Cause and effect. Trump is clearly winning the public perception war with ammunition the other candidates give him. Stupid of them, normal for Trump
Colorado GOP Lied About #NeverTrump Tweet – The Account Was Not Hacked
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If they had spent time with their constituents 'back home' instead of falling under the influence of the 'K' Street money people they might not have the problems they are anticipating in Cleveland and across the country.
[Jeb Bush said “No”]
There’s some really cool stuff he could be doing. Importing illegal labor, partying with narcotics, selling $1 store guacamole bowls to fools for $75, .........
Who was the idiot that picked Cleveland in the first place?
Can’t blame them. Who wants to be stranded inside Quicken Loans Arena for several days with riots going on outside?
Who would want to buy a ticket to that circus? It is a national embarrassment to be a Republican this year.
Jeb Bush always acts the coward (just consider how he conducted his campaign). No surprise to me that he would avoid having to be accountable for his actions directly with the people. Typical royalty thinking. Hide you coward, hide!
It's cowardly, but in politics, the term "courageous" means that you've taken a position that will cost you an election.
Whaddya know. GOPe: COWARDS!
Oh, so now they will chicken out? Guess their attempts have backfired to oust Trump.
Jeb doesn’t even have to show up get the nomination.
Trump should needs to go third party, destroy the GOP and save the country.
“House and Senate Republicans tell CNN that it makes more sense to spend time with voters back home.”
Talk about being between a rock and a hard place.
Hmmm? Voters in Cleaveland with Pitchforks or Voters in your home state with pitchforks?
Their only safe place is a Hillary townhall.
Burr should stay home actually he should have done more the last 6 years.. The lady Democrat he is facing is really a nice, well liked person who cares about her constituents. He will have a tough time as lackluster as he is.
Why wouldn’t the GOPe stay home? They already selected the winner.
TRUMP has shaken the Establishment to the bones.
Thus, the mule, Cruz.
The Estab’ dare not show up in Cleveland.
However, this mythical “RIOT” is not going to happen inside the Republican Convention.
No TRUMP supporter/delegate will be leaving for any reason.
THAT is the hope and propaganda of the Cruz/Establishment.
For one thing, delegates will likely have their hotel rooms expire before this thing is settled.
TRUMP delegates will be sleeping on the cutting room floor, ..... with Cartel Cruz grunts.
Picture that one.
Top Republicans should become lop republicans! Meaning Gone for good!
Perhaps a member of the very first Supreme Court, one appointed by none other than President Washington, may have left words of wisdom for such a time as this:
"The only real security of liberty, in any country, is the jealousy and circumspection of the people themselves. Let them be watchful over their rulers. Should they find a combination against their liberties, and all other methods appear insufficient to preserve them, they have, thank God, an ultimate remedy. That power which created the government can destroy it. Should the government, on trial, be found to want amendments, those amendments can be made in a regular method, in a mode prescribed by the Constitution itself [...]. We have [this] watchfulness of the people, which I hope will never be found wanting." - Elliot, 4:130 - Justice James Iredell (NC) - Appointed by Pres. Washington to first US Supreme Court
The time may have come for a rejection of the tired old ideas of tyranny which dominate so-called "progressive" politics of 2016.
Rather than being dispirited, we might examine what the Founders of the American Republic called, the role of "Divine Providence," whose pathway to the minds and hearts of youth can bypass even the most ardent and determined efforts of those so-called "progressives."
Now that "progressive/socialistic" politicians have captured their attention, these Republicans, who have called themselves "conservatives," have some responsibility for directing attention of youth to the ideas of the Founders, all to be found online now, not in some dark stacks on remote floors of university libraries.
For instance, last year's Sons of Liberty portrayal of Samuel Adams might allow these "Republican leaders" to introduce to Millenials his clearly-articulated understanding of liberty versus tyranny, as well as Adams clear understanding of the dangers of something he called "leveling"--today's "progressive" idea of "equalizing."
"The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. - Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom." It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." Samuel Adams - Essay in the Boston Gazette, October 14, 1771"When designs are form'd to raze the very foundation of a free government, those few who are to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin, will employ every art to sooth the devoted people into a state of indolence, inattention and security, which is forever the fore-runner of slavery." - Article signed "Candidus," in Boston Gazette, December 9, 1771
"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them." Samuel Adams- As Candidus in the Boston Gazette, January 20, 1772
"The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave... These may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament." Samuel Adams - Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772
"It is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." - The Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772
"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams
And, as it pertains to Clinton/Sanders' "free stuff schemes":
“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams
History may repeat itself.
At the 1880 Republican National Convention, Senator-elect James A. Garfield attended as the campaign manager for Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman, and gave the presidential nomination speech for him. When neither Sherman nor his rivals – Ulysses S. Grant and James G. Blaine – could get enough votes to secure the nomination, delegates chose Garfield as a compromise on the 36th ballot.
Garfield was subsequently elected 20th President of the United States.