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WHOA! RNC Changes Rule To Stop Trump From 1,237 Delegates…All Are Eligible
Proud Conservative ^ | 3/25/2016

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.

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To: Lurking Libertarian

...they’re certainly welcome to TEST the system and see if you’re right. They can also invest in the Argentina Stock Market...where they’re more likely to make money.


161 posted on 03/25/2016 9:03:46 PM PDT by BobL (A vote for Cruz...is now a vote for Romney / Jeb / Linda / Ryan (at the convention))
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To: Starstruck
Why the whining?

The GOPe is claiming, despite Rule 42, that there are no rules. That would mean anything goes, even if someone goes into the convention with a majority of the delegates. This is much bigger than Trump or Cruz or Kasich. It's the GOPe claiming that it picks the nominee, not the voters or the delegates.

162 posted on 03/25/2016 9:07:21 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Repeal 16-17

Correct.

The temporary rules stay in place for 2016 until modified by the Committee.

I believe the next such meeting takes place in April.


163 posted on 03/25/2016 9:12:41 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: longtermmemmory
this women voter story has all the believability of the war on women BS.

Exactly!

The gals love a winner! They are wired genetically to swoon for the top alpha male in the room....it is what it is.

Guys are wired differently, they swoon for the closest gal in the room...lol ... it is what it is.

164 posted on 03/25/2016 9:16:52 PM PDT by Bobalu (I'm spitting on my hands, and hoisting the black flag!)
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To: Rusty0604
My understanding is that courts have no jurisdiction over political parties and their rules.

In politics it is the electorate that has jurisdiction. They are judge and jury..and their verdict is cast at the ballot box.

Trump can appeal the the electorate to vote for him as write-in if he is swindled out of the nomination. Vote Trump as a write-in and vote for no one else on the ticket OR vote straight Dem on the down ticket races.

The nuclear option....

If we are going bust might as well do it in a hurry and bring on secession as soon as possible to separate ourselves from the Marxists.

Let them die in the streets for lack of anyone working and paying taxes to support a hoard of freeloaders.

A sharp knife cuts the quickest, and hurts the least!

165 posted on 03/25/2016 9:24:54 PM PDT by Bobalu (I'm spitting on my hands, and hoisting the black flag!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Nonsense. If even one rule ever stayed intact across conventions, this is total rot. Unless a rule specifically states a time limit, it rolls over like all the other rules.


166 posted on 03/25/2016 11:02:19 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: ctdonath2
No, he'll run 3rd party which is probably what the GOPe wants. If they nominate a Paul Ryan or Jeb, all the voters would revolt including Cruz's voters.

However, if they nominate Cruz, he'll take it and presumably his voters will vote for him and split the Republican vote. Boom, President Hillary. This can't happen.

It saddens me to say that if the GOPe tries to push Trump out, Cruz must leave with him and form a coalition ticket as Trump's VP. I have been dismayed by the Trump campaign for some time but am becoming so with Cruz as well. I think his ambition in such a brokered convention would not let him see that Trump's voters will not leave ever and would not unite under the party banner. Where Trump goes, they go. Forever.

Again, President Hillary. I think the GOPe is fine with that.

167 posted on 03/25/2016 11:47:50 PM PDT by Squeako (Trump: "I put cyanide in the Kool-Aid, and my voters still drink it, okay? It's like incredible.")
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Here is the third paragraph of the preamble to the 2012 convention rules.


BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the following be and hereby are adopted as The Rules of the Republican Party, composed of the rules for the election and government of the Republican National Committee until the next national convention, the rules under which delegates and alternate delegates shall be allotted to the respective states in the next national convention, and the rules under which such delegates and alternate delegates shall be elected and under which contests shall be considered, and the rules of business of this national convention.

Notice the distinction between the NEXT convention and THIS convention?

There is also rule 42.


RULE NO. 42
Temporary Rules

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.


Rule 42 implies that they might change rule 42, but as of now it is a rule for the next convention and NOT something that was just in place fn the last convention.

How can any campaign plan a long-term strategy if the party says that rules are not really rules if they produce the "wrong" outcome in the end? I thought yesterday the mantra was "rules is rules." Today there are no rules?

The rules did not cause Jeb Bush's campaign to fail, Bush did.

-PJ

168 posted on 03/26/2016 12:40:02 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You don’t intend to vote for the Republican nominee?


169 posted on 03/26/2016 12:55:59 AM PDT by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: BobL

Trump should have ran 3rd party if he didn’t want to deal with Republican rules.


170 posted on 03/26/2016 1:01:02 AM PDT by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: Stentor

You are scum if you vote Democrat.


171 posted on 03/26/2016 1:02:32 AM PDT by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: freeangel

I wish Jim would clear out all the whiny scum that are saying they will vote Democrat. If you can even contemplate voting Democrat you are the enemy.


172 posted on 03/26/2016 1:07:26 AM PDT by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: Bryanw92

Be happy when he Don returns Congress to the Dems this Nov. and makes The Deals with Chuck Schumer.


173 posted on 03/26/2016 1:32:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: blam

Oh MY so you think that 3 people not voting for Trump will hand the election to Hillary???? There will be MANY people who will NOT vote Trump, however there are MANY more DEMS and indies that CANT WAIT to vote Trump!!! So ALL of you holier than thou folks that think Hillary is better than Trump continue on with your heads in the sand, the rest of us have a country to save!!!


174 posted on 03/26/2016 1:43:57 AM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Salvation

Pray and FIGHT

Those political CROOCKS need “TAR AND FEATHERS” !
I think it would the right OPUS DEI .


175 posted on 03/26/2016 2:26:22 AM PDT by Ulysse (pal)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Related ...

GALLUP: Republican confidence in election process plummets...
http://www.gallup.com/poll/190292/republicans-sour-election-process-working.aspx


176 posted on 03/26/2016 2:46:40 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: CGASMIA68

Unless Trump starts a third party, it is better to hang on to your seat at the table. Easier to fight them when you are inside their fortress than outside it.


177 posted on 03/26/2016 2:49:01 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: JediJones; All
I can't remember who said it, but it's appropriate: "It's like shooting and arrown and painting a bullseye around it."

My number 1 priority is to prevent hillary (or any dem) from gaining the oval office.

My number 2 priority is to prevent the GOPe from seating who they want in the oval office.

The RNC have absolutely betrayed us. It's similar to Optimates verses the Plebs during the fall of the Roman Republic except I feel there is a third group pinched in between (wouldn't know what to call them).

178 posted on 03/26/2016 2:51:19 AM PDT by Toadman (To anger a Conservative, tell a lie. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.)
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To: JediJones

The Establishment is like a swarm of heart worms. They are dangerous, and this is our last chance to remove them.


179 posted on 03/26/2016 2:52:46 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The Establishment’s panic is actually music to my ears.

When you see the other side scramble you know they are scared.

And of course they fight dirty against their alleged side. That is exactly why we want to take them out.


180 posted on 03/26/2016 2:55:39 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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