Posted on 03/23/2016 5:49:58 PM PDT by Steelfish
It’s the End of the Line for GOP as We Know It By JONAH GOLDBERG March 23, 2016
(snip) Nominating Donald Trump will wreck the Republican party as we know it. Over the weekend, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus showed the first public signs of acceptance about what’s in store for the party. He finally acknowledged that the Republican nominee was probably going to be determined on the convention floor in Cleveland. Priebus explained, rightly, that the rules are the rules, and that if Trump can’t secure the required 1,237 delegates before Cleveland, it’s anyone’s game. “This is a delegate-driven process,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash.
“The minority of delegates doesn’t rule for the majority.” Donald Trump Doesn’t Have the Character to Be President Trump’s response to this floor-fight talk was to vomit up the usual word salad. “All I can say is this, I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Trump told ABC’s This Week. “But I will say this, you’re going to have a lot of very unhappy people [if I’m denied the nomination].
And I think, frankly, for the Republicans to disenfranchise all those people because if that happens, they’re not voting and the Republicans lose.” Even through the syntactical fog, Trump’s point is clear: If he can’t reach 1,237, he should get the nomination anyway. Because he is Trump. If that doesn’t happen, his supporters will stay home, defect from the party, riot, or all three.
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The GOPe has absolutely no intention of letting Trump or Cruz get the nomination. The only chance for either one of them is to have 1237 on the first ballot.
If that fails to happen the Sea Island Republicans will give the nomination to one of their own. The rules are on their side, they wrote them, and they will enforce them despite the risk that doing so will destroy the Republican party. They don’t believe that it can happen. It will.
In other words, no evidence. Just your own speculation. And the fact that there are multiple polls saying about the same thing? Further proof of how broad the conspiracy is?
If Trump is robbed of the nomination I will never vote for another Republican again. It hasn’t made any difference anyway.
You're an extremely nasty and vile individual. You're over here lying about Trump supporters supposedly being ga ga for Fox News polls for months (a verifiable lie), among many other nasty things.
Party first - nation second
Tons of evidence such as history of push polls and the fact they are total garbage. You know they are garbage. Just another game the Establishment is trying which will fail like all the others.
GOP should have thought about that before betraying its base.
What a shock!
A Watching you cruz crazies out yourselves as amoral win at any cost hacks has been entertaining
The GOP died under a thousand points of light.
We have been watching the GOPe, with a great deal of help from Cruz and Kasich, screw Trump throughout this primary election. If they weren’t doing everything they can to stop him, he would be way ahead and beating Hillary in the polls. They may think they would rather have Hillary than Trump, but the down ticket losses will ensure the GOPe is done. America will be done too, but we are seeing that we are already there. Just look at how many are supporting the GOPe and their efforts to undermine what the majority of people want.
After all the dirty tricks to crush Trump, can’t expect ppl to vote for the GOP anymore. Just one big scam.
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“End result: establishment wins the nomination battle, loses the general, and destroys the gop in the process. Good news is we’ll get a new political party in the end.”
Might find out if there’s any fight left in the American people too. Because you can bet your last worthless dollar that with the Marxist totalitarian Left in charge of the government, the courts, and the bureaucracy, that the Second Amendment will soon be “executive ordered” into oblivion.
Bingo
“Rules are rules even for Trump. If Trump doesn’t win on the first ballot, it goes to an open contest”
Fine and dandy but it appears that the GOPe is already changing the rules.
He is be of the nastiest ones here.
They will use Cruz to stop Trump then turn on him either at the convention (or before) or during the general when he will suddenly not be acceptable any longer.
The fight was with Trump. Cruz is being used to thwart the effort.
(Sigh)
Yeah, that’s a distinct possibility.
Although I’m sure it’s obvious that I’m a DT supporter, its not because of his political views. It’s because I think he has the best chance of helping us avoid a repeat of the 1860s.
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