Posted on 07/14/2016 8:04:52 PM PDT by iowamark
CLEVELAND -- Republicans responsible for setting the party's presidential nomination rules on Thursday overwhelmingly rejected attempts to formally unbind delegates to next week's convention, effectively ending any serious attempt to rob Donald Trump of the GOP presidential nomination.
A vote came quickly Thursday night as part of a day-long marathon session of the Republican National Convention's rules committee, which sets the rules of the meetings and how the party will pick its nominee in 2020.
The rejection of the "unbinding" proposal was so overwhelming that committee leaders opted not to record the tally. Trump supporters on the committee quickly exercised procedural tactics to effectively kill any attempt to revive the issue -- and to codify that delegates are indeed bound to vote for the results of state caucuses and primaries...
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“Where’s C. Edmund Wright?”
In his safe space, curled in a fetal position and sucking his thumb, I would imagine.
Thank God!!
After the vote, did Lyin’ Loon Ted travel to a resort in Mexico to try to work things out in his head?
Between the ‘broken noses’ that say they won’t attend the Convention and this group - Trump has already marginalized quite a few of the GOPe Cartel- They are becoming irrelevant.
And he hasn’t even been elected yet...
gotta love it -
Bill Kristol has plunged himself into irrelevancy.
Bye Bye, Bill -
Ah shucks. The MSM tried so hard to make this a viable threat. Oh well . . on to some other anti-Trump mumbo jumbo.
At some point the “absurd” becomes believable and accepted. We are there.10/4
All your delegates are belong to us now.
They were brilliantly outplayed by the master. The timing of Pence being the choice was stellar. It took back the news cycle for Trump, and kept a lot of 'pubs who might have been wavering from going over to the dark side. Besides that Kasick has gotten the slapdown he so richly deserves, with next-door Pence being the VP and another nearby gov being a prime-time speaker. Kasick will be on the outside looking in, and nobody gives a damn.
Wahooo.....a victory and a purge and maybe God is on our side. It all happened before today's horrific massacre in France.
<< Bill Kristol is deeply saddened. >>
Lol! A blast from the past. Who was that, Orin Hatch or his sidekick, the other despicable RINO whose name I can never remember? Not Trent Lott, the gonadless wonder, but the short guy who walked around deeply saddened all the time. I can’t believe I’ve forgotten his name!
Fantastic. Nice to lay the head down to good news. Brave new world tomorrow. Got my fingers crossed. Nite All.
This will free up Jeb to be Hillary’s Veep.
No, they’ll probably go all stompy-feet like Jebus.
Well said
BWAHAHAHAHA
Now that’s just plain funny
So much for the clever guy that really knew the inside on how the convention was going to anoint him. Who knows, in 12 months or so he might even endorse Trump...
As if...
Bait and switch.
Emphasis added.
Regardless of his motivation, these are the facts regarding Ted Cruz's behavior. They're the unvarnished, undeniable Truth. Were it not so, then we would have heard the evidence straight from the horse's mouth.
At this point, it's intellectually dishonest to claim that Ted Cruz isn't directly helping Hillary Clinton by his refusal to make any attempt at party unity.
Now, even if Ted Cruz finally decides to jump on board the bandwagon, his words will necessarily ring hollow. It's becoming too little, too late for Ted Cruz to play any meaningful role in unifying the party. That goal will be accomplished despite his obstruction.
Those are the cold, hard facts of the matter, with respect to Ted Cruz's behavior, and no rationalization or apologism can dispel the blinding rays of immutable Truth: Ted Cruz's antics since the Indiana primary have been uniformly selfish and damaging to both the GOP and the Republic.
Ted Cruz has disgraced himself, and deserves the "Lyin's" share of the vitriol that has been directed at him. The "reckless accusations" of Ted Cruz's detractors have coalesced into objective reality.
Vote Trump!
Glenn Beck will be crying for two weeks minimum.
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