Posted on 04/21/2016 5:16:08 AM PDT by McGruff
Pat Buchanan was interviewed by Sean Hannity last night and raises some good fundamental points regarding the ridiculous positions espoused by professional punditry and political elites. Lots of plain common sense:
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1. Trump is holding rallies of 20,000 – 30,000+ IN A PRIMARY. This is a historic point that most seemingly overlook. No-one ever before has gathered such crowd sizes in “primary races“. Supportive crowds the size of Trump (and yes, Sanders) have only before been witnessed in “general elections”, and only one candidate on the republican side is capable of generating this much enthusiasm.
2. The talking point of a “contested convention” when the clear frontrunner is millions of votes ahead of the field is ridiculous. Prior 19th century “contested”, “open” or “brokered” conventions never involved the sheer scope of the 2016 primary vote lead (currently 2.4 million ahead with well over 8 million votes).
3. This is not forty years ago. With instantaneous communication, instantaneous individual video recordings, and instantaneous video transmission of convention events to the phones, computers and TV screens of the larger U.S. electorate, the visible damage to the party apparatus attempting to defy the will of the voter will be irreparable if the RNC attempts or allows it.
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Having this old washed-up Nazi apologist argue for anything is not helpful for the cause, regardless if he is right or wrong on a particular issue.
The illegal Canadian can’t win the primary much less the election.
Cubanadians are not eligible to be President.
Trump won 26 of 27 districts, getting all the delegates from each district he won. And since he got more than 50% of the votes statewide, he won the 14 at-large delegates.
Some states do winner-takes-all, would you call that rigged too?
When it comes to the fall election, are you going to call the Electoral College a rigging scheme to, as each state is winner-takes-all?
Or did I miss an implied sarcasm tag?
Not in the Primaries.
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