Posted on 07/16/2016 12:31:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
In the end, Never Trump never stood a chance.
Despite plenty of positive media coverage and an active social media and email campaign, the effort to wrest the nomination from presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in the 11th hour fizzled in a Cleveland conference room thanks to an alliance between the ultimate outsider candidate and insider party operatives.
The Trump campaign -- worried about efforts to unbind delegates -- tied itself to the Republican National Committee and their operations prepared to work together, sources involved told CNN.
Wednesday night, on the eve of the crucial Rules Committee meeting, Trump and RNC staff gathered friendly delegates on the sixth floor of the downtown Westin, the Trump campaign's home base here. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus personally addressed the room, and delegates were introduced to staff whips for each side and to delegates that would be offering guidance on the whole range of issues before the committee.
Trump's campaign created a texting system so that Rules Committee delegates could be alerted in real time to preferred positions on various amendments.
Running things for Trump was Bill McGinley, a veteran political attorney from Jones Day. On the RNC side, it was chief of staff Katie Walsh and chief operating officer Sean Cairncross.
Delegates were told to look for Maine's Alex Willette, Massachusetts's Vincent DeVito and California's Harmeet Dhillon on the Trump side of things and Georgia's Randy Evans, New Hampshire's Steve Duprey, Tennessee's John Ryder, also the general counsel for the RNC, and Texas' Steve Munisteri for the RNC perspective.
The preparation paid off. On vote after vote in the 112-member meeting Thursday, RNC and Trump supporters were largely in lockstep.
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"Well, the dynamic changed (Wednesday) when the Trump people threw in with Reince, they flat-out said we're going to follow Reince's lead, so, so much for being anti-establishment," Cuccinelli told CNN.
Nonsense, the establishment did what they knew was best for the party. Donald Trump will work with establishment, but under his terms, not their terms.
I submit that it is of great importance that the little attention whore/church school teacher Kendal Unruh (the little upstart from Colorado) have her credentials REVOKED and be barred entry to the convention.
Fixed it for you.
Spot On!!!
Most people do NOT realize they are witnessing first hand the NEW paradigm for politics as we know it.
Trump, whether intentionally or inadvertently, has rewritten the course of political history and how to run a campaign and get elected..
He is constructing the initial blueprint for future candidates who understand what he understands.
Thank you FRiend, absolutely right.
“I have no intention of returning to those people who I rely on to keep me in office and telling them I had some part in shredding their votes,” Little said.
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A question mark going into Thursday had been Utah Sen. Mike Lee. He spent the weeks leading up to the convention weighing both sides of the unbinding argument, he said, and insiders had thought he might be able to tip a narrow margin either way with an impassioned speech, given his stature.
Instead, Lee was on the losing side in every contentious fight, including unbinding, despite his vocal support.
“I say to Mr. Trump and those aligned with him, make the case, make the case to those delegates who want to have a voice,” Lee said during Thursday’s session, raising his voice. “Don’t make the case that their voices should be silenced. That’s not going to help, that’s not going to help make him president that’s not going to help our party in the long run.”
Only 10 others joined him and his wife.
Afterwards, Lee was coy about next steps, saying only: “We’ll see,” he told inquisitive reporters.
Seems Mike Lee was the only person of substance to pointlessly fall on his sword in support of Lyin Ted. And the never Trump tantrums cost us any hope of real reform of the RNC. How pathetic is that?
One correction: Ted stole Iowa.
Good. Look, the votes of the people need to matter.
We are NOT the Democrat party. We need not have “super” delegates that run over the will of the voters to pick the choice of the establishment.
The Democrat party began that “super delegate” notion after the 1972 nomination of George “Slaughtered by Nixon” McGovern.
The Democrat party big wigs didn’t want to have another election like 1972. So they decided to do whatever it took to crush the voters’ will if it went against the Party Bosses.
Bad idea.
Fundamentally pissing on the notion of “one man one vote”, it gave extra power to the party elites. They got TWO votes: one as a voter in the primary/caucus, and ANOTHER at the convention as a “superdelegate”.
Disgusting? You betcha.
But then again, that is the party that defended slavery, segregation, the welfare state, the destruction of human life in the womb and the degradation of biblical marriage.
Democrats: the party that hates liberty.
It was MSM hype to make it appear Trump was incompetent.
^^ merits repeating.
“What happened to Mike Lee?
A question mark going into Thursday had been Utah Sen. Mike Lee. He spent the weeks leading up to the convention weighing both sides of the unbinding argument, he said, and insiders had thought he might be able to tip a narrow margin either way with an impassioned speech, given his stature.
Instead, Lee was on the losing side in every contentious fight, including unbinding, despite his vocal support.
“I say to Mr. Trump and those aligned with him, make the case, make the case to those delegates who want to have a voice,” Lee said during Thursday’s session, raising his voice. “Don’t make the case that their voices should be silenced. That’s not going to help, that’s not going to help make him president that’s not going to help our party in the long run.””
Lee is another “a$$hole” who has been exposed! “Their voices,” as the legal surrogates for the voters who sent them to the convention,” isn’t to “be silenced,” it’s to vote the way the voters who elected them determined in the primaries.
Rarely have we been able to clearly “see” all of these feckless establishment turds for what they are, just paid shills for people with a lot of money and no patriotism.
I'll open myself up to some criticism, but Manafort in 2016 reminds me of what Rahm Immanuel accomplished for Obama in 2008. Not unlike Immanuel, I think Manafort will become a part of the Trump cabinet, and then resign in 2020 to head up Trump re-election campaign.
All Ted’s nonsense will soon end and he will be back in the senate,
a much diminished man.
Okay, I could go along with that...what Cabinet Post for Paul?
I think he quit the GOP, like his good buddy Will. I guess he will be at some 3rd party convention. If they let him in.
I'm not sure it's a cabinet position for Paul. What he would do best is oversee/audit the Fed. He could do this from the Senate with the proper support, but if not, would love to see him in Economic Advisor capacity. He was one of the earlier Trump supporters, so I think there is already a strong loyalty bond and I have to believe Trump will reward him accordingly (he's done that with all the former Presidential candidates he defeated that alligned themselves with him).
JMHO.
Typical. Mike Lee on the losing side. Has he ever been on the winning one in a fight. A complete and total POS bought and paid for by Willard and the Mormon Mafia.
We’ll get the changes next time, at least I hope. One step at a time for right now.
Bump!
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