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First on CNN: Team Romney explores blocking Trump at RNC
CNN ^ | 3/3/2015 | Jamie Gangel

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bishopromneycare; cnn; convention; donaldtrump; mittromney; revolution; rnc; romney; romneyvsamerica; romneyvsfreedom; teamromney; traitor; trump; uniparty
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To: catnipman

I love it...you can’t make this stupidity up.


261 posted on 03/03/2016 6:55:57 PM PST by Fledermaus (Trump: I Don't Trust Him. Pandering isn't pretty.)
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To: Bubba Gump Shrimp

Then if nobody has 270 EV, Congress, lead by Paul Ryan, will vote for President.
So, there you have it.


262 posted on 03/03/2016 6:59:11 PM PST by mabelkitty (Trump 2016!)
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To: laconic

I am originally from Wisconsin & I would spank Paul Ryan if I could get to him.

He was named Speaker & then he folded like a cheap suit when Obama game them the spending bill he wanted. Ryan got it passed without a whimper.

He stabbed us in the back, IMO. Don’t want him to even continue in Congress. I think he will lose his seat this year in Wisconsin.


263 posted on 03/03/2016 7:02:05 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: All

Trump may not win. But I’m hoping he will at least have destroyed the rino party.


264 posted on 03/03/2016 7:31:46 PM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“...We have a dictatorship now with the Uniparty...”

Bingo!!
And it’s been this way for a while now. They want the tax-paying “unwashed masses” to believe there are 2 parties but they are really one in the same. The American People are starting to realize the UniParty dicatatorship that has a stranglehold around their necks....and they ain’t real happy about it.
IF Trump is denied the nomination, he will likely run as an independent practically guaranteeing a UniParty POTUS and the final destruction of the nation as we know it. Then again, he might just win as an independent.
We are close to the point of having to move from the ballot box to the ammo box...and the UniParty knows it. They need this next POTUS cycle to firmly cement their regime over the will of the People.
Trump IS our only chance of breaking it.
Roll on, Trump. Ya got the little darlings crappin’ in their pantyhose.


265 posted on 03/03/2016 8:59:34 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: ilgipper

> There has never been any sort of love or commitment to Romney.

Except among his base - the Mormons.


266 posted on 03/03/2016 10:02:44 PM PST by glorgau
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To: catnipman

It’s time for Romney to wash his magic underwear because he really is starting to stink. I can’t believe I actually gave money to his campaign four years ago and cast a vote for this clown. Blech!


267 posted on 03/03/2016 10:36:58 PM PST by Justice
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To: catnipman

268 posted on 03/04/2016 7:13:43 AM PST by GOPAreDemProgressives
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To: napscoordinator

Please post a link where the RNC chairman said he would never allow it. I heard that he he played dumb.


269 posted on 03/04/2016 7:17:53 AM PST by GOPAreDemProgressives
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To: Jeff Head

The RINOs and their ilk need to go home. Don’t they get it they are irrelevant!


270 posted on 03/04/2016 7:25:04 AM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: GOPAreDemProgressives

I can’t provide a link. It was on TV. I watched it. You said some said he played dumb......well I guess some could see it that way, but I heard him say clearly that the winner of delegates will be the nominee. He was humored by the questions that their is a war on Trump. He said he didn’t know Romney was going to do this. He also said that Trump would get 100 percent of the RNC’s support in the general.


271 posted on 03/04/2016 7:45:55 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: ridesthemiles; Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney after reading that epic rant, would probably look right in your face
- blink innocently, and ask why you seem so angry.

It's the gop's favorite ploy whenever they want to piss you off and do whatever they feel like anyway...
until election.

Of course mitt romney has nothing to lose, right?
All he wants is another pound of flesh and a little more attention,

...and to shove Paul Ryan-Boehner on everyone...

It's the gop/mitt romney way of calling all of us bitter clingers.

Friggin' Obama wannabees....
272 posted on 03/04/2016 10:25:43 AM PST by novemberslady
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To: capydick

Romney is a sellout and a betrayer. He threw the 1994 election trying to outlib Ted Kennedy when it was his for the taking. Then he sucked up to Obama, refused to mention Benghazi, and got bullied by Elsie The Cow.

Willard doesn’t have a conservative bone in his body, and the SC justices he would nominate would be along the lines of David Souter. To even advocate for this toady says we should be defending another GOP-E led hold your nose election. Willard wasn’t going to win four years ago. He saw to that himself.


273 posted on 03/04/2016 8:38:55 PM PST by Luke21
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