I’ve been wavering on Trump but wow, listening to the panel on Fox tonight where they are talking about a brokered convention and that the Republican party is structured to allow the power brokers to squeeze out the person who has won the primaries. This is really upsetting to me.
I was SO disgusted when I heard this sentence (paraphrased by me): ‘The rules of the Party are written in such a manner that the Party can legally deprive the voters of their primary choice.’ How sad . .
“This is really upsetting to me.”
Me too. This is another reason why I support Trump. What has the GOPe scared is Trump does not need outside money and cannot be bought.
I’ve posted this before, but perhaps worth repeating. The morning AFTER McDaniels was torched by the GOP and Thad - weekend at Bernie Cochran was cheeeeeated into the Win column, I phoned directly to the RNC office in DC and asked... “so what did you think about last night’s Cochran victory?” And some young punk kid chuckled and said he was THRILLED with the victory, didn’t I agree?
I gave him a very polite but very terse lashing and said Democrats act that way, paying LOTS of street money to people to get them to vote for Cochran. I told him I would never give another dime to the RNC for that very reason and that I was disgusted. He wasn’t even smart enough to say anything back to me. Told him the PEOPLE pick the candidates, NOT the RNC.
I’m sure my phone call never got mentioned, although he did admit he was getting lots of phone calls like mine.
Keep calling - I have called the local offices of my reps and senators. ugh. This is really getting so bad. Agreed?
I saw that too. What they are ignoring is that the rules the GOPe set up were designed to allow a candidate to win a majority of the delegates with a plurality of the vote, including winner take all states like FL. Romney never had a majority of votes until after he had the delegate count locked up. Now those rules are working against them. When Krauthammer says “36% still isn’t a majority” it’s true, but irrelevant.
Those people, I hope, do know that if they pull a stunt like that, nobody will vote for their candidate.
I guess Hillary suits them just fine.
stop worrying.
I have run the numbers and it’s mathmatically impossible for Trump to lose as long as:
Trump stays above 20%
and no one else gets above 20%
that’s it. Nothing else is required. The winner take all states and the states with a 20% requirement to get a proportion of the delegates are more than enough alone to give Trump the nomination without a SINGLE insider vote needed for him at the convention.
It’s a brazen power grab to be played out in the open.
These are not republicans, they are leeches at the public trough. They are like jackels waiting for their chance to make off with the catch.
If the oligarchs subvert the will of the Republican primary voters there will be hell to pay.
Yep - there has been word they plan on doing a Mississippi Thad Cochran deal to screw folks on a national level. I still clench my teeth over that - ended up writing McDaniel in because I couldn't bring myself to vote for the Democrat.
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