Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Yep. Reagan only had one divorce, though.

 

What would be unfair about it if he doesn't get a majority of delegates? Rules are rules.

 

Twitter is almost as clueless as this place.

 

Trump did not appreciate Rubio's reference to his small hands, I guess.

“I always liked Marco [Rubio] until about a week ago when he decided to go hostile. He decided to go Don Rickles. But Don Rickles has a lot more talent,” Trump said. “Marco has not won. You’ve got to be able to win.”

Donald Trump Calls Marco Rubio 'Don Rickles,' Hillary Clinton 'a Criminal'

 

There are rules, and then there are norms. Denying the front runner for either someone he beat or someone who didn't run at all would be suicide for the party. Better by far for the establishment to let it be Trump and let the chips fall.

 

The question was whether he could sue.

 

BREAKING NEWS: People vote for candidates who tell them what they want to hear.

 

Didn't Lincoln Chafee refuse to say he would vote for George W. Bush?

We'll see a lot more of this in November:

 

Here's a scenario in which Trump loses the nomination even if he does have the delegates. Definitely the nuclear option for the GOP, but would it be worth pushing the button?

The Year's Most Important Non-Endorsement - Opinion & Analysis

The 1980 Democratic convention in New York (pitting incumbent President Jimmy Carter against the-dream-shall-never-die candidacy of Ted Kennedy) may provide the most relevant model for anti-Trump Republicans.

Like the Republicans today, Democratic delegates in New York were bound to their candidate for the first ballot. But badly trailing in the delegates, even as Carter’s approval rate hit 21 percent in the Gallup Poll, the Kennedy backers came up with a last-ditch strategy.

Their clever idea was to free the delegates to vote their conscience instead of being robots forced to obey the results of the primaries or caucuses that selected them. Overturning the Robot Rule would have been possible, in theory, because conventions as a body have the power to change the rules — and delegates are always free agents on procedural votes.

The gambit didn’t work for Kennedy because nostalgia for Camelot was not strong enough a motivation to prompt many delegates to rebel against an incumbent president.

But the stakes in Cleveland in July would be infinitely greater — with the threat of the first takeover of a modern political party by an authoritarian who traffics in racism and exudes contempt for the First Amendment. Under these circumstances, there would be nothing anti-democratic about GOP leaders using every mechanism in their power to stop Trump. Gaming the rules, after all, is what Ronald Reagan tried against Jerry Ford in 1976.

 

The best thing Trump has done is keeping Rafael Cruz from winning the nomination.

 

Would you really be excited to type Rubio or Cruz?

 

Cruz not excited but I would vote.

Rubio. Yes.