Posted on 04/09/2016 8:18:36 AM PDT by pinochet
This was first tried by the Democrat campaign of Samuel L. Tilden in 1876 and because the Republican weenies caved than we got an end to Reconstruction and the start of Jim Crow and the KKK under the reign of Democrat terrorists.
“It’s the same the whole world over, It’s the poor what gets the blame. It’s the rich what gets the pleasure. Ain’t it all a bleedin’ shame?”
Lyrics from an old bawdy ballad. Always true throughout history; the rich will have their way. No, I’m not a liberal, because unlike a liberal, I know that government fixes to make things fair only make things worse.
For those who believe Trump’s wealth is a “problem”
I’d respectfully remind folks that, with just a few exceptions, the men who crafted and signed the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were near the TOP OF THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SCALE for their time!
Like Trump, nearly all were motivated by their desire for FREEDOM from a despotic tyrant. Most of them paid DEARLY for their rebellion. Near the end of his life, Jefferson’s absence from his beloved Monticello caused his finances to be so damaged that Congress offered to purchase his magnificent and extensive library. That purchase was the nucleus for today’s Library of Congress.
If you do not know the history of the prices paid by those architects of the freedoms we today take for granted – and are in the process of allowing to be taken away by the tyrants of today – their stories are at the link below. Please take the time to review them!
As the authors of this site comment, some of these stories may or may not be completely accurate. That said, it’s safe to say that their lives would have been far less difficult if they had – to use the language of many of the tyrants now infesting the Beltway and other power centers in 2016 – simply “Gone along to Get along”. And we’d probably STILL be singing “Hail to the Queen”.
http://www.constitution.org/bio/fate_of_signers.htm
Trump has some billionaire allies that have considerable resources.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrYJuDx_MT0
Manafort having a friendly discussion with Cruz delegates
What we need is a delegate who is smart enough to set the bastards up and audio and video record their criminal bribe and then go public with the proof.
Trump could afford to give every delegate a 1 week vacation at one of his resorts then transportation to the convention.
Unless the rules are changed for this convention, Trump delegates are bound to vote for Trump in the first round and cannot break that commitment. If they vote otherwise, they are removed from the convention, and their votes are recorded as if they voted according to how they were bound.
[I’m not looking it up, but I believe that is Rule 16.]
If Trump has a first round win, it cannot be stopped. If Trump does not have a first round win, many delegates are still bound to him on a fixed number of subsequent ballots - the number of ballots determined by their state and enforced as described above by party rules at the convention.
My impression is that Trump is so far doing poorly on delegate loyalty and on recruiting unbound delegates. He is also doing poorly on attracting delegates to support him once they are unbound. Unbound delegates could be bribed by either side, as could bound delegates for votes after they are no longer bound. By tradition, those bribes are offered as patronage jobs. A candidate’s staff would not want to be caught offering cash to someone who rejected him and exposed the tactic.
Money must be well spent to be effective. Jeebies wasn't.
remember those DoD toilet seats worth $400)
Proof right there you don’t know WTF you’re talking about.
Silly man. Bush has only suspended, hes still in for the convention...
Those $400.00 toilet seats may be how they hide spending for black ops projects.
Trump is fading, what a delusional statement. Ted sCruz other women will loose NY, PA and NJ. Ted will be unable to get the needed delagates to reach the majic number, will he then drop out.
Ted is shurging in the wrong direction in the polls, as in down. Teddy is going down faster then Marco FoamBoy Rubio at a foam all male foam party.
Is the pope a Catholic?
The rules for the upcoming convention haven’t been written yet. The newly elected delagates from Trump, sCruz and Kasich will make up the bulk of the rules committee members, they will write the rules for this convention.
I'd have to say "you're REALLY out of touch with what's happening."
Huge numbers of Americans are SILENTLY supporting Trump and will simply showup on election day, much as they did for Reagan 35 plus years ago
This is WHY Walter Cronkite and other MSM anchors and pundits had to explanation for WHY REAGAN won in a landslide.
Nov 4th, 1980
Dan Rather analyzes Ronald Reagan's win over Jimmy Carter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVeAQgxkN3M
To be more precise, tentative rules for this convention have been written. They can modify the rules, but too big a change would look corrupt. As for the "newly elected delagates from Trump, sCruz and Kasich", first, as a Trump voter, I'm hoping the Cruz voters will vote Trump in November. I'm not convinced that fighting with them and insulting them is the best way to earn their votes. Second, those newly elected delegates are in most cases bound to Trump, Cruz, or Kasich, but that does not mean they actually support their candidates. We (voters in general and the Trump/Cruz campaigns in particular) have to watch them very carefully as they write the rules and at the convention.
Each convention writes it’s ownrules, thecurrent rules ONLY applied to the last convention. The rules for this convention have not been written yet.
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