Posted on 07/18/2016 10:47:45 PM PDT by catnipman
GOP officials crushed an attempt to change party rules
Spicer downplayed the idea the aborted rebellion was a sign of discontent in the party.
"Forty-four states were in support. This is a tiny, tiny group of folks that have made noise," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
[BTW, I live in Colorado, so I feel perfectly free to criticize those bunch of fools at the convention.]
the party stopped the temper tantrum by cruzbot bitter-enders and nevertrumpers.
The Colorado delegates should have their credentials yanked and not be allowed back in.
Dana White should go after the business practises of Mormons, if they have been ripping him off.
” the rebellion was about “incentivizing states to close their primaries.” Such a move could make it more difficult for candidates like Trump who do not have a long conservative pedigree from relying on moderates and independents to boost their GOP primary campaigns.”
Leave the rules alone. It’s that LONG CONSERVATIVE “PEDIGREE” that’s the problem. The “so-called conservatives” appear to me to be the problem in the GOP today. They seem to think that they should get 100% of what they want, or they take their marbles and go home. I’ll bet you Kendal Unruh got notes home to her parents when she was a child saying:”does not work well with others!”
It seems to me that this bodes well for Trump. It was only hours ago that I was reading about the impending chaos over this rules thing. Then ... nothing! It seems Trump is in control! ... not to be underestimated ... let’s hope.
Mike Lee really destroyed any chance he had to join his brother on Donald Trump’s Supreme Court list.
Colorado walked out? BFD - the delegates were handed to Cruz on a silver platter anyway. There was no primary there...
Send them out to “mingle” with the BLM thugs.
Within 5 minutes, they will be pounding the locked doors,
screaming to be let back in.
I have long advocated for closing all Republican primaries.
I am convinced that open primaries gave us John McCain in 2008.
Mormon’s have changed their method. They just cheat in business and politics with lawyers.
On 9/11 1857 they performed a terrorist attack that killed 120 men women and children who were passing through Utah on their migration to California.
The Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 seems to have been mostly lost to history. We must remember how these people deal with situations. They are ruthless. Don’t turn your back.
Nooooo. Taxpayers are paying for those primary elections to be run which do nothing but benefit the two parties. If they want a primary, fine. But let anyone who wants to vote in them do so.
The parties can always pay for a convention or caucus ON THEIR DIME if they don’t like that arrangement.
However, they were driven west by the same bigots that exist here on Free Republic today
Why should all states have exactly the same rules? Let each state have its own uniquely weird rules.
It might be a mess. But look at the history of central planning. In 2013 the RNC Central Commiturn Politiburo adapted the anti-RonPaul rules to create what happened in 2015-16. They intended it to benefit the likes of jebbie. But all their central planning backfired.
So why should we now double down on central planning?
TrumpRule 1:...Never underestimate the Donald
TrumpRule 2:...Always expect the unexpected from the Donald
TrumpRule 3:...The Donald appreciates loyalty
TrumpRule 4:....The Donald has an excellent memory.
TrumpRule 5:...The Donald takes no prisoners.
Basic rule of Cybernetics:
The controlling system must be at least as complex as the system being controlled
Hence the demise of communism...socialism and the GOPe.
Adam Smith's invisible hand rules.
The real pro American anti globalist base voted for Trump. Closing primaries will not change that.
Bigots?
How about the history of Joseph Smith.
Bigots?
How about the history of Joseph Smith.
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