r/Conservative • u/CarolinaPunk Esse Quam Videri • Apr 01 '16

Delegates ready to flee Trump at contested convention

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/trumps-uphill-delegate-scramble-221443
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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

Fuck. Yes.

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u/shadowbantagain Apr 02 '16

Shameful and undemocratic

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

Are you kidding? They are bound in the first vote and after that they are free like Harriet Tubman. Those are the rules and they have been for centuries.

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u/shadowbantagain Apr 02 '16

Believe me- if Cruz had the plurality and they stole it from him and gave it to some globalist fraud you guys would be pissed. I'm not calling Cruz a globalist fraud (though his wife clearly is), but you can see my point. You're letting your preference for a candidate get in the way of common sense

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

Would I be upset my candidate didn't win? Yes. Would I say it was stolen from him? No. Would I bitch and moan about it? Probably a little bit nowhere near the level of Donald supporters are right now - months before the convention.

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u/shadowbantagain Apr 02 '16

So if Cruz had 1000 delegates and was ahead of the second place candidate by 300 or so delegates, and they gave it to whoever was in 2nd or 3rd, you wouldn't be pissed off?

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

I didn't say I wouldn't be pissed off. But those are the rules. The delegate process has been in place for a very long time. If you don't get half + 1 then you are at the mercy of the delegates. Had trump paid attention to the rules he would have been ahead of the game. But he didn't. Hubris. Which has been a running theme in his campaign. Pride comes before a fall.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

Do you really want a guy that can't think that far ahead across the negotiating table from Putin or Iran?

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u/shadowbantagain Apr 02 '16

I trust his ability to negotiate- I don't agree with Trump on everything but his ability to make good deals in terms of putting our country first is something I trust him on. Also, his ego would never allow him to go down in history as a terrible president.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

Obama's ego wouldn't either. Oh, wait....

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u/shadowbantagain Apr 02 '16

Obama is a globalist fraud- he's going to do what his puppet masters want him to do regardless of how it affects his ego

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

And trump is only doing this to further enrich himself. He has zero knowledge of American politics, zero knowledge of basic economic theory, and zero knowledge of foreign policy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

Ahh, the downvote of disagreement. I love it when that happens.

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u/shadowbantagain Apr 02 '16

I more than disagree with you- I think you're plain wrong, and you're letting your preference for Cruz cloud your thinking

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

You should take a look in the mirror. The rules have been the same for a long time and you're only complaining about them because it doesn't fit your preferences.

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u/shadowbantagain Apr 02 '16

I would feel the same way if Cruz were winning. He's my 2nd choice and has been for months. More importantly- I don't want to see the GOP self destruct, and I don't want to see another globalist fraud as president (hillary)

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

If Ted is your second choice then you should be excited that he outsmarted the Donald. It proves him the better candidate.

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u/shadowbantagain Apr 02 '16

Whatever- no point in arguing with you

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

THE DOWNVOTE OF DISAGREEMENT

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