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#NeverTrump7 = BREAK GLASS in CASE of “A Republic, if you can keep it” EMERGENCY

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I’ve had this tweet pinned since before Memorial Day:

A week or so later, I was thrilled beyond description to see this paragraph in The Hill:

And then June 4th I see this, “Dear GOP Convention Delegates: Declare Your Independence”  by Steave Deace at Conservative Review, which I have excerpted below the line.

I sure hope this is the beginning of something…

If you’ve ever asked yourself “Why do we have conventions anyway? Who are these delegates? These crazy people on the floor with the straw hats and the pins and the red/white/blue shirts?” Steve offers an answer* but I would like to offer my own.

What if the primary winner dies? (God forbid! And I mean that sincerely. As catastrophic as I believe a Trump – or Hillary – Presidency would be, we don’t want anyone harmed. Ever.) Think about it. What if it’s right now, the beginning of June, 5 weeks from the convention, 5 months from the November election. We’ve just had a year of campaigning. Seventeen candidates, save one, dispensed with. What if something happens?

We couldn’t POSSIBLY get a 50 state mulligan (57 states & territories, actually, but let’s not be persnickety). There’s NO WAY we could have a do-over. For the OBVIOUS logistical reasons, but also the Constitutional question. The people had their say. They cast their votes, chose their delegates. It’s done. You can’t disenfranchise those millions of people. You just can’t.

Thus, the delegates system. THAT’S WHY THEY’RE THERE. “Break Glass in Case of Emergency.” Now, typically, they vote the way their states voted and it’s desperately anti-climactic, the nominee having achieved 50%+1 of his party’s popular vote and 50%+1 (=1237) of his party’s delegates.

But we don’t have that this time. Trump’s achieved roughly 40% of the popular vote of his party. 2 of every 5 Republicans. 3 of every 5 Republicans voted NOT Trump. Perhaps not affirmatively negative (!) but OTHER than, to be sure.

And the delegates “win”? Hardly resounding. Trump will be sent limping to Cleveland. The stupid frickin’ corrupt RNC purposely crowded the field with a dozen candidates knowing Jeb was worse than beige-Volvo-vanilla and needed the field fractured to emerge with the most votes/delegates.

Then Trump happened. And it backfired spectacularly. S-P-E-C-T-A-C-U-L-A-R-L-Y.

I won’t go through the whole history of 2nd ballot Presidents (or 2+ ballots) but it’s happened before. Several times. We got Lincoln that way.

Anyway… Trump should be any sane, sentient, moral person’s own personal red line. I can’t vote for him. I can’t. With Hillary or Donny it’s like being forced to choose which I wanted amputated: Hands? Or feet?

I choose neither.

I choose BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF EMERGENCY.

*I did not include that portion of his article below, but you can see it in his original text.

DEAR GOP CONVENTION DELEGATES: DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE

…(The new book, “Unbound: The Conscience of a Republican Delegate” is) co-authored by Curly Haugland, a 17-year veteran member of the RNC, who also currently sits on the powerful rules committee for the convention[.] The book uses the RNC’s own actual rules to make its case all GOP delegates are not bound to vote for Donald Trump (or anyone else as the nominee) who violates their conscience. …

If Haugland is right, and he is on the rules committee after all, then not a single GOP delegate is bound to vote for Trump as the Republican nominee. Especially given that Trump’s politics and character make him a far better standard bearer for the Democrats.

And lest anyone think this sounds like Obama picking and choosing which laws he’ll uphold, these RNC rules are in place to protect the system from just such a leader. See, this is how a republican form of government works. The popular vote puts a check-and-balance on the political class, but elected representatives (in this case delegates) put a check-and-balance on the unbridled passions of a wayward electorate. It’s why the Founding Fathers gave us mechanisms such as juries and the Electoral College in the first place.

This is now your role in preserving our constitutional republic if you are a GOP delegate.

This is why our representatives take an oath “so help me God” and not “so help me will of the people.”  …Never fear, delegates. You have the green light. Now all you need is the same sense of duty and courage that drove our Founding Fathers to dedicate their lives, fortunes and sacred honors to a cause that would keep generations of Americans free from the various and relentless yokes of tyranny.

Oh, and that doesn’t mean “let’s compromise and move passive-aggressively on the floor to make Ted Cruz the running mate because, unity.” If you admire Cruz’s courage of conviction, and see him as a future standard bearer for our ideals, you will dare not paint him into such a corner. … Cruz has taken more flack on our behalf than pretty much any Republican in recent memory, so he deserves a much better fate than that no-win scenario. Instead, focus your ire where it belongs. …

Don’t let the media that hates you pick your nominee (again). Insist this July that we will be led by a leader who respects the laws of nature and nature’s God, instead of a crude populist whose tantrums seduce us from both the left and the right. The country deserves much better, as does the party of Lincoln and Reagan which you now steward. It’s either that, or we may sadly look back years from now as the moment you helped accelerate American Exceptionalism’s collective fade to black.

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Megyn Kelly: Little Sister of the Poor

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Huh?  Megyn Kelly’s a NUN?  Dang!  They don’t make nuns like they used to, huh? Wowza!

No… That’s not what I’m saying.  I’m saying that everyone is missing the argument about Megyn’s question at the Republican debate:  it’s not that Megyn ‘had an agenda’ to ‘take out Trump’ (which, even if it’s true, and it may well be true, still doesn’t harm what I am about to say in any way.  They can both be true, so if you’re a Trump supporter or a conservative just unhappy with Fox, don’t click away!) What everyone is missing is that by asking the question at all, she’s implicitly endorsed the ‘War on Women’ liberal meme as valid and worthy, in the same way Obamacare, by making Little Sisters of the Poor, sign a piece of paper pushing off the responsibility to pay for abortion to someone else, makes the nuns endorse abortion as valid and worthy of their notice and their facilitation of its continuance…

Even if you ascribe the most benign reason for the question, “Well, they’re going to be asked this stuff on every other network debate, so might as well get it out of the way early,” you assume 1.) It’s a valid meme now and it will still be a valid meme then, thus ascribing to us all a unique ability to see into the future, most especially, the ability to see into presididential-campaign-season future, which would be a pretty nifty trick, 2.) That the purpose of Republicans debating is to defend themselves morally and politically from Democrats at all, ever, thus conferring upon this defensive posture legitimacy and validity, 3.) That a Republican debate should be about politics not substance – ever, 4.) That a single solitary second of precious air-time should be devoted to this nonsense over _________ (Pick any one of dozens of colossal Obama administration failures, felonies, or fires burning in any corner of the the world.) And finally, 5.) Properly crafted, a “woman-question” might elicit such outrage, such horror – at the Democrats’ in general and Hillary’s in particular – actual “extremism” on women-related matters, that the “War on Women” meme, as implicitly offered by Megyn, could be rendered moot, utterly turned on its head, by merely articulating facts, that the Democrats would be on the defensive by morning! With 24 million viewers, it might have been the first articulation of these facts millions of them may have ever seen, and, thus, caused a catastrophic political earthquake.

That’s what everyone is missing in their pile on of one, Miss Megyn Kelly.

That’s the missed opportunity we all lament.

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Glenn Beck SCORCHES Karl Rove

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Glenn Beck announced this week he was no longer a Republican.  He’d long ago stopped giving the RNC money (as I have) but this week he announced he was changing his party affiliation officially (I presume to Independent, but I didn’t catch that part.)

Well, Karl Rove was asked about it and snarkily dismissed it.  Oh dear.  I don’t think Karl understands what major influence Mr. Beck is on the Grand Ol’ Party… and how p*ssed off we all are at the Party’s record of failure these last years.  Well hoo-boy did Beck uncork on Karl… Glenn took to his Facebook page and absolutely scorched him.  I cut and pasted it in its entirety below.  I wish I could have written it myself because I agree with every blistering syllable.

Ouchies.  It’s gonna leave mark.

Enjoy.

An open letter to ‪#‎KarlRove‬.

You want to rumble Rove? Come on to my show and let’s have it out.  Bring it on.  I would love to take you on WITH YOUR RECORD AND THE RECORD OF THE GOP.  I could do it with my eyes closed and in a coma.

You hung yourself on O’Reilly. By using my words to mock me, the audience heard my words. I would bet a good portion agreed with me. I was right at CPAC in 2011 and never invited back. What a shock!!!

If you don’t think that the Republicans are progressive light then you don’t know the history of the movement started by Teddy Roosevelt and the GOP.  There are good men and women in the party that believe in the constitution. Are you one of them?

Do you seriously believe that Jeb Bush is not progressive light? Help me out with Common Core and Jeb Bush!

How about Orrin Hatch’s role in targeting Mike Lee? Can you name a better, more honorable man than Mike?

How about Mitch McConnell and his targeting of Ted Cruz and Mike Lee?

How are things working out for all of the campaign promises? How about the deficit? The war? Defunding ObamaCare? Oh, didn’t the GOP vote to confirm Cass Sunstein? How is illegal immigration working out for you? (Actually, I know the answer: really well as your big corporate buddies love it. Especially down in the colonias). It is modern day slavery.

Has Grover started any new Muslim Brotherhood front groups you and the Bushes can pass off as the good guys? How about some more FCC regulation on the Internet?
Can you tell me one thing you have done? I mean beside the PATRIOT Act, the NSA and not stopping the IRS from massive abuse of power.

Oh, I forgot! You did get to the bottom of Benghazi. Oops. Nope. It must be because you are swamped in actually fixing the VA system for all the men YOU put in harms way. Gosh, sorry. No, you aren’t even doing that.

Wow. How do you find your way out of bed in the morning? Well maybe you don’t go to bed, because I know I couldn’t sleep if I were you or any of your cronies.

So let me rephrase. You guys couldn’t find your way outside standing in an open door frame.

How is the health of the three equal branches of government?

I will say this; you are better than the president. You are only half as bad. You are only doing the fundraising dinners, while he is doing that AND playing golf. It is almost like you are progressive light.

I know, you understand ‘strategy’ and I don’t. I know, you can’t push for these things right now! You will lose the presidency in 2016.

No, now you have to compromise on things like immigration etc. so you can win the White House. THEN you will have the White House, the Senate and the House. That is when you really go for it … Right?

Next time. Not now. That when things really change! Just like they did when you had both branches under Bush!!

Crap. Another bad example.

You guys have the spine of a worm, the ethics of whores, and the integrity of pirates. (My apologies to worms, whores and pirates)

You are right about one thing,  I have said this before. You are also right that you don’t need to worry about me.  You need to worry about the American public. Because they have had it up to their teeth with you, the GOP and the DNC lies.

You need to worry about yourself. After blowing almost a billion dollars on ‘I love government healthcare Romney,’ I would guess you don’t have too many more chances to save what is left of your career.  It is sad that you can no longer hear the American People because they could save you. Instead you listen to your political consultants and the amazing thing is you still believe all of it.

Can you not smell what you are shoveling anymore?

The world has changed. The whole world is being redesigned. Not by government but by dreamers and doers.

You are the taxi medallions in an Uber world.  You don’t have to be young to see that. You just have to be open and honest.  Instead, you just continue to shine up the progressive agenda of people like Jeb, pressure, corrupt or threaten freshmen and smear the good people of this country who believe in the actual principles enshrined in the constitution.

It is sad what the GOP has become. You would campaign against Reagan. (Cruz has the principles of Reagan- but all you see of Reagan was HOW Ronald Reagan won, not WHY he won). JFK would be too small government for the GOP as you see it.  “Government isn’t the solution, Government is the problem”. You believe only government run by the Democrats is a problem.

By the way: clever whiteboard trick. Only problem, the quote was right. Ted Cruz knew what you guys were doing and called you on it. He won’t play your game. Which is why millions of Americans support him and you and your progressive corporate fat cats will try to destroy him and anyone else that tries to tell the truth.

Good luck with that.

The future belongs to free people. The genie is out of the bottle. You will not be able to corral the spirit of America. Because it isn’t a person or a place. It is an idea.

Do you know why America is failing? Because we don’t even know who we are anymore. Why? Because people like you only care about ‘interests’ instead of ‘principles’.  Your interests, the party’s interests or national interests.  Those all change depending on the day and situation. Principles never change.

When you and the GOP find your unchanging and eternal principles – other than keeping your power and controlling people’s lives – let me know.

The people don’t trust Washington anymore. You haven’t given us a reason to, we are not as dumb as you thought and we will never sit down and shut up again. You have gone from being a man I thought was a good guy to a sad and quickly forgotten figure of the past.  It is never to late to change. You just have to be willing to admit your mistakes and live by principles. I have done so. When will you?

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