Posted on 03/25/2016 4:58:58 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Republicans have assumed this entire elections season that a candidate must have won at least 8 state primaries or caucuses to be eligible for the GOP nomination, but apparently that is not the case and apparently a rule change hasn’t technically occurred, but that’s not the way it seems.
Even Ted Cruz said just last night that John Kasich wasn’t eligible because he hadn’t won enough states, so even he was mislead.
Insiders now say rule 40(b) only applied to the republican convention in 2012 and was never intended to be used in future elections.
From Washington Examiner:
Party officials and knowledgeable sources have confirmed over the past few days that Rule 40(b) doesn’t exist for the purposes of the upcoming convention. That means at this point, the three candidates left in the race, front-runner Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, are all eligible for the nomination, as, possibly, are the Republican contenders who have since suspended their campaigns.
Ben Ginsberg, a Republican elections lawyer who was involved in rule-making process for the 2012 convention, said that Rule 40(b) isn’t transferrable to the 2016 convention. Ginsberg explained to the Washington Examiner that what was passed in 2012 applied only to 2012, and that the 2016 convention must pass its own rule determining nomination eligibilty.
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus confirmed Ginsberg’s assessment on Sunday during a television interview. “There will always be a perception problem if people continue to miss — to not explain the process properly. So, the 2012 rules committee writes the rules for the 2012 convention. The 2016 rules committee writes the rules for the 2016 convention,” he told CNN.
(Excerpt) Read more at proudcons.com ...
“I won’t vote if Trump is not the nominee.
(and)
Hillary will be the next US president.
(as a consequence)”
I’ve been saying that for weeks. It’s like ripping off a band aid. Just get it over with all ready. I’m not going to vote for the traitors of the GOPe.
I am not going to worry about it.
This crap will be resolved so that the one who has the most delegates will be the nominee. All this other stuff is fear mongering by the media.
All this “Trump cannot win” is fear mongering.
As much as I can, I will refuse to believe it.
Too much can happen between now and November, and the Democrat party is as big a disaster if not more than the Republicans.
It is just that the GOP-e is seeing power slip away from their greasy fingers and that upsets them....so they’re working overtime to make me afraid.
I’m not.
Either they’ll listen to the people or the people will turn them out.
period.
full stop.
end of story.
Take a breath.
Read your Bible.
Pray.
And fear not....it is the command most often given by Jesus Christ to his disciples.
My son and I were talking yesterday about this. We are both going to stay registered republicans so we can vote against any incumbent in the primary and caucus. Stay where we can hurt them the worst.
I will be voting R no matter what and certainly not staying home giving leverage to Clinton and allowing her to appoint Supremes and neither should any one else.
The writing on the wall becomes clearer with each passing day. If we do not understand by now that the number one objective is to destroy the Washington Establishment, then we and country deserve to go down for the count. Who can bring the Establishment down? No one other than Donald Trump. Cruz will never be able to pull it off because he is already in the pocket of Wall Street and the big donors. Furthermore, his vote getting ability is way too narrow and the chance of losing to Hillary is a risk no clear headed conservative should be willing to take when the stakes are so high. The Establishment has to be brought to heal or else we will lose our country.
Yes in 2012 they changed the rules for that election to protect their golden dud, Romney.
“However, it is quite clear that a fair fight will not be allowed.”
It’s already appalling that that party, who is supposed to be an infrastructure only, is actively working to undermine and destroy one of the campaigns. They are doing it openly.
This is like the referee wearing a broncos jersey on the field.
It’s gonna be a tough slog.
Outsiders are not welcome to the DC Cabal.
FR has their share of these folks who have been resurrected from many years ago.
Thanks Jim, you have the Forum. Let’s play!
This question is for anyone who may know:
Are voters “allowed” to write in a name for President in all 50 states?
Try it, GOP. If you screw this man out of the nomination if he earns it or is very close, I’m walking.
Who needs scurvy democrats when you have neatly dressed republicans willing to do the dirty work for them?
“Sweaty Priebus came up w/ that after a sleepless night.....when he saw Trump was winning big.”
I didn’t think snakes were able to sweat?
They don’t care, either way. They really don’t care what we do. They laugh at us, mock us, steal our votes. It doesn’t matter to them if we are in their party or not. They would prefer we WEREN’T in their party, because they view us as pesky little creatures who are like ants at THEIR picnic, mucking up their little schemes and arrangements.
If they lose, they ‘win’. They still have all their perks, and even better than actually winning, they don’t have to perform or produce, just act like they agree with those masses. Fakes, phonies, frauds, all.
I used to call them Elites. After observing so much shenanigans, it’s probably more accurate to identify them for what they are: SATAN’S CHILDREN.
And if you are in state where you can’t vote in Republican Parties you just cut your nose off to spite your face. REAL GENIUS.
You can only cause change when you vote, if you are killing your vote then I can only hope you stop voting all together.
So am I to conclude that if Cruze is found to have multiple extramarital affairs, you’re still o.k. with him being president? Guess you must have voted for Slick too!
Party leaders intend to invoke Rule 16(d) which Stone describes as a “byzantine concoction of legalese” that disqualifies delegates elected in a state that allows voters who are not registered as Republicans to vote in the Republican primary.
This could lead to Trump’s 22 delegates from Massachusetts and 16 delegates from Arkansas being disallowed.
Trump’s 25 delegates from Missouri could also be challenged because state rules are far from clear-cut.
Would-be kingmakers may invoke Rule 38 “which prohibits states from requiring their delegations from voting as a unit, by a majority vote of all members of their state delegation.” It could be argued that delegates are not bound, even on the first ballot.
“Widespread voter fraud in Texas and Oklahoma and the structure of the ballot in Ohio could sustain challenges before the entire convention ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412441/posts
What other rules are they going to change? One more thing, this rule has been talked about for sometime now and they are only now saying it is not in effect for 2016. Looks like when things are not going as they thought they say, by the way that rule was only for 2012. They must think we are really stupid.
My understanding is that courts have no jurisdiction over political parties and their rules.
The 2016 rule will state that any candidates who have a last name starting with "T" are ineligible.
The problem is, there are a LOT of newcomers to the political process... This has been how parties have operated since created.
The same with the majority delegate requirement. That rule has been in place since the GOP was founded.
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