Posted on 03/15/2016 8:26:42 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Hey RNC/GOPe - why don’t you try to pull the rug out from under the man who ‘We the People’ have freely chosen by overwhelming numbers?
See what happens...
North Dakota,
Please pick up your idiot.
“If that’s the case, why bother with primaries at all?”
For show. To give voters the illusion that they have a say in who runs for President.
If they try that, Trump will run 3rd party.. IF his voters don’t storm the back rooms first.
Curley Haughland. Is that him?
Go ahead, just try it!
They pull a stunt like that and I will vote for the Democrat (which I have never done) just to spite them and teach them not to f-— with us.
They want to talk about how a Trump nomination would destroy the republican party?
Nominating ANYONE other than the candidate with he most votes IS COMMITTING POLITICAL SUICIDE.
The GOP will not survive that. Voters would leave FOREVER in droves.
Bingo!
State rules apply. Some states bind the *votes*, not the delegates, for the nominee. Delegates attempting to violate state rules would be appealed to the Convention Rules Committee, not the RNC permanent Rules Committee. Convention Rules Committee decisions have to be approved by a vote of the whole convention, which will be about 75% Trump and Cruz, if not an outright Trump majority.
The GOP doesn’t care if they lose in November, it’s still the Uniparty and they’re still drinking from the gov’t trough.
If they pull this the grassroots needs to organize a write-in campaign. I’m confident we could do it. I mean how hard is it to spell Trump.
In all due respect, there has been good reason to form a viable third party since Clinton. You may have noticed we’ve been systematically scrood month after month, year after year no matter how loud we yell.
I blame talk radio and conservative politicians for purposely thwarting any idea of a third party by insisting that if we just ‘work within the party’, all will be well.
Too many either bought it hook, line, and sinker and/or didn’t have the stomach to make the move.
It’s too late for that now. The final nails are being pounded in America’s coffin right now. Either we stop and reverse it now, or it’s over.
“They pull a stunt like that and I will vote for the Democrat (which I have never done) just to spite them and teach them not to f-— with us.”
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I agree with your sentiment, but voting dem is exactly what the GOPe would want you to do at that point.
They’d rather keep the existing 2-party system (Dem and DemLite -AKA GOPe) than allow Trump to come in and shake things up.
IMO, if they deny Trump the nomination, the only option is to write him in. If that fails, it’s CWII time.
I am of the opinion that delagates should be bound for the first round of voting but allow one exception. A delegate who is committed to a candidate who has withdrawn, or stopped their campaign should be unbound.
I am also of the opinion that delegates should be bound on the second round as well, with only votes being allowed for those candidates who have qualified to have their names entered on the floor (rule 40 - 8 states with a majority of delegates to qualify).
If by the end of the 2nd round, still no nominee, then all delegates are unbound.
I don’t understand why they don’t let the candidate’s campaigns pick the delegates from the states and districts from which they were won.
If Trump wins 2 delegates from a particular congressional district in Pennsylvania, his campaign staff will pick 2 supporters from that district to go to the convention. They could be volunteers, fund raisers, staff, people who contact his headquarters and apply, etc...
Then we could let the delegates vote for whoever they wanted on any ballot at the convention. Chances are they would stay loyal to the candidate that picked them to go. If the candidate drops out, there is a good chance the delegate will do their bidding and vote for the candidate they endorse.
Truthfully, I thought this WAS how we did it and only recently found out that we don’t. Why don’t we do it this way?
This is just wrong, why do we have votes if the leadership can subvert the will of the people? If Trump has won the primaries he should absolutely be the nominee, just as no matter how distasteful to some here, if Cruz somehow despite the odds won the primaries he should be the nominee.
he’s talking about volunteering to become the Whig party.
LOL! Wall street would be the "lessor" and you can guess who the two evils are!
What is "RNC" and "DNC", Alex.
If in fact enough of Donald’s elected delegates turn on him on the first ballot (or even the second) the GOPe will definitely achieve its preference of handing the election to Hillary (or Bernie) over Trump.
It’s one thing to hold your nose and vote for the GOP nominee, it’s another thing to hold your nose after the GOPe has forced that nominee down your throat.
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