did you?
Posted on 03/05/2016 11:06:05 AM PST by nhwingut
Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay told Cavuto the GOP voters need to understand that the “delegates pick the nominee.”
Tom Delay: It’s not stealing the nomination. It’s the process. People need to realize that this is not an election of a president. This is the nomination of a candidate. And there’s a process and there’s rules and everybody has a fair shot at those rules. But in the end, the representatives, the delegates make the decision at the convention one way or another. And if no candidate gets to the convention with the majority of the votes then the delegates, duly elected to represent the people who have voted, get to decide. It’s not stealing anything.
Video at link.
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No Timmy you’re the idiot and a tool of the establishment. Get a Blaze login and head back home with the other crazies
He’s an ex-con? What was he convicted of?
You must have missed the ones about “stealing” and “cheating.”
Gusss what Delay.? WE PICK THE DELEGATES!! and if you screw the voters .the party is finished!!! This is a democratic selection process not an oligarchy!! You were in jail for a while? I think I know how your are getting money now. Get out of here-— “Take him out”
did you?
Oh yes he is.
BS. He is
So what comments where you referring to?
Folks, we are honored to have in our presence someone who is far more brilliant, far more intelligent, far more knowledgable than the rest of us...He even tells us so quite often...
From Timmy:
“Must be blonde.”
“Oh, no. They are uninformed and absurd.”
“...all the ignorance being displayed here...”
“Another Trump moron. God help us.”
I could go on, but I don’t want his head to swell...
“You Trumpsters are like unruly children.”
[Tom delay doesn’t understand...the voters commit the delegated by their votes.]
After the first round in a brokered convention I believe the delegates are free to choose whomever they want.
Dude, duh. And I see that you already are buying into the new lexicon, "legitimate and valid".
Like it is "legitimate and valid" what Romney just did, or McCain. Oh, OK. Got it. So, "Never Trump" is legitimate and valid. Why, it is downright brilliant, it isn't against the rules! If we can just prevent Trump from getting to the delegate total, WE GOT HIM BY THE RULES!
A rose by any other name Truthsearcher. I am not buying into their lexicon just because they put out Tom Delay to precondition their actions as "legitimate and valid".
And by the way, when Trump gets the delegates, let's just see what else is in them thar rules they come up with.
Other than suffering the howls of outrage, there is no punishment should delegates decide to go against the wishes of primary voters.
It could happen. The GOP here in Washington has shown a willingness to run rough over the wishes of the caucus attendees in the past two elections. Essentially the process was conducted to ensure the result the GOPe wanted: Romney in 2012. Ron Paul delegates were denied and disenfranchised. (Ron Paul may have done the same thing to others in some other states).
Partially as a result we went to all delegates being apportioned by primary (previously, it was 50/50). But, there still is a caucus to select delegates, but the delegates are supposed to just follow the primary vote at the convention.
Thing is, with no candidate being supported at the Caucus's it's turned back into a GOP Old-boys club. So the actual people going to Cleveland are much more likely to personally support Mitt, Rubio or Ryan and have zero attachment to Trump.
I believe Mitt's speech is just the start of a process designed to create massive "unfaithful delegates" and take the nomination away from Trump, even after he's won it, using pledge-breaking as the mechanism.
It’s not this thread per se, but this site in general, where anytime the words “brokered convention” shows up, the discussion is by Trump supporters of how a brokered convention is “cheating” and the establishment trying to “steal” the nomination from Trump.
Nonsense.
One does not have to be “informed” to know “heads I win, tails you lose” is not a legitimate “rule.”
Translation: When we throw out your votes and choose OUR establishment candidate instead, it’s not stealing the election in our eyes.
Even Tom Delay is one of them.
Now you know how George W. Bush “appeared out of nowhere” and ended up as the Republican nominee in 2000. And why they called it “The Reagan Revolution” back in 1980.
The game isn’t rigged exactly, but it’s definitely stacked in the house’s(GOPe)favor.
Shhh. We’ll have no facts or reason, thank you very much.
Just screeching, hollering, cheap shots, name calling and swearing, if you don’t mind.
Trump Trump TrumpRAAAAAAAAAR!
No, if Trump gets 50%, then nobody can get him “by the rules”.
So work to get your guy to 50%.
If Trump gets 50% and somehow they try to screw him out of the nomination, I’ll join you in calling them thieves and cheats.
But if he doesn’t get 50%, then it will be a brokered convention.
Oops, forgot conspiracy theories. Must have those, too.
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