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The Fix Is In: How to Steal a Nomination From Donald Trump

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Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Here’s what non-Trump forces are doing--and will find themselves soon scheming to do--to pull off one of the biggest, perfectly legal, heists in American memory.

Thought the Democrats did that to us the last time.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-03-15 09:21|| 2016-03-15 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 And you still don't believe it's an oligarchy.

Over at Instaprof this posting this morning-

ALLAHPUNDIT: “LENDING” THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO TRUMP FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS MIGHT MEAN YOU NEVER GET IT BACK:

Which is why, if he cleans up [tonight], you’re going to see an explosion of pieces online like the one Ross Douthat published yesterday urging the RNC to deny Trump the nomination by any means necessary — including a rule change before the convention, if need be, that frees up delegates to vote their conscience. (“A man so transparently unfit for office should not be placed before the American people as a candidate for president under any kind of imprimatur save his own.”) A member of the RNC’s Rules Committee is already circulating a letter suggesting, contra all available evidence, that delegates are not bound on the first ballot and haven’t been in 40 years. The price of stealing the nomination from Trump after he’s supposedly clinched it would be sky high.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-15 09:52|| 2016-03-15 09:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Yea, but maybe---just maybe---independent Trump* will split both parties.

*Does anybody doubt he'll go independent if pub elites pull something like this?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-03-15 09:58|| 2016-03-15 09:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Due to previous efforts, several states have already on the books laws that prohibit candidates who run in their party's primaries from running in the general election as independent or third party (except maybe New Jersey where their Supreme Court threw out the state constitution to allow the Donks to insert a senatorial candidate just before the election).

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-15 10:40|| 2016-03-15 10:40|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't know what kind of President Trump would make. I don't really know what kind of person he is. The fact that the elitists in the Republican Party, The Democrat Party, and the liberal press are all playing "pile-on" says that he is making waves with his messaging which at this time seems to be populist and pro-USA. Why is that so threatening to the elites unless they are not for the people or the country?

Posted by JohnQC 2016-03-15 11:01|| 2016-03-15 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 “A man so transparently unfit for office should not be placed before the American people as a candidate for president under any kind of imprimatur save his own.”

Phfft. Didn't stop them nominating John McCain.

Posted by Iblis 2016-03-15 11:31|| 2016-03-15 11:31|| Front Page Top

#7 If a political party pulls shenanigans to steal the nomination from whomever won according to the rules, then they don't deserve to be a party any longer.

This applies to Democrats as well who aren't getting us much press about it but are seeing heat over Sanders likely losing because of superdelagates most people don't really understand.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-03-15 11:54|| 2016-03-15 11:54|| Front Page Top

#8 This applies to Democrats as well who aren't getting us much press about it but are seeing heat over Sanders likely losing because of superdelagates most people don't really understand.

Did not Hillary have the superdelegates in the bag in 2008... until she didn't?

Posted by trailing wife 2016-03-15 12:55|| 2016-03-15 12:55|| Front Page Top

#9 ..well, super delegates have to go home (to face the pitchforks and tar) cause there's only so many appointed positions (given how many are owed those positions already) that can be handed out quick enough to leave Dodge by sundown.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-03-15 13:16|| 2016-03-15 13:16|| Front Page Top

#10 It's real easy to rail against the "system" isn't it? But how many of us know (or more importantly understand) our state party's rules for pledging delegates? At the national convention if a candidate has failed to secure more then a third of pledged delegates it means over two thirds don't support said candidate. Should the nomination be settled by a simple popular vote? Shake your fists at the elites or the establishment if it makes you feel better. But the notion that a nomination would be stolen is disengenuous - at best.

Posted by DepotGuy 2016-03-15 16:10|| 2016-03-15 16:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Orange County FL running out of pub ballots early in the morning is not looking good for Rubio. Trump smiling?

Posted by 3dc 2016-03-15 17:32|| 2016-03-15 17:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Rubio got Slaughtered in Florida by double digits. Frankly he and Kasich have handed Trump the nomination. I say that because Cruz has been adamant that if Trump had the delegates, he must be the nominee or the party will Fracture. And Cruz is right.

Granted the GOP might split anyway. And Trump might win anyway when Sanders supporters stay home, and more moderate Dimocrats(With some intelligence left) and Independents move to Trump instead of Hillary. It's a Clusterfark of a race. Like something from 1912 election! Though none of the nominee's stack up with Teddy Roosevelt.

Posted by Charles 2016-03-15 21:02|| 2016-03-15 21:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Governor Kasich appears to have won Ohio, a winner-take-all state, with 44% to Trump's 36%. And the Army Ranger/West Point grad/mid-size business owner will be replacing retired Congressman John Boehner.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-03-15 22:08|| 2016-03-15 22:08|| Front Page Top

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