Conservative backlash grows against brokered convention

[nitpicker]

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/262995-backlash-grows-against-brokered-convention

Conservative backlash grows against brokered convention

By Jonathan Easley - 12/11/15 05:27 PM EST

Anti-establishment Republicans are up in arms over talk of a brokered Republican Party convention.

Ben Carson warned a brokered convention would “destroy” the GOP, while supporters of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz expressed dismay that party leaders would take part in meetings considering the possibility.

“This is clearly their contingency to stop Trump and Cruz at all costs,” Iowa radio host Steve Deace, who is supporting Cruz for president, told The Hill. “These people would rather lose elections than lose control of the party. And they'd rather have Hillary [Clinton] in the White House than someone the GOP base actually wants.”

The Washington Post reported Thursday that party leaders — including supporters of GOP presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio — met privately to discuss the possibility of a brokered convention, ostensibly to derail the hopes of any candidate deemed unelectable by party elites. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus attended the meeting at a Washington restaurant, though they did not speak at it, according to the Post.
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[Betty Karlson]

1. With a clown car that full, is there a way to avoid a brokered convention?

Given the Republican propensity for having six different winners in six different primary states?

[Hortensis]

2. Well, of course! This may even strengthen support for Trump

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among his supporters, given the mood prevailing among so many on the right, and encourage him to think of an independent run if needed. Supporters of Ted Cruz, as well as of Ben Carson (assuming there are any), also have good reason to be very upset at the prospect of their candidates being passed over.

Might as well admit it -- I've become a Trump supporter. The GOP is broken and millions of conservatives have left it, sure, but it's still standing and still the major white male conservative power base. There is now real discussion that Trump could lead to the end of the GOP as it is, so: Go, Trump!

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[freedom fighter jh]

3. Well said.

Nother new Trump supporter here.

[Renew Deal]

4. Someone needs to control the majority of the pledged delegates

And if someone doesn't, then it's going to get interesting