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Pro-Romney forces given reins to GOP convention rules, positioned to launch anti-Trump coup
Washington Times ^ | June 20, 2016 | Ralph Z. Hallow

Posted on 06/21/2016 1:07:59 PM PDT by Zakeet

The specter of Donald Trump’s presidential nomination being ripped from under him in a nastily contested Republican National Convention next month is alive — again.

Anti-Trump forces appeared to have been defeated after he ousted his remaining opponents from the race in early May and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus all signaled that Mr. Trump had sewn things up.

But weeks of bad press stemming from Mr. Trump’s criticism of a federal judge and uneven handling in the aftermath of the Orlando, Florida, terrorist shooting have kick-started efforts to deny Mr. Trump the nomination on the convention floor.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; antitrump; antitrumpromney; convention; election2016; gop; gopconvention; gopeglobalists; newyork; priebus; romney; ryan4hillary; trump; uniparty
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To: ncalburt

[The Wash Times and Wash Examiner are owned and infested with NeverTrump crazies and peddle the divde/ conquer theme non stop,.]

Ah, so like National Review and NRO .... along with Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, ClownHall and Investor’s Business Daily.


81 posted on 06/21/2016 3:14:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

They’ll be happy to put Hillary in. I think even low-energy Jeb realized the game was rigged. He knew he was a loser all along - you could read it in his face.

And his low-energy.


82 posted on 06/21/2016 3:16:30 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Dogbert41

WTF do these idiots think they’re doing?
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They are keeping the Cheap Labor Express running


83 posted on 06/21/2016 3:21:06 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: VRW Conspirator
Anybody's free to "try" to change the rules for next time.

If Trump loses the rules will be written to prevent another Trump, especially if he loses by a lot.

If Trump wins, he'll be rewriting the rules to benefit himself and nobody's going to be able to rewrite the rules to favor the old establishment.

84 posted on 06/21/2016 3:21:46 PM PDT by x
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To: HarleyLady27

One of my concerns is that Trump will be a lame duck right out of the chute.

OTOH, as time goes on, the people who are against the nation are being revealed one by one. They can be voted out IF Americans keep informed and are aware of the game being played. Whether or not they are up for election this year or not is a different story.

Of the three men listed in the OP, all are failures of mega magnitudes. They failed to win a presidency, they failed to serve the people, they failed to serve the nation, and with any luck at all, they’ll fail in their attempts to quash Trump AND hopefully, fail to be re-elected.

It’s amazing how strongly Political Correctness is being foisted onto the nation, and by both sides, and we thought it was just coming from the liberal left.

Something Alexander the great knew..change the language. When you conquer a nation, you change the language. When you do, you change the mind/mentality. There’s a lot of history that goes along with this very concept.

The question is, WHO exactly are we being conquered by, and why?

Obviously, someone is at war with us, seeks to disarm us, seeks to control the language, and the mind. It’s something NOT American, and that’s why Trump is being quashed. They do NOT want him to resurrect America.

The one way in which ‘’they’’ benefit through all of this is to see how the people are feeling, and how well assimilated we all are to their plan.I think they liked the apathy we were under, and they don’t want the sheep to have a shepherd.

We may not know exactly who ‘they’ is, but we’re begining to see who their minons are.


85 posted on 06/21/2016 3:26:51 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: vette6387

There was a thread that got pulled because of all the infighting on it last election. A list of Mormon serving in House and senate plus judges etc were given and an open questioning of the intent of having so many in ruling class was raised. I remember the list was VERY long

Mitt lost more than the American election is he angry at the evangelical who stayed home ?


86 posted on 06/21/2016 3:29:29 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US)
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To: tennmountainman
There will be GOP down ballot massive carnage, if they pull this stunt.

I fear the Senate is already in play. Mark Kirk is out no matter how much he quacks about Trump. We have to female GOP members resurrecting gun control legislation today and anyone dumb enough to help them is at risk. Snow and the fake tea party candidate Ayotte.

87 posted on 06/21/2016 3:33:45 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC-Hillary kills USA-Pick one.)
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To: Night Hides Not

1. What happened on June 6, 1844?

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The founding of the YMCA?


88 posted on 06/21/2016 3:35:13 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: mkjessup; onyx; stephenjohnbanker; SaveFerris; Grampa Dave; maggief; RitaOK; Jane Long; ...
If Trump is cheated out of his nomination at the convention -- and, at this point, the only way TO deny him would be something devious and underhanded -- it will not just cost the GOP my vote in this election; it will cost them my votes in every election, state and federal, now and forever, until this nation's fiery (and increasingly likely) end.

I will vote straight 'Rat on each and every ticket, all the way down to dog catcher, from now until the end of time. I will make it my life's work to deny them any and every office, world without end, amen.

89 posted on 06/21/2016 3:47:58 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If you can't graciously honor JimRob's wishes, then kindly stay the hell out of JimRob's house.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

lol - oops. Good catch!


90 posted on 06/21/2016 3:52:52 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; mkjessup; onyx; stephenjohnbanker; SaveFerris; Grampa Dave; maggief; ..

The Establishment doesn’t care how you vote, as long as Trump doesn’t get in. The Uniparty proved to us many times that they don’t care.


91 posted on 06/21/2016 3:53:50 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

It’s Hillary or Bust for the GOP Establishment and the anti-Trump/NeverTrump tools.


92 posted on 06/21/2016 3:57:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: SaveFerris

YES


93 posted on 06/21/2016 4:00:09 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Night Hides Not

1. What happened on June 6, 1844?

2. What happened on March 6, 1836?

3. What happened on November 22, 1963?
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1. If you meant 1944 instead of 1844 Operation Overlord, D Day

2, The Alamo

3. The assassination of President John F Kennedy, in Dallas, TX


94 posted on 06/21/2016 4:18:12 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Amen.


95 posted on 06/21/2016 4:20:47 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Zakeet

Quit spreading this leftist propaganda, Washington Times, AKA as RINO central or GOPe liars.

Romney is dead meat and has no power to change the GOP convention rules.


96 posted on 06/21/2016 5:44:42 PM PDT by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast; Jim Robinson
This just shows that a new party is needed - assuming Trump wins that is, because if he doesn’t, why bother? - and let the Republican establishment have their party, that they were effectively killing before, back...so they can finish killing it. The sooner there is no longer a Republican Party, the sooner we are rid of these corrupt scumbags.

This also shows that Jim Robinson going forward at some point may need to add a crypto key to every post.

97 posted on 06/21/2016 6:43:18 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
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To: itsahoot

Ayotte of New Hampshire is up for re-election this year.

Olympia Snowe of Maine has been out of the Senate for years.

Susan Collins....that idiot isn’t up for re-election until 2020.

I live in Maine and wrote in someone else’s name in 2014 rather than vote for that moron Collins.


98 posted on 06/21/2016 6:54:53 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban muslims, NOT guns.....Register liberals, NOT guns)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Such a move would be the end of the GOP as a political party. Just as the cancellation of election by Obama would end the Democrat Party.


99 posted on 06/21/2016 8:31:23 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Olympia Snowe of Maine has been out of the Senate for years.

I remembered that I had the wrong name, figured someone would remind me. I remember 10 years ago better than last night anymore so thanks for the correction. :)

100 posted on 06/21/2016 8:36:33 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC-Hillary kills USA-Pick one.)
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