Posted on 07/15/2016 6:25:09 AM PDT by rktman
It’s black outfits today for the mourners of the passing of the #NeverTrump movement. After last night’s votes in the Rules Committee of the Republican Nartional Convention, the dream of a nominee with a name other than Trump is dead. James Arkin writs at RealClearPolitics:
A long-shot, last-ditch attempt by a few Republican delegates to prevent Donald Trump from securing the GOP nomination failed by an overwhelming margin late Thursday night.
Some anti-Trump delegates on the Republican National Convention Rules Committee sought a strategy to unbind convention delegates, allowing them to vote their conscience against Trump even if they were bound to him by primary results. Delegates loyal to Trump and the Republican National Committee fought back by proposing a counter-measure to clarify that all delegates are bound to vote based on the primary results.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The first and only time I ever saw Pence was on a Sunday morning talk show early last year. I was a bit impressed at that time.
Mark Belling, Cheap Labor Express propagandist
I agree...I think Pence will be good for VP.
/sarc
Rock solid conservative?
Pushing an ineligible foreign born son of a foreign national, DOUBLY ineligible candidate is NOT conservative.
Will you people stop that crap? Cruz is a natural born citizen per the most recent court decisions and legal opinions.
What are YOU going to do? Vote for that criminal Hillary and let her pack the Court with Leftist Statist judges???
Your kind of political “purity” helped put Obama in the White House TWICE.
How did THAT turn out????????
**#NeverTrump movement died in Cleveland last night**
Hooray — now they can represent OUR VOTES!
Oh how I WANT THE NAMES of those who tried this move and wasted money on. I wasn’t one of them.
If at all possible, I will help delete them from the party.
As a historian, I would suggest that there were only two VP picks that in any way affected elections since WW II:
1) LBJ, who stole Texas for JFK.
2) Geraldine Ferraro, who had the “distinction” of being the first woman. She didn’t change the votes, but it did, by definition, change history.
I think for every vote Palin got for McCain, she probably lost one of the independents that might have voted for him. Not her fault, but that’s how the media spun her comments and made her look.
I am going to vote for Trump, who is the GOP nominee AND a natural born citizen, born here of citizen parents.
Never been anything else but a US citizen.
Could not be anything but a US citizen.
Solely a US citizen.
Obama is not a natural born citizen.
He was self-admittedly born a British subject.
Do you really think the founders would think someone born a British subject is s natural born US citizen?
Most of them were born British subjects so they exempted themselves with the part about “citizens at the time” because they knew there could not be natural born citizens for 35 years.
Born here of citizen parents.
I was born here of American citizen parents and I was a supporter of Trump from the very start. As a matter of fact, I wondered why he hadn’t run earlier. He WILL be the next President of the United States.
By the way, I sent him two campaign contributions ALREADY and MORE will follow.
Wouldn't that actually bar him from being consider a constitutional conservative then?
Cruz was right on philosophically, but totally lacking in Trump’s dynamism.
Cruz was (and is) terrible on his actions, which really shows his true character:
My condolences to all the FR Party Groupies who met their fates last night. We voted for your “only candidates who can win...” both Bush’s, Dole, McCain and Romney and yet they couldn’t stomach anyone they and their beloved Party couldn’t control.
The establishments love of money and power instead of country brought them to this fate and Samuel Adams had the same problem with people like this as we do now in the Revolutionary Era and his response is still appropriate today:
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” — Samuel Adams
Sen. Lee was the “highest” ranking opposition I saw. He stood and asked the delegates to vote against the amendment. I didn’t consider him left wing and he was a TEA Party darling at one time.
Good points. Are you voting for Trump?
So, what is holding Cruz back from endorsing Trump at this point?
Anyone?
Beuhler?
Barring some truly stellar shift in the man or the political landscape, yes: he's the only major candidate that loves the US.
Yep, especially to your last line.
+1
Good gosh. Well, not surprised based on what else we saw.
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