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To: drewh

Here is the deal.

If Trump walks into that Convention with 1237 delegates, and does not get the nomination on the first Ballot, I will be right next to you on the barricades.

If Trump walks into that Convention with something less than 1237 delegates, and does not get the nomination, I will accept this as long as the process follows recognized rules.

A plurality of delegates that falls short of 1237 is not worth a bucket of warm spit.

At that point, it comes down to the convention picking the candidate they want. This process is ugly and divisive, and will probably not pick Donald Trump, even if he is just one delegate shy of 1237.

That is the way the system works. Those are the rules everybody agreed to when they signed onto this thing. It is a little late to start whining about it now.


80 posted on 04/01/2016 5:55:11 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Admit you were conned / This means you are good and honest / There's no shame in this)
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To: Haiku Guy
If Trump walks into that Convention with something less than 1237 delegates, and does not get the nomination, I will accept this as long as the process follows recognized rules.

The problem with this notion is that the long-established "recognized rules" preclude the party establishment from the sort of manipulation and favoritism they have injected into the current process. They don't get to break the rules to tilt the playing field against a candidate they dislike and then sanctimoniously insist that that candidate must cleave to every jot and tittle.

84 posted on 04/01/2016 6:52:25 AM PDT by Cyberman
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