Brokered Convention—remember, your vote counts! LOLOLOL!
Sanders is beating Hillary in NH but nobody talks about a brokered convention for the libs.
Trump is leading everywhere, already has world leaders bowing to him and the pundits still have their heads buried in the sand. It’s very entertaining to watch to say the least.
Predetermined, perhaps, but not brokered. There is nothing about nominating conventions in the Constitution. Is there anything in federal law regulating them? Those who hold the conventions can probably run them however they see fit and Trump and Cruz just do not fit. Nor does Rubio, actually. Bush is the Chosen One and the RNC would probably have to get the Family okay to substitute someone else. But why should they? The nomination is not a step to election. It is an honor for a prominent Republican of long service and as there are a number of such, it goes to the next in line and Rubio has a high number.
It would be hitting the self-destruct button on the GOP.
Nevertheless, I’m not convinced they won’t try it.
We remember what they did to McDaniel in MS to re-crown Cochran and they finally seem to realize that they have reached their limit and need to do some rethinking if they don't want to have a small blurb in history books as their only "legacy".
Look for newer and sneakier ploys as the election draws near - they might even opt to stay out of the way and use a Cruz or Trump presidency to try to get folks to trust them again. We need to keep the pressure up.
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GO CRUZ!! Keep it up Trump!!
It. Isn’t. Going. To. Happen.
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~sigh~ Not a fan of Barone, but I am disheartened to see a writer of his talent and experience using that stupid adolescent style construction.
Also, he says that the average salary in 1932 was $50. Sloppy research. It was more like $30.
But he is correct about a brokered convention, I suspect. I watch the conventions — on DVR — but they truly are an anachronism. And such a waste of money.
There's never any evidence that this evil plan actually exists because the plan was the random blog fart of some nobody on the Internet, but the pavlovian response is the same everyday.