WENDLE, you have posted a stunning and true article!
THANK YOU!
Even conservative delegates for Cruz know in the halls of their conscience that this a corruption of democracy, of one man, one vote.
I keep saying you and I get one vote, in a primary contest.
Delegates get 2, 3, 4 votes, or more, beginning at National Convention, to flip the vote of the people, or defend it.
This arbitrary number of 1237 is rigged by all the automatic delegates represented in elected state office holders from all the states. Think how large that number is. In New York, it even includes EX-Mayors!
These automatic delegates are indebted to the “system”, and the system is GOPEstablishment.
They keep sending out signals that it’s time to go for the cartridge box, because they’ve managed to corrupt or shut down all peaceful avenues for change.
Are they SURE they want to go there?
Very well stated. I am sure the two teams Trump/Cruz are well ahead of us here. This is truly exposing the system and the party as corrupt and eroding any confidence that we had in democracy. In Studying this I was flabbergasted at the screw job on the Ron Paul faction of the party. All they wanted was a nomination of their man and recognition of their efforts on behalf of their man. THEY WOULDN’T EVEN ALLOW HIS NOMINATION!!. Now the law of unintended consequences brings its revenge. So be it.
I think Trump must honor Cruz on this to control the floor. Its possible that he wont . Right now Trump is the only eligible nomination at the convention. But I see the “Art of the Deal” in play.
In the Morton Blackwell letter to the RNC previously cited not these requirements for amending the rules .
“Amending The Rules of the Republican Party goes through four successive steps: The RNC Standing Committee on Rules; the RNC itself; the Convention Rules Committee; and adoption by the Republican National Convention itself. Amendments may be made at any step of the process.”
That is vitally important in confirming the requirement of floor approval of any rule change.
This is going to be quite a ride.