Good day all. Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee for the Republican party. Most of the senior party officials are falling in line. However, there are still quite a few who will do anything to keep Trump from winning. (Gee, this is almost a standing headline, isn’t it?)
This time, they are looking to take the nomination away from Trump at the convention. It doesn’t matter to them that Trump has pretty much locked in the delegates he needs, these delusional idiots are still trying to figure out a way to do it. Here are the details from the Washington Post:
The top ranks of the Republican Party may be coalescing around Donald Trump, but grass-roots conservative activists are still trying to find a way to stop him at the party’s convention in July. Angered by Trump’s shifting views on taxes, the minimum wage, national security and how little he discusses social issues, conservatives across the country are studying the party rule book for last-ditch moves they could make when the convention begins in Cleveland.
Honestly, these aren’t the grassroots they are looking for. The “Grassroots” have spoken and they selected Donald Trump. The one’s who are enraged over his win are the Establishment RINO’s generally.
Veteran Republican campaign operatives familiar with convention planning are offering to educate delegates on how they can act as free agents, even if the Republican National Committee insists that delegates adhere to the results of their state primary. Some even talk about convening somewhere other than the convention site.
These “Veteran Campaign Operatives” are the same bunch of losers, led by Karl Rove, who have basically blown virtually every important election since Ronald Reagan. They can’t accept the fact that no one is going to listen to them any longer.
As to telling the delegates that they can vote anyway the want? In a number of states, they are legally bound to vote for the winner of the primary and if they don’t,c an be prosecuted. That’s if they aren’t dragged out and lynched by the voters.
“I want to call our movement the ‘Make Our Party Great Again’ movement, but many don’t have my warped humor,” said Karen Unruh, a Republican delegate from Colorado, referring to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
I have no idea who this person is and there are a number of “Karen Unruh’s” coming up in a google search. I suspect she’s just another RINO who is pissed that her favorite, Jeb? Bush was destroyed in the primaries by…everyone.
Trump may hold an insurmountable lead in party delegates, but Unruh said that she and other party activists do not like how he “grabbed the Super Bowl ring and he didn’t finish the game. There’s a team on the field that has plenty of blocks left. We don’t know who our quarterback is going to be, but we’re still on the field to play.”
Excuse me? Didn’t finish the game? Allow me to correct you.
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As Unruh suggests, however, there is no de facto leader — just lots of ideas floating around websites and conservative blogs. The convention rumblings come at the same time that some Republican elites, including 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, are searching for someone to mount a third-party challenge to Trump.
Yeah and just how successful have them been with that? Every single person they’ve asked has told them to go pound sand. And then we have Erick Erickson of Red State.
Erick Erickson, a popular conservative blogger and radio talk show host from Atlanta, warned last week on his blog the Resurgent that unless Republican convention delegates stop Trump, “their rendezvous in Cleveland is going to be a ritual mass suicide.”
I see someone has stopped taking their meds.
Erickson said in an interview that most of the concerned Republicans he talks to are focused on finding ways to “unbind” delegates required to vote for the winner of their state. Some favor changing party rules in the week before the convention, although others — including Erickson — say that the rules allow it.
“Multiple lawyers I know have looked at the rules and say that the delegates can unbind themselves,” Erickson said.
Are these the same lawyers that told Hillary Clinton that there was no issue with her setting up her own mail server and then destroying all the evidence once Congress and the FBI wanted to examine it?
But many senior GOP officials dispute that delegates can be unbound. They also say that it would harm the party and refute the plurality of voters who chose Trump. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has said that party rules require delegates “to be bound to candidates.”
“There’s no way around it,” he said in a recent NBC News interview. “If a delegate is bound to a candidate, even if that delegate decides later, ‘I don’t care, I’m not voting for that person,’ the secretary at the convention will read the roll as if that delegate voted for the person that they’re bound to, period.”
Yeah, but the GOP(e) wing of the Never Trump!(ers) don’t care.
Curly Haugland, a longtime Republican National Committee member from North Dakota, is an outspoken advocate for unbinding delegates. He has long been dismissed by party leaders — one former RNC official said that he is on a “watch list of troublemakers” — but Haugland is so devoted to the idea that he is publishing a new e-book, “Unbound,” set for release this week.
“The delegate freedom movement’s alive and well,” Haugland said in an interview. With several states yet to elect their delegations, Haugland is hopeful that “by the time the delegates are seated and ready to vote, 100 percent of them will know they’re free to vote however they want to.”
So, you are saying that millions of people who voted for Trump, or Cruz, don’t matter?
Dane Waters, who worked on the Bush-Quayle presidential campaigns, said he plans to help distribute Haugland’s book because he believes that party delegates — not RNC officials — ultimately run the party.
Dane Waters, who worked on the Bush-Quayle presidential campaigns, said he plans to help distribute Haugland’s book because he believes that party delegates — not RNC officials — ultimately run the party.
Eric O’Keefe, a longtime conservative activist favoring term limits and changing RNC rules, said that concerns about Trump’s nomination present “a great opportunity to revive the party as an independent institution.”
Oh this is going to be good.
Delegates sent to a convention “are not agents of the state party and they’re not agents of the state government when they’re convened in Cleveland,” he said.
I beg to differ and the laws of a number of states agree with me, not you stupid.
“What we’re experiencing here is a Priebus-led power grab of the delegates,” O’Keefe added. “The headquarters staff doesn’t trust delegates and it wants to increase its own power. It doesn’t want delegates making the big decisions.”
And you just jumped the shark there dumbass. If you had paid any attention to the last 6 months, you would see that Priebus really wasn’t all that thrilled with Trump either, and wanted your buddy, Jeb? Bush. However, he saw the writing on the wall and moved to neutrality. He still isn’t thrilled with Trump, but he’s less thrilled with another Clinton administration and being unemployed.
The Washington Post article lists one quote after another of GOP(e) RINO’s who can’t accept that they and their ideas, which have proven to have failed, have been rejected by the GOP Base. This all started with the Tea Party movement, which the GOP(e) did all it could to destroy. When several of the GOP(e)’s prized RINO’s were hunted down and killed in their primaries, they just blew it off as an outlier, Now they are panicked because Trump is anything but an outlier. He is the sum total of the rage of the GOP Base.
What these people want to do is insure that Hillary Clinton wins the election. They really don’t understand what the results of that disaster would be. To begin with, it will mean the end of the Republican Party. The people they have taken for granted will walk away. They will also take their money and resources with them. By the time the 2018 midterms roll around, the odds of a Republican party still existing as anything more than a political footnote will be very low indeed.
Donald Trump won fair and square. He has keyed into mainstream America, all those people in Flyover Country. He is pro-American and isn’t ashamed of it. He has seen how American’s and for the most part, lawful resident aliens are enraged at the criminals coming across the border and killing Americans. He has seen how the “Free Trade” deals the GOP(e) have come up with have been detrimental to American workers.
Finally, he hears how people have had it with the lawlessness of Washington’s bureaucracy, the Obama Administration and the assault on the Constitution by both parties. The GOP(e) RINO’s are dead certain that Trump can’t defeat Hillary Clinton. Pity the polls are once again turning in Trump’s favor and showing the GOP(e) that once again, they are dead wrong.
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