Posted on 07/13/2016 5:35:33 PM PDT by Trump20162020
The Trump campaign and the leadership of the Republican National Committee are working hard to pressure delegates to vote for Trump. The race is over, they say. The voters have rendered their judgment. Delegates do not have the right to nullify this verdict. Now is the time to rally around Trump and unify the party.
Trump and the RNC leadership are wrong. The delegates should feel free to vote their consciences, and the rules and history of the Republican National Convention support their right to do so. In a separate entry, I will focus on the rules and the history of the convention, while here I will examine the moral responsibilities of convention delegates.
The claims of the Trump boosters ultimately boil down to: Because this is a democracy, the people have spoken, and delegates are morally obliged to follow their instructions, regardless of what their consciences claim. This thinking is faulty. In truth, the people have not really spoken, and, even if they had, this is not actually a democracy. Lets take each point in turn.
First, Trump did not win a majority of the vote. He claimed slightly less than 45 percent of the primary vote, which is less than any presumptive nominee in the modern era. People can have a legitimate debate about the moral demands attending a majority votebut Trump scored a plurality victory, and an unimpressive one at that.
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FUBC
-PJ
Apparently it is a comic book
In the beginning..........
there were multiple candidates.
Trump still won.
As the field narrowed his %age of the vote grew
And in the last group of primaries he was WAY over 50%
It’s been said Figures don’t lie;
But LIARS figure.
Bill Crystal I can understand, but Fred Barnes, shame on you. Another reason I do not listen to Hugh Hewitt’s show anymore as he was a frequent guest. Another “bastion” of conservatism gone left, what a joke.
Here in TX, the party heads said the Court upheld Rule 16.
Rule 16 states if a delegate votes for someone other than the person to whom they are bound, their vote will be recorded as being for the person to whom they were bound.
We get it. They want Hillary, but there will be a price for this nonsense.
A GOP ballot down wipe out of historic proportations.
We are not a democracy, he said.
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Without a majority, we owe him nothing, he said.
Delusional, confused, and self-contradictory, is right
I thought the WEEKLY STANDARD folded. LOL
Here is list of the Rules Committee Delegates and their emails should anyone feel compelled to contact them...This is the complete list of all Rules Committee Delegates
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3449068/posts?page=15#15
Well said. I think dumping Trump would be a bad move but the GOP is entirely wthin their rights to do so.
lol I see this paper isn’t loved here.
Trunp later in the primaries won overwhelming majorities.
And even where he won with a plurality, he won those states fair and square.
Bill Kristol is not making a pitch for Ted Cruz and John Kasich’s delegates to be free agents.
No, he’s making the demand only of Trump. They’re not really asking for a free vote but for a convention coup.
Not going to happen. If the #NeverTrumpers don’t like Trump, they’re free to leave the party.
But they have no right and no standing to subvert the will of Republican voters. Period.
Hilarious or I should say, hillarious.
Considering Mittens lost, Trump can hardly do worse and he could do a lot better.
Jay Cost’s worse nightmare isn’t that Trump might lose. Its that he could win.
And a pundit would rather be dead than admit that could well happen.
Considering what Obama has wrought the last eight years, we don’t need more of it under Hillary Clinton.
Let Cost play his childish games elsewhere.
Let’s face it - your average Republican voter is not a base conservative - they’re somewhere in the middle.
Cruz was too conservative for them and Kasich was too liberal for them.
Trump was the Goldilocks candidate, in between the extremes. He fits today’s GOP to a T.
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