Posted on 04/09/2016 9:00:02 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The Republican party is not winnning friends or influencing people by saying to the Republican voters in 2016 your vote no long counts. Think about it!
The popular vote has always been honored by the Delegates unless it was very, very close like in 1952. We have a public election. We have all this money being spent. We have false advertising that say things like, “go vote”, “one man one vote”, “one woman one vote”, “every vote counts”, “you decide 2008”, “you decide 2012” and “you decide 2016”.
Now because the Establishment candidates have lost in the Republican Primary.... They are saying oh no because we changed the rules a way back, and because we lost we are not going to let you win! The Republican Party in 2016 is saying to the Republican voters that your vote no longer counts. I believe that is indefensible!
Even when the parties claim they have all this internal power. When the parties hold themselves out as a public watch dog on tv and radio. When they hold themselves out with this it is false advertising! I can show all the instances of “Your vote counts. Come join our party”. This is public fraud, and it’s very dangerous to VOID the votes and discard the WILL of the people. I can see this even leading to possible class action law suits for false advertising.
In any event, if we sit by and do not get upset, then it will normalize these Establishment fat cats who claim they now APPOINT who can run for office. If you select the candidates, then is that not a form of canceling the 2016 election? Therefore, we just wil have ceremonial events every four years instead of actual elections. Furthermore, are we not just like communist China where the party appoints its own Presidents and successors vs. having a real Primary where every vote counts?
We the people are not their subjects or surfs. The government are the servants to the people. That is what we learn in the Delcartion of Indepence, the U.S. Constitutuon and the Bill of Rights. If this Venezuelan/North Korean/Cuban corrupt election is allowed to get away with this, then what is next to fall? I think this country will turn into a banana republic.
I can’t express to you how disappointed I am with many so called patriots on TV and radio that cavalierly dismiss this as no big deal. My guess is they are either completely out of touch with reality or they are working for the other side.
And posted in NEWS without a link to a NEWS story.
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Stop. Sometimes posts get posted into breaking, when the OP did not put them there. It happens.
Again...this is clearly marked Vanity.
Stop yer whining.
Good question.
Newt makes me nervous though.
Endorse and go away.
He is a real wild card at times, and that’s the last thing we need, someone confusing folks right now.
LOL!!!
Love that...
PERFECT!
I’m with you and I’m fed up. After I vote in the closed Pennsylvania Primary for Trump, this lifelong Republican is tearing up my registration card and going Independent. Than you Mitt Romney, National Review and dozens of other slime who gleefully disregard the voters.
The Republican Party isn’t the problem. We’re the Republican Party. It’s the parasitic infection that must be voted out of office.
Want change? Let’s organize a list of the elected traitors from top to bottom in order to vote them out of office.
Why he owned/s a beauty pageant show, I don't know, but they do make money and he likes to make money.
The wrestling thing I have NO idea about, never saw it and yes, that sounds a bit "weird".
OTOH....Cruz being joined at the hip with CRAZY Glenn beck is MUCH weirder and worse than anything about Trump!
So to is his own father's religion and actions.
Hey,
when you support a candidate too lazy or incompetent to make sure his team is competent enough to understand the rules, after he voluntarily joined the party as a nominee, your votes will be lost by their incompetency.
I support Ted Cruz, He makes sure my votes count!
Jeeze, if Trump cant run his campaign how is he possibly going to call up all those world leaders on his first day in office and get them to start sending the US all that $$$, build the wall, and send back our manufacturing plants?
As well as pay off that $19T in debt in eight years, while cutting taxes and fully funding SS and Medicare?
What the bleeding Hell has a Caucus have to do with the RNC claiming that they are going to change the rules and PICK SOMEONE THEY WANT, who hasn’t even run in any primary, if they manage to keep Trump from getting the 1237?
Cruz is NOT going to get 1237 delegates, but Trump shall.
Newtie keeps claiming that he likes Trump, Cruz, and GOD help us...KaSicko. I doubt that Newtie is going to endorse anyone.
Rule 40 is ROMNEY written rules and the RNC can change them anytime they want to.
A Newtie endorsement is a kiss of death.
Yeah, I don’t think the reality show crappola was great for our culture. Come on. He jumped into this drek, both feet. Charity or not, just bizarre stuff, right? Who does this when they don’t have to?
That doesn’t mean he wouldn’t be a good president. It doesn’t mean he won’t be an awful one. It’s just weirdness that anyone wanting to president in 2016 might have, if they didn’t want to be president as a politician. Being a politician lawyer to the point you are running for president is every bit as bizarre as Trump choosing to fake punch out some sweaty near nude behemoth for the fans of such displays.
Freeagrds
When a narcissist gets outplayed, he accuses the other side of cheating. He will never admit his own incompetence.
2 of the last 3 contested conventions, the candidate who won the plurality of the popular vote lost in the convention. So no. This article is false.
Rule 40 was written to prevent Ron Paul from being entered into nomination at the convention. The RNC was afraid of some Paulista going off on a conspiracy rant on prime time TV and leaving the impression that we were a little wacky to the watching public. The rule itself only existed in 2012, not anytime before, right back to 1856.
This isn’t a general election it’s a party primary. A plurality isn’t the majority of Republican voters. You aren’t the majority.
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