Posted on 06/20/2016 6:53:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
As Joseph Heller famously wrote in Catch-22, “just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” On today’s Morning Joe, Mark Halperin reported that GOP elites are indeed trying to “orchestrate” a “grassroots, organic” revolt against the presumptive nominee.
An “orchestrated grassroots, organic” revolt? Oxymoron, anyone? Halperin went on to state “Trump is right: there are people plotting against him.”
View the video here.
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Go Donald. We have your back...
About time these mealy mouthed do nothings are exposed......
The “ free at the trough” days are coming to an end...
Mark Halperin reports that behind the scenes, GOP elites are “plotting,” attempting to “orchestrate” a “grassroots, organic” Dump Trump movement.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
Mark Halperin’s missing the point... Party elites are NOT ever the ‘grassroots’.
Grassroots refers to ‘the people’... not to political insiders. If those insiders use ‘rules’ to nullify the votes of American citizens we’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court. Elites will lose.
Halperin’s not stupid... his comments were beneath him.
Aren’t Halperin and his pals, like Stuart Stevens in on it neck deep?
One wonders if Trump did not anticipate this GOPe move against him and continued to “uselessly campaign unnecessarily in California and other primaries after he had won the required number of delegates”. In so doing Trump won a buffer of extra delegates that provided protection he retrospectively needed to withstand such a move by the GOPe.
Trump, it seems, anticipated this effort to dry gulch him and thwarted it by gaining an additional several hundred “unnecessary” delegates. So having thus defeated this attack by the GOPe the news became “Trump wastes a month campaigning needlessly...”
Hmmm...Trump seems smarter all the time.
Stevens might be, but Halperin is surely not a member of the GOP, elite or otherwise, and I can’t imagine him being part of an effort to replace Trump with a more traditional candidate.
LOL…the very reason that the GOP is in such a shambles is that the Elites have NO CLUE what the average conservative voter is thinking. They couldn’t sell voters on McCain or Romney, so this bunch of inept pansies heading up a revolt is laughable.
I don't think so. There is nothing in the Constitution about political parties (although George Washington did warn us about them), let alone the processes by which they select nominees.
I don't think any court will hear a case about political party rules, and if it did, I don't see how it could rule in favor of the "grass roots" voters in the primaries.
The D.C. Good Old Boys club isn’t giving up their gig easily. Trump keeps rocking the boat.
The “grassroots revolt” BROUGHT us Trump. I’ve little to no interest in hearing what the GOP Elites have to say.
I think the GOP grassroots has already spoken. What part of 1500 delegates is hard to understand?
No, we won’t. The Republican Party, in fact, ANY political party, is a private organization, which can run by the rules it chooses.
If the GOPe wants to commit political suicide, there is nothing the law or courts can do about it.
But, trust me, if they even openly TRY. . . they will pay dearly, and for a long time to come.
Likely at the hands of the Dems. . .
Honestly, after GOP Inc’s antics this election season, once Trump is out of the picture (either in November, in four years, or eight years), I’m leaving the GOP and hope they go the way of the Dodo bird.
I don’t particularly like DT, but I will gladly vote and support him just to stick my middle finger in the air to Karl Rove and the PTB.
I left the GOP 2 years ago. I style myself as an Independent Conservative. ..
HAHA! Good luck with that one, GOPe!
Yes the more they beg US to vote for Illary the more determined I am for voting for Trump!
Courts have stepped in on voting issues before - and they will again...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_v._Carr
“Baker v. Carr and subsequent cases fundamentally changed the nature of political representation in America, requiring not just Tennessee but nearly every state to redistrict during the 1960s, often several times. This re-apportionment increased the political power of urban areas with greater population and reduced the influence of more rural areas.[6] After he left the Court, Chief Justice Earl Warren called the Baker v. Carr line of cases the most important in his tenure as Chief Justice.[7]”
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