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Team Cruz defends scheme to stop Trump at brokered convention: “It’s not cheating”
http://www.mofopolitics.com ^ | Dec. 12, 2015

Posted on 12/12/2015 1:47:07 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal

Shortly after Ted Cruz told GOP power brokers that Trump lacked the "judgement" to be president, Kellyanne Conway who runs Cruz's Keep the Promise I super PAC justified RNC plans to strip Trump of the nomination at a brokered convention even if he wins the most votes and plurality of delegates

KC: No, it's not cheating.

Chris Matthews: The candidate who gets the plurality of votes - the most votes should be the nominee?

KC: No, I'd have to look at the math.


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1 posted on 12/12/2015 1:47:07 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

It is not cheating and more power to him. But don’t complain when Trump “attacks” Cruz. It’s part of the game, a clash was inevitable, and these are big boys playing to win.


2 posted on 12/12/2015 1:48:57 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

I thought she was an independent pollster.


3 posted on 12/12/2015 1:49:02 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

No worries eh?


4 posted on 12/12/2015 1:49:40 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Whew boy! This is the kind of trouble that having a SuperPAC can get you.


5 posted on 12/12/2015 1:50:09 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: miss marmelstein

Didn’t she used to be a Fox blonde?


6 posted on 12/12/2015 1:50:56 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Every 4 years FReepers start screaming for a brokered convention.

If it isn’t cheating when we want one it isn’t cheating when we don’t.


7 posted on 12/12/2015 1:51:05 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Astonishing.

If that is the Cruz position (and I dont know 100% for certain), then if he’s in the same spot, I’m not shedding any tears if it happens to him.

Don’t brag about “standing up to the GOPe” and then say
“yeah, they can cheat” just because you think it might benefit you.


8 posted on 12/12/2015 1:51:10 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

The latest BS.

Trump vs Cruz grudgematch.

Laughable.

Add to the list...

Donald Trump isn`t Serious
Donald Trump is a Clown
Donald Trump lost ESPN and Macys
Donald Trump invited Hillary to his wedding
Donald Trump has no specifics
Donald Trump calls people Stupid
Donald Trump is opposed to *all* Immigration
Donald Trump makes fun of Womens appearance
Donald Trump mocks people with disabilities
Donald Trump has no government experience
Donald Trump wants to ban *all* muslims
Donald Trump will not be the nominee
Donald Trump is Hitler
Donald Trump is getting too much media coverage
Donald Trump met with Bill Clinton 7 weeks before his decision to run


9 posted on 12/12/2015 1:51:21 PM PST by Eddie01
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Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh....so that explains WHY she is so anti-Trump, when she's on FNC.

Calling her a "pollster" is FRAUD/A LIE; she's on the Cruz team.

10 posted on 12/12/2015 1:52:02 PM PST by nopardons
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To: miss marmelstein

So did I; I guess that she USED TO BE ONE, but isn’t an unbiased pollster now.


11 posted on 12/12/2015 1:53:02 PM PST by nopardons
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To: VanDeKoik
EXACTLY !<\B>
12 posted on 12/12/2015 1:54:17 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Not a good sign.


13 posted on 12/12/2015 1:55:06 PM PST by McGruff (I don't know if sand can glow in the dark, but we’re going to find out - Ted Cruz)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

I have no respect for, nor would I vote for, a opportunist who actually thought they could win after a brokered convention.

I do not care about the past. I would shun them.


14 posted on 12/12/2015 1:55:17 PM PST by dforest
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Now we have seen the opportunist TPP/amnesty flipflopping cruz’s real colors. Especially with his donor comments.

At least Carson has his honesty. Cruz is a pawn (maybe a useful idiot if he thinks they’ll actually put him on the ticket), of his establishment donors, who will back an establishment candidate that’s ‘acceptable’.


15 posted on 12/12/2015 1:55:31 PM PST by fg566asd
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To: VanDeKoik

I think the headline is misleading in that it wasn’t Cruz it was a Cruz super pac and the media is trying to stir the pot


16 posted on 12/12/2015 1:55:32 PM PST by reed13k (w)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

I have been attacking the “plurality” principle for nominations since it became clear how it was working for Romney.

It makes zero sense to declare a guy with 29% the “winner” if 71% are unalterably opposed to him.

MAYBE in a final election (although I prefer runoffs to get to 51%), but in a nomination contest with multiple points of view and multiple candidates contending, if you get 29% of the votes you should get 29% of the delegates, more or less, and if after that process nobody has 50% + 1 (although I would go back to the 67% rule in a second), then let the convention work it out.

The delegates aren’t just there for the hookers, at least in theory.


17 posted on 12/12/2015 1:55:43 PM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Eddie01

Donald Trump dissed evangelicals by noting that most Cubans are Catholic.


18 posted on 12/12/2015 1:55:53 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Don’t worry Ted you won’t have make any “agonizing” decisions during the convention. Rest easy fella.


19 posted on 12/12/2015 1:56:25 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.VE)
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To: AndyJackson

Or did he dis Catholics? Or did he dis Cubans? Someone help me out here please.


20 posted on 12/12/2015 1:56:42 PM PST by AndyJackson
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