RNC Official Claims ‘Every Delegate Is a Superdelegate,’ Can Override Will of Voters

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[HamiltonJay]

8 months ago, the GOP primary national polling had Trump at 18% and Jeb Bush at 15%, Scott Walker had 10% and no one still in the race besides Trump was above single digits.... look how that turned out?

Citing some hypothetical poll today as indicative of what will happen 8 months from now is borderline insane.

If you think for one minute that if you put Hillary on the same stage as Trump for 2 or 3 hours live, that Hillary is going to win that battle, you haven’t been paying attention for the last 8 months.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So we should just drink the KoolAid and get used to being treated like unwelcome step=children by the establishment?

[conservativesister]

This is a pretty private list of co-horts, I’ve searched and can’t find other members of Curly’s elite committee. I guess the RNC keeps everybody covered. I certainly wanted to blast off some emails.

[Kit cat]

I FIRMLY believe Trump can win 3rd party !!! He is NOT depending on their money!!! HE is the ONLY one that can do it!!!

[catnipman]

“If the establishment picks anyone other than the person who won the most delegates, the GOP will lose in November.”

Indeed. And lose big time at that.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So you think that a person who gets FEWER votes than Trump should get the nomination?

[frnewsjunkie]

We are down to this: the republican establishment is going to do the same thing that got them in this mess... to not listen to the voice of the people and overrule our vote. They have to be stopped!.. taken apart!.... the establishment consists of both parties and the media... they have chosen the candidate for so many years... it has to end.

[cookcounty]

I don’t understand why they don’t let the candidate’s campaigns pick the delegates from the states and districts from which they were won.

Every state makes their own rules. In some states, this is exactly what happens. The State Republican Party rule-makers get there by election. The people that vote in those elections for state officials are the people that actually show up for caucuses, something Trumpers are too arrogant to do.

In my March 1st precinct caucus (Colorado), there were only 4 Trumpers that showed up. They were unprepared, had done nothing to understand the process, had to have everything explained to them. Out of fairness, I tried to help them, one of them did try to run for higher position, but had little support. Cruzers pretty much seized the apparatus because they were the only ones who were serious enough to try. So live with it, Trumpers. Rallies are fun (but more time-consuming) than caucus attendance, but there's a price to be paid for focusing on "feel-good" politics. Trump will not win Colorado's delegates, Cruz will. Because his supporters cared.

[Vinnie]

If they manage to screw Trump or Cruz out of the nomination I will be sleeping late the first Tues. after the first Mon. in November.

[pfflier]

If the establishment picks anyone other than the person who won the most delegates, the GOP will lose in November.

The GOP would evaporate if that happened.

This is a very enlightening view into GOPe attitudes though. We have seen exactly that attitude in the last two elections, get the House, get the Senate, get the same old sh!t.

[Robert A Cook PE]

They really are that bloody stupid, that completely ignorant of today’s environment outside of their sterile little pocket of corruption in DC!

They really are. Until these friggin’ idiots started shooting their mouths off the past few months, I thought the democrats were stupid. Misguided, zealous ideologues who were following their tribe (socialism) despite the evidence. But now?

[tenger]

You're all gonna march, huh? Pfft! Not likely. Lots of bravado but nothing to back it up.

If you haven't marched already because of the 300K abortion murders each year by Planned Parenthood as well as the non-defunding thereof ($500 MILLION), what makes us believe you'll march over this (as only ONE example)? None. Zip. The elites on both sides have been betraying us for years, what makes this any different?

Perhaps action is better than words.

Words, just words.

[9YearLurker]

But would he be able to get on the ballot in enough states at that point?

[TXSearcher]

Haughland, who is a member of the RNC’s Standing Rules Committee, claims that convention delegates were only bound to vote along with primary results at the 1976 convention and that the requirement was repealed in 1980.

Since this supposedly has been the set up since 1980.....inquiring minds want to know how many times have they used this "rule" to override a primary?

[jersey117]

If they screw the voters, I will drag myself to the polls to pull the D lever on every down ballot candidate. We can all play that game. Either way, lots GOPe’s will be out of a job.

[dearolddad]

Does this mean that Mittens will be the GOP nominee again?

If loser Mittens is appointed, me and mine will sit out the election.

[9YearLurker]

How’s he gonna get on enough ballots at this point?

[SgtHooper]

Bingo!!

[Flick Lives]

“Every delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention is a completely free agent, free to vote for the candidate of their choice on every ballot at the convention in Cleveland in July. Every delegate is a Superdelegate!” claimed Highland...

If they are really stupid enough to pull this shenanigan, then it would lay bare the fact that the votes of the people are irrelevant. They're nothing more than a little show to provide people the illusion they control the government.