as much as money now.

If the RNC meddles with this primary in any significant way, Trump could convince talk radio to back him up in forming a new party. Get enough talk radio hosts together with Trump’s team along with other conservatives, debate on the internet, and they could negotiate a more accountable ‘By the People’ party system that decimates them in the next off-year election.


97 posted on 12/12/2015 2:55:14 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC's 2012 Convention actually 'booed' God three times.)
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To: jazusamo; Parley Baer; MarkL; Publius; loboinok; humblegunner; skeeter; ComputerGuy; Slyfox; ...

BOLD SOLUTION � Constitutional Excoriation

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3225815/posts

As people fester with impotent rage [at least until Trump came on the scene], we have a golden opportunity that another group of conservatives had. Remember the New Deal? It was not as popular as reported. FDR inspired the ‘Term Limit’ amendment [for presidents]. Congress also passed legislation to prevent packing of the courts, but that too could probably have been a constitutional amendment as well. [snip]

... we’re not talking about ‘narrow majority’ tyranny but rather a constitutional amendment would require THREE out of FOUR states to support it. If three out of four of our states are evil, then we’re lost as a nation anyway [as Mark Levin says]. So what sensible person wants us to be paralyzed in fear of 3/4ths of the states?

And I believe that three out of four WILL support some manner of this idea [probably a humdrum spin-off unfortunately]. And when the overwhelming uber-majority of states support an excoriation hearing, let’s see which congress critters object to the idea. [Write down names for the next primary.] And let’s see which members of the Ruling Class try to hide behind congressional rules [which can be suspended with the low bar of a simple majority].

The STATES can manage this hearing collectively and judiciously, and the verdicts can be creative and ribald hazings. But make no mistake — people don’t want conventional trials with all the legal baggage that goes with it. In our hearts every patriot among us yearns for subjective common sense to win the day for a change! [snip]

For starters, we could suggest an ‘Excoriation Hearing’ of the Obama Administration, [including Loretta Lynch], Lois Lerner, anti-originalist ‘justices’, Jamie Gorelick, Bill Ayers, etc.

But also the Fred Phelps activists [God-hates-bleeps], NAMBLA, ACORN. the KKK, skinheads, US Nazis, Black Panthers, New Black Panthers, La Raza, re Conquista zealots, the ACLU, FAnnie/FReddie, the credit rating agencies that deceitfully stamped ‘AAA’ ratings on bad debt, fraudsters who funnelled tax money into corrupt schemes, the most radical Islamic fanatics of our nation, the ‘carbon credit’ fraudsters, the Southern Poverty Law Center, US flag descecrators, zealot prosecutors who agitated the maximum sentence of the Philly 5, and last but not least — SOROS and his operatives. [snip]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3225815/posts


98 posted on 12/12/2015 3:09:08 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (The DNC's 2012 Convention actually 'booed' God three times.)
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To: georgiarat
. Conservatives must get control at the local and state level to keep the process honest.

Cruz forces already have folks lined up for the mass meeting in February. I'll be there to do my part.
99 posted on 12/12/2015 4:25:52 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: houeto

Yeah, well I’m not afraid of the grammar or spelling police. Only the thought police.


100 posted on 12/12/2015 5:33:06 AM PST by CottonBall
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