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Team Cruz [SuperPac] defends scheme to stop Trump at brokered convention: "It's not cheating"
MofoPolitics ^ | 12/12/15 | MP

Posted on 12/14/2015 1:59:59 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans

Shortly after Ted Cruz told GOP power brokers that Trump lacked the "judgement" to be president, Kellyanne Conway-- who runs Cruz's Keep the Promise I super PAC– defended RNC plans to strip Trump of the nomination at a brokered convention-- even if he wins the majority of votes and plurality of delegates...

KC: No, it's not cheating.

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Chris Matthews: The candidate who gets the plurality of votes-- the most votes...should be the nominee?

KC: No, I'd have to look at the math.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: CottonBall

You don’t pander to both sides in the primary. That comes later.


61 posted on 12/14/2015 5:46:50 AM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Good. I hope it works. Trump is a liberal. Our country can’t survive another liberal president.


62 posted on 12/14/2015 5:47:45 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God)
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To: Jane Long; onyx

It does look like Conway...and definitely not his CFR wife.

I began as a Cruz supporter...but no longer. A few Cruz accomplishments include:
- Silence during Mississippi RNC voter fraud
- Voting for the infamous Corker bill
- Voting for TPA
- Now pushing Pathway Amnesty for the 40+ MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS in America

Cruz...just another establishment puppet


63 posted on 12/14/2015 5:49:24 AM PST by newfreep (TRUMP 2016 - "Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: JediJones
As we’ve already seen, that will likely inspire the Trump-a-maniacs to diss Levin as a fake conservative who is involved in a conspiracy to bring down the one true American savior Trump.

Levin is indeed a clown. Want evidence? He's never reported any of this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3372213/posts

When Levin starts vetting the candidate he's pushing, and stops censoring his facebook or his calls for this stuff, then I'll take Levin as an honest person again.

64 posted on 12/14/2015 5:49:57 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: SampleMan

I like the 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice voting too. But it could still result in a result sheet that shows somebody was #1 based on the first choice vote, but the actual winner was selected based on the second choice vote. People would have trouble understanding that and Trump would almost certainly raise a ruckus and obfuscate the process to make his supporters think it were stolen from him if he was the first choice winner.


65 posted on 12/14/2015 5:50:47 AM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: newfreep

What did Trump say about the “Mississippi RNC voter fraud?” Or was he also silent?

Why is not a pathway to amnesty when Trump says the illegals will be deported and then come back legally?


66 posted on 12/14/2015 5:54:29 AM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: JediJones

Well anyone could complain. And yes, it the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, choice plan could easily result in everyone’s 2nd choice or even everyone’s 3rd choice winning, but that is preferable to people taking their ball and going home.

But what is most likely is that people will pick ideologically aligned candidates in order of precedence and the final nominee will be the 1st or 2nd choice of a large majority of voters.

What is disturbing to me about many Trump supporters is what appears to be an early committal to a “my guy or no one” position. This has been fostered by both Trump and the media. I can’t stand the Dole-wing of the GOP, but now we have people claiming that Ted Cruz, yes Ted Cruz, is an establishment hack. Its just crazy.


67 posted on 12/14/2015 6:00:45 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: xzins

That would be illegal. It is a violation of federal law to promise a federal post to someone to help win an election, or, in this case, to secure the nomination for a federal office.


68 posted on 12/14/2015 6:04:07 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: newfreep

69 posted on 12/14/2015 6:07:03 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: lewislynn

Of course you would because everyone knows you’re the most intelligent, best informed person to ever walk the planet and your comment, as idiotic as it seems, has nothing to do with your disdain for Trump and his supporters

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Sounds a lot like elitist snobbery to me but what do I know, I’m one of those voters without a college degree. College degrees being the standard, by which to assess the voter’s intelligence. After all, polls do show that Trump’s support is strongest among those without a degree.

I suppose I should bow to the will of those, “more intelligent” than I am.

My betters, so to speak.


70 posted on 12/14/2015 6:08:34 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: SampleMan

Yeah, and for all the talk. They do not have any wins to show for it.

Gowdy is an amnesty pimp.


71 posted on 12/14/2015 6:08:48 AM PST by dforest
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To: CottonBall

Trump has done his service, he has taken out Bush, Walker and Perry and cleared the path for a true conservative to win the White House. I am not copying and pasting anything in threads, I am only bringing up Trump’s past. I don’t trust Trump to properly advocate and advance conservative causes when in power, he’s too much of a question mark and even now he still gravitates towards leftist positions such as gay marriage, eminent domain and ethanol subsidies.


72 posted on 12/14/2015 6:08:56 AM PST by erod (Chicago Conservative | Cruz or Lose!)
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To: sitetest

Definitely not the case with the VP candidate. That is at the discretion of the party.

However, since the president is the one who nominates the heads of the various departments, it is entirely at his discretion at the time of the nomination to whom it applies. It is not unusual at all for a candidate to say, “I’ll nominate General XYZ to be head of the DoD.” That’s entirely within their discretion. They don’t have to do so.

At the same time, they don’t have to receive the party’s nomination, either. The party can turn elsewhere.


73 posted on 12/14/2015 6:13:39 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support the troops pray for their victory!)
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To: iowamark; All
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74 posted on 12/14/2015 6:13:55 AM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: NTHockey

Cruz has been a politician the majority of his life.


75 posted on 12/14/2015 6:16:47 AM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: onyx

Geeze the things Cruz will do for money...


76 posted on 12/14/2015 6:17:22 AM PST by proust (Texan for Trump!)
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To: SampleMan

We haven’t even had a single caucus or primary yet. It is beyond stupid to talk about brokered conventions at this point, because it makes it appear

1. Something is wrong, it’s a cluster f, we don’t know what to do! Get the lawyers, they’ll tell us what to do. In other words. INCOMPETENCE

2. They don’t trust their voters. and couldn’t care less what they want. The political and ruling class will tell us who our candidate will be.

3. They are intentionally self destructing the party.

4. All of the above.


77 posted on 12/14/2015 6:20:00 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: JediJones

She was on Fox the other day looking rather old and haggard. Not the way I remembered her. She also went after Trump and made it obvious she could care less who’s nominated as long as his name is not Trump. She even mentioned Jeb.


78 posted on 12/14/2015 6:23:06 AM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

So a SuperPac does something, and this is evidence that Ted Cruz is a slimeball?

Sheesh. Some FReepers just don’t understand that by law candidates don’t control what SuperPacs do or say. Some FReepers are so each to promote their flipflop TV showman messiah trump that they’ll jump on any opportunity to damn Ted Cruz, even if it’s baseless.


79 posted on 12/14/2015 6:24:01 AM PST by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Baloney.

As others have pointed out, if several candidates are bunched together at a relatively low delegate count, even if one is leading by a few percent, a brokered convention is the right thing to do. If the leading candidate’should has under 35%, then TWO-THIRDS OF REPUBLICANS HAVE VOTED AGAINST HIM! Whether the leading candidate is trump, or Sen. Cruz, or Bush or Rubio, why should such a small plurality entitle him to the nomination?

In that case, the nomination needs to go to a candidate who can work out a compromise that win the support of a majority of the convention delegates.

If, on the other hand, if a candidate walks into a fractured convention with 40% or 45% of the vote, with the most delegates, but barely short of a majority, he will be the candidate with the best position in the negotiations for the nomination. If such a candidate wanted the nomination for himself, he would be the candidate with the easiest path to getting to 50% + 1 of the delegates to win the nomination.


80 posted on 12/14/2015 6:25:14 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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