Posted on 03/16/2016 11:42:23 AM PDT by walford
"The media has created the perception that the voters choose the nomination. That's the conflict here," [said] Curly Haugland, an unbound GOP delegate from North Dakota.
... Most delegates bound by their state's primary or caucus results are only committed on the first ballot. If subsequent ballots are needed, virtually all of the delegates can vote any way they want, said Gary Emineth, another unbound delegate from North Dakota.
'It could introduce Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, or it could be the other candidates that have already been in the race and are now out..."
As I have said before, it is the RINOs -- and they are the ones responsible for creating an appetite for the likes of The Donald.
The GOP leadership is adamant about its position that a Presidential candidate who would be considered acceptable must be in agreement in refusing to stop illegal immigration, repeal Obamacare, stop Muslim "refugee" immigration -- and other positions that have be clearly expressed by the voting base -- as well as being in the best interests of the American people, particularly the besieged middle class.
Instead, the RINO leadership either neglects or openly disdains the voting base, preferring instead to cater to the increasingly dogmatic, ignorant and Hard Left Democrat Party base -- conspicuously including fraudulent votes from illegal aliens.
The mainstream of America is far closer to the principles of freedom, individual empowerment, equality under the law under which the Party of Abraham Lincoln was founded than they are to the collectivist, racial/class-divisive oppression championed by the Party of Jim Crow.
So, if the GOP leadership explicitly thwarts popular will and appoints yet another RINO over the heads of the Republican voters, I will join many others in staying home or voting Third Party.
We will not suffer another such betrayal again -- and the Republican Party will have shown itself to be as corrupt and irrelevant as the Whig Party it replaced.
And the Republican Party elites know this. These delegates, the Speaker, the Senate Majority leader and others may say that they want to field a fellow RINO because they believe that will give the GOP the best chance of winning the general election, but don't believe it.
Their actual objective is to lose gracefully, then go-along-to-get-along under President Hillary. They certainly would find that more comfortable than having to deal with a President Trump or Cruz.
What say you #NeverTrump GOP voters? Will you cast your ballot for Mitt Romney if he's once again shoved down our throats?
“We choose the nominee, not the voters: Senior GOP official”
Actually the GOP has the same mindset in my state. They are basically non-existent in elected office here, partly because they run the same old fossils election after election.
Dear North Dakota
Your idiot is on the loose again. Please come collect him.
Oh well, if you don’t value my vote, you won’t get any value out of my wallet.....
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Chinese Communist Party just said the same thing
This isn’t just North Dakota; I wouldn’t have bother posting and commenting if that were the case.
Mr. Hoagland is speaking out loud what the majority of the RINOs are already thinking and plotting. They do not want a conservative Presidential candidate under the GOP banner and are willing to throw the election if that’s what it takes.
Trump will gain another few points in the polls, just run this clip on TV in the states left to vote.
The voters choose whether you get to continue to exist as a political party and the GOP is dangerously close to its end of days. Closer than they want to admit.
“So, if the GOP leadership explicitly thwarts popular will and appoints yet another RINO over the heads of the Republican voters, I will join many others in staying home or voting Third Party.”
I will join another Party and leave the Republicans for good.
Now comes along a guy who doesn't need kingmakers and makes them all look like court jesters.
And so they hope to poison the king and once again become kingmakers.
They can't afford to walk back from the #nevertrump approach because they are BANKING on becoming kingmakers once again.
NDGOP contact page
https://www.ndgop.org/pages-for-menu/contact/
I called - I think people like Curly don’t have a clue how their comments play into the big picture. ND’s delegates are unbound, apparently those are the only ones he’s talking about. But his comments are playing into the big picture that the GOP elites are conspiring to thwart the greatest movement in the last 100 years of politics. I’m not sure Curly knows that - so that is what I told the lady.
People like Curly et al need to step back and look at the big picture;
Judge Jeanine: Mitt Romney awoke a sleeping giant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srGlyFyghRk
We-The-People are awake and alert - if the elitists defy us this time it will not go good.
Dear Curly,
Please broaden your horizon and get the message.
The masses are unhappy.
Dear North Dakota
Your idiot is on the loose again. Please come collect him.
The SOB Curly Hogland is one of the elite SOBs that determined ND did not need a primary caucus so he and his criminal cohorts will make th pick at the convention on April Fool’s Day.
“We choose the nominee, not the voters.”
Only at your own great peril. A representative republic is a dangerous thing to trifle with. There is a very definite social contract in operation here, and no theorists, or brain trust, is going to prevail for long without gaining the support and trust of the great number of people they claim to be articulating the positions and visions for.
Mitt Romney is a nerd who is too stupid to realize that Americans are “just not that into him”.
The lowlifes running the party rigged the system so they would have more power - and the people less...
But as bad as the GOPe is - dems are worse... That ‘superdelegate thing’ robs their base of all power.
The uniparty sucks.
“...people like Curly don’t have a clue how their comments play into the big picture...”
It seems that the GOP leadership is hell-bent upon making its Party emulate an European conservative party: that they could more efficiently manage a social welfare state — and that’s about it.
Their purpose is to make voters who advocate for freedom think that they have one — when they do not.
Hence, they want nothing to do with the likes of Trump or Cruz — preferring to lose to Hillary instead.
Is he really a “senior GOP official”?
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