The Establishment Must Die Lose In Cleveland - Granite Grok

The Establishment Must Die Lose In Cleveland

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This is no time to vote for the lesser evil!

A number of articles have recently pointed out the importance of GOP Convention rule 40b, which was instituted in 2012 by the Sunugnome and other party insiders to prevent a floor challenge to Mittens by Ron Paul supporters. The rule change may have prevented a nomination fight, but I can tell you that libertarians at the convention were spitting mad, and enough sat out the general election to give us four more years of BarryO.

Most swords cut both ways, and this one is no exception – it is the one which requires a candidate to achieve a majority of delegates from at least 8 states in order to be considered for the nomination. If this rule is not changed, Trump will, and Cruz should, beat the threshold, but Sainted Klingon Kasich, the bearded granny-tipper, the orange Boehner, and recycled Mittens all will fail to meet the threshold. UNLESS the GOPe can remove it…..

Trump hates to be beaten, which explains the occasional ill-tempered tweet-storm, the hatchet jobs in Pecker’s Enquirer, and the vitriol directed at Cruz as he challenges The Donald’s lead. Cruz is a man on a mission to save the Constitution, and thus to defeat Trump in order to win the nomination.

An article at ZeroHedge this week made the case that, no matter their differences, or which of them wins in the end, Trump and Cruz owe it to the country to ensure the Establishment loses in Cleveland:

Trump and Cruz, though bitter enemies, are both despised by the establishment. Yet both have a mutual interest: insuring that one of them, and only one of them, wins the nomination. No one else.

And if they set aside grievances, and act together, they can block any establishment favorite from being imposed on the party, as was one-worlder Wendell Willkie, “the barefoot boy of Wall Street,” in 1940.

All Trump and Cruz need do is instruct their delegates to vote to retain Rule 40 from the 2012 convention. Rule 40 declares that no candidate can be placed in nomination who has failed to win a majority of the delegates in eight states.

Trump has already hit that mark. Cruz almost surely will. But no establishment favorite has a chance of reaching it.

With Cruz and Trump delegates voting to retain Rule 40, they can guarantee no Beltway favorite walks out of Cleveland as the nominee — and that Ted Cruz or Donald Trump does.

No matter who wins in Cleveland, the establishment must lose.

HEAR, HEAR!

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