Posted on 04/13/2016 2:36:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Captain obvious here again, but NeverTrump/NeverCruz is not the way. We all have our favorites, but don't lose sight of the mission.
The mission on FR is to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our POSTERITY!!
It's a lot bigger than you or me or our personal opinions or egos. It's about the very survival of our nation and the promise of freedom for future generations.
Reagan said that freedom is never more than one generation from extinction and he was 100% correct.
President Clinton or President Sanders means the end of freedom in America.
Do not let freedom expire on our watch!!
Free Republic will support our Republican nominee whoever he is against the godless Marxist/socialist Democrats in November!!
Jim omitted the last part.
LostFreedom = LostDrudge = LostFreeRepublic
Matt Drudge admitted BigGovt may take him off the web soon.
Drudge gone = FR gone.
Readers should enjoy their final years of FR. Socialist America will only have NPR public media.
I am? How?
The markets have this scenario as tied.
I would put the probability of a Cruz 2nd ballot plus win at 45%.
There is a real arbitrage opportunity here if you think the probability is zero.
Do you have a reference that 1237 delegates have been required since the GOP began?
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GOP
2,286 delegates — 2012
2,380 delegates — 2008
Remember allocation by state changes due to elected
state/federal officals, past voting history, etc.
“... I will support our Republican nominee over the godless Marxist Democrat no matter what ...”
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Amen, my brother, amen.
If FR’s gone, we’re all gone because there’s no more freedom.
Ok, but only if you discount the probability of the GOPe controlling the outcome of the convention to zero.
Agreed! I’ve been saying it for some time...these boys need to bury the hatchet and merge their effort...for the sake of the country!
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Rush is playing his usual dissembling head games with his audience.
Reminder: The GOPe OWNs the corporation aka the Republican party.
“He proved that in Wisconsin, in a big way.”
http://www.270towin.com/states/Wisconsin
Wisconsin has voted D the last 8 out of 10 national elections...the last 7 in a row. How does winning the Republican primary change that !!
Wisconsin was an establishment win all the way. Just like Utah.
That is factored in. People are betting real money on this.
65,000 people voted in the colorado caucus, 40% are new to the process.
Sincerely believe that most delegates will have bubbled up from the grass roots.
Kind of like the 94 congress.
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You apparently are not gifted in the area of continuity of thought.
Mixing apples and squash doesn’t prove anything.
Wisconsin proved that the public is seeing through both Trump, and the media completely.
A first round vote where nobody gets 1237 is essentially a ball game going into overtime. The first candidate to get 1237 is the nominee, period. If Trump does not get to 1237 on round 1, he does not own the outcome of vote 2 or any other vote. Neither does Cruz.
While we go thru primaries and caucuses, we’ll see if anybody gets over 1237. I’ll support Trump if he does, to the hilt. But, once we get to Cleveland, it’s just the same ongoing game. Trump may get it, Cruz may get it. I doubt anybody else will, as the majority of delegates in control of things support one or the other.
The notion that some smokey GOPe will install some rino in round 3+ does not fly. At least in 2016.
Could actually see Trump and Cruz unite and use other parties like libertarian, conservative or write in should the convention ace them BOTH out.
Strom Thurmond won a write in the 1950s.
Cruz is only getting delegates because of unethical manipulations.
They may be legal, but they are not honest. Especially for the most conservative, most Christian candidate ever.
Assuming Trump does not get to 1237, I am expecting this to happen in the six weeks before the convention.
Sure thing:
Rule 40(d) and Rule 40(e):
(d) When at the close of a roll call any candidate for nomination for President of the United States or Vice President of the United States has received a majority of the votes entitled to be cast in the convention, the chairman of the convention shall announce the votes for each candidate whose name was presented in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of this rule. Before the convention adjourns sine die, the chairman of the convention shall declare the candidate nominated by the Republican Party for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States.
(e) If no candidate shall have received such majority, the chairman of the convention shall direct the roll of the states be called again and shall repeat the calling of the roll until a candidate shall have received a majority of the votes entitled to be cast in the convention.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/prod-static-ngop-pbl/docs/Rules_of_the_Republican+Party_FINAL_S14090314.pdf
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