Posted on 04/05/2016 7:36:02 AM PDT by xzins
While we disagree with Mr. Buchanan on which candidate is the best standard bearer for the conservative movement there is one thing we do agree on – passionately.
No matter who gets the Republican nomination, the establishment must lose.
In a recent column “Lock Out The Establishment In Cleveland!” Pat Buchanan echoed the conclusions of our four-part series on what conservatives should do if Trump wins the nomination:
As Buchanan explained, to accomplish that goal, “All Trump and Cruz need do is instruct their delegates to vote to retain Rule 40 from the 2012 convention. Rule 40 declares that no candidate can be placed in nomination who has failed to win a majority of the delegates in eight states.”
Trump has already hit that mark. Cruz almost surely will. But no establishment favorite has a chance of reaching it.
With Cruz and Trump delegates voting to retain Rule 40, they can guarantee no Beltway favorite walks out of Cleveland as the nominee — and that Ted Cruz or Donald Trump does.
As Pat Buchanan said, “No matter who wins in Cleveland, the establishment must lose.” We urge Trump and Cruz delegates across the country to do what their compatriots in Tennessee and a few other states have started to do; get together and form an informal alliance that commits them to voting for Cruz or Trump – and only Cruz or Trump.
A way out.
If Cruz and Trump can at least agree to this, they will cut out any other candidate coming out of that convention.
It’s brilliant, and it’s to the best interests of either Cruz or Trump.
I thought the GOP Election Committee voted on rules - according to this article the delegates do. If so locking the GOPe out of the process should be a cakewalk.
Rules from the committee have to be approved by a majority of delegates.
This should reveal whether or not Cruz is still an outsider or whether he has been co-opted by the GOPe
The rules of the game shouldn’t be allowed to be changed, once the game (primaries) has started. If the lying RNC wanted to play games/change rules....that should’ve happened months ago....before primaries started.
Sweet. Given the current political environment I do not believe the majority of delegates are in the mood to accommodate the GOPe.
There’s several way of playing this. Trump could hold this out as a bargaining tool. The best Cruz could hope for is VP slot, not President. If Cruz doesn’t agree, Trump will allow GOPe to pick their candidate
Would you be OK with Trump letting the GOPe back in if it means defeating Cruz?
This has been obvious from the start.
Cruz will go along because it’s his to steal (or so he’s been told).
Why would Trump associate with a globalist who supports TPA/TPP?
Why would Trump associate with a globalist whose wife endorses the CFR plan for NAU?
Why would Trump associate with a person that attempts to connect him with Beligian jihadies?
Why would Trump associate with a person who claims they didn’t know they were Canadian until they saw it in the paper?
GOPe will do what they did in 2012 - Wrench Pubus or one of his henchmen will chair the convention. The chair will recognize a motion from the floor to delete the rule. The chair will then call for a voice vote, which, in the (unappealable) opinion of the chair, will decide in favor of the deletion motion. Game over.
Of course this little bit of housekeeping will be done in the daytime when only CSPAN will be looking in. The rest of the media will focus on the resulting turmoil - not the issue itself. The National Review crowd will tut-tut over the “anger” of the Trump delegates. See how all this works?
Make perfect sense.
I don’t want any game playing. They each need to instruct their delegates to retain rule 40. That guarantees that one or the other comes out as the nominee and no one else.
It is a brilliant move, and the two of them WILL have the majority of all the delegates, so any decision they make ahead of time cannot be overturned.
This is not saying that one or the other is president or vice-president. It is simply saying that it is going to be one or the other of those two and no one else.
I prefer Trump, but I will vote for Cruz. I’d vote for Cruz far more easily than I did Romney, that’s for sure.
Why?
Because it locks out everyone except Trump or Cruz.
I’d go for a Trump/Cruz only cage match.
That is not the way it works. The 2012 rules are only a template for the 2016 rules.
If we don’t get in there and fight for the proper rules, then we’ll be forced to live under rules we don’t want.
The retain rule 40 movement must happen. Otherwise, the majority of delegates could vote to ditch rule 40. That would open the nomination to ANYONE the power brokers want: Bush, Kasich, Ryan, Romney, etc.
Plurality means more than anyone else.
Me, too. I support Trump, but I’ll settle for Cruz if that’s the way it works out.
Yes, between Trump and Cruz they will have a majority.
They almost do already.
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