The Republican National Convention is usually a chance to capitalize on days of extensive media coverage – a time when the party’s message is delivered directly to the nation without the filter of a biased media.
Conventions like the one in Cleveland are designed to be unity events. It’s for both political allies and primary enemies to put aside their differences and get together on stage behind the party nominee. Presidential candidates rely on the event for a media-induced bump in polling as party loyalists come together as one.
But anti-Trump forces within the GOP establishment are planning to stop that at all costs.
Already, the coverage of Donald Trump’s nomination hasn’t focused on the stars, athletes, pastors and politicians trekking to Cleveland to show their support.
They’ve been fixated on who WON’T be there: Neither of the party’s living former presidents, George W. Bush or George H.W. Bush, and neither of the party’s previous two nominees, Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain.
And it’s going to get worse.
Some, like 2012 nominee Romney, are hardcore members of the “Dump Trump” movement, a small band of angry conservatives desperately searching for a way to overturn the will of a record 13.3 million primary voters
And these would-be political allies are going to turn the unifying RNC event into a total media ambush.
Publicly, they’re being led by Colorado schoolteacher Kendal Unruh, who has a coveted seat on the highly influential rules committee – but clearly, there are other bigger names pulling strings here.
Not many schoolteachers can pull together the $3 million these hardcore holdouts have raised to fight Trump at his own convention
Unruh was trying to push a “conscience clause” that would allow delegates to vote for whomever they want rather than the candidate they are required to vote for based on primary results.
It didn’t succeed.
“The Never Trump movement just died a short, brutal death,” Real Clear Politics editor Emily Goodin wrote late Thursday as the move failed. “Didn’t even take 10 minutes.”
But don’t expect that to be the end of it.
“Go buy brass knuckles for the floor fight,” she told The Wall Street Journal after the meeting.
Even Utah Sen. Mike Lee, also part of the anti-Trump movement, told the media he’s predicting more chaos to come.
“This problem, this angst as we will see in a few days isn’t going to go away just because we paper over it with a few rules,” Lee told reporters. “Don’t make the case that their voices should be silent, that’s not going to help elect him president and it’s not going to help our party.”
Some in the party believe delegates are already allowed to break the rules and vote for whomever they want when the formal vote for the nomination is taken next week.
“Our goal is simple, to ensure the delegates are not misled to believe they must follow orders or rules set by others,” Eric O’Keefe, founder of Delegates Unbound, told The New York Times.
His organization is currently running TV ads on Fox News in Cleveland – and the message is aimed squarely at delegates.
Here’s the ad:
At least some delegates agree.
“Every delegate arriving in Cleveland next week arrives unbound, free to exercise his or her best judgment,” Gordon Humphrey, a delegate and former U.S. senator, wrote in a commentary for CNBC. “In a normal year, delegates would give heaviest weight to the preference expressed in state primaries. But this is not a normal year, because Donald Trump, himself, is abnormal.”
Calling Trump a “sociopath,” Humphrey is urging his fellow delegates to “dump him… in favor of a qualified candidate.”
And while this movement has almost no chance of success, it WILL do is turn a moment of triumph for Trump into a three-ring circus – a media ambush, right when the party can least afford the distraction.
— The Horn editorial team
How dare he defeat Jeb.
Oh yes those lowlife’s are just what is left of the Republican party globalist morons who hate giving power to somebody they can’t buy.
TRUMP CANNOT BE DEFEATED BECAUSE I BELIEVE WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER NOW AND GOD IS IN CONTROL,AND NOT THESE CORRUPT IDIOTS!!!
Sandra, I have a question, Trump has at least three court charges pending. He has been charged with fraud, racketeering and raping a 16 year, he steals from his employees and vendors and has filed for bankruptcy 4 times, he will not show you his income tax, when everyone in the past has had to. He lies about everything. He has back stabbed many partners, he is all about TRUMP, nothing else. Do you really think he is worthy of being YOUR president?
Talk about buying, Pence is bought and paid for by the Koch.’s.
TIME TO VOTE OUT, ***********************VOTE OUT ***********************ALL INCUMBENTS
if they do not want to back Trump, vote out all incumbents, start with a new team of players….
lets try to put in some HONEST PEOPLE who are for all legal american citizens…..
Retired says……..you are so right. That is exactly what we need to do and I intend to do that as they come up for re-election. I won’t forget those people that refuse to allow the Americans voters the right to vote their choice for the presidency. That is 13.3 million voters who votes won’t count if they pull their little dirty fraud bag of tricks at the Convention. Now makes me feel like they have something to hide from the American people they don’t want to be exposed when Trump wins the election. Stop acting like immature, spoiled kids and instead show that you are adults enough to join together and make this one more big win for the GOP……….instead of trying to make it into a circus and to help Hillary win………you all are Republicans and you should know by now what will happen if Hillary becomes president……….that will be the final step to the destruction of this country and everyone of you know that is the truth and so does the American voters. Act like mature adults instead of childish spoiled brats that have turned out to be poor sports.
I am with Chartex, could not have said it better myself. I do feel now that Mike Pence is Trump’s running mate as VP a lot of minds will change. This is my prayer. Go Trump and Pence!
Amen to that. They won’t pass term limitation, but you can stop them with your own term limitation by voting in a new person that the government doesn’t own. We need our country back and the government to get smaller. There is only three colors in America, RED, WHITE AND BLUE.
Amen to that if we the people don’t stop these arrogant,greedy,corrupt as__hol__ the only reason they would not support what we the people voted for (with record numbers) we the people need to save this great country from all of them all INCUMBENTS OUT 2016 a NO BRAINER
I like the idea of voting out all the incumbents, but here is the problem with that.
Good honest people who run for any office are kept out by the special interests that only back with big money those who agree to be their puppets. Therefore, only corrupt people ever get into political positions all the way up the ladder. So, when you vote out an incumbent there are only more corrupt puppets to take their places. Trump is the first candidate for the people that has enough money and talent to run – that is what makes him unique. Voting for Trump might get more people with integrity into politics. Here is the other thing you can do –
There is a movement to stop the big money corruption. Go to (REPRESENT dot US) and read about it and watch the videos. You will be impressed. I just signed up and there are 500,000 members already and there is no cost. They have a great solution to stopping the political corruption that will work that excludes the congress changing anything because you know they won’t cut off their access to legal bribes, etc. So, go to (REPRESENT. US) and check it out!
Yes as this article said not many can raise the $3 million for these hardcore anti trump people for tv ads to persuade the delgates!! I say some of that $3 million is given by the Bushes, Romney, Soro’s and yes Hillary Clinton. Pull back the curtain and Hillary’s fingerprints are on their!!
Trump and Pence will close down the corruption, lying, cronyism, hypocrisy, and dirty dealing Washington and “Make America Great Again”. They LOVE this country and are heart broken, like us, in seeing America and her idealism and Constitution being destroyed and dying before our eyes. “THE PEOPLE” need to rise up and fight to save this blessed country of ours and put down someone as corrupt, deceitful, and truly horrible as Hillary R. Clinton. How Americans can support such a lying, nasty, corrupt person as Killary for OUR POTUS is beyond my understanding.
Amen /We The People Have Spoken!!!!!!!
I for one very rarely hate some one, but HILLARY made the list…it has to stop….. lets get the Muslim lovers out of the white house as fast as possible…Hillary and Obama are for sharia law and it will just not fly in america…. The Clinton Foundation is funded by the Saudis the biggest donors i wonder why?????
Trump will be the next commander in chief 2016 thru 2024
How dare any one try to take away the nomination from Trump!! He wasn’t my first choice, but he is my Last!!!
Jeb didn’t look very good in the debates nor did
Santorum whom I preferred BUT those Repub RINO traitors will elect Killary.
The Clintons and the Bushes, side by side, are the biggest crime family this country has ever had.
They together have more deaths connected to them than the Mafia ever had. Al Capone is a light
weight compared to what they have done. I’m surprised Oliver North is still above ground.
They together will go to any length to stop Trump, including assassination. If he gets in they will all lose,
and that includes so many in our Government.
Wow All those politicians (big Names) against TRUMP ,just proves a point
there are lots of dirt that lots of them want to stay buried. Lets go in and put some bug bombs and clear out all of them. This TRUMP broom will do a very complete job of getting all of their S T out in the open and bet there is a long line waiting for prison .
Thank you.
Oh my dear you are more than right!!!
They don’t want the dirt to come out. Don’t worry God is above assisting all this , and He will take care of it. Trump will win. Amen
God apparently revealed to Rich Vera, a new bleed of His minister, you can see his appearance at Sid Roth just few week agos, that the Almighty God is going to use Trump to expose the powers of the darkness of the US Government; politicians, bureaucrats, business that is deeply connected to them to profit. Rich did not see the political things but it is easily assumed that Trump must be elected as the next president of the USA to do those. If he does these things, they will be destroyed, even to out of their existence; this is the major reasons to oppose Trump.
Prior to 2012 General election, I saw a vision of two rectangles of which one was Obama vs Romney, Obama’s start was not good as Romney, but eventually Obama won with al land slide, and the second one is for 2016 presidential election that showed Obama?Hilary started stronger but at the end her competitor, now Trump is to win a landslide.
One more thing that I saw prior to 2008 election, like 8 days before it, Obama appeared in it to bring Obama care to the nation with extremely left policies to implement and bring this nation to the extreme left into the darkness.
Good news is God is to make Obama to be a real Christian according to Rich. and i can tell you that God is ready to bring the ultimate and last greatest awakening to destroy this world’s culture, politics, governments, etc to transform this world to build His Kingdom on the earth to bring the Heavenly culture to replace it. and furthermore He will restore all things so that Jesus can finally come. Amen
TwWH: Agreed.
great speech, thanks, word up………………
I agree with you on the Clintons but not the Bushes
Clinton yes but George had good intent and no malice toward the citizens –he was trying to protect us. Now Jeb is a Tomato Can who had to get a mail order bride from south of the border as American women laughed at him.
The Bushes are in Bed with the Clinton’s!! Get Jeb and the bush crime family book by Roger Stone!!
You’re right, and I’m worried. I hope Donald Trump has a lot of bodyguards and is wearing armor in Cleveland. His enemies are vermin. Especially the political ELITE.
Kendall Unruh is a stupid idiot!! She thinks God has raised her up to stop Trump as she said in a interview!! She is as delusional as Cruz who thinks he was anointed by God as his crazy father!! Mike Lee needs to be voted out when his time comes!! He thinks Trump should apologize to Ted for calling him lying Ted. Look at all the lies Ted has said and things he has done and he should be apologizing! Ted’s campaign even sent out a fake Trey gowdy twitter account saying Trey endorsed him and not Marco Rubio and that he made a mistake. how bad is that. Also get the book by Roger Stone Jeb and the Bush crime family!! The bushes are in bed with the Clinton’s!! They are a crime family!!
wow, everyone knows that GOD has hand picked Donnie to lead his people, good grief, get on board with the process. yuck
Read your bible and you will find that God is the head of all governments.He will allow us to shoot ourselves in the foot in the meantime
I agree with you 100%,,the silly Bushes should be ashamed of themselves, they are angry , because… Trump pitched a little fun at good ole JEB, mamma Bushes sweet little ole JEB, got teased,,so, so sorry Bushes,,you got your feeling hurt, tsk, tsk,tsk!!!!!
The Best was Trump the Divider being called a Faker and Trump ran like a little man he is to tweet that Ginsburgh called him a name .Talk about hurt feelings.
Wow….This is amazing that we are this deep into the process and these knuckleheads that obviously wont be able to control Washington are crying and obviously want a Liar like hil..LIAR..y to get into office so they can continue to pilfer the American public for their own pockets and agendas. It is time to stop the nonsense and support the nominee of the Republican party and lets get on with getting on.
I agree with you. Power to the people.
First of all, Trump knows how to handle the media. He’s proven that often in the campaign. Finally, since all of the so-called important Republican people won’t be at the convention; Donald can completely ignore them after the election. He won’t owe them anything. And this can cause a complete reshuffling of the GOP.
If Donald Trump is not the nominee, I will be doing a write in for Trump in November.
Republicans need to unite behind Trump. Romney, McCain and Bush’s are sore losers.
McCain is also looking at losing his Senate Seat from Arizona. I hope the people in
Arizona elect a new Republican and not some sore loser.
I remember that Jeb was so sure he would win the nomination.
Don’t worry we in AZ are very set in getting McCain OUT!!!!!!!! Traitors all the RINO’s and it only wants WE THE PEOPLE to vote all of them OUT as well! GO TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!
I so regret voting for McCain & Romney, even for Bush.
Me too. Go Go Go Trump/Pence!
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what a bunch of has beens/babies. they don’t get there way so they pick up their marbles and refuse to play. Look the American people overwhelming voted for Trump. So that’s why Cruz wants to be speaker at convention. If that’s the reason they are STEALING THE ELECTION. If these dump trump crowd appear at the convention THEY ARE STEALING THE ELECTION FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
I AM SO HAPPY AND THANKFUL TO GOD DID NOT GIVE ME TIME TO GO AND VOTE FOR EITHER ONE. HAD TO WORK TRIPLE SHIFT. WAS SAD AT THAT TIME, HAPPY NOW.
Susan, Don’t regret voting for W. It was him or Al Gore. W. didn’t do everything just right I’ll agree. But he was and is a good man. He did well leading us thru a terrible time after 9/11. How would you have liked to walk thru that with Al Gore as President. I truly believe it was the Lord who put W in the office of President.
A whole bunch of losers,picking up thjeir marbles and crying like a bunch of babies.
Amen!
i actually liked McCain, until he bowed out of the R nomination in favor of the Shrub, then became the Shrub’s butt-boy in Congress; i don’t think there was a single thing that the war-criminal Shrub proposed that McCain didn’t enthusiastically support. All the unconstitutional “laws” that the Shrub got on the books, McCain was right there, cheering him on.
Then i heard that in VietNam, he became an informant so he could get better treatment, and any respect i ever had for him went “poof!”
He was known as The songbird of the Hanoi Hilton. you can look it up on google.
I have looked up this website. For every claim that John McCain did something improper while a prisoner of war, there are many more of his fellow prisoners who support him totally. He supposedly gave snippets of partial information and other information that he knew the North Vietnamese already knew. All of this was while being tortured to the nth degree. The best evidence in John McCain’s defense is that he didn’t allow himself to ‘jump the line’ and leave Hanoi ahead of prisoners who’d been there longer. Mr. McCain still lives with the evidence of his brutal torture at the hands of his captors. This information you’re relying on is suspect. It’s produced by people with personal enmity towards John McCain’s voting record in the Senate. I don’t side with all of McCain’s Senate votes. But I’m not going to let these charges go unchallenged. Do you have a military record, Mr. Constitutionalist? Do you personally know these men who are accusing John McCain? Did you serve with them in Vietnam? This comment by you diminishes my respect for your messages so far. I seriously hope none of these charges are true. And if McCain did break under torture and reveal a few secrets, then I don’t condemn him. Have you ever been in this position, Mr. Constitutionalist? Bound and beaten for days? Months? Years?
Folks need to look into exactly what McCain’s fellow POW’s in Vietnam said about Mr. McCain.
They did not like him nor trust him because of his cowtowing to the guards and reporting to them on other POW’s in order to get more food and water for himself. My understanding is that they voiced their feelings however, the liberal media refused to report on this and it was brushed under the rug.
His fellow POW’s hated his guts.
Once again, is this your personal knowledge based upon your service in Vietnam or a personal friend of yours who served in Vietnam? Or is it just what you read on a website by faceless accusers? I am not a combat veteran. I served in Marines from 75-79 as support personnel (4063 Cobol Programmer MOS). I have talked to many Vietnam combat veterans. I do not abide people carrying stories that they cannot personally verify. This is serious.
Yea, that’s why the bushes are miffed,,it looks like THEY will not vote or indorse trump,,who cares if they do or not!!!!
The corrupt establishment has the Bush and Clinton crime families as their members. There was no declaration of war in Iraq and Bush should be tried as a war criminal.
Bush lied – search youtube for “a_cciUzoLwo” or for “leading to war”
The Bushes and corrupt establishment globalists are upset that someone has the nerve to take away their strangle hold on our country and rights and their cash cow. Fk them all!
Trump is the ONLY reason I am still voting Republican. Tired of the childish behavior exhibited by the RINOs “elite” cast of the party. We the “REAL PEOPLE” WANT TRUMP!
I look forward with great anticipation to Senator Cruz’ talk at the convention. He can – and I think will – bring great healing to our party’s recent self-immolation.
Robert S. Allen-
Cruz is a weasel, a snake, and not even a US citizen. He’s also been employed by or associated with the Bush crime family his entire political career, ergo a NWO/OWG globalist traitor.
i look forward to analyzing his speech, as well, just to see how sleazy he can get.
I agree with you,Robert, 100%….
You are 100% correct about Cruz, the lying shyster lawyer – just like Obozo, Hillaroid, and most of congress – lying corrupt shyster lawyers. So many people fell for his “anti-establishment” act and his claim to be an outsider – lol – the guy that worked for the Bushes and his wife works for Goldman Sachs on the NAU – wow! Talk about an establishment owned flunky!
3 more dead cops in Baton Rouge, and 3 wounded. Very soon you’ll have something a lot more important to worry about than the exact meaning of Natural Born Citizen. Our country is about to come apart at the seems. Soon that computer won’t work, because our economic system and probably the power grid will crash. Get ready for the fight of your life.
The people have spoken and want Trump for President. Those that wish for a walk on should pick up their marbles and go home. I have been a republican for 50 years and my only unhappy decision was voting for Romney…..He handed the Presidential election o OBama, Romney is a real loser. Shame on the Bush family’s,, you should be supporting Trump.
This Romney is ignorant old fool, trump was behind Romney when he was running for the WH, so is this you treat your friends, ????
Oh, by-the-way,,if you do not vote for trump, is a VOTE for that ole Knockle-head, HILLARY, just remember that, you moderates, just remember that!!!!
It might be hard to understand, but the Bushes would rather have Hillaroid than Trump. Remember, the corrupt establishment elite globalist dictators are the ones that run the show and own both parties, so they win no matter which party puppet wins. They only lose if Trump wins because he is not owned by them and is going against the wishes of the corrupt establishment with building the wall and not wanting a war that drags on for 100 years.
We Must Vote OUT all of these Bums when they are up for re-election .. Clean the House & Senate !! TRUMP 2016 !!
“a qualified candidate” AKA as Establishment selected. In order for the Establishment to keep control of OUR Government as they have for the last 28 years the President has to follow the agenda of destruction. When the Establishment does NOT select the candidate for both Parties they run the risk of a 1980 win by Reagan. The Establishment and their Professional Politician Puppet are losing control again and Trump is worse than Reagan because he points his finger at them – identifies them and calls them out as the raiders of the treasury – crooked and criminal. Now we know who they are – let’s throw them out. Trump 2016
Agree. Only Trump can save this sinking country
Reagan was a good guy, but don’t think he was not part of the establishment. He closed the mental hospitals and created the homeless issue with have now. He started the NAU. The international bankers (fed) and globalists have been in control for over 100 years and we have not had a government of and for the people for that long. Trump is our best shot because, like you said, he has the cajones to stand up to the corrupt establishment globalists and call them out. Someone should compile a list of the globalists and publish that on the internet for all to see who they are.
How like the stupid republicans..they are voting to elect Hilary president..that will ease their collective conservative conscience.
They are unconcerned with the voices of the primary voters and the threat that an Alinsky brainwashed corrupt woman poses for the survival of our once great country.
For sure, Ronnie Reagan, Thomas Jefferson, and a host of other conservatives won’t be showing their faces in Cleveland.
But I feel like the so-called real conservatives that inspired the Trump revolution are nowhere to be seen. What started out as a conservative movement seems to have been converted into a show of Caspar Milquetoasts – better known as the GOPhers.
When their terms are up kick these traitors to the curb. As for the teacher clown she’s worried about her pension and pay check and nothing more. Says she’s but worries if Trump is the man the Dem who support that large undeserved pension will be upset that she failed in her mission to keep things the same in DC.
Only Trump and only Trump for 2016 Only Trump broom Will clean out all dirth from White House.
Kendal fortunately fell on her proverbial ass in her attempt to undermine the “Donald” – she needs to crawl back into whatever hole she crawled out of and let him straighten out the mess created by President O’bozo and Hillary the “Hun”.
These so called GOP attackers are not GOP they are RINO’s who don’t want you messing with their free lunches and their Golden goose they have enjoyed at taxpayers expense. Time to end this stupid actions. You can fix stupid, sorry RINO’s.
Why does the writer of this article call these oligarchs “conservatives”? Those named as party to the “Dump Trump” effort are crooked, dirty insider politicians who are willing to have the Clintons rather than see their clique challenged.
They aren’t conservatives, but are globalists who want a world government and will do anything to bring it about. Right now they are only a few short steps away from pulling it off, as in the North American Union, similar to the European Union. It means the lost of freedom and liberty and brings slavery back to this country. Only this time slavery to the government and the Oligarchs. The bushes, mccain, romney and their kind will do anything to prevent the disruption of their global plans, even to the defiance of American voters.
Please quit calling the disaffected “conservative”, they’re not. They are elitists, and by definition, conservatives cannot be.
Why don’t you so called political leaders face it. WE THE PEOPLE are fed up with you. If YOU had done your jobs looking out for us instead of lining your pockets we might care that you are not happy. Well now you are seeing how UNHAPPY we are with your selfishness and poor job performance. YOU had your chance! Time for an entirely new congress, too. YOU should have LISTENED!! Now YOU have to face the consequences of YOUR choices!
Sour grapes!
I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WANTS HILLARY TO WIN. THE SUPREME COURT WILL TURN INTO A LIBERAL NIGHTMARE. IFM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HANDS THE PRESIDENCY TO HILLARY I WILL CHANGE MY PARTY TO INDEPENDENT. GOD HELP US ALL IF HILLARY WINS..
Those that want Hitlery to win have stabbed their own Republicn party right in the back and also stabbed the country in the back. VOTE TRUMP-PENCE 2016. Washington, DC needs to be scrubbed clean, and all of the garbage taken out NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time to end the damned status quo dictatorship NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So these rogue republicans will consider a hilliar Whitehouse as success?
Maybe, with hilliar in there they won’t go to jail either.
Bingo!
Trump/Pence all the way!
These scumbag so-called Republicans are the turds of the party and should be flushed down the toilet and never heard from again. I am a patriot, old Korean War Veteran…seen 13 presidents…the only way this country will survive from O BOWEL’S 8 years, is voting TRUMP ’16!!! O BOWEL has turned OUR White House into his OUT HOUSE!!
Love him or hate, He is the nominee and these assholes should get behind him and support him, otherwise, the WITCH is going to win the election and that will be the end of the USA as we know it!
Anyone who creates chaos and trouble at the Republic convention has no,place in politics. Our police have to be at the end of their ropes with all the protests and riots. We are in a “World War 111 or heading for it. Please people grow up and cut your losses. Anyone can be a winner but it takes a true adult to be a good loser. Each individual is responsible for their actions and words.. Once they are said the damage is done. Be proud of your choices. Be role models for the rest of the world. Otherwise we are no different than a terrorists. We are better than that. Listen to Frank
In Graham and join with millions on Monday at noon and pray for the convention and all the people involved . Pray for peaceful solutions and for a heart that wants only the best for one another. Cannot lose what is important with that mind set. Christians, walk your talk..respect one another..
It’s time the Republicans realize that Trump is the CHOICE of the PEOPLE. They may not agree, but they have their voice at the polling place. It’s a real shame if the Convention has to hire police to control these unruly Republicans who may not agree with their constituants. They may or may not be forced to vote their pledged, but they are smearing the Republican Party and acting like children.
Reading of the Constitution does not state much on how the state conducts the picking of delegates. Further there is nothing about parties.
Article II
Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
If you will take notice the electors chosen are the ones who vote for the president NOT the candidate. Each state sets their own rules (within a party) for choosing a candidate but they also are affiliated with the national party of the same name. Since the party is a private (not a govt entity) group they can set whatever rules they want. BUT, the big question is how did we let them get to the point where we allow them to basically tell us who we can vote for in the election process? If we are going to have a democratic form of choosing then we need to keep it simple. How about anyone can run all the way up to November. T^hen have a national election but not let any state reveal their number of votes until after the last voting place is closed. The candidate with the most votes is the President and the one with the next number is the vice president. No parties would be allowed.
The “Dump Trump” movement has been dead for some time, and these folks just haven’t heard the news. The real show in Cleveland is going to be in the streets outside the convention. As a reality tv star, Trump wants to give the people something that will make them forget the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention.
I agree there, the 1968 Democratic National Convention had peaceful anti war demenstrations that turned violent, the late Chicago Dictator Richard J. Daley have goons called the Chicago Police turn a peaceful anti Viet Nam war demenstrations violent. I seen it on national television, that was the very worst display of police brutality that was shown on national television. The Democrats were very stupid to hold
their 1968 national convention in Chicago. The best & smartest thing for the Republicans to do is get behind & support the TRUMP-PENCE
TICKET. If the late Ronald W. Reagan, Calvin Coolidge, Ulyesses S. Grant, William McKinley, Dwight D. Eisenhower & Richard M. Nixon were all alive today, they would be for Donald J. Trump-Mike Pence. My vote is for Donald J. Trump. TRUMP-PENCE ALL THE WAY!!!!!!
You are correct. The demonstrations in Chicago were protesting the Vietnam War, which had deeply divided the country. If LBJ had not dropped out as a candidate, the demonstrators would have accused him of deeply dividing the country. Many protesters believed that the Democrats had rigged the convention against their preferred choice, Gene McCarthy; but since Humphrey was much more acceptable than the Republican alternative (Nixon), it wasn’t as much about personalities as it might have been.
This year’s Republican convention is different in that protests are going to be about a candidate who is dividing the country. It seems that most people grudgingly accept that this election will be to determine the lesser of two evils. I think there is going to be a whole lot of effort to let the public know that Trump is the greater of those evils.
IF KILLERY GETS IN, SHE WILL BE THE ONE DIVIDING THIS COUNTRY. MY BIGGEST FEAR IS IF THE GOVERNMENT CAN PAY OFF THE EMAIL INVESTIGATIONS THEY CAN PAY OFF SOMEONE TO SEE THAT SHE GETS ELECTED PRESIDENT TOO.
The status quo is so freaked out that a non politician could and does have deep support. What a bunch of morons. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that America is RIPE FOR CHANGE !!!! Trump is the right man for the job….
One way or the other the RINOs GOP is dead. Should they succeed in their current sleazy attempt to install an alternative candidate, they’ll lose WH, Senate and House and will never be able to gather grassroots support again. Should they fail, they’ll still lose the Senate because of their perfidy over the last several years and see their House majority (at least) reduced for the same reason. “Vote for us because we’ll take you into the same one world global communist hell the Democommies have planned but we’ll move more slowly so you don’t notice” is hardly a compelling Battle Cry!!
As to the conservatives involved in this nonsense, I’ve been around this game longer than most campaigned for AUH2O in 1964, Reagan in 76, 80 and 84 and supported Cruz in the primary here. In spite of serious misgivings, I also campaigned for Both Bushes, McLame and Mittens. However, Trump is the only hope of averting a bloody Revolution or civil war and he’s right on major issuea (including Immigration, economic policy, national defense and the 2nd Amendment ) which Hitlery is NOT, and he shakes up an establishment that sorely needs it. Anyone hated by Democommies, the MSM, and RINOs can’t be anything but good for the Republic. Semper Fi!!
After what happened in Nice, is there any way we can trust Hillary Clinton who couldn’t even decide whether to rescue a small group of Americans from a “spontaneous protest”? Occurrences like in Nice, Orlando and elsewhere will continue and grow. The Bush clan, Romney and McCain staying away from the convention is a favor to Trump, Pence and all true conservatives/Republicans. Pence was a brilliant pick. (Being from Indiana, I know how good he is.) Semper Fi, Marine!
Alternative candidate? So how many candidates did Trump beat out id the primaries? !6? 17?
Hey,GOP, There is no one left to nominate.
It is my hope that Trump wins, and is NOT magnanimous afterwards and throws all these politician/serving serving bast*rds into the public cesspool. Jeb, Goober, Romney ( oh how I regret voting for him and Ryan) and every one of the spoiled elite. Hold open hearings on the influence of bribe money spent buying these political sluts. Put it on the public airways how these sanctimonious whores ( my apologies to the sex workers who don’t deserve to be associated with politicians) lie, mislead and act in collusion with their similar politicians to deceive the public while living off the public tax dollar and “contributions”
To the professional politician, you have lived your nasty lives figuring that the voter won’t remember your lies and insults. You have thought us to be stupid. Wise up. If there were candidates for tarring and feathering list, your names would be at the top of the list. Get used to the vitriol and disgust of the people. We have had our fill of your treating us with no respect or honor.
Politicians are the second oldest profession. Politicians and prostitutes use the same methods to achieve the same results. Only the public doesn’t exactly feel the same afterwards. It’s time to clean out the cesspool that is known as Washington DC. Its a dirty job and Trump is the best man for that job.
They get elected &can barley make ends meet & retire as millionairs, after so called service to the country.
herb
Cruz, Ryan, Romney, Jeb – ALL “TPP” sell outs
At this point, I am having a difficult time distinguishing who is the lesser of two evils – Hillary, or NeverTrump?
Your best bet is either vote for Donald J. Trump , if you don’t want Donald J. Trump, don’t vote for HITLERY KILLERY Rotton Ayatollah Khoemeni, vote for anyone but Hitlery, she’s the very worst of the very worst and is a Demoncrat, we don’t need another Clinton in the White House at all.
A vote for HITLERY KILLERY ROTTON Ayatollah Khoemeni Clinton is a vote for the continued political corruption in our country, and a vote
to completely destroy our country, but the entire free world, and have our country to continue to be the laughing stock we became when former Figurehead Sleazeball, draft dodger, POS white trash, sugar coated racist Bill Clinton was in office, he invented the government shutdown.
We all have a touch of mental illness sometimes in our lives. We lose a love one and we go through a touch of depression, but we get through it okay. But here we have these people in which their guy lost in politics, and they are still in a state of depression and can’t get beyond the anger stage. They are still lashing out and encouraging others to do the same. Logic and common sense has left them, but they call it principle. Really? There are only two people that have a chance to win, Hillary or Trump. One equals liberal judges that will change the cultural of the U.S. for years to come. So with all honesty, these individuals really need either counseling or medication, but joining together in the same “group think” is not healthy for them.
It is obvious that the stop Trump people are scared that / Mr. Trump will find the truth about all these people about there ways of misuse and wasteful spending of our tax money along with there lies and other waste like in pork and fraudulent use of there position as politicions.
I hope the Never Trump people keep it up because it is solidifying the Republican Party more than Trump ever could. It is kicking out the RINOs and leaving the true Republicans committed to electing Trump and taking over Washington and making our country strong again. So thanks to the Bushs, Romney, McCain, and George Wills of the the world. Maybe they could join the Hollywood stars and leave the country which they have worked so hard to destroy.
No one really cares if establishment Republicans don’t go to the convention nor do they care that the Horn News which supported Ted Cruz is as bad as the liberal media when it tries to accentuate the negativism common to the liberal media.
I am basically going to unsubscribe as I am tired of the subtle attack by the Horn News.
dprato-
Admittedly, i’ve only been commenting on articles The Horn puts out for maybe 5 months, but i don’t recall a SINGLE article which supported Cruz, especially over Trump.
If you can, i’d like to hear the gist, if you recall it.
Oh no, tell me it is not so. I can not believe that some of those sob’s don’t like lyin’ Donnie. He is my guiding light to holliness. What a guy, VOTE DONNIE …………….
Donald Trump won the primary which is one more election than any of his Republicans rivals can claim. The delegates need to vote the way the people voted in the primaries and caucuses. If a delegate is unable to fulfill that one duty with honesty and integrity they need to step aside so someone can vote in a way that reflects the clear sentiments of the voters.
Sometimes the best way to make a fresh start is to make a break with the past. The absence of previous GOP presidential candidates will help the party mark a change in direction. Of its living former presidential nominees one won a term in the White House based largely on the coattails of the man he replaced. One won the general election twice. The remainder won the primary but were unable to win the general election due in large part to their flawed strategies. Their absence will go unnoticed by all but the media.
We need to remember these people who think they run this country. if they cause Troomp to be defeated. I voted for the Bush’s – what a mistake that was. The convention is better off without them. They are actually working for the Dems now. They are lying now as they did then. I’m fed up with them telling the people what’s best for us – it’s really what’s best for them, to make them rich and powerful.
IF KILLERY GETS IN, SHE WILL BE THE ONE DIVIDING THIS COUNTRY. MY BIGGEST FEAR IS IF THE GOVERNMENT CAN PAY OFF THE EMAIL INVESTIGATIONS THEY CAN PAY OFF SOMEONE TO SEE THAT SHE GETS ELECTED PRESIDENT TOO.
I have said it before and I will say it again the REPUBLICRATS for HilBilly are a bunch of whiny losers. We have Rummy who could not keep the voters on his side because he only cares about the voter that have a lot of money and was stupid enough to get caught saying so. The Shrub family is whining because little Jeb got beat up and did not have the backbone to stand up for himself. The Rub, that the elite wanted as their candidate because they could control him, had no support even in his home state. Last but not least Teddy he had a chance to look like the better man when the morons in the super pack, that supported him, put out the attack ad using Trumps wife and all he did was whine when Trump struck back, did he think that Trump would not do anything. Of all those mentioned the only one with a real grievance against Trump is John McCain and his I can understand Trump made a bonehead comment about his military service and should have begged forgiveness. I will grant that Trump has a bad habit of making some bonehead statement but I blame a lot of that on his staff for not getting ahead of it sooner, but over all he is saying what a majority of the people are thinking and would say if they quit trying to be politically correct. If the republican party wants to beat HilBilly then they had better stop the whining and bury the hurt feelings and start helping Trump be more tactful or get ready for 4 to 8 years of Obama 2.0 or worse.
I always thought Obama was a Muslim and with what is going on I know I was right. We definitely need to get the progressives out of the White House and the Muslims out of this country before we are very sorry if you think some of them are your friends that will end abruptly if they get a strong hold here that is their 100 year agenda to take over the globe .
If those delegates decide to go against who the voters have clearly chosen it will put the White House into Clintons hands and the Republican Party will die. The RINOs are going to give everything to their Democrat cohorts and go against the voters. Say goodbye to America if that happens.
I am a Vietnam Vet and did see the ads from the POW’s that were with McCain. They came off the air as fast as they started because McCain at the time was running for POTUS. Even the media at the time was asking what happened but for those that saw the ads it was easy to figure out that they had been bought off or threatened to not say another word. As a past VFW post Commander fighting for Veterans care we thought that having McCain in the big seat for Veterans affairs would be a good thing, wrong, McCain was the biggest opponent we have ever seen, he voted against anything that would help that really mattered. McCain was not only a worm in the POW camp but a poisonous snake for needing Vets. Hanoi Jane was a better friend than McCain. His name has always put a foul taste in my mouth so right now I need to go use a full bottle of mouth wash.