When the Cruzites used "rules" to steal delegates from the candidate who'd won a primary...in Colorado as one example...all you NeverTrump's thought that it was just great tactical maneuvering. This is no different, consider it payback for the Colorado caucus.
It is substantially different. The Colorado rules were in existence long before the delegate selection, and had been appropriately discussed and approved. "Payback" for using those rules sounds like something straight from the mouth of Valerie Jarret.
And let me add, most conservatives...the vast majority in fact...are fully on board at this point.
What is your source?
Or are you basing that assertion on a voice vote conducted sans debate with half the members present on a small committee of a party where Trump got 40% of the primary vote, including crossovers?
Maybe Conservatism needs to find a new name, because so many of the people calling themselves "conservatives" so plainly are not.
The Moral Narcissists like so many here will never stop trying to get Hillary elected, but nobody can slow down a fanatic.
That is horse manure on so many levels, but if voting one's conscience, if voting against the coming mob rule is "moral narcissism", so be it. We all have our crosses to bear.
I assure you no one was trying to get Hillary elected. You folks will have succeeded wildly if you succeed at all, which could happen. As you said "nobody can slow down a fanatic".
As many of us tried to tell you folks, at the cost of much abuse and derision, was that there was never any chance this NeverTrump garbage was going to succeed in the rules committee, much less on the convention floor. Mr. Trump won the majority of delegates, and that's how we select a nominee for our party. Those who try to circumvent that process aren't following their conscience, they're being petulant children angry that they didn't win. So all that happened on that committee today was that the will of the voters was respected as sacrosanct. That's something to celebrate, but so many of you set yourselves up for disappointment that we're going to see nothing but vitriol and venom from you going forward. Oh well.
The matter was not discussed in the rules committee, much less on the convention floor. The very process of arriving at a vote was railroaded. There is no account of that voice vote, save that someone adjudged a group to have bellowed louder. Interesting that bellowing louder should work on Mr. Trump's behalf, after all that is his hallmark. As for a majority, Mr. Trump won 40% of the vote, counting crossovers in open primaries. Now, any attempt to rectify the shortcomings of the primary system, or even discuss them has been summarily shut down, not by the majority of the voters, but by one person with a gavel. One.
Long ago, after a deeply divided election, he GOP rode into power on the caissons and sutler's wagons of the only army to loot and burn its way across half of the country, in the name of unity of course.
Now the new totalitarian face of the Republican Party has no beard. Only four people in the county I grew up in voted for that first despot, and they were asked to leave. (1860). When the blood was let, and the last southern mills and houses and crops burned, the surviving Yankee printing presses treated him far more gently than he deserved and made him into a hero.
Consider the lies told by your candidate about the other candidates, the foul campaign, the chameleonic positions on policy, and consider that Trump supporters own that now, and whatever results from it going forward. When this is all over, you will have only yourselves to blame.
Perhaps we can bandy words in the future with a modicum of civility ("Bless your heart"), but when that civility goes away out there in the streets, there will be no refuge open, no favor granted, no quarter given.
Dear God, the irony that the greatest campaign force for Hillary will be her chief opponent.
