Posted on 04/12/2016 7:30:24 PM PDT by Amntn
On Saturday Ted Cruz supporters took all 13 of the delegates up for grabs at the Colorado GOP Convention to complete a clean sweep of the state.
But it was not without controversy. There never was a vote – Party elites decided on who got the delegates.
The anti-Trump politicians were passing around a “Resolution to Forbid Colorado Delegates from Voting for Trump” for weeks before the convention.
Snip... Robert Zubrin from Colorado Republicans for Liberty wrote about the anti-Trump resolution at American Thinker back on March 22, 2016:
In the caucuses March 1, I was elected an alternate delegate to the Colorado State GOP convention, which on April 9 will select and instruct our delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this summer.
Accordingly, I have drawn up a resolution that is now being circulated that will forbid Colorado delegates to the national convention from voting for Donald Trump for president or vice president on any ballot. Such a resolution is necessary, because Trump has publicly stated that his methods of operation include buying or renting the services of politicians for cash.
As the text of the resolution provides a succinct and forceful summary of the reasons why Donald Trump is unacceptable as a Republican candidate for president, I thought I would share it with the readers of American Thinker. Here it is:
Resolution to Forbid Colorado Delegates from Voting for Donald Trump
Whereas Donald Trump is not a Republican; and
Whereas Donald Trump is a demagogue who is using fear, hate, and lies to assemble a mob in support of an agenda of socialist policy, unlimited government, and strongman rule; and
Whereas Donald Trump would destroy the Western alliance which is the basis of American security; and
Whereas Donald Trump would destroy the system of international trade which is the basis of American prosperity; and
Whereas Donald Trump would destroy the freedom of the press that is the basis of American liberty; and
Whereas Donald Trump would destroy the rule of law which is the basis of American civil society; and
Whereas Donald Trump has mocked those who risked their lives to fight for America when he avoided doing so; and
Whereas Donald Trump has acted as an apologist for America’s enemy Vladimir Putin and other brutal anti-American foreign tyrants; and
Whereas Donald Trump has set himself forth as an open exponent of lust, greed, and other vices antithetical to Judeo-Christian ethics and the moral fiber necessary to sustain a republic; and
Whereas Donald Trump has demonstrated that he has no respect for the truth, and
Whereas Donald Trump has defrauded thousands of ordinary Americans of their life savings; and
Whereas Donald Trump has, in the course of the present campaign, committed acts potential prosecutable as incitement to riot, a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison; and
Whereas Donald Trump has knowingly acted to degrade the Republican presidential nominating process to a vile level that can only serve to drive people of talent and integrity out of the party and assist in the election of the party’s opponents; and
Whereas the nomination of Donald Trump for president would insure a landslide defeat for the Republican Party nationwide in the fall, and deeply damage the Republican Party and the conservative movement for years, and possibly decades to come; and
Whereas a vote for Donald Trump by any member of the Colorado delegation to the Republican National Convention would dishonor and disgrace the Colorado Republican Party;
Therefore, be it resolved that:
The Colorado Republican Party forbids any of its delegates to the Republican National Convention to vote for Donald Trump for president or vice president on the first ballot or any other ballot, and The Colorado Republican Party asks its delegates to national convention to pledge on their honor to do everything in their power to help secure the presidential nomination for someone other than Donald Trump. Donald Trump has threatened the Republican Party with mob violence. Let’s tell him where to go!
Colorado Republicans for Liberty
The anti-Trump officials handed out this same resolution at the state convention on Saturday.
Once again, Trump is exposing the corruption that has been rampant for years.
Trump delegates were turned away; the people had no say.
Only a cheatin’ lyin’ Cruz supporter thinks this is what the founding fathers fought for.
“CO. voters are pissed they feel they have had the wool pulled over their eyes!!!”
Not just Colorado voters! Every other state is watching and judging Cruz accordingly. He will lose bigger in the next REAL primaries because of it.
So is it safe to say to all the media (CNN, FOX, etc) that is saying “it was the rules and no cheating” are WRONG!
You’re assuming the Uniparty isn’t perfectly fine electing Hillary Clinton.
She agreed with them down the line on every policy.
They are using Cruz to block Trump. Cruz will be tossed aside or put up as an easy to beat candidate in November.
8 more years of Uniparty rule under Hillary. If she gets indicted, they’ll insert Biden and it’ll be Obama’s 3rd and 4th term.
As long as the stock market is high, labor is cheap (open borders), and the white population is declining in the U.S. (heading us to 3rd World territory), the globalists are perfectly happy.
Looks like a fact based resolution to me.
Jedi.
MOONBAT....nice comeback.
Looks like an accurate and factual document to me.
Jedi.
Unbelievable! Is he selling sweat- infused prayer cloths for his preacher father too? Jeeez what a crook!
Good for them. They nailed it. Appears that the republicans in CO love their country.
Vladimir Putin is my “enemy”?
Since when? How did that happen? I normally despise my enemies. So the “republicans” think Putin is my enemy and The House of Saud is my friend. Right?
“Lying globalist shills Levin , Limbaugh , and Beck said this is the rules , nothing more , nothing less ...gotta play by the rules “
On the bright side, I believe Limbaugh is going to lose as many as 4 million listeners, so his 70 million a year could drop by 20 million. This won’t help him get his NFL franchise, which may be all he cares about anymore.
Any fever ridden carazy ONE PERSON can introduce a resolution into the system. Literally hundreds of resolutions get introduced every cycle, some of them are quite bizarre, including nutty stuff like "Shall the US Constitution be abolished…….." A Resolution committee goes through the 600 or so resolutions that come in every cycle, rejecting the truly goofy and consolidating the rest when similar resolutions come in from different precincts.
Obviously, the "Republican Establishment" threw this one out or it would have appeared among the 30-40 Resolutions that we actually voted on.
Sooooo……. The "Republican Establishment" trashed this resolution…
……and that action makes you and many others on this thread REALLY mad at said "Republican Establishment.
----Paranoia strikes deep, into your heart it will DID creep.
Some cats’ paws know they are being used.
We’re on the same side.
What about all of your down ticket candidates trying to survive in local and state races? This is a death bell for them!! You reap what you sow!!
Thinking this over, you have succeeded in pissing off over half of your voters in the State of Colorado. I’m not sure how powerful the GOP is [or should I say was} there but I am guessing you just lost dozens of Judges, Sheriffs, City and County Councilmen. Like Forrest Gump’s Momma said, “Stupid is as Stupid does.”
This is what happens when you give liberaltarians access to a typewriter.
What about the votes and will of the people or doesn’t that or freedom from tyranny matter anymore?
It's a little more than just an "opinion" when convention officials are handing out to delegates like it's something official.
Are you saying this “Resolution to Forbid Colorado Delegates from Voting for Trump” shown is not a real resolution but some kind of hoax?
Apparently with or without the consent of the people they’re supposed to be representing? Since our country is about freedom, don’t know how you can call that “love of our country.”
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