Discussion: Stopping Trump At A Convention Is A Hot Mess Of Impossibility

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in the end… the contested Republican convention nominated Ronald Regan when compromise candidate, Herbert Hoover, declined the nomination…

traditional conservatives in the party decided a dead body was better than Donnie Dimwit OR Messiah sCruz… and who better than man-god Ronnie…

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The GOP establishment has not even acknowledged that the rank and file are angry, or tried to address the reasons for it. All they do is put down Trump, but are incapable dealing with why Trump exists in the first place.

Don’t get me wrong I am not defending Trump. I am just noticing the GOP seems sort of hapless,and helpless about the situation

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Thoughts’n’prayers, GOP.

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So basically, this summer the GOP faces two choices: Trump or Cruz. Or in layman’s terms, death by poison or death by hanging.

Please proceed GOP!

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Any initiative spearheaded by the dynamic Lord High MittBot of Romneyshire is sure to inspire the hearts and minds of everyone who triZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ…

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The RNC is surprised that the carefully tended snake pit known as the Tea Party has grown to the size where it threatens the life of the party. As long as they remained useful idiots, things were fine. Now that they are taking over they realize belatedly they should have put a stop to this nonsense at least a year ago.

This rabble is the same core audience that watched FOX for 10 years and got whipped into an irate frenzy. Little did they realize the anger would be turned on them.

Pass the popcorn.

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It would require them to look into a ‘mirror’ and seeing their true self.

Jindal has already proven that’s impossible.

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The GOP has, over the years, created a mob of ignorant, angry voters. Not only that, the GOP has fought tooth and nail to make sure these same voters are heavily armed. If I were the GOP establishment, I would tread very carefully in Cleveland. Of course, if all hell breaks loose, they can beg the Executive branch of government to protect them. Remind me, who is in charge of that branch?

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March 8th

Hawaii

Idaho

Michigan

Miss.

Florida and Ohio (and other ‘events’) are on the 15th.

While Arizona and Utah’s deal are important, the northeast swing starts up again on April 19th, with the first state being NY and it ends on April 26th.

Seeing how Kasich and Rubio are still bringing up the rear, ‘place your bets’…

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When do the ÂŽ debates start using laugh-tracks?
Do we get fart jokes with the dick-measurings?

® primaries are a series of backyard BBQs where everyone is hammered by 4pm–
and you don’t want to be the first to pass out in a lawn chair.
Sharpie Markers and selfies anyone?

And these people want to run the country?
Like Johnny Knoxville would.

jw1

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The Tea Party members finally realized they had been had when the GOP controlled Congress failed to live up to any of its promises to them.

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They won’t say this out loud, but the GOP establishment’s best hope is that Trump goes the way of Scalia.

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I’m optimistic we can beat Trump, but not totally sanguine. But if they derail him in Cleveland, it will be a slam dunk for HRC.

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Bring it!

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The Republican’s best bet might be to not run a candidate at all in 2016. Just sit this one out.

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Rule 40 makes things clearer. I thought if they wanted to keep Tronald from getting to the magic number then the more the merrier in term of candidates. Instead they want lesser candidates to get out. Rule 40 and having to dismantle it makes sense of this.

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“The various campaigns are going to try to get delegates to switch, and I don’t know how they do that,” Berg-Andersson said. “You could go ballot after ballot after ballot.”

Anything in the rules that prevents them from purchasing the votes of delegates? I mean what could be more capitalistic than that? A straight auction for delegates to change their votes–a perfect end befitting the principles of the Republican party.

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Precisely. When I read these kinds of analyses, I find myself thinking, “If not Trump, then who?” Do the “establishment” Republicans have a viable candidate waiting in the wings?

Rubio is immature, prone to panic in the face of real or imagined problems, and is laden with baggage from his sometimes shady past.

Cruz, in the parlance of government supply operations, is a “hole-comma-ass-comma-flaming type.” Even people who agree with him find him repugnant. Nixon notwithstanding, you don’t win a national election when you have those kinds of personal negatives.

Kasich? Only slightly less loony than the others, but his policy positions are largely the same far-right nonsense that the American voters routinely reject. If the Senate had proportional representation, it would be in Democratic hands, and if the House districts hadn’t been gerrymandered to death, the House would follow.

Bush? Yeah, right.

Romney? He got whomped by the ni[clang]. What does that tell you? Well, people are even angrier about the Obama Administration now! No, no they’re not.

So where is this “save the party” white knight?

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