The GOP — ever able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Apparently, Donald Trump, with his soaring popularity in spite of his many controversial statements, has the GOP establishment running scared.
On Monday, December 6, 2015, the GOP establishment held a meeting to discuss the strategy of a brokered convention to discuss circumventing the will of the people as expressed in the upcoming Republican primaries.
Last week, Donald Trump said that he is preparing for the possibility of a brokered convention. Will he bolt the Party?
FACT (but my source must remain confidential at this point): the RNC will readily sacrifice a win in 2016 if the establishment GOP cannot get the establishment's choice of GOP candidate. "There's always 2020," my source said. To my face!
Recent political history in the United States tells us the following about brokered conventions and their outcomes:
Adlai Stevenson (of the 1952 Democratic Party) and Thomas E. Dewey (of the 1948 Republican Party) were the most recent "brokered convention" presidential nominees. The last winning U.S. presidential nominee produced by a brokered convention was Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1932.
3 comments:
I dropped my registration in the GoPe last year but may come to regret it. Both Trump and Carson are furious with the GoPe underhanded tactics and have threatened to leave the party. Here's the rub. In closed primary states, only registered Republicans can cast their votes in the primary, hence eliminating the influence of those who disagree with the Chamber of Commerce/Uni-Party open borders/single payer govt. health insurance agenda.
Anonymous,
We have open primaries here in Virginia. **smile**
Maybe the best thing would be to actually do this and we end up with Bush and it's stolen and that's the END of a major party. Then YOU CAN BET, D's will start thinking about it as well.
What's one election compared to bringing the entire political process back close to the deaires of the people?
There is no 'good time' for this to happen.
Anyone else want to see Karl Rove on the street with a mug filled with #2 pencils at a ickel a pop?
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