Posted on 04/08/2016 1:38:22 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer predicted that the Republican Party would most certainly collapse if Donald Trump is denied a presidential nomination at the convention in July.
In his latest column for the Washington Post, Krauthammer said if Trump does not lock up the nomination before the convention — he has the most delegates but needs a majority — it is possible the party will coalesce around an alternative and the billionaire's supporters will walk away, leaving the party in shambles.
"And if Trump loses out, a split is guaranteed," wrote Krauthammer. "In Trump's mind, he is a winner. Always. If he loses, it can only be because he was cheated. He constantly contends that he's being treated unfairly. He is certain to declare any convention process that leaves him without the nomination irredeemably unfair. No need to go third party. A simple walkout with perhaps a thousand followers behind will doom the party in November."
Trump has insisted that if he has the most delegates, even if it's less than half of those needed to win the nomination, he should be granted the nomination. But party rules allow delegates at a brokered convention to re-vote to elect a candidate who they believe to be most likely to beat the Democratic nominee in a general election.
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Amen!
Says who? There's absolutely no rule to that effect, and when Trump recently demanded that the RNC "shouldn't allow" Kasich to stay in the race, he must have been smoking crack because they don't have the power to stop that.
Everyone with half a brain knew that this primary field was overly crowded with 17 candidates. That alone should have let everyone know that this primary season might look a lot different than most.
If Trump was a lock to get the 1237, the other candidates would have dropped out. But since he isn't, his competition is staying in there.
If anyone didn't like those rules, they shouldn't have gotten into the game in the first place.
It will be the Cruz supporters who elect Hillary, not us.
Voting is not a zero sum game.
Cruz may succeed in swiping the nomination, but he most certainly will not swipe my vote.
Hopefully next time, Republicans won't be stupid enough to allow a Democrat to run in the Republican primaries.
You Cruz guys think you can highjack the nomination and then use Hillary to get us to support Cruz?
Yup.
No other pol even talks about American business like Trump. No one can.
Look at ‘em. All of ‘em. Guilty as hell of selling us out. The party doesn’t matter, either.
Trump is nearly 70, has no organization, and will rapidly become a political irrelevance if he loses. Then we'll all sit muttering in our tiny little factions about how it was other conservatives who screwed us over, while the country burns.
As much as I detest Trump (and an increasing number of intolerant Trumpers), I'm still voting for the guy if he's the nominee. Feel free to sit in your smugness and watch the country go down the drain, though, because obviously your pride is worth more to you.
I don't see why not. From what I've seen, they've been trying to give back both since 2011.
So now the mantra of the Cruz supporters is ‘support Cruz even though he highjacked the nomination, because Hillary is worse!
Which democrat?
Aren’t they all democrats?
Interesting that the only one who beats her is Kasich?
Do you wonder why we don't place great faith in the polls?
Who insulted social conservatives, many of them support Trump!
What I see from Cruz supporters is a hyper sensitivity and a view that any tactic is justifiable to get Cruz as the candidate.
No, that doesn’t make him a Hillary supporter, it makes him a Trump supporter who will not support someone who didn’t win the nomination honesty.
Sure we do. Most of us do not want a petulant 5-year old that constantly throws temper tantrums, has the morals of mafia don or a streetwalker, and has no understanding of the Constitution or of the way our Constitutional Republic is supposed to operate to be the nominee of our party, or to be president of the country.
This post and many others reveal you to be a fanatic cultist who has no devotion to a principle or a cause, only to the dear leader with whom you're unhealthily and irrationally obsessed.
That should depend on how Trump loses. If Trump does a lot of dumb things (like telling his supporters in Washington to sign up to be delegates http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3418892/posts two days after the deadline), he deserves to lose. We’re entering the second half of the game, and he needs to start showing that he knows how it is played!
If Trump falls 50 or so bound delegates short and has not made the effort http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3418672/posts?page=16#16 to get that many of the unbound delegates to support him, he deserves to lose.
If Trump sputters on the campaign trail and comes up well short of the magic number of delegates and then gets outvoted at the convention, then he deserves to lose. Cruz “stealing” Trump delegates http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3418936/posts is like a baseball player stealing bases. That’s how the game is played, and it’s Trump’s job to stay alert and defend against those stolen bases, perhaps even to steal a few bases of his own.
If Trump loses because his delegates defect during voting http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3418714/posts and while he’s the front runner, then the GOP deserves to have the party burned to the ground.
The purpose of primaries is to avoid convention battles, not have them!
Candidates drop out when they see they cannot realistically win the nomination outright.
The RNC is allowing Kasich to stay in (by not pressuring him to leave) because they want an Est. guy in the race, all of the others have been knocked out!
Why did Bush and Rubio drop out?
According to your logic they should have stayed in and just stopped Trump from getting the majority and then fought it out at the convention!
Kaisch has won only one State, his own.
Rubio won more delegates then Kasich has, or close to it!
This is simply a stop Trump at all costs, ignoring how primaries are suppose to work, not block the front runner and throw it back to the convention.
You're wrong, clueless and blind to the truth.
Oh, you mean win the GOP primaries?
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