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Republican Officials Brace for Chaos at Convention
NYTimes ^ | JULY 13, 2016 | JEREMY W. PETERS

Posted on 07/13/2016 6:31:08 PM PDT by 7MMmag

CLEVELAND — Republicans are bracing for the possibility of a drawn-out fight over Donald J. Trump’s nomination that could stretch into the convention next week, a spectacle party leaders are desperate to avoid.

As the party’s leadership convened in Cleveland on Wednesday for a series of organizational meetings, the possibility that the smoldering dissent over Mr. Trump could become a full-blown eruption on the convention floor was a top concern.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2016rncconvention; cleveland; gopconvention; priebus; trump
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To: Tau Food
>>>> If they want a fight, Trump will give them one! On this issue, he cannot afford to show any weakness. <<<<

Sure he could afford what some would prefer to characterize as weakness, when instead it can be, and should be reasonableness.

The mountain of conventioneers need to discuss and form Party planks, though they may do best underselling whatever they come up with. Let it be all dog whistle, all the time? People will get sick and tired of hearing that d-g phrase aimed at mild & vague-y sounding GOP version of hope n' changey. The mountain then goes to Muhammad -- uh, in this case, I mean the guy with the most delegates going into the convention. That guy sifts through a bit of this, and of that, agreeing here and there, putting down one, or two things, setting those aside in some brief rhetorical flourish, then becomes one with the mountain. Then we win in November (I do fervently hope).

21 posted on 07/13/2016 7:28:31 PM PDT by 7MMmag ( Greetings from Mad Mohamed' ---Aloha Fubar!--- (now submit to me and my posse, or die!))
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To: All

I predict a lot of people booing Trump’s acceptance speech. And a lot of people walking out. It’s all part of the plan to elect Hillary.


22 posted on 07/13/2016 7:38:45 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (hammer management)
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To: 7MMmag

So funny that Those who took the pledge lied.


23 posted on 07/13/2016 7:58:11 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: 7MMmag
For Mitt, Kristol, and the Anti-Trumpers:

24 posted on 07/13/2016 8:04:44 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Secret Agent Man
>>>> Inside or outside?

Yes. <<<<

So? Let there be a first-round protest vote. After that, those delegates who have voted as they were assigned from the primaries (or have revolted, and cast votes for other than Trump, if there is any of that kind of thing allowed under GOP party rules, and state and federal election laws) can be queried concerning what their concerns are.

What's the Party's platform here? Should there be any platform, at all? If there is, how should 'plank' items among GOP be worded? Is Trump good with it? If so -- then what's the beef?

After a few rounds of voting, then ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. And here's what he stands for...

Perhaps I'm not understanding how electoral Party Conventions go, or am dimly recalling how electoral convention proceedings were once portrayed to include...and am not getting that right.

Or maybe, just maybe, some of the hand-wringers around this joint (present company excluded) should sit tight in their Depends, if it turns out they insist upon crapping themselves and having irritated itchy-butt ---that drives them to projectile vomiting crankiness aimed at each and every soul who does not simply fall prostrate on the floor before the Donald.

Trump likes to be number 1, of course -- but I get the impression that at this point, he's on the look-out for the best ideas, and the best people. (Sorry Newt, there could be a place for you, but as you've said, you don't want to attend perfunctory meetings and funerals in foreign lands)...

Who's streets? OUR streets.

GOP delegates could make the rioters in the streets look bad (even worse than they are, and will be) by getting down to business and agreeing upon what is important. At risk of appearing to come across as borrowing from AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) handbook -- put principles over personalities. That principle can apply to tee-teetotalers too.

Trump is more than open to suggestions? Or am I projecting onto that man something not there?

25 posted on 07/13/2016 8:11:03 PM PDT by 7MMmag ( Greetings from Mad Mohamed' ---Aloha Fubar!--- (now submit to me and my posse, or die!))
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To: vladimir998

“Anyone hear of any plans (on the part of BLM et al.) to shut down highways near Cleveland?”

Cleveland has a long and proud history of rioting; remember the idiot yelling about her free “Obama fo?” That was in Cleveland.

Why the RNC picked Cleveland is a mystery to me! It’s simply courting danger. Why not pick a mid size city, run by a Republican mayor, in a reliably Red state?


26 posted on 07/13/2016 8:24:11 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: 7MMmag

So Jeb Bush mr 3% still thinks hw can get nominated.


27 posted on 07/13/2016 8:43:40 PM PDT by seawolf101
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To: seawolf101
He does?

Please don't tell me you are you wearing Depends.

28 posted on 07/13/2016 9:25:52 PM PDT by 7MMmag ( Greetings from Mad Mohamed' ---Aloha Fubar!--- (now submit to me and my posse, or die!))
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To: Secret Agent Man
Just for fun, a youtube comment (we all love those, don't we?) about your name-sake, coming from somebody who identifies there as WarpChaos;

"Secret Asian Man reads a rife of danger."

29 posted on 07/13/2016 9:37:38 PM PDT by 7MMmag ( Greetings from Mad Mohamed' ---Aloha Fubar!--- (now submit to me and my posse, or die!))
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To: ifinnegan

After getting screwed over again and again and again by the GOP pols, some people have started to expect attempts to screw us over, whether there’s evidence or not.


30 posted on 07/13/2016 10:02:03 PM PDT by Luircin (Stomp Hillary, build wall, stop Islam. Any of the above are good reasons to vote. Trump 2016)
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To: SERKIT

Yep! Just do it!


31 posted on 07/14/2016 4:48:54 AM PDT by Dustoff45 (Voted Palin in 08, Republican in 12, Voting Trump in 16)
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