Over the weekend, The Daily Wire had the opportunity to speak with Kendal Unruh, a member of the Colorado Republican delegation to the Republican National Convention. Unruh is also a member of the Rules Committee at the RNC, and a leading advocate for a vote that would unbind the delegates from the candidates to which their state primaries are pledged.
Unruh explained that "28 committee members are required to pass a minority report, which then goes to the convention floor for all delegates to vote on. It then requires a simple majority to pass." She added that she does "have the 28 votes required for the minority report," continuing, "Not everyone who is with us is willing to be public yet, due in part to the threats being made by Trump's campaign and the RNC itself."
Well now this RNC convention is once again looking like the must see show for next week.
I was a little concerned that the Republicans had pulled their shit together and become united behind Trump, but now I see that my concerns were for naught.
It also appears that Trump is having trouble getting the usual Republican donors to loosen their purse strings:
Republican donors, including members of the Republican Jewish Coalition, are voicing concern about giving to presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump's campaign after some of his recent comments, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“I’m waiting for him to come forward as a statesman, and so far he hasn’t done it,” said Walter Stern, a longtime RJC board member and the vice chairman of a private equity firm, who hasn’t decided whether to give money to Trump.
Yeah, keep holding your breath for that one.
There is also concern that there will not be any big named Republicans speaking at the convention, and though Trump has repeatedly promised to release a list of names so far nada.
However once that list of names is revealed I have every confidence that it will include Sarah Palin, and if she has her way Dakota Meyer as well.
Like I said the must see show for next week.
Wouldn't miss it.
I don't think that Trump will be the GOP nominee. He's been a "seat holder" for someone that the GOP does not want the Democrats to have researched s lot. They probably feel the the Democrats were too ready for Mitt Romney in 2012. So who could it be?
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That's how I feel. I think it'll be someone else going up against Hilary...and I'm afraid at that point, Hillary will lose & whomever the GOP nom is will win. Which means this country is doomed. I hope I'm terribly wrong & Don the Con is actually the nom. It will be happy days, then.
DeleteMaybe that's why Pence hasn't removed his name from the VP short list. There's still 4 months before the election - plenty of time to dig a little dirt. Personally, I'm pulling for a Trump/Newt ticket - I'd like to see Bill finally extract some revenge against Newt
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DeleteIf this indeed happens, the people who lurve them some Donald Trump are going to be pissed off mightily. The Re-Pubics could run the 2nd coming of Ronald Reagan this year and not win. They are in a pickle.
DeletePaul Ryan. Loves to be begged...
DeleteI don't think so. I don't think he would 'hold a seat' for anybody. Also, having a viable candidate, ready to go, supported by the majority of the GOP AND kept a secret? Impossible. They aren't that cohesive.
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John Barron.
DeleteGosh, maybe there is still a chance for Sarah:
DeleteThings Get Even Worse For Trump As Newt Gingrich Says He May Turn Down VP
..... Newt Gingrich was Donald Trump’s safety date, and he may turn Trump down because he has a book and a movie coming out. There really isn’t a more lame excuse than, sorry, but see I’ve got this book coming out, so I am going to be really busy until November.....
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/11/worse-trump-newt-gingrich-turn-vp.html
I don't think little Donnie's ego would allow that without some huuggeee financial compensation.
DeleteI think the GOP is going "to choose" the VP, that is why they are all saying no to Donnie.
Later if by some miracle little Donnie wins, they can take him out-poison, plane crash, ISIS.
Ted Cruz and his daddy? Paul Ryan?
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A federal judge just ruled in Virginia that the State cannot bind a delegate. The delegate can vote for whomever they want on the first ballot. Fun times ahead for the Republicans.
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The RNC can decide whether to count the vote of an escapee "bound" candidate. So the ruling doesn't have any impact if the RNC decides to ignore or negate those votes.
DeleteAgreed 2:38. However, the issue in the ruling was whether the State (in this case Virginia) can bind a delegate. Now they cannot. The Republican Party, like the Democratic Party is a private political organization. No State can get in the way of that and pass laws telling delegates how to vote.
DeleteAccording to this article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the judge's ruling means Virginia's 49 votes at the GOP Freak Show should be awarded in proportion to each candidate's showing in the March primary -- 17 votes for Trump.
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On a related matter, we Democrats need to heed the advice "Be careful what you pray for, you may get it."
I VERY MUCH WANT Trump to be the GOP candidate. He will go down in flames. If he is dumped for, say, Kasich or some other Republican with good sense -- and there are some out there -- Hillary's negatives easily could lose this election for us.
True,redneck. GOP will go down in flames with the dumpster on the ticket.
DeleteRoger Ailes was asked if Sarah was a spitter or a swallower .. he replied no comment.
ReplyDeleteDonny said she was the best.
she was the best b/c she knew Todd and saw Donny as yuuuge!!!!
DeleteI'll bet Roger suffers a yuuuuge case of crotch rot from sitting on his fat ass all day. That wouldn't bother Sarah though.
DeleteThat's vile, disgusting and stomach churning. But it's all true, Sarah never denied it, has she?
DeleteMan, is he one ugly phok - inside and out. Just like his attack dog, Scary Bible-Spice Palin. Both sociopaths are stupid, also too.
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DeleteThe morons I know who are all in for Trump won't vote for anyone but Trump. They are disgruntled teabaggers who are pissed at the Republican Party.
ReplyDeleteHe needs Sarah Palin.
ReplyDeleteHe is going to have to fire Ivanka and those that are helping her to stop Trump from being Trump.
It will be a win win if she brings her family.
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As long as she deflects from the military and the son with the assault weapons.
Does she keep them for him at her fortress?
It would be good to know if Homeland security won't do their job and watch the mad Army sergeant. Did he even graduate from high school?
I think Dakota did graduate.
Probably didn't have someone else to do the work to earn his ged like the stool and barely passed to graduate.
DeleteThat picture looks like a rabid squirrel, and a little bit like tRump.
ReplyDeleteI can't get over how many horribly ugly pics there are of Trump. Every time I think a pic is his worst ever, there's yet another.
DeleteAs he's aged his eyes have gotten so small and he's lost all color. Long ago, he should have started wearing a little mascara on his puffy, pink, slitty, white-eyelashed eyes so they didn't look so scary, but it's too late now.
Can you imagine waking up to the face,ladies?There's not enough money in Fort Knox for that.I remember back in college drinking with a friend at a frat party.. She had this rill ugly dude circling her and said she was staying to party. I told her if she slept with that toad,she'd hate herself in the morning. Drunk friend stayed,got laid by the ugly dude. Called me in the morning saying "you warned me I was going to hate myself in the morning, and I do. I woke up to that ugly head on the pillow beside me and remembered what you said". How does Melania stomach that bloated boob in her bed? $$$$!!!
DeleteHe looks like an orange raccoon. Strange eyes that tip in the outer corners. Looks like maybe he was bred too close also and too.
DeleteVelveeta raccoon (h/t to the person who said it first)
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I think Sarah is out of the running. I wish she was the VP though.
ReplyDeleteO/T Track's hearing was continued again.
Track's hearing was continued again.
DeleteYou know what that means?
I do! I do!
DeleteWhat? They are waiting for the convention to be over?
DeleteNo?
DeleteSounds like Palin will be speaking at the convention and Trump made sure that she first got a delay of the trial.
DeleteIt means military court is going to keep this hanging until everyone forgets about it and Track will never be charged with anything except maybe for another black mark on his military record.
DeleteI agree with 3:49
DeleteWasn't she just recently yakking about teaching your children to take responsibility?
DeleteProbably delaying while they find some doctor to fake a PTSD diagnosis for him.
Sarah works best on her knees,ask Don the Con. This is all good news. I can hardly wait to see dumpster's head spin and spit split pea soup. Will it be a bloodbath? For once I can say I Hope They Allow Firearms. More popcorn!
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't pay me to watch that nightmare.
ReplyDeleteNothing short of a mushroom cloud over Cleveland would lure me to watch "news" while the RNC is doing its death dance.
DeleteI'll probably watch it. It'll be loads of fun. Could make a drinking game out of the whole thing too. (lol)
DeleteI will be watching for you 2:41. I wouldn't miss it for the world.
DeleteWhat? The Convention? There isn't anything on TV but reruns so what else is there? Besides, it is sure to be interesting.
DeleteDon't wish that on the rest of us, 2:47! Some of us are there, not for the RNC, but because we like it there and we live and work there- and can't escape for the week!
DeleteSorry. Trump predicted the blood spilled if he didn't have his way,not us. Just going on Humpty Dumpty's words. I cant wait tune in to the repig convention .Crack open a bottle of wine and settle in to watch the crazy people's club eat their own.
Delete3:12 I wonder how Track made Sargent. It has to be E5 not E6.
ReplyDeleteSargent is E-5 , but Track wasn't in the army long enough even to acquire E-3 (PFC)....
DeleteFederal Judge Says Dump Trumpers Don’t Risk Going To Jail
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Actually, Democrats Still Love Each Other XOXO
ReplyDeleteYou’ve read the stories. The HillaryBots just hate the BernieBros, and the feeling is so, so mutual.
Yeah, whatevz. Take a look at this video from the official Democratic Party platform meeting in Orlando, Florida. They’re “debating” antitrust language, establishing the party’s official stance on heavy concentrations of corporate power. Behold the great conflict of our times, the rending of a once-great political institution as it … unanimously agrees about something.
Watch different factions of the Democratic Party hug each other over a shared commitment to curbing corporate power in the video below:
...“Let me just say one quick word, if I may, to the Bernie Sanders supporters here,” Pryor said. “Let me just say I’m a lifelong Democrat, and I am glad to have you here. We’re glad to have you in the party. You’ve made a big difference in 2016. Thank you for being here today, thank you for participating and thank you for the unity.”
Man. These two teams just don’t like each other.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-platform-committee-antitrust_us_5783f465e4b0344d515073ff?section=
Obama Joins Call For ‘Public Option’ Health Care Plan
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http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2533698
I doubt the RNC wants him, why is Ryan having a "town meeting" before the convention? Looks like Turkey Donald needs another waddle lift.... hey Sarah, Know of any good Turkey Farms up there in wild alasker?
ReplyDeleteOne GOP delegate has a new plan to stop Trump at the convention
ReplyDeleteKendal Unruh, a delegate from Colorado and a member of the convention’s powerful Rules Committee, is pressing the party to allow delegates to “vote their conscience” rather than adhere to the rules that require most of them to vote for a specific candidate based on the results of their state’s primary.
She concedes that she may not have the majority support on the committee needed to make that change in the package of rules that the committee submits to the delegates as a whole. However, she told the conservative website The Daily Signalthat she believes she has enough support on the panel to issue a “minority report” from the Rules Committee including that “conscience clause.”
Because of the way the rules guiding the convention work, Unruh only needs 25 percent of the Rules Committee’s 112 members to force a vote on the minority report’s proposal, and she claims to have the 28 members necessary -- even if they aren’t willing to identify themselves at the moment.
"Not everyone who is with us is willing to be public yet,” she told The Daily Signal. She said delegates fear retaliation, but did not cite specific examples.
http://www.businessinsider.com/gop-delegate-has-a-new-plan-to-stop-trump-at-the-convention-2016-7
WTF? RNC Is About To Officially Endorse ‘Pray Away The Gay’ Therapy
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Trump’s Ridiculous Border Wall To Become Part of GOP Platform (VIDEO)
http://www.liberalamerica.org/2016/07/11/trumps-ridiculous-border-wall-to-become-part-of-gop-platform-video/
OOOOH!
ReplyDeleteNicole Wallace says that if palin were vp pick, a whole LOTTA folks would be coming out to say what they know!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLWEtWkxInpICSvMqXS4pAQ3714X_jJauK&v=js7IMlDkPBQ
Too little too late!!!
DeleteThat GOP convention is going to be epic. I don't know if it will be good epic or bad epic, but like nothing we've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteYes it is. I'm looking forward to it, I hope it doesn't fail to amuse me. I love some schadenfreude with my wine and popcorn.
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In my job, we advise people to pay for their porn so they won't get stung with malware; and, we remind people that church web sites are the most notorious (and worse than free porn sites) for spreading viruses because they're generally easy targets for hackers to commandeer.
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ReplyDeleteOh, yeah. If Palin speaks she will make sure Dumbkota is also asked to speak.
ReplyDeleteI'm predicting he is going to run for public office. It's a symbiotic relationship. He needs her for cred and she needs him for attention.
I thought Dakota's last name was "Palin".
ReplyDeleteIis there an uglier man than Trump? And it's not just the orange complexion, hilarious hairdo and disappearing beady eyes. He is totally without dignity or compassion. What a disgrace it would be if he became or president.
ReplyDeleteThe photo of Trump reminds me of an angry hog...just sayin'
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