Republicans Consider ‘Conscientious Objector’ Rule for Convention Delegates

[denbot]

Source: Yahoo.com

Members of the GOP Convention Rules committee are planning to consider an amendment to allow delegates a way out of voting for Trump on the first ballot—an effort that in an extreme could be used to deny him the nomination.

Under the proposal, delegates could be granted conscientious objector status, thereby freeing them from their pledge to vote as they are bound as the result of primaries and caucuses. The measure, first put forward by Colorado delegate Kendal Unruh, would undo the strict ‘faithless-delegate’ rule enacted at the GOP convention in 2012 and allow a “vote of conscience, whether personal or religious” by delegates.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-consider-conscientious-objector-rule-203718191.html

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This has to be even more damaging to the GOP, then simply letting Trump flame out. Please proceed GOP'ers.

[laserhaas]

1. Mittens is coming

Mittens is coming

[TipTok]

4. I don't know who it will be...

... but not Romney I think.

I don't think anyone wants it and they are going to write this one off.

[laserhaas]

15. No one knows Romney...like. I know Romney

Mitt won't quit

And he's gotten smarter

[Lil Missy]

22. One can only hope. n/t

[Warpy]

2. To their credit, they're terrified of Trump

although for all the wrong reasons. He terrifies them because he's unlikely to take orders.

His hateful rhetoric and violent crowds are just peachy to the kingmakers, they've been working at whipping morons up to a froth for decades. If he'd been meeting with the power bosses and reassuring them, they'd be just fine with the whole spectacle.

[denbot]

3. I think they are only opposing him because he's going to lose BIG!

Otherwise, it would be all lovey-dovey up in there..

[Cosmocat]

7. YEP

nm

[SkyDaddy7]

13. Totally agree!!

Although some of them cry in public that they oppose Trump's racism & xenophobia its all BS! Trump is just publicly voicing the same ole racist xenophobic religious bigotry the GOP has been pushing for a very long time but in a more sneaking politically savvy form.

Like you said, this all comes down to them not being able to control Trump & now they fear he could cost them far more than just the Executive Branch.

[Eric J in MN]

6. The GOP shouldn't create Pledged Delegates who break their pledge. It's undemocratic. NT

NT

[underpants]

8. The Muhammad Ali rule?

Or as they'd call it - the Cassius Clay rule

[bucolic_frolic]

9. They will extend conscientious objector status to the general election

to further inhibit voting for HRC

This is their long game

[tanyev]

10. The ensuing Trumper tantrum would be yuuuuuuge.

[patricia92243]

11. If this works, it will set a precedence. As dumb as GOP voters are, they will figure out that it

doesn't matter if they vote or not - the delegates will pick their nominee. Of course that will make it a lot cheaper and easier for them.

I've heard many people say that Trump would be the end of our democracy - I didn't figure it would be this way.

[Orrex]

12. Yet Trump signs still litter the landscape here in western PA

And his crazed supporters become only more passionate as the days drag on.

Funny stuff, zealotry.

[SkyDaddy7]

14. Same here in Georgia!

And YES...The worse Trump looks the more "passionate" his supporters become! "THIS IS ALL A YUGE MEDIA CONSPIRACY AGAINST TRUMP TO KEEP HIM FROM BECOMING PRESIDENT!!" Seriously!?!? If it were not for the media's love affair with Trump he would not be where he is now but these knuckle draggin TRUMP HUMPERS don't understand reality at all!!

[laserhaas]

16. The media loved Trump because it drove $$$

Doesnt matter who it is now...$ will be the same

[SkyDaddy7]

19. It is still TRUMP!

And it will be TRUMP until the CA$H stops flowing in by not covering every ridiculous thing he says & does!

...But the CA$H would not flow in to those channels if so many people would not tune in to watch...It sucks but its the truth.

[sarcasmo]

17. Kick

[BadGimp]

18. bring it on!

[Recursion]

20. Calvinball

Conservative columnist Tim Carney has compared the actual GOP convention rules to "Calvinball", in this regard. May chaos reign!

[Stonepounder]

21. And the GOP is still between a rock and a hard place.

Deny Trump the nomination and his voters go ballistic and he goes 3rd party and the GOP loses the House and Senate. They give him the nomination and he is forever engraved with the GOP stamp of approval and the GOP loses for a generation.

How any woman, black, Muslim, Hispanic, or other minority could vote for him is beyond me.

[surrealAmerican]

23. Are there many pledged Trump delegates who would object ...

... to voting for him? Surely those are not the people who would be motivated to stop him.

[sofa king]

24. They'd spray Jiminy Cricket with DDT.

I'm sorry, but most active Republicans are racist fascist jingoists, and this primary proved it. A vote of so-called conscience would still be a vote for Trump.