2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIt's Official -The Hill: RNC Delegates are Unbound
Here's the legal framework that Mitt Romney's battalion are going to utilize, to Dump Trump, so that the ( likely to be totally chaotic) Republican National Convention can nominate Willard Mitt Romney, to be the GOP general national election - candidate.
The Hill's article, from today, is titled
"All delegates are unbound"
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/287198-all-delegates-are-unbound
The detailed history of the power struggles, is from 2 experts who wrote the book about the issue
Sean Parnell is a public policy consultant in Virginia.
They are co-authors of the book Unbound: The Conscience of a Republican Delegate.
In a nutshell, the proverbial "fix" is now "in"
And Mitt Romney's coming...
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Chan790
(20,176 posts)He's the asshole they deserve and the asshole they love. The GOP establishment is dead in the ditch, murdered by their upstarts.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)I still would rather run against him than anyone else.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Its on now!
The bagger convention is gonna be EPIC!
Civil war republican style, may all sides lose equally!
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)They'll stay with Der Drumpfenfuhrer.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)it is sure to work out well for them. If they take my advice they will nominate Clint Eastwood's empty chair from 2012. It turned out to be the smartest guy in the room.
Pretty neat idea
longship
(40,416 posts)And right now, they are loaded for Drumpf.
But with this, I imagine anything could happen. We might end up with Cthulhu as the GOP nominee.
Let's all practice:
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Repeat as long as you can. Just in case.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Just sayin.....
I can't
longship
(40,416 posts)And you will be fine.
Brother Buzz
(36,447 posts)KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)This decision to unbind the delegates is up to the rules committee, period. Trump is going to be the nominee, not Mitt Romney and I don't know why some people keep pushing this idea. If that happened, Mitt Romney would get decimated in the general election, because far-right conservatives would sit on account of having their votes in the primary ignored.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)What a show this year..has been
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)This just means he will get even more votes on the first ballot. I think it was Rubio or someone who was still holding.