LOL - The GOP may get a nominee without a single vote!!!

This is being billed as 'Trump is an idiot and doesn't even know the rules and that Cruz, wow, what a ground game'.

I think the truth is probably closer to the establishment concocted rules that give them a preordained right to select the nominee and they are installing Cruz people in the delegate slots because they know the downside of installing their own. Iow, there's nothing more to Cruz's ground game than getting some of his supporters to show up so the establishment can install them.
 
These rules are mind boggling. How I wish that a third, truly honest party would rise and be viable in this country. The party constitution would be simple. One man one vote. No complications.

The Loophole That Could Cost Donald Trump the Nomination

Pennsylvania, which holds its primary next Tuesday, uses a nonbinding “loophole” primary — and that could cost Donald Trump the Republican nomination.

If the state adopted the delegate rules of any other primary, he would probably be an even-money favorite, or better, to amass the 1,237 delegates needed before the convention.

Instead, his chances may come down to the whims of 54 unpledged Pennsylvania delegates....

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ld-trump-the-nomination/ar-BBs27aX?li=BBnb7Kz
 
I can't say that a nominating system that gives party officials some leeway is terrible. The alternative, direct democracy, has its own share of problems.

The problem this time however is that the party elites are way out of step with the party base. Trump's popularity is not an irrational, personality cult. If anything, he is succeeding despite his personality. It is the result of a systematic breakdown between party elites and voters. Trump is merely the messenger.

So the party establishment's efforts to screw Trump out of the nomination appears to voters to be just the latest installment in a continuing effort to ignore voters and disenfranchise them. Very thin ice for the party.
 
Sean Hannity erupts when Ted Cruz evades question: 'You gotta stop!'

"...
Cruz relented.

“Now there is a second component beyond the elections, which is the individual delegates are elected by the people. Donald Trump’s campaign does not know how to organize on the grass roots,” Cruz said, allowing him to win those delegates “over and over and over again.”

“I cannot help that the Donald Trump campaign does not seem capable of running a lemonade stand,” said Cruz, who later called Trump’s campaign “a Kim Kardashian reality show.”

“What if the delegate selection doesn’t represent the will of the people in that particular district or area?” Hannity said.

Cruz didn’t directly respond..."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...question-you-gotta-stop/ar-BBs2kJa?li=BBnb7Kz
 
AAAintheBeltway said:
It will be the end of the republican party if they force this loser on us. As I cited in another thread, he is a passionate open borders/amnesty advocate, fully supports the neo-con endless war policy, wants to cut popular middle class entitlements and use the money to pay for benefits for welfare leeches and immigrants.

The Trump and Cruz delegates will have the ability to vote on convention rules. They can make it impossible for someone to get nominated who has not won primaries. The current Rule 30 was adopted by Romney delegates and requires that a candidate has to have wo a majority of delegates in at least 8 states to be put into nomination. Only Trump and Cruz would make that cut. There is some confusion about whether the rule would bar the nomination of someone after the first two ballots, when most of the delegates would have been released. I suppose it is always possible that they could change the rules during the convention as well.

I have changed my mind about this. I thought it looked like they would try to steal it, but I now think they realize it will be difficult to do that against a unified Trump/Cruz front, and the most likely result would be a bloodbath all up and down the ticket.
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I wish u would run for political office. You're wasting your time here. And scat.
 
Absolutely incredible. Sickening that people's vote means nothing. This country is owned. Plain and simple.

Go ahead, Donald, get 1,237; it won't matter: RNC delegate

"Donald Trump may be the only Republican presidential candidate who can realistically hit the magic 1,237 number for the majority of delegates, but according to a senior Republican National Committee official that does not mean he will become the GOP presidential nominee.

Curly Haugland, a longstanding RNC official and an unbound delegate from North Dakota who will be on the convention rules committee in July, told CNBC that attaining 1,237 during the primaries does not secure the nomination.

"Even if Trump reaches the magic number of 1,237 the media and RNC are touting, that does not mean Trump is automatically the nominee," Haugland said. "The votes earned during the primary process are only estimates and are not legal convention votes. The only official votes to nominate a candidate are those that are cast from the convention floor."..."

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/22/go-a...ald-get-1237-it-wont-matter-rnc-delegate.html
 
Trump supporters will not go quietly into the night. Neither will most of Bernie's. Just watch. All the RNC has done is signed their judas iscariot on top of the Declaration of Independence in big fuckkng letters. Just wait. Fuck them all.
 
I seriously doubt they will deny Trump the nomination if he gets even close to 1237. Trump has cleverly whipped up his followers on the issue of getting cheated.

The one thing you can say about the republican establishment is they are pretty much all cowardly. They are afraid of offending their corporate and foreign paymasters, but at the end of the day, they are most afraid of getting Eric Cantored.

There is some fear that a disastrous Trump campaign could cost them support down ticket, but screwing Trump would carry its own risks. And if Trump does lose, they will inevitably blame his anti-immigration policies, and demand that we get on with passing amnesty and open borders. After all, how is Intel supposed to hire people to do the work of those 12k americans they are firing?
 
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