We’ve had this discussion. So I won’t chew your ear again on this thread. (Well, maybe just a little bit.)
Your position on the issue still confounds me. A contested convention embodies the spirit of a representative republic. An elected body of delegates must have a process to resolve conflicts. Not having a candidate with a majority is a conflict.
If it really were as simple as that, I may be ok with it. But this won't be that simple. This will be used by the establishment to put their guy in, period. Nothing else matters to the GOP at this point, other than getting their guy in and continuing the uniparty, DC gravy train. I won't be party to that any longer.
“Your position on the issue still confounds me. A contested convention embodies the spirit of a representative republic. An elected body of delegates must have a process to resolve conflicts. Not having a candidate with a majority is a conflict.”
I agree. I just take it as a threat or sharp talk.
Of course if no one wins the required 1237, it should go to the delegates. That’s what a REPUBLIC does.
Now, would it be insanely stupid to not nominate Trump if he has 1236 and the next person was in the 800s? Yes.
But if you have two in the high hundreds, game on.
That’s how the country works.
We keep talking contested Convention, Article V, all that, because they were tools given to us to reign in tyranny and abuse. Truth is, those tools were developed at a time when there wasn’t a uniparty in this Country. There is NO DIFFERENCE between R and D anymore. They are but wings of the very same party, and they stand in direct opposition to the people of the United States.
Folks can argue that ‘rules are rules’ all they want, but if the party casts aside the clear winner of the nominating contest, simply because that candidate falls short of some arbitrary number of delegates, and instead, chooses a nominee more to the insiders’ liking, it’s going to backfire in spectacular fashion.
It would not surprise me if a full third of Republican voters stay home on election day, if the party does this.
That is not what we were told 4 years ago, when approximately 80% of the Republican base did not want Romney. We were told by the elites that a contested convention would be the most terrible thing that could happen to our party! The hypocrisy of the elites and the inability to remember 4 years ago on our part is astonishing!