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Ted Cruz is not interested in stopping Donald Trump’s rise to the Republican presidential nomination via a brokered convention.
“Any time you hear someone talking about a brokered convention, it is the Washington establishment in a fevered frenzy, they are really frustrated because all their chosen candidates, their golden children, the voters keep rejecting,” he told the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday.
“They seized on this master plan. We go to a brokered convention, and the D.C. power brokers will drop someone in who is exactly to the liking of the Washington establishment. If that would happen, we will have a manifest revolt on our hands all across this country,” he said.
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If Romney loses to Hillary in the general election, that’s fine with the GOP establishment,” Stone continued. “With Hillary as president, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan keep their jobs as the congressional heads of the GOP and they actually have more power under a Democratic president, the lobbyists supporting the GOP stay put, and the globalists open-borders crowd in control of the GOP establishment remain in power within the party.”
“The GOP establishment knows that if Rubio or Romney win the nomination, the nomination will be worthless because the GOP will lose to Hillary in November,” Stone elaborated.
“But the GOP establishment is fine with that outcome because Hillary Clinton’s plans are the same plans the GOP leadership in Congress currently has,” he insisted. “The Democrats and the GOP in Congress both want to continue open borders, to introduce amnesty for the illegal immigrants already in the United States, to give the green light to the Trans-Pacific Partnership and ship more millions of jobs overseas, and to expand the welfare state and retain Obamacare, and to allow Goldman Sachs and their friends on Wall Street to make all the money they want to make.”
originally posted by: ManBehindTheMask
Impossible!
Cruz is the establishment! Why would he call them out?!
/sarcasm. Wonder what all those Trumpeters talking about how establishment Cruz is, will say to play this one off ?
originally posted by: olaru12
Gonna get real ugly in Cincinnati if this happens.
originally posted by: Metallicus
originally posted by: olaru12
Gonna get real ugly in Cincinnati if this happens.
The convention is actually in Cleveland which is still in Ohio, but nearly 5 hours away from Cincinnati. The Republicans want Ohio and Cincinnati nearly always goes Republican already as the South is the Conservative part of the state. The Liberals are all up in Cleveland so the Convention is there.
“The cadre of Republican lobbyists, operatives and elected officials based in Washington are much more unnerved by Mr. Cruz, a go-it-alone, hard-right crusader who campaigns against the political establishment and could curtail their influence and access, building his own Republican machine to essentially replace them… “Trump won’t do long-lasting damage to the G.O.P. coalition,” said John Feehery, a Capitol Hill aide turned lobbyist. “Cruz will.”
“I think the short answer is because everybody who knows him in the Senate, hates him. And I think hate is not, is not an exaggeration. The enmity which he wears on his sleeve as, with pride, is something that he’s now, you could almost say cultivated. To make him a freshman senator with no particular record into a national figure rallying everybody against the Washington cartel, you know Republicans in the Senate, in the House have been out there half of their lives, don’t appreciate being called essentially traitors to the cause of conservatism. And then you get antipathy and they will put that antipathy perhaps even over what’s best for the party.”
originally posted by: Informer1958
a reply to: Profusion
At this point, I don't understand why we have a Presidential election at all?
With all the rigging and voting machines tampering and the polls flipping votes, We The People do not get an honest election.
I thought that We The People were to cast ballots by voting to whom we want to be President, however that is not the case anymore.
No, the elite in Washington are the one's who select our Nominees. The Republican party keep changing rules every four years at the Conventions, and this should be illegal.
If the Republicans force a brokered convention, then they are finished. Their scheming, and plotting days will be over.
What I am witnessing right now as this election continues is how dirty and corrupt the Republican Party has become.
With that said if the Republican Party forces Trump to run as third Party, I will never vote again and I believe millions who are supporting Trump may do the same thing.
We The People don't have a voice or fair elections. How can the United States call it's self a democracy?