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GOP preparing for contested convention
The Washington Post ^ | 12/10/15 | Robert Costa, Tom Hamburger

Posted on 12/10/2015 1:28:12 PM PST by Amntn

Republican officials and leading figures in the party's establishment are now preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention as Donald Trump continues sit atop the polls and the presidential race.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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To: MortMan
GOP preparing to contest the results of the voting.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if they would just put that much effort towards actually defeating odumbo and his moron colleagues?

21 posted on 12/10/2015 1:34:42 PM PST by dware (Free Survival & Prepper Ebooks: http://www.survivetherockies.com)
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To: Jim Robinson

“Hey GOP! We win, you lose!! Traitors!!” ^ 10!


22 posted on 12/10/2015 1:35:44 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (0bama "more interested in promoting homosexuality in the military than he is in defeating our enemy")
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To: Amntn

Basically, the GOPe concedes defeat...Trump will win the primaries.


23 posted on 12/10/2015 1:36:02 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: Amntn

What’s the matter with these people?

I haven’t heard one solid reason why the front-runner can’t capture millions of disgusted Democrats sickened by their party chices.

In fact, the polls never “poach” into Democrat territory when surveying the Trumpster.

The GOP machinery had better smarten up fast and pull out all the stops for their winner.

The candidates that are just pegging 5% or less are nothing but gnats and need to leave.


24 posted on 12/10/2015 1:36:16 PM PST by plangent
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To: stocksthatgoup

Ah, but imagine how quickly the GOPEs will discover how much they’re overmatched by a master deal-maker/negotiator — A man who doesn’t take “No” for an answer.


25 posted on 12/10/2015 1:36:33 PM PST by glennaro
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
I think you are right about that. Unless something happens, Trump wins NH then sweeps all the primaries after that. He might not win Iowa, but I bet he does, and even if he doesn't, Iowa doesn't matter much. Huckabee and Santorum won Iowa.

Question I have is, when and how does Trump gain control of the RNC? Does he have any control heading into the convention, does he have to gain control at the convention, and what can he do after the convention with all the GOPe people in the RNC so he doesn't get sabotaged? I'm curious. My recollection is that Reagan put his people in place after the election in 1980, and that Bush fired them all in 1988 or 89. I don't know the mechanism by which that happens. Any experts here?

26 posted on 12/10/2015 1:36:43 PM PST by Defiant (RINOs are leaders of a party without voters. Trump/Cruz are leaders of voters without a party.)
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To: so_real
The GOPe *wants* Hillary Clinton elected.

What part of Uniparty/Ruling Class does everyone not understand?

2016 is about the Ruling Class crowning the next Supreme Leader, using a corrupted system to create the illusion that the People, voted for tyranny.

27 posted on 12/10/2015 1:36:56 PM PST by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Jim Robinson

Well, no one in the world is better at brokering than Donald Trump so the GOPe should watch out.


28 posted on 12/10/2015 1:36:59 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Amntn
GOP preparing for contested convention

TRANSLATION: They'll do whatever is necessary to crown THEIR boy.

The GOP-e had better be prepared for the majority to walk out and go third party!

29 posted on 12/10/2015 1:37:16 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Caution: These remarks may offend some raghead savages and/or liberals - GOOD.)
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To: Amntn

Hillary’s in the catbird seat and has a lot to gain from all this chaos in the Republican Party


30 posted on 12/10/2015 1:37:20 PM PST by plain talk
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To: dware
Wouldn't it be wonderful if they would just put that much effort towards actually defeating odumbo and his moron colleagues?

They would IF they disagreed with them.

31 posted on 12/10/2015 1:37:26 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: Amntn

2016 Trump wins primaries
2016 GOPe stiffs Trump and gives Bush the nomination
2016 Trump goes third party
2016 Trump wins the election
2017 Trump is focused on by the GOPe, the Republicans in Congress refuse to deal with him.
2018 70% of Republicans are voted out of office, and replaced with people from Trump’s new party
2019 Trump changes the face of America with help from his new majority party
2019 Trump declares he will run again
2019 The Republican party having only 25% of the registered voters it did four years previous realizes it can’t win at the general election in 2020
2020 The Republican party nominates a loser
2020 The Republican candidate is beaten by Trump, and the Democrat party candidate to finish dead last with 5% of the vote
2021 The remaining registered Republicans switch to Trump’s party
2021 Reinse Priebus is last seen screaming something about not being a crook


32 posted on 12/10/2015 1:37:36 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I support President Pre-elect Donald J. Trump. Karl Rove, the GOPe, and Leftist's worst nightmare.)
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To: Amntn

If Trump has a plurality of delegats but the nominations is given to a RINO like Bush or Rubio, the GOP is dead.


33 posted on 12/10/2015 1:37:47 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: Amntn

If this doesn’t show the GOP is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrats, nothing will. Same mafia, different families.

The establishment GOP is in full blown panic mode.


34 posted on 12/10/2015 1:37:51 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: dware

You mean like when Gingrich halted Clinton in his tracks? Those were the days!


35 posted on 12/10/2015 1:37:57 PM PST by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: Amntn

I don’t get it. I’m NOT a trump fan, but if he remains this popular, why would there need to be a contested convention. What would be the excuse?


36 posted on 12/10/2015 1:39:46 PM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Amntn

This is coming from the same stupid party that told conservatives to shut up and unify behind their chosen establishment nominees in 2008 and 2012 where both lost miserably in the national elections.

If the GOP decides to go the brokered convention route with Trump or Cruz and in the process virtually seal its demise as a national political party, then BRING IT ON!


37 posted on 12/10/2015 1:39:47 PM PST by DestroyLiberalism
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To: dware
Even as an Independent—Trump would still get 50 plus percent of the vote with Romney and Hitlary sucking up the rest.
38 posted on 12/10/2015 1:40:28 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (DEPORT OBOLA VOTERS)
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To: All

OIC = “Only in Cleveland”


39 posted on 12/10/2015 1:40:50 PM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: chae

A brokered convention is where no candidate has enough votes to win on the first ballot.

And the GOPe set up each states rules so that will be hard to achieve.

Many of the states award their primary delegates in a proportional way so that they only get part of the states delegates even if they win the majority.

They also require the candidate to win the majority in 8 states where it used to be 5.

They did this to keep a conservative from winning.

You can read more about it here:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/12/09/tripwire-alert-gope-signals-intent-to-use-mississippi-strategy-against-trump-after-trumps-primary-victory/

Go down to the bottom and read “GOPe Roadmap”


40 posted on 12/10/2015 1:40:51 PM PST by Amntn
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