Op-ed:
Only By Unbinding The Delegates Can Hillary Be Stopped
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots

But showing poor judgment when the lure of ‘free
stuff’ is still out there might not be enough to stop the Clinton juggernaut
for the only way to stop Hillary is to have her run against a true Republican…a
true conservative…and that would not be Donald J. Trump.
“The convention rules of the Republican Party do not bind delegates to cast their votes according to the results of binding primaries."
-
RNC Council’s Office
And with those words it can now be said that the court case brought by Beau Correll, a Virginia delegate opposed to Trump's nomination sued to have Virginia's votes unbound and guess what...he won! So while Virginia does have a law that delegates to the party conventions are bound to cast their votes for the state winner, the Virginia court late Monday afternoon ruled delegates cannot be "compelled by state law" to cast a vote in a particular way.
And this ruling actually reinforced a Supreme Court ruling from almost forty years ago that stated that state laws could not take precedence over national party rules. And their reasoning was that political parties must be free from government control, especially regarding who the party’s nominee would be, the delegate selection itself, and how the delegates could vote.
So with some surely now saying that the fix is in, the reality to be remembered is that Republicans win elections when they hold true to both their Republican and
conservative principals, but Republicans lose elections when they nominate at
convention those who masquerade as Republicans but who actually are Democrats
in disguise. One case in point being those life-long Democrats who 'suddenly' switch
parties within just a few years...or less...of announcing their run for office.
And with those words it can now be said that the court case brought by Beau Correll, a Virginia delegate opposed to Trump's nomination sued to have Virginia's votes unbound and guess what...he won! So while Virginia does have a law that delegates to the party conventions are bound to cast their votes for the state winner, the Virginia court late Monday afternoon ruled delegates cannot be "compelled by state law" to cast a vote in a particular way.
And this ruling actually reinforced a Supreme Court ruling from almost forty years ago that stated that state laws could not take precedence over national party rules. And their reasoning was that political parties must be free from government control, especially regarding who the party’s nominee would be, the delegate selection itself, and how the delegates could vote.

And such is the case with reality TV star and presumptive Republican nominee Donald J. Trump, a man who continues to have and to support liberal leaning causes, policies, and candidates while tenuously straddling both sides of the political fence. And straddle the fence Trump does while he backtracks on stances…stances taken to inflame and pander to the masses…masses who voted in the primaries out of anger instead of out of logic, facts, and a closer vetting of the man who wants to be emperor…for Trump's inflammatory actions and words clearly show that merely being president is not quite good enough for him.
So now knowing the facts as per both the SCOTUS and the Virginia court rulings, the question still to be answered is how do we legally get a true
conservative candidate as the nominee to run against Hillary now that Trump has reached the magic 1237 delegate number…as in a nominee who can actually win in November…how...besides the above stated court adjudications we use the
Republican Party’s own rules to do so.
And some of those very rules were passed at the 2012 Republican National Convention and they pertained to and expanded upon party rules 14 and 16(b)(1)...rules that governed the election and selection of delegates, and included words to the affect that delegates at the national convention are free to ignore state law...rules beginning with the very words “No state law shall be observed…”
And if that wasn't enough, Rule 16(b)(1)...a rule which basically also laid out a chain of command so to speak...as in state party rules take precedence over state laws governing the election and selection of delegates, and that national party rules take precedence over both. And this means that the national party does not accept that state laws take precedence over national party rules.
And some of those very rules were passed at the 2012 Republican National Convention and they pertained to and expanded upon party rules 14 and 16(b)(1)...rules that governed the election and selection of delegates, and included words to the affect that delegates at the national convention are free to ignore state law...rules beginning with the very words “No state law shall be observed…”
And if that wasn't enough, Rule 16(b)(1)...a rule which basically also laid out a chain of command so to speak...as in state party rules take precedence over state laws governing the election and selection of delegates, and that national party rules take precedence over both. And this means that the national party does not accept that state laws take precedence over national party rules.

“The
Rules of the Republican Party prohibiting the binding of delegates have not
been changed since the 1980 convention.”
-
Curly Haugland, Republican National Committeeman for North Dakota

How so you ask…you need to understand that a
political party, no matter its party affiliation, is what’s known legally as a ‘private
association’…an ‘association’ whose members come together to further their shared
beliefs through what’s known as ‘electoral politics,’ and therefore they have
the right to pick ‘their’ representatives of ‘their’ own choosing…representatives
who then basically become what’s known as a ‘super delegates.’ And ‘super
delegates’ can and do vote for the candidate of their own choosing during any
round of balloting including on the first round. And with hundreds of delegates
and alternates already having signed online petitions to show their commitment
to stopping the phony Republican...Donald J. Trump...from securing the
nomination, those numbers can rightfully change the previously assumed outcome of who gets
nominated and who does not.

And uniting the party is critical especially in
going against the Clinton machine yet true conservatives, for the most part,
still will not support or vote for Trump. And those elected to public
office…those who do hold some sway over constituents opinions…are not rallying
around him either, no matter Comey’s report and recommendation, a sure sign
that Donald J. Trump will not beat Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head race.

POLITICO’s battleground states polling showed Hillary
ahead of Trump by 4.3 points, with an Economist/YouGov poll showing Hillary up
four points over Trump, 43% to 39%. A CNN/ORC poll showed Hillary at 47% to 42%
over Trump with a CNBC poll showing Hillary at 40% to Trump’s 35%. And a
Monmouth poll was the worst for we Republicans having Hillary at 49% to Donald
Trump’s 41%.
Nationally, an ABC News/Washington Post poll, taken
in the last week of June, showed Hillary leading Trump by 12 points, 51% to 39%,
being her largest lead in any telephone survey since both candidates became
their parties' presumptive nominees. And while Hillary’s lead in the NBC
News/Wall Street Journal poll out last Sunday is smaller, coming in at 5
points, the fact is that Hillary has now led consecutively in the past 11 polls
conducted by live telephone interviewers.
And while a Quinnipiac University poll, like
Rasmussen, shows Hillary up by just 2 points, 42% to 40%...again within the
margin of error…it also showed that Hillary was opening up a lead in the key
state of Florida, basically now tying Trump in Ohio, and with the numbers also
basically tying Trump in Pennsylvania...meaning as she gains Trump loses.
And of critical note is that Trump is trailing
Hillary on a number of other key indicators, including candidate favorability,
which by the way is not good for either candidate what with a 34% favorability
for Trump and 37% favorability rating for Hillary. And it gets worse for both
as 58% of American voters say Trump will not be a good president with 53% saying
the same about Hillary Clinton.
And when the two leading third party candidates…Libertarian
Gary Johnson and the Green Party's Jill Stein…are added into the mix, Reuters/Ipsos
has Hillary at 42% to Trump's 33% with
Johnson at 8% and Stein at 4%, meaning Hillary is at +9 with 39% to Trump’s
37% of the national vote...with both Johnson and Stein (unfortunately) taking votes away from
the Republican totals not from the Democrats totals.

And with numbers such as this…numbers that have been
pretty consistent over the past few months…numbers that reflect Trump’s not
being a true conservative…these are the numbers that gave momentum to the movement
to unbind the delegates…delegates who would then be free to choose a true
conservative that has a better chance of beating Hillary Clinton.
“We’re
not just people who said, ‘We’re disappointed. Our candidate wasn’t
nominated…We don’t
believe Trump “embodies the Republican Party principles”…We do not see him as
being the right person for the Republican candidate, and we also don’t feel
that, even if he was nominated, that he would be able to win."
-
Regina Thomson, co-founder of Free the Delegates 2016
Now for some basic facts about the Republican
National Convention itself as it relates to unbinding the delegates. First, from Monday,
July 18th through Thursday July21st, 2,472 Republican delegates will attend the
convention in Cleveland. Second, it’s the Rules Committee itself that decides
on the official guidelines…as in bylaws…that govern…if you will…the convention…with
said guidelines having to be ratified…or not ratified…by the delegates present.
Third, while most delegates are grassroots party activists who vigorously
campaigned to represent their congressional district or their state, there
always are a certain number of delegates set aside for so-called ‘party
insiders,’ including each state’s party chair and two Republican National
Committee (RNC) members. And it’s these 112 committee members who make the
rules…the bylaws…that govern the convention and who have the power to change or
not change existing rules at the convention…and in the case of Trump hopefully
will.
So while the convention can and usually does afford the nominee a
bounce in the polls…and Trump needs a convention poll bounce
big time as the majority of Republicans are still not in his corner...and with the harsh reality of numbers staring us in
the face, the con job perpetrated by the con man on the angry masses continues…a
con job that is going as planned…a con job that had Donald J. Trump put into
the race to assure a Hillary win. And I stand by my words no matter what those
in my party who support Trump have to say.
And the bottom line in all this is....Cleveland here we come!
And the bottom line in all this is....Cleveland here we come!