Posted on 04/19/2016 5:16:27 AM PDT by markomalley
A former senior advisor to Donald Trump thinks the Republican presidential front-runner should ask his delegates to promise to support him on every ballot at a contested convention by having them sign a loyalty pledge.
"We're going to produce a voluntary loyalty pledge that will say, if you're a Trump delegate, that you'll stick with Trump through all the ballots to reflect the will of the voters," veteran GOP strategist Roger Stone told Rolling Stone in an interview published Monday.
"We'll ask them to sign. It's voluntary, but we'll see who does it, and who the cockroaches are," he added.
Stone, who has been banned from appearing on CNN or MSNBC, recently threatened to "disclose the hotel and the room numbers" of delegates who choose to support Texas Sen. Ted Cruz or Ohio Gov. John Kasich after the first ballot at a multi-ballot convention.
"If you're from Pennsylvania, we'll tell you who the culprits are. We urge you to visit their hotel and find them," he said during a radio interview earlier this month.
Stone is no longer affiliated with the Trump campaign, but that hasn't stopped him from forcefully pushing a message that is nearly identical to Trump's about the delegate selection process in several states.
"This is what I call the big steal," Stone told Rolling Stone. "I don't mean Trump falls short of 1,237 delegates and they won't give him the nomination. What I've said is, Trump has the 1,237 votes until they unseat his delegates somewhere or play some other legal trickery to steal it from him."
Well, I CAN confidently affirm that anyone who doesn’t vote for Ted Cruz hates Jesus and America.
Sure he has, I have seen him. Just like Al Sharpton advocating to violence.
That was also dumb. So is zeig heiling Trump
As opposed to the treasonous attempt to thwart the will of the people? Hell yeah there should be a price to pay! You want to steal the election, be prepared to face the consequences. We are not going to take this quietly.
“Trump ally suggests loyalty pledge for delegates”
C’mon. What good is it to be in politics if you can’t cheat and steal and betray those simpletons who think that their vote counts?
No one says you have to take it quietly - make all the noise you want. But if it turns to threatening opponents with physical violence or actual violence and destruction of property, I hope they shoot them down in the streets.
So violence and threats are OK when someone other than your candidate gets nominated?
>>”the situation has changed”
And do you think that you changing your mind was independent of Trump changing his mind, or is your definition of what is right and wrong whatever Trump has most recently said?
Treasonous? Where were you in 2012, 2008, 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992, 1988, 1984, 1980, 1976, 1972, 1968, 1964 and on and on.
This treason you speak of has been going on since before Trump was born. But now, because he complains and blames others for his inability to understand the process, or care enough to participate, all of a sudden it's treason.
Hyperbole much?
To a considerable degree, my opinion is based on trust that Trump will make good decisions as the situation evolves.
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