GOPe Now Planning to Skip Convention

[SpiritOf1776_J4]

Jeb Bush
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-b...will-skip-gop-convention-in-cleveland/2272947

John McCain
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/19/politics/john-mccain-skip-republican-national-convention/

Sen. Mark Kirk
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...convention-trump-met-0415-20160414-story.html

Sens. Kelly Ayotte, N.H., and Richard Burr, N.C.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-gop-convention-trump-20160417-story.html

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-13/top-gop-pols-opting-out-of-upcoming-convention
South Carolina Rep. Mick Mulvaney, a co-founder of the rabble-rousing conservative House Freedom Caucus, told CNN that in conversations with about 20 colleagues in recent days, about half said they would stay home.

"I've decided not to go to Cleveland," Mulvaney said. "I'm going to stay home and work."

etc. many other articles I probably didn't get. It's a sign of who they think is going to win. It also signals a real chance to reform the party while they aren't there. Oh that Rand Paul hadn't dropped out after one primary, and had been collecting delegates and organizers.

 

[CaptUSA]

Good. Let's hope the media skips it, the rest of the party skips it, and RPF skips talking about it.

Maybe then we can talk about liberty candidates and issues???

 

[pmbug]

The liberty movement lost a golden opportunity by not supporting Rand early and earnestly. Instead of an imperfect improvement, we are likely going to see a drastic decline.

 

[pmbug]

BTW, quote from the USNews link in the OP:

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Among those who said they would stay home, rather than head to Ohio: ... Richard Burr of North Carolina, both on the ballot themselves this fall.
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Burr, on the other hand, came into the 2016 election cycle on relatively solid footing. A sophomore senator from a state that went for Obama in 2008 but chose Mitt Romney in 2012, Burr didn't even have a Democratic challenger until October.

But Democrat Deborah Ross, a former leader of the state legislature, now trails Burr in public polling by about 5 points. She could get a boost by the 48 percent voters who say they would be less likely to vote for Burr if he supports Trump – something he said he planned to do if Trump were the nominee.
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Silver linings I guess, because F Burr for co-authoring the Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016 with Diane Feinstein.

As Apple battled the FBI for the last two months over the agency’s demands that Apple help crack its own encryption, both the tech community and law enforcement hoped that Congress would weigh in with some sort of compromise solution. Now Congress has spoken on crypto, and privacy advocates say its “solution” is the most extreme stance on encryption yet.

On Thursday evening, the draft text of a bill called the “Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016,” authored by offices of Senators Diane Feinstein and Richard Burr, was published online by the Hill.1 It’s a nine-page piece of legislation that would require people to comply with any authorized court order for data—and if that data is “unintelligible,” the legislation would demand that it be rendered “intelligible.” In other words, the bill would make illegal the sort of user-controlled encryption that’s in every modern iPhone, in all billion devices that run Whatsapp’s messaging service, and in dozens of other tech products. “This basically outlaws end-to-end encryption,” says Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology. “It’s effectively the most anti-crypto bill of all anti-crypto bills.”
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http://www.wired.com/2016/04/senates-draft-encryption-bill-privacy-nightmare/

 

[Petar]

Good. Let's hope the media skips it, the rest of the party skips it, and RPF skips talking about it.

Maybe then we can talk about liberty candidates and issues???

Ignoring the events that are actually going to have an effect on things would be stupid.

 

[RonPaulMall]

McCain boycotting the Convention could be the final nail in the coffin for him. Trump won 47% of the vote in Arizona. And the 25% that supported Cruz probably aren't too keen on him either.

 

[CaptUSA]

Ignoring the events that are actually going to have an effect on things would be stupid.

Oh really... Please enlighten us as to how this is actually going to make a difference in our lives. Trump, Clinton, Cruz, Sanders, or some party chosen late-comer will all engage in the same policy - more power for government, less for you. I don't get caught up in the reality TV show. The only "effect on things" is going to be which person is going to be on TV for the next term and gets to travel around on borrowed taxpayer dimes.

 

[Petar]

Oh really... Please enlighten us as to how this is actually going to make a difference in our lives. Trump, Clinton, Cruz, Sanders, or some party chosen late-comer will all engage in the same policy - more power for government, less for you. I don't get caught up in the reality TV show. The only "effect on things" is going to be which person is going to be on TV for the next term and gets to travel around on borrowed taxpayer dimes.

You're jaded.

What you fail to understand is how much chaos an outsider can create for the establishment duopoly.

Or, you do understand it, and you want to keep the status-quo intact because you have Stockholm Syndrome.

 

[CaptUSA]

You're jaded.

What you fail to understand is how much chaos an outsider can create for the establishment duopoly.

Or, you do understand it, and you want to keep the status-quo intact because you have Stockholm Syndrome.

Um... No. If an outsider got in, that could really be something. The problem is that the only "outsider" candidate in either of these two parties has already dropped out.

The status quo is an increase in government power. That status quo will be well-maintained no matter which figurehead they put on top of it.

 

[Petar]

Um... No. If an outsider got in, that could really be something. The problem is that the only "outsider" candidate in either of these two parties has already dropped out.

The status quo is an increase in government power. That status quo will be well-maintained no matter which figurehead they put on top of it.

It is granted that Rand is much more of an outsider, but that does not change the fact that Attila the Trump is as well.

 

[CaptUSA]

It is granted that Rand is much more of an outsider, but that does not change the fact that Attila the Trump is as well.

Asked and answered. Trump has been part of, and has benefitted from, the establishment his entire life. The only way to get around that is through fantasy.

 

[Petar]

Asked and answered. Trump has been part of, and has benefitted from, the establishment his entire life. The only way to get around that is through fantasy.

You don't have to be a libertarian to be opposed by the establishment.

The biggest reason that they also hate Trump is probably the fact that he is a nationalist that is opposed to globalization.

 

[CaptUSA]

The biggest reason that they also hate Trump is probably the fact that he is a nationalist that is opposed to globalization.

I reject your premise entirely. He is using populism as a means of self-promotion. That's it. And "they" don't hate him - he's been a valuable part of their game for a long time - but some of them don't like that he's moving out of his lane into theirs. But "they" fight amongst themselves for power all the time. That's nothing new and won't change this year. Finally, you don't "oppose" someone by giving him billions of dollars in ad space.

 

[Petar]

I reject your premise entirely. He is using populism as a means of self-promotion. That's it. And "they" don't hate him - he's been a valuable part of their game for a long time - but some of them don't like that he's moving out of his lane into theirs. But "they" fight amongst themselves for power all the time. That's nothing new and won't change this year. Finally, you don't "oppose" someone by giving him billions of dollars in ad space.

The "billions in ads that were given to him" were an attempt to destroy him.

The only reason that it worked to his advantage is because Attila the Trump is a celebrity master of media manipulation.

Interpreting the establishment's attempt to destroy him as "support" is incredibly naive.

 

[SilentBull]

The liberty movement lost a golden opportunity by not supporting Rand early and earnestly. Instead of an imperfect improvement, we are likely going to see a drastic decline.

Agree.

 

[CPUd]

Trump campaign pays Breitbart editor $8,000
By Gabby Morrongiello 4/19/16 4:18 PM


Breitbart's national security editor Sebastian Gorka received a one-time payment of $8,000 from Donald Trump's presidential campaign last October, Federal Election Commission records show.

According to an FEC filing first reported by Buzzfeed News, the Trump campaign paid Gorka for "policy consulting" on Oct. 1, 2015. As recently as Monday, Gorka was identified as Breitbart's "national security editor" by the news outlet itself.

Gorka, a well-respected security and intelligence expert who teaches military theory at the Marine Corps University, has not written for Breitbart since Dec. 2 — two months after he received a payment from Trump's campaign.

He did not respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.

The newest revelation of the Trump campaign's relationship with Breitbart News comes on the heels of several ex-employees' claims that the right-wing media outlet has pressured its staff into favorable coverage of the Republican presidential front-runner.

"The company no longer resembles the ideals that inspired me to start writing for them three years ago," former Breitbart National Security Correspondent Jordan Schachtel wrote in a statement announcing his resignation from the outlet last month.

"Breitbart News is no longer a journalistic enterprise, but instead, in my opinion, something resembling an unaffiliated media super PAC for the Trump campaign," he added.

The outlet became embroiled in controversy last month when it offered a lukewarm defense of its now former reporter Michelle Fields after she accused Trump's campaign manager of forcefully grabbing her arm during a campaign event in Florida.

Neither a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign nor Breitbart's editor-in-chief returned the Examiner's request for comment.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-campaign-pays-breitbart-editor-8000/article/2588958

 

[CaptUSA]

The "billions in ads that were given to him" were an attempt to destroy him.

The only reason that it worked to his advantage is because Attila the Trump is a celebrity master of media manipulation.

Interpreting the establishment's attempt to destroy him as "support" is incredibly naive.

Yeah, Trump is a real genius. And I'm naïve

 

[CPUd]

Lawsuit: Corey Lewandowski claimed campaign could do whatever they wanted with Fox News
posted at 8:01 pm on April 18, 2016 by John Sexton


A multi-million dollar lawsuit filed Monday by GOP consultant Cheri Jacobus claims that Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandoski told Jacobus the campaign could do whatever it wanted with Fox News and said the network was on their side.

The core of the lawsuit is not about Fox News but involves Jacobus’ claim that Trump and Lewandowski lied about her desire for a job on the campaign. Specifically, she says she took two meetings with Lewandowski after someone working for the campaign reached out to her. However, after the second meeting Jacobus says she decided Lewandowski would be too difficult to work with and ended the discussions.

That’s different from how Lewandowski and Trump would portray the situation. For instance, Trump claimed Jacobus “begged us” for a job:

An interesting side story is the second meeting between Jacobus and Lewandowski in which she described his behavior as “agitated and rude” and says he bragged about yelling at Fox host Megyn Kelly. That’s when Lewandowski apparently claimed Trump had a relationship with Roger Ailes which gave them freedom to do whatever they wanted with Fox News:

This story originally became news in January when The Lid blog published an account of the meeting.

For its part, Fox is not denying Ailes sent an email to Trump but claims it was not an offer to help the candidate with coverage on the network:

Whatever carte blanche Lewandowski may have though the campaign had with Ailes seems to have hit a wall in late January when Ailes himself put out a statement taunting Trump. It read, “We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president. A nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings.”

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/...-could-do-whatever-they-wanted-with-fox-news/

 

[Petar]

Yeah, Trump is a real genius. And I'm naïve

 

[CPUd]