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Byron York: GOP plan to stop 'runaway nominee' Trump
Washington Examiner ^ | March 3, 2016 | Byron York

Posted on 03/03/2016 10:55:59 AM PST by C19fan

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21 posted on 03/03/2016 11:22:11 AM PST by Iron Munro (Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth -- Mike Tyson)
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To: C19fan; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; 2ndDivisionVet

a bit surprising. A grave matter.

possible that candidate has little input on which delegates are going to represent him at convention. this takes some research.

In CT, the candidate chooses his own delegates.
Trumpsters better participate fully in the convention process in each state.

Caucuses and conventions are not Trump’s forte.


22 posted on 03/03/2016 11:29:29 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (https://www.facebook.com/Maine-for-Ted-Cruz-45-1557032807909913/)
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To: xsmommy; Red Badger; C19fan
Just came across my post on FR on March 17, 2012, regarding Romney's status on that date. Thought it was interesting. Perhaps you will too.
Not only does Romney seem to lack the ability to inspire us with the ideas of our Declaration of Independence from a "big government" tyrant (King George III), and the similarity of that King's actions to the tyranny we face today, but he also cannot convey the "vision" thing for our future which harmed Bush 1's candidacy.

"The People" who make up the 60 - 70% of Republicans who don't vote for him likely have studied their American history accounts of Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and Madison. They are looking for a modern inspirational leader like Reagan--a man who had taken the personal time to immerse himself in the ideas essential to liberty, and was willing and able to recognize the enemies of freedom and to engage in a battle of ideas against the counterfeit ideas of socialism.

His casual writing off of the President as "a good man who is in over his head," or that "does not understand how the economy works," is either naive or a dangerous deliberate mischaracterization.


23 posted on 03/03/2016 11:33:08 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: C19fan

Too late I think.


24 posted on 03/03/2016 11:37:07 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: for-q-clinton

Of course they will and anyone who is for Cruz that can’t see this, is in denial. To the GOPe it can’t be Cruz...only that idiot Rubio or some other puppet they stick in at the convention.

The division tactics are in full force. Sickening


25 posted on 03/03/2016 11:39:06 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

I’m for Cruz and I think most Cruz supporters realize the GOPe will try to use him to stop Trump and then turn on Cruz.

If Cruz was at top it would be the Trump and Cruz with roles reversed and GOP using one to attack the other.


26 posted on 03/03/2016 11:42:37 AM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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27 posted on 03/03/2016 11:45:38 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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I’m for Cruz and I think most Cruz supporters realize the GOPe will try to use him to stop Trump and then turn on Cruz.

They turned on Cruz a long time ago.

28 posted on 03/03/2016 11:46:36 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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Or, plans to stop those undisciplined voters. Why those founding fathers ever gave them so much power I’ll never understand. They MUST be brought back into line.

Why, next, if folks, don’t listen, there might even be people in the streets. Good thing people still believe in wresting power from an overarching government at the ballot box. You know, Mitt Romney and the elites have no idea of the anger brewing. They think it can still be controlled. If they manange to “tamp it down” at this election, it’s just going to blow sky high somewhere else. And it won’t be pretty.


29 posted on 03/03/2016 11:50:29 AM PST by I still care
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To: al_c

True. But they will turn for him to stop Trump if they have to then turn back on Cruz. I think Cruz knows this so he has to plan for it to beat them at their own game.


30 posted on 03/03/2016 12:19:33 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Red Badger
"March 15 is kind of cutoff day." Yes, that's the day Trump cuts off their........whatever........................

By the sounds of their screeching I suspect he's cut it half way, the rest come off by the 15th.

31 posted on 03/03/2016 12:22:53 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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Well, here’s RCP on Florida”

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/fl/florida_republican_presidential_primary-3555.html

This is probably the most important of the two since it will put Boobio completely out of contention and with Cruze a sorry 3rd place, denies him critical delegates. I just hope Trump gets to 50% and thereby takes ALL of Florida’s 99 delegates!


32 posted on 03/03/2016 12:34:33 PM PST by vette6387 (Obama can go to hell!)
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To: 1Old Pro

“By the sounds of their screeching I suspect he’s cut it half way, the rest come off by the 15th. “

I never knew that Trump was a Moyle? “It won’t be LONG now!”


33 posted on 03/03/2016 12:37:01 PM PST by vette6387 (Obama can go to hell!)
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To: xsmommy

True, we may be looking at a Trump / Clinton love/hate relationship campaign this summer.

But if the 65% who didn’t vote for Trump do as they did in 2012, and stayed home on election day, refusing to vote for Romney, Clinton will win. By some accounts it was close to six million. That was enough to get Obama a second term.

Since then, ObamaCare has kicked into full force, illegal aliens have swamped our borders, millions of jobs have disappeared, our enemies no longer respect us and our Allies no longer trust us. ISIS has run amok all over the Middle East and on and on and on.

I wonder if those six million people regret doing so now?

The Primaries are like the America’s Choice Awards show. They vote for their favorite candidate that they would like to see get the nomination, and the plurality wins, some states being winner-take-all, like Florida and Ohio coming up next.

The GOPe are flooding our TV and radio airwaves and cable channels here in Florida with DON’T VOTE FOR TRUMP commercials. I imagine it’s the same in Ohio. What they don’t understand is they are really pushing those people who do vote for Trump into even harder stances against everyone else. If none of the GOP candidates garner enough delegates to win on the first ballot at the convention, we may see a brokered convention, a first since Truman times.

If that happens, even Romney could get the nod again, and the same thing would happen as in 2012, only worse. All the Trump and Anti Romney voters would stay home and Hillary will become the next POTUS in a landslide.....................God help us all.......................


34 posted on 03/03/2016 12:38:44 PM PST by Red Badger (The Left doesn't like him and the Right doesn't like him, so he must be the right guy for the job...)
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“March 15 is kind of cutoff day.” Yes, that’s the day Trump cuts off their........whatever........................
By the sounds of their screeching I suspect he’s cut it half way, the rest come off by the 15th.
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Gingrich said that if Trump wins Ohio and Florida Trump is the nominee and the race for the nomination is over.


35 posted on 03/03/2016 1:24:57 PM PST by GilGil
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To: Brilliant

Exactly. If Ginsberg and the Republican establishment is so adept at preventing anyone from becoming a nominee, then how come those geniuses were unable to keep Obama from being reelected?


36 posted on 03/03/2016 1:26:15 PM PST by Navin Johnson
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