Posted on 04/12/2016 7:30:24 PM PDT by Amntn
On Saturday Ted Cruz supporters took all 13 of the delegates up for grabs at the Colorado GOP Convention to complete a clean sweep of the state.
But it was not without controversy. There never was a vote – Party elites decided on who got the delegates.
The anti-Trump politicians were passing around a “Resolution to Forbid Colorado Delegates from Voting for Trump” for weeks before the convention.
Snip... Robert Zubrin from Colorado Republicans for Liberty wrote about the anti-Trump resolution at American Thinker back on March 22, 2016:
In the caucuses March 1, I was elected an alternate delegate to the Colorado State GOP convention, which on April 9 will select and instruct our delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer.
Accordingly, I have drawn up a resolution that is now being circulated that will forbid Colorado delegates to the national convention from voting for Donald Trump for president or vice president on any ballot. Such a resolution is necessary, because Trump has publicly stated that his methods of operation include buying or renting the services of politicians for cash.
As the text of the resolution provides a succinct and forceful summary of the reasons why Donald Trump is unacceptable as a Republican candidate for president, I thought I would share it with the readers of American Thinker. Here it is:
Resolution to Forbid Colorado Delegates from Voting for Donald Trump
Whereas Donald Trump is not a Republican; and
Whereas Donald Trump is a demagogue who is using fear, hate, and lies to assemble a mob in support of an agenda of socialist policy, unlimited government, and strongman rule; and
Whereas Donald Trump would destroy the Western alliance which is the basis of American security; and
Whereas Donald Trump would destroy the system of international trade which is the basis of American prosperity; and
Whereas Donald Trump would destroy the freedom of the press that is the basis of American liberty; and
Whereas Donald Trump would destroy the rule of law which is the basis of American civil society; and
Whereas Donald Trump has mocked those who risked their lives to fight for America when he avoided doing so; and
Whereas Donald Trump has acted as an apologist for America’s enemy Vladimir Putin and other brutal anti-American foreign tyrants; and
Whereas Donald Trump has set himself forth as an open exponent of lust, greed, and other vices antithetical to Judeo-Christian ethics and the moral fiber necessary to sustain a republic; and
Whereas Donald Trump has demonstrated that he has no respect for the truth, and
Whereas Donald Trump has defrauded thousands of ordinary Americans of their life savings; and
Whereas Donald Trump has, in the course of the present campaign, committed acts potential prosecutable as incitement to riot, a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison; and
Whereas Donald Trump has knowingly acted to degrade the Republican presidential nominating process to a vile level that can only serve to drive people of talent and integrity out of the party and assist in the election of the party’s opponents; and
Whereas the nomination of Donald Trump for president would insure a landslide defeat for the Republican Party nationwide in the fall, and deeply damage the Republican Party and the conservative movement for years, and possibly decades to come; and
Whereas a vote for Donald Trump by any member of the Colorado delegation to the Republican National Convention would dishonor and disgrace the Colorado Republican Party;
Therefore, be it resolved that:
The Colorado Republican Party forbids any of its delegates to the Republican National Convention to vote for Donald Trump for president or vice president on the first ballot or any other ballot, and The Colorado Republican Party asks its delegates to national convention to pledge on their honor to do everything in their power to help secure the presidential nomination for someone other than Donald Trump. Donald Trump has threatened the Republican Party with mob violence. Let’s tell him where to go!
Colorado Republicans for Liberty
The anti-Trump officials handed out this same resolution at the state convention on Saturday.
The Bushes strike again!
And of course the GOP prefers their politicians "be the one rented and bought".
‘These idiots just threw Colorado into the DIM column in the general election unless Trump is the nominee ...’
Exactly, Neu Pragmatist. Cruz is just their cats’ paw.
Quick review of the wording:
‘... and The Colorado Republican Party asks its delegates to national convention to pledge on their honor to do everything in their power to help secure the presidential nomination for someone other than Donald Trump.’
This is un-frickin’-believable.
Rules?
There were more than rules broken here....laws were broken.
The GOP and Romney/Rove/Soros are curse on the
American People and their Constitution.
>>Disfranchisement!
It’s only disenfranchisement if a Democrat can’t vote.
You stated “I believe it probably would have been ruled out of order as it violates a bunch of other rules.”
That is irrelevant: The fact is “once heard it cannot be unheard and once seen it cannot be unseen.”
That was the purpose of that piece of toilet paper...and it worked.
I’ll remember this post when Cruz gets shut out in the NE.
The “it’s not cheating, it’s winning” will go down as the sentence that ripped the cover off Rush Limbaugh’s deception, if one was needed.
There never was a vote – Party elites decided on who got the delegates.
Author argues there was never a vote and then puts forth evidence that there was. An odd way to try and sway opinion.
“Lying globalist shills Levin , Limbaugh , and Beck said this is the rules , nothing more , nothing less ...gotta play by the rules ...”
Yep. What amazes me is that this kind of statement is supposed to shut everyone up and explain everything and make this all go away.
Never MIND that the rules are rigged and unfair. Never MIND that one of the rules is that the people making the rules can change the rules anytime they want.
Rush sounded so amazed yesterday that anyone would believe that the rules would EVER allow ANY outsider to win an election. In which case, I have to ask, why should anyone in America (in either party) even bother to vote when it’s preordained (by the “rule makers”) that our ONLY choice now and forever will be
A) Corrupt establishment candidate 1 who will destroy our country even more or
B) Corrupt establishment candidate 2 who will destroy our country even more.
but but but I keep hearing the establishment talking points off the Vichy republicans and conservatives on here saying it is the rules.
Course these Vichy idiots don’t mention it is the establishment they protect that make the rules to suit themselves, bit like Castro saying it is the rules or Pol Pot saying it is the rules.
ping
Bookmark.....too delicious
I was at the precinct convention and went to the county assembly. A good friend of ours is the district chairwoman who sees every resolution that made it to the county assembly. Another friend of mine is county GOP chairwoman and our state rep is a friend-—and none had heard of any such resolution and wouldn’t have voted for it even if it made it out of the precinct wherever this yahoo lived.
There are nuts on all sides. But do NOT believe anyone who tells you there was a fix in Colorado.
Whereas Trump would be the only candidate to expose and fix the evil corruption that is the Republican party.
Limbaugh is trying hard to sound unbiased but is failing pathetically. He may as well go the route of Beck and Levine and admit he’s bought and paid for.
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