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 ...
Zotted? Again? Just when we get a lunatic in full frothing at the mouth madness....
Upon the adoption of the report of the Convention Committee on Rules and Order of Business, Rule Nos. 26-42 shall constitute the Standing Rules for this convention and the temporary rules for the next convention.
Link to rules:https://s3.amazonaws.com/prod-static-ngop-pbl/docs/Rules_of_the_Republican+Party_FINAL_S14090314.pdf
The GOPe has just declared Martial Law.
Don’t. They want you to do that so you can’t vote in future R primaries. Stay in the party, let them beg you for money, laugh in their faces and vote how you want come 2020 primary time.
Upon the adoption of the report of the Convention Committee on Rules and Order of Business, Rule Nos. 26-42 shall constitute the Standing Rules for this convention and the temporary rules for the next convention.
The 2012 Rules are in force until the 2016 Convention Committee changes them.
Republican mantra: It’s ok as long as we get the nominee we want. The ends justify the means. They are contemptible.
The republican committee and romney better step back...or they will not have a party at all.
If they deny Trump his delegates I will stay home. Let democrats have it. It’s a promise.
Problem is if you’re in business you have to pay the crooks in Congress off or they don’t pick up the phone when someone else paid them to change a regulation that will put you out of work.
People overseas have to pay off the crooks in Congress too... I can assure you they don’t give a damn about the ‘speeches’...
That's the whole point: no one has laid out the rules for this Convention. Each Convention adopts its own rules on Day 1. Shortly before the Convention opens, the party's Rules Committee proposes rules, which may or not be the same as the ones adopted at the prior Convention, but the delegates, as one of the first orders of business, adopt (or amend) those rules. It's all up to a majority of the delegates on the floor.
...to put it another way, Trump likely won’t care if he wins the lawsuits, he’ll just be happy watching the GOPe types have to deal with Chapter 7 when it comes to their legal bills.
Not in a lawsuit challenging the rules adopted by a vote of the delegates at a political convention. That lawsuit will be thrown out of court the first time a judge reads it, and Trump will pay the defendants' costs. It would be as frivolous as me suing you for failing to wear green pants on St. Patrick's Day.
I switched to Independent 8 years ago when McCain miraculously became the candidate.
F the GOP
Okay by me
Rule 308 trumps rule 40(b).
I didn’t refer to “you” anywhere in my post, nor imply you were anti-Trump. You commented that the rules process has always been this way and I put out several examples of the absurdity of that logic while the RNC has always maintained a pretense that the primary voters matter.
Either the voters DO matter, or the rules can be arbitrary and the voters DO NOT matter, but the RNC can’t have it both ways.
My error.....
40(b) was implemented for one convention to prevent the nomination of Lyndon LaRouche and some other wackos.
This is not a case of changing the rules. It is the case of not automatically reinstating a rule designed for one particular, past instance.
So Rule 40(b) applies as a "temporary" rule. That means the 2012 rules apply to the 2016 convention, until permanent rules for the 2016 convention are adopted. The alternative would be the 2016 convention starting with no rules. Then how would anything be done?
IMHO the imbecile will try doubling down until he and the Vichy RINOs crash and burn..
Nice for all those candidates working hard, spending money, and upsetting their family’s lives. Are the Dems this bad too?
Go vote full Dem. In 4 years there will be no 2nd amendment.
I thought Trumpers were positive he would get the 1237 delegates before the convention. Remember it’s a tsunami and all that. Don’t tell you don’t have that confidence anymore. Comeon. Cruz has a scandal that’s going to destroy him. Kasich doesn’t have a chance. Why the whining?
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