Make me so mad I forgot the picture.
Posted on 05/26/2016 1:09:38 PM PDT by Innovative
Delegates to the Republican National Convention will gather in less than two months and are expected by most to nominate businessman Donald Trump for president. But it's not quite so simple or certain – Trump will still have one last sales job ahead of him, persuading the delegates to choose him at the convention before he can claim the nomination.
This is because each and every delegate has complete freedom to vote their conscience at the convention, including who the party's nominee should be. This may come as a surprise to many, particularly those who are reading about Trump's recent win in the Washington state primary and how close he is to "clinching" the Republican nomination.
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Bring it on drooling half wit, bring it on. We’d
Delusions of grandeur.
Go ahead, try and deny Trump the nomination, I double dare ya!
You’ll quickly find out where the real power is.
I call for a vote of the delegates to send Curly home to South Dakota.
No, he's a North Dakota-brand idiot.
Schlongless, brainless piece of barn dung that don't even know his hair ain't curly.
Make me so mad I forgot the picture.
Yeah, they even gave Curly Haugland his own opinion column to spout his nonsensical unbound delegate theories. CNBC just might drown themselves in that river you mentioned.
“CNBC decides the nominee ?? Gee I didn’t know that”
Actually it’s worse than that. It’s “Curly Haugland, a Republican National Committeeman, and Sean Parnell, a public policy consultant” who THINK they’re going to decide. Idiots.
I’ve often wished that there was someway of assessing penalties for spinning the truth.
What an ass.
The Trump Train has left the station.
Praise God!
If the delegates decide to play the “conscience clause” card, do they need to declare a reason? They’d be conscientious objectors, but on what grounds? And would this set a new precedent for the average joe in his own future decisions? The “conscience clause” is a two edged sword.
Read the article.
Curly & Sean are trying to sell their NEW book!
I think he will when CA is done 6/7. But this Private Club (Republican Party?) needs to be closed down. There was a court decison somewhere recently that referred to the RNC or DNC as a private organization. If that is the case then i would like to sue for reparation payments for use of public voting machines and systems to carry out a private club event.
BALONY! Those delegates are bound to vote as the voters told them to vote-for Trump!>>> not true many delegates are unbound there are only 17 of like 50 that are unbound here in PA. This private RNC club needs to be shut down.
The delegates are bound to vote for him on the first ballot!>>>> not true in pa 17 are 40+ not
It’s not a conscience clause. It’s just how it works. Delegates are only bound to a candidate insofar as they accept the mutual agreement between the states and national party. If they reject that agreement by adopting different rules to govern the convention, they are not bound. They set the rules not the states or the national party apparatus.
It doesn’t matter if a state has passed laws to bind delegates. Those laws are unenforceable by the federal government or the national party. If a state passes a law mandating that a delegate be prosecuted for not voting according to how (s)he is bound, then the state can enforce that law after the vote takes place but it cannot intervene to prevent a delegate from voting however (s)he wants at the national convention.
A political party is a private party not an administrative agency of the government.
1. State laws in many states bind the delegates to vote as pledged. True and in PA only 17 of the 50 are bound. the rest free to vote for reagan if they want.
HEY- THEY’VE GOT A BOOK TO SELL LOL!
“Commentary by Curly Haugland, a Republican National Committeeman from North Dakota, and Sean Parnell, a public policy consultant from Virginia, are the authors of the book Unbound: The Conscience of a Republican Delegate.”
Curly is determined to use up every last second of his 15 minutes.
She’s way cuter than Haugland.
HEY- THEY’VE GOT A BOOK TO SELL LOL!
“Commentary by Curly Haugland, a Republican National Committeeman from North Dakota, and Sean Parnell, a public policy consultant from Virginia, are the authors of the book Unbound: The Conscience of a Republican Delegate.”
Ha! More like “The Unconsciousness of a Republican Stooge”. This Haugland guy is brain-dead.
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