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Ramirez Cartoon: What a Contested Convention Looks Like ...
Investor's Business Daily ^ | April 8, 2016 | Michael Ramirez

Posted on 04/09/2016 9:39:16 AM PDT by EveningStar

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To: Flick Lives
Of course this is a pretty bad analogy as in 1860 the U.S. was on the brink of civil war.

What the GOPe doesn't want to admit today, the Party is in the midst of civil war and they are losing.

21 posted on 04/09/2016 10:03:06 AM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: EveningStar

Ramirez seems to dislike Trump.


22 posted on 04/09/2016 10:06:47 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

>Lincoln was selected in a brokered convention at the WigWam in Chicago in 1860.

And we ended up with the bloodiest war in America history thanks to that choice.


23 posted on 04/09/2016 10:06:49 AM PDT by RedWulf
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To: EveningStar

This is how stupid EveningStar and the rest of the Cuck-Establishment is. They seriously think that a contested convention is going to produce a super hero like Abe Lincoln. Just you wait. Paul Ryan is going to free all those little establishment pundits, lawyers and other assorted grafters from the slavery of a real job.


24 posted on 04/09/2016 10:07:46 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Innovative

If they succeed, say good-bye to the Republican party. No one will ever trust them again.

Say hello to:

Increased taxation

Increased abortion

Increased illegal immigration

Increased funding for the whole spectrum of lunatic Global Warming fanatics

Increased racism

Increased government waste

Increased weakening of America’s military

Increased terrorism targeting Americans

Increased (and very severe) weakening of the US economy

Increased inroads on Second Amendment issues (and very possibly firearms confiscation in many cases)

Increased irrelevance of the US Constitution

... and on and on.


25 posted on 04/09/2016 10:08:49 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (uff said.)
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To: EveningStar

He’s obviously trying to say that, but the message to those with more of an education on Lincoln than what the propaganda factories spew up is quite the opposite.


26 posted on 04/09/2016 10:09:18 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: Jim 0216

Ramirez thinks everybody loves Lincoln.


27 posted on 04/09/2016 10:09:26 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Flick Lives
"Of course this is a pretty bad analogy as in 1860 the U.S. was on the brink of civil war."

And we're not?

28 posted on 04/09/2016 10:09:54 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

those little establishment pundits, lawyers and other assorted grafters = GOP ESTABLISHMENT.


29 posted on 04/09/2016 10:10:59 AM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: Flick Lives

A contested convention is being touted by the GOPe as a good thing because look, it got us Lincoln! Of course this is a pretty bad analogy as in 1860 the U.S. was on the brink of civil war.


Yes, and Lincoln made sure we had a Civil War than caused the death of the equivalent of 16 million people today and twice that injured. We are still feeling the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath.


30 posted on 04/09/2016 10:11:27 AM PDT by georgiarat (Obama, providing incompetence since Day One!)
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To: EveningStar

We’ll get a two faced fascist butcher as President?


31 posted on 04/09/2016 10:11:48 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Yaelle; Jim 0216
Ramirez seems to dislike Trump.

He's not a fan.

http://www.investors.com/politics/michael-ramirez/michael-ramirez-122215/

http://www.investors.com/politics/michael-ramirez/michael-ramirez-12716/

http://www.investors.com/politics/michael-ramirez/michael-ramirez-3416/

http://www.investors.com/politics/michael-ramirez/michael-ramirez-3716/

http://www.investors.com/politics/michael-ramirez/michael-ramirez-31116/

http://www.investors.com/politics/michael-ramirez/michael-ramirez-31416/

http://www.investors.com/politics/michael-ramirez/michael-ramirez-31616/

http://www.investors.com/politics/michael-ramirez/michael-ramirez-33016/


32 posted on 04/09/2016 10:12:58 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Lincoln was before television. The voters are going to see this sausage being made up close and personal. The Republican brand won’t survive that.


33 posted on 04/09/2016 10:13:30 AM PDT by LNV
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To: Flick Lives

We may be pretty close today also. Depends upon the determined will of the people to remain free of tyranny.


34 posted on 04/09/2016 10:15:17 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

“How.”

That wasn’t a question, but a word that was heard coming out of the WigWam.

:)


35 posted on 04/09/2016 10:17:02 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: EveningStar

Oh Great!

That guy oversaw the bloodiest war in U.S. History! It cost the lives of around 620,000. A recent study puts the number of dead as high as 850,000. The lower number constitutes about 2.5% of the population in the 1860’s

To put that into perspective if we lost 2.5% of the population that would be around 8,750,000.

Perhaps we should avoid a brokered convention and just nominate Trump. He has the best chance to win.

If you don’t believe that tell me what candidate on the Republican side can win any state that Romney did not win in 2012?


36 posted on 04/09/2016 10:18:10 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jack Hammer

And loss of the Supreme Court and that means this country will no longer survive.


37 posted on 04/09/2016 10:18:21 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: EveningStar

This is the stupid site; what better result than to get half of your opponent’s political party to mistrust and deride the other based solely paranoid scenarios. One genius here not even identifying Abraham Lincoln. The Democrat created meme of GOPe is working.


38 posted on 04/09/2016 10:30:02 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (The most vocal supporters of a good con man are the victims.)
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To: Flick Lives

And you don’t think we are now?


39 posted on 04/09/2016 10:34:12 AM PDT by L,TOWM (Is it still too soon to start shooting? [No social transformation without representation])
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To: jmaroneps37
I think a contested convention will be like a combination of the World Cup, World Series, Superbowl and World Bikini Mud Wrestling...with Trump as MC. It'd be free advertising for 96 straight hours and Trump would come out looking like Caesar, George Washington and Superman all rolled into one.

Really.... the Art of the Deal’s author as the central point of focus for a contested convention. If it was the other way around and Cruz had 700 delegates and Trump had 500, wouldn't people be saying that once Trump got to Cleveland he would wheel and deal the delegate till he won the nomination?

Anyway, saw you were a Marine and liked your posts. Semper Fi.

40 posted on 04/09/2016 10:37:57 AM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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