Posted on 03/21/2016 11:46:28 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
[...] Delegates elected directly on ballots are a rarity. In most states, conventions or party committees handle the process weeks, or even months, after primary and caucus votes are cast, and often long after the emergence of a presumptive nominee. What has traditionally been an overlooked part of the process is taking center stage.
The GOP’s best hopes of picking off Trump delegates won’t come from people like Kozanecki, who had to collect 100 signatures to qualify as a delegate, but from places where party committees wield influence, like South Carolina and Tennessee. In Tennessee, for instance, the state chairman offers a slate of delegates for confirmation by the state’s executive committee. That means anti-Trump delegates could theoretically be selected with a commitment to vote for Trump only on the first ballot. In South Carolina, delegates had to be placed on a slate in 2015 — well before Trump’s team began organizing.
In New Hampshire, where campaigns submitted slates of delegates, Trump sought to ensure loyalty by sending campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, a native of the state, as a delegate. But those pledged to other candidates include state party chair Jennifer Horn, who was outspoken in her criticism of Trump and is one of the three delegates pledged to Jeb Bush in the state. (Bush delegates will be released should he formally withdraw his candidacy.)
In Washington, D.C., where Marco Rubio won the vote days before dropping out and Kasich came in second, every delegate contacted said their delegation is unified against Trump. “I ran as a never-Trump person, so I won’t be supporting him,” says Rich Counts, a 2012 delegate pledged to Rubio. “I’m open to anyone on the second ballot, but him.” [...]
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If the Establishment tries the least bit of shenanigans, the whole Party will blow up FOREVER.
This is a sham. If this convention does not fulfill the will of the people, you will see hell on earth and I caution you to realize that the ramification of a theft from the people will drag Rinos out of the Senate and the House in simultaneous defeat by the score. Somebody better tune into the people of this country and get off this oligarchy crap.
The GOPe fools believe that they can ignore the people and just “mange” the fallout and that we will eventually be “managed” to come back to them. This is the sort of stupidity that listening to behavioral pseudoscientists will get you into. They are completely out of touch, as is usual with the corrupt.
They should be prepared to be unseated. Contrary to popular belief, a delegate is not guaranteed a trip to the convention. You want to give the finger to voters in your state, your State party can pick someone else to be on the delegation.
Little fascist wannabees might want to keep in mind they represent the voters, not their own egos.
True.
Especially after RECORD turnout in every state this year.
As a matter of fact, criticisms of the current President's willingness to ignore the will of the people and bypass the Constitution through exercise of so-called "executive" actions may even pale in comparison.
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." - Thomas JeffersonPerhaps these "elite" Republicans should have been insisting on wresting the controls on education in America from the "progressives" and "informing" them on the ideas underlying the documents of their liberty.
I have run a campaign for Alan Keyes in Iowa in 1996. The most anti-GOPe guy that year. I have always supported the most conservative guy. So if I went to the convention and supported Cruz would that make me GOPe?
I think there are two issues.
1) There are some people who would never support Trump.
2) There are some GOPe people who hate Trump AND Cruz.
I think you need to recognize that some conservatives don't support Trump because he is not conservative. That does not make them GOPe.
I think you need to recognize that some conservatives don’t support Trump because he is not conservative. That does not make them GOPe.
Campaigning to fast track the most lawless POTUS in histories trade agenda is not “conservative”. Voting to bust the treaty clause is not conservative. Writing a Senate amendment to massively increase the broken H-1B program is not conservative. Punting on Lawrence v. Texas is not pro family conservatism. Etc., Etc.
Ted Cruz is a careerist politician and conservative of convenience. When it advances his career he is with us. When it doesn’t, we are SOL.
Do you think Trump is more conservative than Cruz?
The GOP insiders know that too, and we know they are NOT known for their intestinal fortitude OR their ability to pull off some kind of insider plot.
When you realize the enemy is the same bunch who put up McCain and Romney, it’s easier to keep this kind of noise in perspective.
If the GOP fails to follow the will of the voters, they should expect us to write Trump in on our ballots, and vote AGAINST every single R down ticket.
After the insults from Cruz, I can never vote for him. Ryan and Mittens pretty much ensure complete destruction of the Republican Party.
It is my hope that Trump has already spoken with other parties who have ballot access in all 50 states. That party would inherit the majority of the old and defunct GOP.
I know I am changing my affiliation to Independent after this cycle after 36 years of voting Republican. The party is dead to me.
would have believed that if the tea party Overwhelmingly won and kept to their word last election.
you think they care if you’re mad?
plenty of rinos to elect them again.
four years of Hillary and business as usual.
and then what? we elect a slew of fake “tea partiers” who do nothing when they get to congress and become RINOs in two weeks?
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