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Pay no attention to the way party candidates were chosen for 150 years.

I’m sure America was excited for Warren Harding.

 

Harding was good-looking and charismatic and had some skeletons in the closet.

 

"I don't expect Senator Harding to be nominated on the first, second, or third ballots, but I think we can afford to take chances that about 11 minutes after two, Friday morning of the convention, when 15 or 12 weary men are sitting around a table, someone will say: 'Who will we nominate?' At that decisive time, the friends of Harding will suggest him and we can well afford to abide by the result." - Harry Daugherty

 

Oh bullshit. He's guilty and everybody in the world knows it.

 

And the Democrat he crushed, James M. Cox, was a much more important journalist than small town Harding and much better public servant.

 

Lots of things aren’t fair. But this is a lawless street brawl. So it’s time to decide if you’d* rather be principled or win.

* The collective you

 

Sure, Jan.

 

You sum it up quite well. This version of the GQP is ruthless. The Dems, meanwhile, wring hands.

 

True enough. We’ve gone from “the rules have changed” straight to “one side doesn’t have rules.”

 

Trump doesn’t have to do anything. The allegedly libruhl media are doing it for him. Nonstop.

 

This is who is a friend of Trump's Who are your friends?

 

Ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the Alabama Republican Party:

Alabama GOP chair says thinking of America as a democracy “leads to socialism”