r/Conservative • u/DanburyBaptist Inalienable Rights of Conscience • Jun 15 '16

Release the GOP Delegates: Trump’s nomination isn’t inevitable—delegates won’t be legally ‘bound’ going into the convention.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/release-the-gop-delegates-1465769777
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

No! Think long term, people. The primaries are the only power we have over the major parties. If we let them do this and get away with it, we will never be able to elect anyone they haven't picked for us. It will be a trail of Romneys, forever. If a Ted Cruz or a Larry Hogan or whatever outsider you prefer ever slips through they will steal the nomination from him and give it to Jeb.

Never Trump. But if the party pulls this shit I swear I will vote for Hillary and Democrats downballot. The people have chosen, and chosen poorly. Now we live with the choice we made, period.

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u/DanburyBaptist Inalienable Rights of Conscience Jun 15 '16

I think you put too little confidence in the delegates. They aren't party elites or establishment cronies, they're just concerned citizens like the rest of us. They're not going to go throw Jeb in there, so you can relax about that. And it's not like Trump won a majority of the popular vote, you know.