Posted on 07/13/2016 5:35:33 PM PDT by Trump20162020
The Trump campaign and the leadership of the Republican National Committee are working hard to pressure delegates to vote for Trump. The race is over, they say. The voters have rendered their judgment. Delegates do not have the right to nullify this verdict. Now is the time to rally around Trump and unify the party.
Trump and the RNC leadership are wrong. The delegates should feel free to vote their consciences, and the rules and history of the Republican National Convention support their right to do so. In a separate entry, I will focus on the rules and the history of the convention, while here I will examine the moral responsibilities of convention delegates.
The claims of the Trump boosters ultimately boil down to: Because this is a democracy, the people have spoken, and delegates are morally obliged to follow their instructions, regardless of what their consciences claim. This thinking is faulty. In truth, the people have not really spoken, and, even if they had, this is not actually a democracy. Let’s take each point in turn.
First, Trump did not win a majority of the vote. He claimed slightly less than 45 percent of the primary vote, which is less than any presumptive nominee in the modern era. People can have a legitimate debate about the moral demands attending a majority vote—but Trump scored a plurality victory, and an unimpressive one at that.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
WE, the American Legal Voters have spoken, take that away and you will have blood running down the streets of Cleveland!!!
WTH is the Weekly Standard? Is it a political or financial newspaper/magazine?
?? Is it a political or financial newspaper/magazine?<<
Yes.
Trump will soon crush these closet Hillary supporters.
Neither! Birdcage lining!
If the Weekly Standard successfully STEALS from the voters
their last hope, they had better be ready for
a million Americans and bikers and military
coming to their front door, exceedingly quite unhappy.
Isn’t this Wee Willy Krystals rag of a magazine?
Why have primaries? Just go to smokey back room
Last ditch efforts to create fustercluck. Won’t work.
It comes on a roll in 1 and 2-ply versions
People like Jay Cost prompted the invention of the guillotine.
Like a friend of mine said,”They’re gonna do what they gotta do and we’re gonna do what we gotta do.”
Sure is.
These kooks are still looking for who stole the strawberries.
Second, it is true that in a democracy, the people rule—but our system is not a democracy. It is a representative republic.>>>> from the article. Sorry bubba but the RNC is a private club nothing to do with a republic. or courts for that matter. unless the club breaks the law. It can break it’s own rules all they want. see how for that club goes.
[but Trump scored a plurality victory, and an unimpressive one at that.]
Yeah millions more voters than the last two losers.
Leave it to Bill Krystol’s has been site/magazine.
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