Republican Establishment Thinks the World is as Stupid as They Are

[JimBowie1958]

Lol, these idiots think that we will simply swallow this shit. They are now claiming that the rules for a Presidential nomination are written AFTER the primaries, once the convention assembles and sits the rule making committees. So we are supposed to think that the rules to a game are made in the last quarter, after time has run out and the officials then decide which touch downs count, which field goals were good and what was that holding penalty on third down in the second quarter. roflmao, you just cant make this shit up.

Yes, the rules committee of any convention can make rules to apply to that convention, just like any other time, but typically the rules stay in force for the duration and apply to all the caucuses and primaries conducted under them.

To retroactively apply rules by a hostile to primaries and caucuses already conducted is simply a legal way of cheating and violates every common notion of fairness and equal treatment.

Again, Cruz and Trump should ban together to prevent the change to rule 40B, no ifs, ands or butts.

GOP insiders: Nominee won't be limited to winner of 8 states


The Republican National Committee's "Rule 40(b)" makes eligibility for the GOP nomination contingent upon winning a majority of the convention delegates in at least eight states or territories, an achievement generally accomplished by winning at least eight primary or caucus elections. However, Rule 40(b) only applied to the 2012 Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., that nominated former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Party officials and knowledgeable sources have confirmed over the past few days that Rule 40(b) doesn't exist for the purposes of the upcoming convention. That means at this point, the three candidates left in the race, front-runner Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, are all eligible for the nomination, as, possibly, are the Republican contenders who have since suspended their campaigns.

Ben Ginsberg, a Republican elections lawyer who was involved in rule-making process for the 2012 convention, said that Rule 40(b) isn't transferrable to the 2016 convention. Ginsberg explained to theWashington Examiner that what was passed in 2012 applied only to 2012, and that the 2016 convention must pass its own rule determining nomination eligibilty.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus confirmed Ginsberg's assessment on Sunday during a television interview. "There will always be a perception problem if people continue to miss — to not explain the process properly. So, the 2012 rules committee writes the rules for the 2012 convention. The 2016 rules committee writes the rules for the 2016 convention," he told CNN.

The party's nominee is never officially crowned until he receives the vote of at least 1,237 elected convention delegates. But the exercise has been a formality for so long, with conventions functioning as made-for-television pep rallies, the public has essentially assumed that the winner is determined by their votes in the primaries and caucuses held in most states and U.S. territories.

This is going to be a disaster unless Trump and Cruz take it out of the hands of the neocon establishment.

 

[Stratford57]

 

[S.J.]

Establishment Republicans continue to struggle to deny the will of the American people because they care more about their little money club in Washington than they do democracy.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Another factor that makes this whole thing utterly ludicrous is that:

1. Rule 40B is known as the Romney rule and he came up with it because the Ron Paul kabal was slipping trojan candidates throughout all the state delegations, with the idea of getting an open convention then voting for Paul on the Second Ballot. Romney had the thing sewn up by then and rule 40B was no longer necessary, so it was obviously intended for future conventions.

2. Any group that has regular periodic meetings has rules that they do not need to set at each meeting. Otherwise what rules are used to start the whole thing rolling in the first place? Can the rules be changed at any meeting? Of course they can, but that does not mean that the rules do not exist until the meeting starts and then the meeting rules do not apply unless voted on in each and every case of a rule. That would take the rules committee weeks to do at each and every convention.

That the GOP Establishment would dare utter such 100% pure grade fertilizer to the American people is solid proof that they are no longer fit to lead the GOP.