Oh, that's easy:
Posted on 07/01/2016 8:48:25 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
The Republican elites are not going down without a fight.
Donald Trump shattered the GOP primary record this year by more than a million votes.
He was running against 16 challengers – another record.
But that won’t stop the GOP elites from trying to steal the nomination.
The Weekly Standard today called on delegates to steal the nomination from Donald Trump at the Republican Convention this month.
The traitors would rather see Hillary win than support Donald Trump.
Bill Kristol at The Weekly Standard reported:
This election cycle hasn’t been kind to Republican big shots. Their favorite presidential candidates—Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio—fell short. Their opposition to Donald Trump was ineffectual, and their subsequent submission to him inglorious.
Now they have one last chance to do something that would bring credit to them and benefit to their party and country: Support the effort by hundreds of delegates to free themselves to vote their conscience at the GOP convention.
These delegates have been organizing from the bottom up. Their movement has more momentum than anyone thought possible a few weeks ago. But the delegates are under intense pressure from the Trump campaign and from RNC apparatchiks to buckle under. Republican governors, senators and congressmen—who privately acknowledge what a disaster Trump would be—can do one thing to help. They can provide air cover to delegates risking their careers charging on foot the entrenched batteries of the party establishment.
They don’t have to do much. They don’t have to attack or oppose Trump publicly. All they have to say is that delegates should vote their conscience, that doing so is in the finest traditions of the party, and that Republicans don’t bully other Republicans. Just a few volleys from assorted GOP big guns could even up the odds, and give the brave enlisted men and women willing to do the right thing a chance to prevail.
The weekend of July 4 is a good time to step up. All that Republican leaders have to declare is that the convention delegates “are, and of right ought to be, free and Independent,” and “that they are absolved from all allegiance” to a nominee who would sully the name and damage the future of the Republican party.
OH WHEN are we going to get tired of this crap?
We hear this on the news 24/7; we read it on here 24/7...
JUST STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Find some POSTIVE news for a change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It WAS a Grand Old Party - now the headaches
Sickening.
The Weekly Standard is an anti-American Globalist enclave.
We the people have spoken - who the hell are they to try and nullify our vote?
Republican elite...? LMAO! Trump kicked all their butts put together!
How about instead we bring back the Let Them Eat Cake guillotines for the Republican elite?
Agreed I am sick of ever hearing about these spoiled, anti American brats who think they own voters.
Oh, that's easy:
Lil billie Krystal ought to clear his throat apologize America and move to France.
They are going to marginalize themselves as a fringe party with a smaller turnout than the Libertarians.
If Jim and/or the mods agree with you, said posting will go away.
That's how we roll, here on Free Republic.
The Weekly Standard and the National Review used to be conservative magazines...They’ve now gone over to the dark side...
Neither are worth the paper they’re printed on now...It’s sickening...
The comment “to help the party and the country” is so sorry of the Standard...They only want to help the party...
The UNIPARTY...
To hell with the people, the country...The very people who VOTE....That’s the way they really feel....
Am I wrong to suggest that one raised in that sort of a household, is incapable of really putting America First; that there is no way an American can honor his heritage and admire a Communist thug like Leon Trotsky?
See, out of their own words, what these folk stand for. It is not what we stand for:
Answer Kristol's obsession, with the truth.
We hear this on the news 24/7; we read it on here 24/7...
JUST STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Find some POSTIVE news for a change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“All that Republican leaders have to declare is that the convention delegates ‘are, and of right ought to be, free and Independent,’”
So...why hold elections at all? Hmmm? Why not allow the Uniparty to simply select someone, kind of like the EU does?
Somebody must be paying the bills since they don’t seem to mind driving off their conservative subscribers.
We don’t NEED “neocons”.
We have liberal interventionists like Hillary, Samantha World Power, Halfbright, and Kerry!!!!
There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between neocons and liberal interventionists. They both mean WAR and mass DEATH!!!!
The people have spoken. Nominate Donald Trump at the convention, and knock the hell out of Hillary and ISIS!!!!
Happy Independence Day to you all!!!!
I'm not listening to Rush. Now, that's a positive.
Bill Kristol & rest of #NeverTrumpers are sore losers.
Trump won and they want to dump him even though he won a record 13 million votes and secured the nomination in accordance with the party rules.
When the tables are turned, its the losers who don’t want to abide by the party rules. And they don’t even have a candidate they want the party to nominate.
Its insane.
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