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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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
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To: Personal Responsibility

That’s where I get confused. I mean, if you cant gt the majority of your own party to vote for you in the primary,what makes you think you have any chance in the general?


281 posted on 12/10/2015 8:47:55 PM PST by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: chae

They’ll worry about that part afterword. That’s what their $500,000,000 war chest is for. Seriously, that’s how they think.


282 posted on 12/10/2015 9:05:45 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: Amntn

The difference is Bush is trying to save his party while Trump is trying to save his nation.


283 posted on 12/10/2015 9:14:29 PM PST by inchworm
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To: Amntn

Just curious. Shouldn’t the GOP prepare for this anyway? Trump might win a lot of delegates but possibly not enough to put him over the top. It would make sense IMO.


284 posted on 12/10/2015 9:16:32 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: Amntn

Suppose Trump decides to go third-party and other significant candidates, such as Cruz and Rubio, decide to join his third-party, do you think this would guarantee that the third-party would have the winning nomination and lead to the demise of the GOPe?


285 posted on 12/10/2015 10:17:41 PM PST by fision
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To: entropy12

I’m not going to bet, but I will acknowledge that Trump could win. I think I understand Ted Cruz’s strengths and his strategy to play to them in early primaries.

I support Ted Cruz financially and will continue to do so right on through the campaign.


286 posted on 12/10/2015 11:39:19 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Amntn

Translated that becomes “they are arranging a brokered convention so that they can deny Trump the nomination”.


287 posted on 12/10/2015 11:41:50 PM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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To: JediJones

Ike had his good points. He was an intelligent, talented man but he was as George Patton pointed out a political man even in uniform who flattered people like a politician.

Ike’s best contribution was his farewell speech where he warned us about the ‘military industrial complex’ whose modern day friends include the likes of John McCain and Dianne Feinstein.


288 posted on 12/10/2015 11:42:47 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Amntn

“The only reason Bush was on the ticket was because that was the compromise the establishment forced on Reagan in order for them to agree to back him.”

I remember this very well - sort of...

I was working that summer in Alaska at a salmon cannery.

There was a breakdown and we had a few hours to ‘relax’ (recuperate is a better word).

We turned on Armed Forces Radio, played some cribbage and heard that it was going to be Reagan/Ford - a co-presidency!

My buddy and I were ecstatic! Apparently the long hours were getting to us...At the dinner hour we would say things like: ‘Slide me a slice of supply side pie.’ It was funny and we were exhausted...

We went back to work for three days knowing the ticket was Reagan/Ford.

Turns out it was a backroom delay to get Bush on the ticket and the ruse only lasted an hour or so...

In my mind it lasted for days...


289 posted on 12/11/2015 4:48:14 AM PST by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Pelham

Translated that becomes “they are arranging a brokered convention so that they can deny Trump the nomination”.
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Exactly.


290 posted on 12/11/2015 6:35:04 AM PST by Amntn
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To: Amntn

Let the RINO shenanigans begin. They are panicking.


291 posted on 12/11/2015 6:35:43 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Amntn

bkmk


292 posted on 12/11/2015 9:35:17 AM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: Amntn

How do you become a Trump delegate in Cleveland? We can’t let the GOPe infiltrate.


293 posted on 12/11/2015 10:58:22 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: gleeaikin

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3371439/posts?page=73#73


294 posted on 12/11/2015 3:53:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: dragnet2
the Drive-By Media and the Washington establishment, and they're befuddled and they're bemused and they don't understand it. They expected this to be the end of Trump.

What we have here is a Paradigm Shift

295 posted on 12/12/2015 9:17:30 AM PST by spokeshave (MDSM = Mentally Discombobulated Screaming Media)
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To: spokeshave

I responded but the questioner could handle the answer.


296 posted on 12/12/2015 9:20:52 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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I responded but the questioner could NOT handle the answer.


297 posted on 12/12/2015 9:21:32 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Amntn

They haven’t had a contested convention since 1948; not a close one since 1976. Won’t happen


298 posted on 12/13/2015 4:36:42 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Amntn

They haven’t had a contested convention since 1948; not a close one since 1976. Won’t happen


299 posted on 12/13/2015 4:37:32 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Democrats will see her for what she is by then.

A dream; Demos will remain steadfast for HRC and the left as they have since at least 1932, no matter what "evidence" surfaces.

300 posted on 12/13/2015 4:54:55 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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