Posted on 04/01/2016 5:18:50 PM PDT by Enlightened1
If the establishment wants Ryan, they could nominate Ryan, let Trumpers and Cruz fans spend the next three months screaming that they’ll never vote Republican again, and then pray that the sheer amount of day-to-day irritation they endure from watching Hillary Clinton campaign finally leads those people to say in October, “F*** it, Ryan it is!” That’s a Hail Mary pass, but nominating Cruz after he’s been weakened by Trump attacks and embittered Trump fans by “stealing” the nomination through delegate chicanery is a Hail Mary pass from your own 20. And nominating Trump, given his radioactive unpopularity with the wider electorate, is a Hail Mary pass from your own end zone.
Exit question: Rove claims here that everyone’s misunderstood Rule 40. Is he right? All Rule 40 does, he says, is prevent candidates who’ve failed to win a majority of delegates in eight states from being formally nominated with a big speech and a seconding speech. It doesn’t prevent delegates from voting for whoever they want, which means Ryan, Romney, Walker, Perry, et al. are very much in the mix as nominees. That’s the first time I’ve heard that interpretation. And even if Rove’s right about what the rule says now, I’ve got a funny feeling that that’s not what it’ll say once Trump’s and Cruz’s fans on the Rules Committee are done rewriting it.
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LOL...very good
We need someone “fresh” because the 16 candidates we started with weren’t enough?
karl rove the gop is done with...FINISHED... we need a new party
If The RNC/GOP delivers the amnesty candidate they owe the Cheap Labor Express through shenanigans at the convention they will create something completely new:
Kamikaze Voter
Every Democrat for every office in every election until there is no more GOP
GOP-RIP
Pigs like Karl Rove do not control reality.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Resistance is victory.
The only time when Pigs like Karl Rove win is when good men do nothing.
LOL!
You are almost certainly wrong about that
. My spreadsheet shows Trump with the thinnest of a chance of getting to a majority on the first ballot even giving him all of New York and New Jersey. Cruz, even less, but Cruz has a better than even chance of more pledged delegates than Trump. Trump and Cruz ought to have the horsepower between them to make sure that a third party can't slip in. They ought to reach an agreement that whoever has the greatest number of votes on the first ballot is elected on the second, either Trump or Cruz.
Holy crap. Again with this same thread/topic?!?
One can only hope.
Cruz really has NO WAY to meet all of the rules to be nominated.
Probably never happen, but with your obvious, intense dislike for Cruz, would you vote for a Trump/Cruz ticket?
How about Cruz/Trump?
“Let’s face it”...this rove loser needs to retire this evening.
Lets face it Karl Rove might need to hide at some point. :-)
Rove is going tot ry like hell to replace Cruz and Trump both with someone who won’t embarrass the GOPe by actually winning the election and upsetting thereby all the existing arrangements by which the GOPe figures are enriched and secure in their financial and power positions.
Rove is afraid that a Trump or Cruz Presidency will make him completely irrelevant.
No. The way it works is that last person who has not been mathematically eliminated from 1237 delegates is the nominee.
That is Trump.
Behold the death rattle of an American political party. What will replace it, I have no idea.
Is there a Mrs. Rove, or is he woman enough for two?
Why bother? Te GOPe does what it always does. It loses.
Even if true. which it's not, it's still better to Hail Mary from your end zone WITH your offensive line blocking, than throw from the 20 WITHOUT it.
DOWN WITH GOPE
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