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Campaign to Free the Delegates Holding Nationwide Teleconference
The campaign to Free the Delegates is growing rapidly. This Sunday it will hold a nationwide telecon, at 8 pm ET Sunday. Those wishing to join the campaign are welcome to call in. The information is provided in the Free the Delegates 2016 bulletin below.
Published in GeneralThe opening day of the RNC Convention in Cleveland is quickly approaching and with it our opportunity to change the course of history!
Please join movement leaders and myself on Sunday, June 26 at 8 pm Eastern for our second historic strategic planning call with some new voices in the movement to free the delegates to the Republican National Convention to vote their consciences when voting for the Presidential nominee.
Our delegates have the right and responsibility to be free to do their job of nominating the best candidate to defeat Hillary Clinton and restore the Constitutional principles of the Republican Party.
Call in information: 641.715.3580 PIN #: 299-986
Thank you for taking the time to participate in this call.
To Liberty!
Regina Thomson
Executive Director, Free The Delegates 2016
Trump (not my choice when I voted) won the primary. Folks have to get over it.
Any move to juggle the nomination away from Trump with rules changes, lawsuits, faithless delegates acting on their own, etc. will destroy the Republican Party and ensure the election of Hillary Clinton.
The best candidate to defeat Clinton is Trump. Anyone else will be seen as a tantrum thrown by the GOPe and will doom the Republican Party forever. But have at it! I say that because I think your side will fail and I actually think these efforts will help Trump.
Agreed. Denying the nomination to Trump will result in his voters staying home or voting third party. I’m a reluctant Trump and think that no good can come out of this.
The Republican Party has already destroyed itself by nominating such a lowlife as The Donald to represent it..
I suppose this is occuring because of fear that Trump will lose to Hillary. This movement guarantees a Hillary win. Get over it. Grow up. It isn’t about our self perception. It’s about defeating Hillary at this point. Instead try to get adults named to his cabinet during the convention. If this is to build leverage, ok, but if it’s serious it’s childish.
Happy coincidence? Politico just released a story detailing how over half of the rules committee delegates will not abide shunning the voters by changing the rules after the primary voting is over. Hope they are correct.
Anything done that will help Hillary is stupid and incredibly shortsighted. Those who doubt my opinion maybe just haven’t done enough research, or possibly are not open to argument and plain facts. She must be stopped, at all costs. Firstly, she will cement the ruination of the Supreme Court and render it finally and openly politicized. Then she opens all the borders and imports legions of legal and illegal murdering raping Islamic thugs and uneducated third-world hungry mouths, who by the way will nearly all vote Democrat, and she will openly sanction vote rigging; we will endure socialist dominance until there is literally a bloody revolution.
Read some history, please. And, also, don’t fall prey to all the false push polling you might read. The Brits were on track to stay…
This is analogous to Brexit, which was likely the Brits last chance to overturn the oligarchy and begin to regain control of their lives and property. The floodgates of freedom may be opening again, at long last. I admire them and hope Trump politely requests Winston’s bust back from them. The “special relationship” was never between fatuous, elitist, globalist leaders like Obama and Cameron, but rather between our peoples, often our best and bravest brothers in arms.
I visited the site. Conspicuously absent was any indication of who this “best candidate” might be.
Take us to school. Which of the Republicans who couldn’t defeat Trump in the primary could beat Clinton in the general?
Which of the Republicans who didn’t even enter the primary could beat Clinton in the general?
How do we know this isn’t a false flag operation by Democrats?
Has it occurred to you and others in your camp that this isn’t about the GOP? It is us citizens against the bloody hegemony of Hillary and her henchmen.
I really don’t care about the GOP as is exists today, only its use as the current tool to recover control of our country. The GOP is likely dead and will be replaced by an actual conservative party. In the meantime, enabling Hillary is a death wish.
As a bonus question: is Hillary not the ultimate, premium exemplar of a lowlife?
I’d be very happy if the people involved in this campaign would keep their head of steam going to search for the absolute best 2020 Republican candidate. But not for this November. Not for the vote 5 measly months from now.
Well there are probably a few in both categories since the voting population in the general is different than the one in the primaries. But suppose you disagree, i.e. you don’t think anybody could beat Hillary in the general. Doesn’t it behoove the GOP to have a standard bearer who we can be proud of to vote for the general election, regardless of outcome?
A corollary to my comment about the GOP. Maybe it’s not the candidate of the GOP for 2020, but of a newly minted Conservative party, to be named.
A Donald nomination would be a hinderance to this goal.
I’d like to see people take their partisan heads out of the sand and look at what’s going on. Unless somebody does something dramatic, the White House is going to be occupied next January by either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Those are the only choices, and neither one is acceptable. So unless you expect the democrats to dump Hillary and nominate somebody fit for the job, it falls to the Republicans to do that with Trump. That is our only chance of having a president fit for the job.
I know it’s a long shot, just like an experimental treatment on a terminal cancer patient is. What I don’t understand is how anyone can oppose trying.
OK, who do you have in mind?
Rubio, Romney, Bush, Haley, Cotton, Sasse, Portman
I must agree with this sentiment.
In no way do I find myself enamored with Trump, I will likely leave the top of the ballot blank come November, but it seems to me that those who believe changing the rules after the contest is done will somehow save the GOP or conservatism are living in a fool’s paradise.
This is burning down the house in order remove an unwelcome visitor.
Imagine … if you will … the reaction of this same group of strategists if this nationwide teleconference was taking place on June 25, 2012 and it was being organized by fans of Newt who just wouldn’t accept the Romney nomination … the sound from these same heads exploding in anger over such an outrage would be deafening.
Nominating Trump is handing a box of kitchen matches to a arsonist in a library.
note to the resident safe spacers (and the trigger finger editors who kowtow to their whines) here…. this statement above is allegorical. I am not seriously calling The Donald an arsonist without any supporting evidence.
I am fairly certain no one is taking your statement literally.
Note:
Editors' Note: Herbert, stop digging.Just letting the safe spacers know they can relax on this one..
Concur. After such a move I doubt very much I will be able to hold my nose and vote for the Republican candidate as I have had to do too many times in the past.
I vehemently object to Ricochet putting this on the front page. You people are sore losers who are trying to destroy the outcome of legitimate elections. You’re trying to make this another 1964.
No. Our delegates have the obligation and responsibility to do what they were selected to do by their respective States’ electorates.
Our delegates knew full well the rules and their obligations and responsibilities at the time they volunteered for, and were accepted to, be a delegate.
These persons are very Progressive in their willingness to welch on their commitment just because the outcome is inconvenient to them. How many of them, dissatisfied as they are, have resigned their posts and joined together to form a third party and run their preferred candidate? If they persist in their reneging, how can anyone trust them actually to restore the Constitutional principles of the Republican Party, much less actually live by them?
Eric Hines
I don’t object, but I question if it’s even a remotely wise idea. Putting on the main feed where anyone on the Internet can see it is just begging for trolls to call in and ruin the conference.
Leave him on the ticket. His defeat will teach our party a valuable lesson about open primaries and the dangers of plurality nominees.
The conference is an attempt to nullify legitimate votes. People aren’t that dumb. It’s only an excuse for a few sanctimonious troublemakers to feel good about themselves. Why do I see all these #NeverTrump people voting for Remain while I see his supporters voting for Brexit?
Jumping in just to note that this is just not accurate. (Spoken as a Leave supporter — though one without a vote — who will not vote for Trump.)
One question. A recent poll showed that 48% of Republicans would like a new nominee.
What if that surged to, say, 52%, the same percentage as Brexit (and rather more than actually voted for Trump)? Would it then be legitimate?
Donald J. Trump no more destroyed the GOP than John C. Fremont destroyed the Whig party.
The GOP had already been destroyed by such lowlifes as George W. Bush, who betrayed his oath of office when he openly refused to enforce the law in response to the illegal immigration crisis.
There’s a delegate in Virginia that’s suing to be unbound on the basis of conscience. What pablum. If your conscience prevents you from voting for the winner, then resign so that a faithful elector can take your place. You do not have the right to vote for another candidate simply because you disapprove of the candidate.
No. This is occuring because many Republicans do not wish to nominate a criminal xenophobic demagogue with tyranical aspirations to the office of president of the United Statess