Posted on 05/18/2016 5:48:04 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Edited on 05/18/2016 5:54:05 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The top ranks of the Republican Party may be coalescing around Donald Trump, but grass-roots conservative activists are still trying to find a way to stop him at the party's convention in July.
Angered by Trump's shifting views on taxes, the minimum wage, national security and how little he discusses social issues, conservatives across the country are studying the party rule book for last-ditch moves they could make when the convention begins in Cleveland.
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“Most of them in this one were non-factors and dropped out early.”
Not that early at all toots. Most of them hung on way past their shelf life. You are just a Sore Cruzerman. Sour grapes. Get over it.
No, just want to point out that Trump has a bit more work to do than all of our other modern candidates to win over his Republican opposition, due to the larger size of it. Today was a good first step with the SCOTUS nominee list and more moves in that direction would help.
At this point in time, the term conservatives means to me Uniparty, anti-American sore losers.
I refuse to be known as or called by the term conservative. It is now a derogatory term designating dishonorable, dishonest, sold out people.
Won't happen. He's in.
I say he should let you and your repulsive ilk stew.
He doesn't need you.
Trump is for conserving the United States in existence. The so-called conservatives are working to end the United States. That makes Trump the conservative.
If you read the whole ballotpedia link that YOU posted, plus the CNN article I posted to you yesterday, plus plus plus, you will see that there are 112 people, 2 from each state plus DC and the US territories (56 delegations total that pick 2 people each) that make up the rules committee. YOUR link also says that all the people will probably not be known until the summer, meaning sometime just before the convention. The people on the rules committee are selected by the 56 delegations; 1 from each state plus dc and the territories.
I cannot comprehend what you are trying to incite by posting this trash over and over again and why you are trying to incite it.
Again, there will be 112 people on the rules committee. You don’t know who they are, so to say the committee is stacked with Cruz supporters is a lie.
You are correct, and I posted that article to OP last night. In addition to that the link provided by OP for ballotpedia says the same thing. 112 people on the rules committee, 2 from each state plus dc and the territories, chosen by the 56 delegates from those locations. OP is paranoid delusional about this issue.
Notice how Colorado stacked its delegate deck with a platoon of Uniparty hacks? It was really easy for them to do with the arcane multi-step caucus process designed to discourage all but a handful of GOP party members from participating.
And to make it worse, the Colorado Governor and a large bi-partisan majority in the Colorado House promoted legislation to hold actual primary elections for both parties, but it was shit-canned by the GOP-controlled Senate!
Now there’s likely to be a couple of citizen-initiated bills on the November ballot to do what the Colorado legislature couldn’t.
-—What’s also historic about the Trump candidacy is the level of opposition against him. He only has 41% of the primary vote currently. He’s the only GOP candidate besides McCain since at least the ‘70s to get under 50% and he’s running 5 points under McCain currently.
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Remind me again which primaries since the 70’s had 17 primary candidates?
No.
You are the liar, the sixteen names in post number #1 are officially on the rules committee right now. And with some, their leanings are quite well known. So far, it is cruz-stacked, and that had better change. Other Freepers will dig out the rest. You can’t stop them :-).
There are more articles like this coming out. They are leaking what the cruz cultists are trying to accomplish. I will continue to post them as they surface. When I am to busy, others will post them.
Fortunately, I think their feverish outcries will be defeated. They will be far too overwhelmed by the Trump train of success by the time July rolls around. They will be defeated by his success.
When TRump has a shot at putting Oregon into play, a state which has not voted republican since 1980-Reagan, they will realize that they are absurd foolish losers. They are the face of the GOPe losers, not the face of a god.
In Cruz, we have a candidate that lost every single Southern state but his own with likeability-votes as low or lower than 17%. He lost every single county in every battleground state. He was guaranteed to lose Florida. This is a highly unelectable candidate.
And he knows it by internal polling, which is why he scurried from Florida & the South to Texas. Ted barely campaigned in FL. He was forced to campaign in his home state, because there was a chance he’d lose Texas. If Donald had more time, he could have humiliated Ted in Texas and ended it right there.
The party knows all this. They only need a candidate to lose to Hillary and protect their fiefdoms and global financial cheap labor interest. They are nothing but the Unipartyist, begging to lose.
+ That’s a brilliant way of putting this and so very true.
The globalist faux-conservatives are working to reduce American sovereignty.
Donald Trump is working to conserve what’s left of America and make America great again!
“These delegates will be replaced with Trump supporters as it should be.”
Here in Washington state that is doubtful. About 85% of the folks attending the state GOP convention were elected at their local caucuses as Cruz supporters. I imagine that a similar percentage of Cruz supporters, or higher, will be represented at the national convention.
Although it won’t matter on the first ballot, as all of the Washington delegates are required to vote for whoever wins the primary on May 24th. With Cruz out, it will no doubt be Trump.
“Notice how Colorado stacked its delegate deck with a platoon of Uniparty hacks?”
You have no idea! We researched the ‘newly elected’ delegates. Over half are Romney retreads from 2012.
The chance for Colorado to hold a primary was proposed by a bill from a (R) CO. State Senator.
Then Ted got in the race.
Then the same senator and three other republican senators voted down the CO primary.
All 4 of these CO legislators are now on Cruz leadership committee; 2 are delegates. And it looks like one is married to the CO convention rules committee member.
Lunatics. REAL lunatics. The kind that helped put Lyndon Johnson in office in 1964, tried to kill Reagan in 1980, and put Barry Obozo the Meistermarxist in office in 2008 and 2012.
Destructive lunatics.
These people are NOT so much anti-Trump as they are pro-hillary. This was all along supposed to be another one of those ‘historic’ elections, first ‘female’ _resident and all that crap, finally bringing to an end that racist sexist America. They’re demonKKKrats and should be forcefully removed from the Republican Party. If nothing else they should not be granted entry to the Convention. This needs to be squashed.
Really? What did I lie about? Nothing I wrote was incorrect or a half truth.
You, on the other hand, keep going on and on about the rules committee being stacked with Cruz delegates yet you only know about 15% of who is even on the rules committee and can only prove that a fraction of those were Cruz supporters at one time.
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