Big Red Car here on the morning after a shellacking by Ted Cruz on Donald Trump in Wisconsin. Well played, Lying Ted.
Lying Ted took 36 delegates while Bombastic Donald was left with table scraps of 6 delegates. Donald can’t be happy with that, can he? Hell, he even brought Melania to stump for him. Strong. Very strong!
All this talk of delegates. I thought we were a democracy and just “electing” a nominee. Right? Hey, Big Red Car, right?
Haha, so charming you are. Let me catch my breath and carsplain this to y’all.
Jabba the Hutt, the Republican Party party animal
The Republican Party (I have a mental image of Jabba the Hutt all pinstriped, tie shoed, and drinking a fat whiskey in a thick crystal glass with a single huge ice cube cause everything the Republicans and Jabba do is FAT) is run by a coterie of insiders who control its fortunes.
That little beastie on the left side? That’s YOU, dear voter. Sorry.
They elect an RNC (Republican National Committee) which every four years pretends to go through a nominating process which is “democratic.” The RNC is run by a guy named “Reince” being the only such person thusly named in the entire world. Maybe the universe.
It is an arcane process in which “delegates” are actually empowered and required to vote for certain nominees based upon how the votes — your pathetic little vote, dear reader — direct them to vote. This year, there is likely to be no clear nominee and then the real fun begins.
What a charming and naive utterance, Big Red Car. Charming.
The Republican Convention is a gathering of the party faithful at which the delegates are allowed to do whatever the Rules Committee tells them they can and have to do. They are like sock puppets and guess who the puppeteer is? Not YOU, voter person.
As an example, when Mitt Romney — remember him? — was winning the 2012 nomination, he objected to Ron Paul receiving any note at the convention. Any voice at all.
It was to be a coronation, not a struggle and the RNC had already given the crown to Mitt. [Note: “Mitt does not play nice with others. Fails to share his toys with others.” Direct quote from a Mitt Romney pre-K private school report card.]
So, the Rules Committee — the real power at the convention — passed a rule that nobody could be considered for the nomination who had not won at least 8 states in their pursuit of the nomination. Called Rule 40(b) and it would preclude the consideration of John Kasich and others who have not won anything or who are not even in the running.
Given the plans of the GOPe, this is going to be a problem.
Haha, no it isn’t, Big Red Car, cause the Rules Committee is going to change it. Haha. You are so sweet when you look disappointed at being screwed.
Bottom line it, Big Red Car
The GOPe is going to dictate the party’s nominee as it always has. The Rules Committee will set the process up so the GOPe candidate can win.
The DELEGATES pick the nominee not the voters. It doesn’t make any difference how many votes Donald Trump gets, he is NOT getting the nomination while the GOPe has any breath in their bodies and you, you pathetic little whiners, can’t do anything about it.
The GOPe has gone all in against Trump. Maybe he deserves it, maybe not.
They are holding their nose and backing Lying Ted, he who they originally hated but now they’ve decided they hate less than Donald Trump.
The funny thing is that Princeton/Harvard, Bush administration, Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz is as GOPe as it gets. What would one add to his resume to make him more GOPe? His only flaw, as far as the GOPe is concerned, is that he’s a thoroughly unlikeable creep.
Six women naked with this creep? Haha, six people wouldn’t want to be in the same room if they were dressed in wet suits and he was serving TexMex. He’s an unlikeable creep whose college roommate used to take pity on and invite to college parties. Creepy.
Outsider, you say? Huh, the guy has been on the GOPe sugar tit since he got out of law school. Even his wife, the Heidi person, worked for the Bush campaign before going to work for ….. key the Darth Vader background music ….. Goldman Sachs. Da da da dum!
But, hey, what the Hell do I really know anyway? I’m just a Big Red Car. Haha, you thought the voters picked the nominee? So charming. So naive. So Trumpish.
That picture of Cruz is the best, Looks like he did a high pitched fart and is saying….what do you think of that?
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I think he is a high pitched fart. No?
BRC
https://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
Definitely
Rule 40, the great unread rule. So I copy it completely for you below, while Part B is talked about directly it is part E that is going to be the battle. Having spent time in the bowels of the party, and DC rules rule daily life. Law degrees are the standard so it is.
Part B focuses on nominations defined as person A Formally entered into consideration publicly by Clown A supporter. Each nominated gets to speak of 15 min! Ouch, we had 17 to start then there are the secret establishment characters!
Yea Mitt did this to stifle random speechifying but it in no terms defines who a delegate votes for, those are governed by state committee, mostly released from commitment over time!
Lastly this is Representative Democracy in the nominating process not pure democracy as our founders set up the Government so we elect a candidate!
BTW Part E says if you can’t get a majority you can’t be the Candidate. One of the core skills of leadership is building consensus getting that 1237 is the first trial of leadership. This also gives early state delegates a chance to make a better choice if their designated candidate drops or commits a new felony!
https://cdn.gop.com/docs/2012_RULES_Adopted.pdf
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Excellent comment. I do want to quibble about one thing.
The Founding Fathers never confronted the issue of “parties” and were, famously, opposed to them. So, the connection between the “representative republic” governing theme is not really true as it relates to the nominating process.
The nominating process has evolved over the years in an incredible manner with huge differences in the last 100 years. The FFs have no fingerprints on this particular murder weapon.
Nominating and governing are not the same thing. The governing organization meme of “representative republic” is decreed by the founding documents of the Nation, not so the nominating process.
The key to the nominating process is the party and convention rules and only the rules. This is the ultimate insider rigged system writ large.
You and I could go form our own party — I can’t do it this week cause I’m real busy — and make up whatever rules we wanted. I suggest we take turns being the nominee.
While the GOPe and DEMe have dictated to the states how one must behave to get on their ballot, we could do that also. Much easier before the first primary because as an example in Texas a valid petition must be signed by folks who have not voted in either the Rep or Dem primary.
Make no mistake, this will be ugly and, yet, educational. We are still a cigar smoke filled backroom, we just have computers now.
BRC
https://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
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Do YOU think that the votes pick the Republican nominee?
So charming. No, dear reader, it’s the DELEGATES and the Republican Illuminati who direct their feeble efforts.
https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/democracy-v-delegates/
BRC
https://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com
If the Republican party picks Donald Trump, he has a 50% chance of winning (He just needs to keep running adverts about paying Hillary to attend his wedding and he gains!)
If not, he goes as an independent (Why aren’t people talking about this?)
About 55 % of the population votes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_States_presidential_elections)
According to you, there were almost 100% increase in new voters in these rounds. Registered republicans are approx 12.5% of the US population. So, the new 12.5% love Donald + assume 8 % of “traditional republicans” (which includes you + people like you, going by the current vote split) + maybe ~ 4 % of Democrats out of 25% of the voting population ? Independents may constitute about 15 %, they prefer Bernie, who will try again next time, so most of them may vote for Donald ~ 8 %
This elections maybe voter turnout increases to 65%.
Donald may get ~ 32.5 %
Republic nominee may get ~ 10 %.
Hillary may get ~ 28 %
After all 2016 is the year when Leo won his first oscar and Leicester city won the EPL !
Shit happens.