Posted on 03/15/2016 8:26:42 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Republican National Committeeman Curly Haugland of North Dakota sent a letter on Friday to fellow RNC officials arguing that current party rules allow 2016 Republican National Convention delegates to vote for the presidential candidate of their personal preference during the first round of voting, rather than voting along with the will of voters in their states.
Haughland wrote in a letter published by The Daily Caller that the party’s Rule 38, also called “Unit Rule,” specifically allows Republican convention delegates to vote their conscience in every vote at the convention.
“Every delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention is a completely free agent, free to vote for the candidate of their choice on every ballot at the convention in Cleveland in July. Every delegate is a Superdelegate!” claimed Haughland, who also pointed out that he has “been defending the right of the delegates to the Republican National Convention to vote according to their personal choice in all matters to come before the Republican National Convention, including the vote to nominate the Republican Candidate for President, for several years.”
Haughland, who is a member of the RNC’s Standing Rules Committee, claims that convention delegates were only bound to vote along with primary results at the 1976 convention and that the requirement was repealed in 1980.
He said that Tom Josefiak of the RNC’s Counsel’s Office gave a 2006 presentation to the Standing Rules Committee in which he counseled, “One of the important rules changes over the last 50 years has been the unit rule prohibited… that change was made so that an individual delegate can vote his or her conscience.”
Haughland, who told The Daily Caller that he believes Trump will not obtain enough delegates to win the nomination, said, “The nominee of the party must receive a majority of the votes of the permanently feted delegates of the convention. That means it doesn’t make any difference what has happened in terms of primary voters, because they don’t count at the convention. It’s only the delegates at the convention whose votes matter.”
News of Haughland’s effort to convince the RNC of his interpretation of convention rules comes on the heels of a Truth in Media report that the GOP establishment is working to force a brokered convention by attempting to deny frontrunner Donald Trump the delegates necessary to clinch the nomination during the first round of voting at the convention in hopes that another candidate will prevail in a subsequent round.
It doesn’t matter. No-one can get enough votes to avoid a brokered convention. Trump’s hope is to eventually start winning 50%+. If he fails to do that, the party will consider electability and which candidate is acceptable to the largest number of people, and Trump gets destroyed in every general-election poll.
video of Kasich just on CNN and he says he’s not going to drop out and he will have the most delegates, even if he loses Ohio, he said it doesn’t matter, he WILL have the most delegates.
I was a bit confused, but I guess this is the game plan now?
“Wormtongue” is a character from Lord of the Rings, a counselor to a king who whispers defeat into the king’s ears. Wormtongue is actually working for the king’s enemies. Medved is Wormtongue, the king is his conservative audience.
Medved tries to manipulate his listeners. He counsels defeat for positions that run counter to his neocon agenda.
For years Medved argued that the issue of illegal immigration was too small to worry about (it wasn’t), then once it became obvious that it was a major concern for his conservative audience Medved did a 180 and argued that there were so many illegals in the country that you couldn’t possibly deport them. You had to give them all amnesty.
Of course the truth is that Medved had always been for amnesty. He’s a neocon and open borders and mass immigration has always been what he believes in.
Medved’s audience is mostly conservative and he’s clever at pandering to them while nudging them gently left. If you listen closely you’ll hear that he has no problem with gay marriage, Muslim immigration, amnesty, and a host of issues that many conservatives oppose. He’s sly enough not to stress his disagreements, unless he’s trashing some conservative he thinks is a threat.
Nutty Kasich rolls around waving to his admirers, convinced he can be president even if he should lose OH today. He is not dropping out until the money stops.
Rockefeller the next year though got John Lindsay elected mayor. Later Lindsay was so ungrateful that he left the so-called GOP.
Maybe that’s why Neil is out there for now: to arrange a draft of Jebbie. Barbara would be so happy after all.
Please tell me you are joking about Rush saying this about jeb.
OMG
If a majority of the delegates go for some other candidate, sure. Why shouldn't it be that way? If candidate A gets the most delegates but not a majority, and the delegates for candidates B and C are a majority, and they agree to settle on one of their candidates, what is wrong with that? It's majority rule.
In that scenario a majority of the delegates are for someone other than candidate A. Why shouldn't they have their say?
I have not missed a presidential vote since 1973 and I’m proud to say I was able to vote for Ronald Reagan. I held my nose and voted for Bush/Romney/McCain (Palin), but I’m done. Up until last week I even said I would hold my nose and vote for Cruz, but no mas. Trust me on this, I will NOT vote for anyone but The Donald. He is the only hope to start the painful process of turning this ship around.
The way I see it Hussein has already wrecked Amerika. But, in fact it is not Obama or the Demoncrats or even the GOPe, but we ourselves who have done this. As a people we turned from God and Christian values to pleasure, greed and lasciviousness (yes, I am guilty too). We hit the iceburg and the ship is listing but somehow still afloat. I believe the wound is mortal, but who knows, maybe enough people will repent and God will have mercy on us as a nation. We need a rough man as our leader, a “Wartime Consigliere,” a David not a Solomon. I know Trump may not even be a Christian, but I think he wants to be and that he will eventually trust Christ as his Savior if he has not already. I believe that he is the right man for the job.
Besides, as sad as it is to have watched my beloved country devolve so quickly from the most blessed and prosperous nation in history to one that denigrates all things Christian - “this world is not my home I’m just a passing through.” As a Christian I look forward to “that blessed hope” and the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It will be the death of this party if the GOP does not go with the winner of the primaries. I have never seen the electorate so mad at their leaders....they will not recover betraying the base one more time in such a grand manner.
Which won't matter, because they will have proven once and for all that there is only one Federal Government Party, anyway.
So you are fine with the GOPe making a backroom deal to put their candidate in place of someone the people picked? Unbelievable.
Rush is really saying that.
I wouldn’t take that to mean that Rush is supporting Jeb!, rather that he just agrees that this is the current GOPe plan for seizing the nomination from the rabble (us).
No, all you do is hand this country over to socialist for years like Canada did. The only way to get change is to destroy the leadership from within and Trump is not going to do that even when he wins the nomination. Trump has a few issues the everyone is hot-to-trot on but you are not listening to what he is really saying on the rest....he fits right in with the elite.
All this type of talk from these articles is nothing more than dems and a few wacko elites wishful thinking.
Thanks for the explanation.
You obviously put a good amount of time and thought into it - I appreciate it.
They can pick anyone they want but it will not be Rubio, he has shown himself to be a poor campaigner. Not going to happen anyway.
It is almost as people have lost all knowledge of GOP history and any logical thought in their emotional Trump madness.
No, this stupid stealing the primary win from Trump is not going to happen. The GOP would like to survive long enough to see their families again after the convention.
But let's say it did happen in some wacko fantasy future, THE GOP WILL NOT PICK CRUZ, THEY HATE THE GUY. That has to be one of the more bizarre political reads I have read in a while.
Not necessarily.
Lots of people run for those offices that aren’t R and D.
I don't know why some of you still think Ted Cruz, as far as being a conservative, is the purest of the pure. He has slowly demonstrated he is willing to sacrifice those principles for political ambitions. You might want to read this from our own Free Republic and the Washington Post:
Ted Cruz finds new allies in GOP establishment he rails against
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