Posted on 03/03/2016 3:20:38 PM PST by catnipman
Mitt Romney has instructed his closest advisers to explore the possibility of stopping Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention, a source close to Romney's inner circle says.
The 2012 GOP nominee's advisers are examining what a fight at the convention might look like and what rules might need revising.
"It sounds like the plan is to lock the convention," said the source.
Romney is focused on suppressing Trump's delegate count to prevent him from accumulating the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the nomination.
But implicit in Romney's request to his team to explore the possibility of a convention fight is his willingness to step in and carry the party's banner into the fall general election as the Republican nominee. Another name these sources mentioned was House Speaker Paul Ryan, Romney's running mate in 2012.
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Now the next shoe drops. Tonight we'll probably see Cruz and/or Rubio attack Trump by spring-boarding off of GOPe stalking-horse two-time loser Mitt Romney. They’ve run out of their own attack positions, not to mention that Romney threw every vile lie and piece of dirt that the entire GOPe cold scrape up, and Romney’s attack has essentially officially sanctioned Cruz and Rubio to use any and all underhanded tactics conceivable against Trump.
If they do, then it puts them firmly in The Club of the GOPe, insider, rich-boy, plutocrat, oligarch, string-puller, donor class GOP aristocracy: the very powers-that-be that foist the McCains,Romneys and Rubios on the rank-and-file working class GOP voters to whom they have complete disdain for.
The GOPe get-Trump committee got together in secret over the last few days and came up with this plan and wrote this speech and got Romney to read it for them because they knew Romney still had the gravitas to get broadcast on all the news channels for free.
As Breitbart.com said today, Romney is the hill that the GOPe chose to die on. Either this speech 1.) helps Trump because the GOPe's out-of-touch attack on the GOP's leading candidate supported by the largest number of rank-and-file voters is simply more gasoline dumped on nearly 20 years of already red-hot anger, thus further propelling Trump towards being the GOP nominee, in which case the entire GOPe lobbyist, special interests, consultant class complex dies; or 2.) this last-gasp GOPe attack hurts Trump, leading to a brokered convention with some loser the rank-and-file voters hate, leading to a Hillary victory and the loss of the Senate and House as the rank-and-file GOP voters finally say enough is enough and stay home, culminating in the final, permanent, destruction of the U.S. Constitution when Hillary appoints Barrack Hussien Obama as Antonin Scalia's replacement. This lose-lose position taken by the GOP aristocracy is typical behavior by the Stupid Party, unlike Trump's positions where he wins with nearly any outcome, as explained by "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kydKTVLmP58&feature=youtu.be.
Romney's get-Trump speech has finally laid naked for all to see that the Democrat party aren't the REAL enemy of the people, instead the REAL enemy is the fake opposition party to the Democrats. The Democrats no longer pretend to be what they are not: they now overtly campaign as the party of national socialism, period. The Democrats have also repeatedly demonstrated that they are willing to sacrifice their individual members to advance their socialist agenda, e.g., Obamacare cost them the House and the Senate. The GOPe is willing to sacrifice nothing.
The GOPe is interested in nothing but keeping their own gravy trains chugging along. And thus with Romney's get-Trump speech, we all have proof positive of what we've known all along: the GOPe is nothing but the minority partner of the Uniparty, but that's quite good enough thank you very much, just so long as their gravy trains keep pulling into the hog trough station, loaded with all of those free shrimp cocktails and caviar at the posh gala D.C. soirées, free jet trips around the world, free five star hotel living, free five star restaurant dining, and free skybox seats at the major league sporting events, all paid for by the peasants and lobbyists.
Romney's get-Trump speech has finally laid naked for all to see that the Democrat party aren't the REAL enemy of the people, instead the REAL enemy is the fake opposition party to the Democrats. The Democrats no longer pretend to be what they are not: they now overtly campaign as the party of national socialism, period. The Democrats have also repeatedly demonstrated that they are willing to sacrifice their individual members to advance their socialist agenda, e.g., Obamacare cost them the House and the Senate. The GOPe is willing to sacrifice nothing.
The GOPe is interested in nothing but keeping their own gravy trains chugging along. And thus with Romney's get-Trump speech, we all have proof positive of what we've known all along: the GOPe is nothing but the minority partner of the Uniparty, but that's quite good enough thank you very much, just so long as their gravy trains keep pulling into the hog trough station, loaded with all of those free shrimp cocktails and caviar at the posh gala D.C. soirées, free jet trips around the world, free five star hotel living, free five star restaurant dining, and free skybox seats at the major league sporting events, all paid for by the peasants and lobbyists.
Finally, one of the most interesting aspects to Romney's get-Trump speech is that it was even necessary, because the GOPe as stupid as it is, did at least realize that neither Cruz nor Rubio had the chops to take Trump out, necessitating the GOPe to step in and bail them out. It's too bad Romney never attacked Obama the way he attacked Trump, but then again, clearly Romney finds Obama associate, criminal and traitor Hillary Clinton more acceptable than GOP leader Donald Trump. And one final thing worth noting is that the GOPe finds Cruz, Rubio and Kasich perfectly acceptable to them; Trump is the only one they are scared of, Trump is the only one they feel they cannot control, Trump is the only one who is not a member of The Club, Trump is the only man of the people. Trump is simply unacceptable to the true enemy of the people: the GOPe aristocracy.
It is the GOPe’s last gasp...and it is going to fail because it will only stoke the flames that Trump is tapping into all the higher.
See My Open Letter to Mitt Romney
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3404778/posts
Prince Willard plants his flag, challenging all right thinkers to rally round him and fight the dread black knight Donald.
We are perilously close to a third party here. Romney better tread carefully. There has never been any sort of love or commitment to Romney. He was the default option because there were no others four years ago. Had Christie or Rubio or some of the first term office holders have gone for it, they could have easily won. Romney’s opposition was filled with talented but non-competitive options.
what we have here is a war if we get trump 1237 delegates....we win if we dont we still may win
Apparently romney wants to continue his losing streak.
Make our day Underwear man.
Trump sure has the knack of smoking the rats out from their holes, so that we can see who they are, what they are, and what their motivations are.
sorry about the duplicate paragraphs in my post ...
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
This is getting way out of control...like a wildfire spreading.
Romney loves to lose
Good. I hope he succeeds.
If Trump is denied the nomination by last-minute shenanigans that steal delegates won by him, he will run 3rd party and make sure “Little Rubio” (since he is sure to be the beneficiary of establishment manipulation) is also denied.
What are the odds of this blowing up in the GOP’s face? Am I low at 100%?
I will never vote for Mittens.
And if the party bosses foist him on us, I will stay home in November and I am determined to watch the GOP burn down.
The party has outstayed its welcome.
Interesting. Will the Cruz backers on FR support this if it means undermining the will of the electorate/delegates?
I talked to a GOP-E type this morning; they think Paul Ryan would be a good “compromise” candidate at the convention. It reminds me of when Reagan was elected, and the chorus of GOP-E and the media clamored for him to appoint washed-up moderates to lead his Administration, thereby negating the results of the presidential election. It shows just HOW out of touch these people are in the Republican Party establishment.
That photo says it all.
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