Posted on 04/03/2016 11:28:59 AM PDT by Innovative
Peter Hart, a veteran Democratic pollster, recently conducted a focus group in St. Louis comprised of Republican voters — with the aim of understanding the Trump phenomenon and its durability. One of his big takeaways? “A brokered convention would likely backfire.”
would likely backfire.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
GOPe is in bed with the Democrats for a Hillary presidency.
See:
Tech billionaires (major Dem donors) plot with GOP leaders at exclusive island resort to stop Trump
I have said these same words a million times today. Now maybe because some Washington Post writer says it maybe it will be believed
The idea that delegates on the convention floor — people who are, by and large, quite conservative and are accurately described as the base of the party — would throw over not only the top delegate getter (Trump) but also the person who got the second most delegates (Cruz) is decidedly implausible given what we know about the state of the GOP today.
Being a slave to the state is unacceptable to me. I don’t care if they are ‘RATs or GOPe.
Implausible, maybe. But it looks like they’re trying anyways.
‘people who are, by and large, quite conservative
Ah, conservative.
Conservative like Cruz, who tweeted his support of mass legalization?
Conservative like the Freedom Caucus, that gave Paul Ryan a supermajority of support to replace Boehner?
Conservative like CPAC, that gave Paul Ryan a standing ovation?
Right. We can really trust those conservatives; they never let us down.
#NeverTheVoters
I hope you are right about that. Those of us who are not active in a local party probably harbor boogieman-like fears that some powerful “they” will steal the nomination and ignore the primary vote totals on some technicality. But I think the delegates who actually attend and vote are good patriotic folks just like us, and not part of some conspiracy of insiders and elites hellbent to maintain power and control.
#neverTrump could spawn something completely new:
Kamikaze Voter
Every Democrat for every office in every election until there is no GOP
GOP-RIP
Chris Skeeza Cillizza doesn’t really understand “magical realism”.
It is a common literary style, especially in Latin American writing. It uses magic to explain unlikely, but occurring events, especially when those events go against socially expected actions, even though those events can be explained by usual, common facts.
In this case, magic would be used to explain a Trump victory over the GOPe in selecting him as the candidate.
But it’s not though. They care about themselves, not some larger American success.
The delegates are there because of party favoritism and patronage. Their allegiance is to whoever granted them a position. That it is a convention of some high minded conservative thinkers is wishful thinking, but not realistic. These people will go with whoever gives them the biggest bribe.
Some are there for favoritism and patronage, but most are not.
BUMP!!!
I think he means “magical thinking”, which is a mental health term.
I'm a Trump 2016 supporter. Do I like the rumors about what the RNC intends to do? No, not at all. But don't presume everyone who goes to the convention is in bed with the GOPe or is part of some secret cabal to stop him. They aren't.
Have you ever been to your local gop convention?
Apologies. I just don't trust the GOPe and all the stories being pushed in the news about a brokered convention are just too orchestrated. Somebodies pushing this theme hard.
Yes. He probably meant to write "magical thinking."
But if the convention nominates a 105-year old Ronald Reagan or a 125-year-old Dwight David Eisenhower, we'll have to admit that Cilizza got it right after all.
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