THE “COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION” IS NOW IN SESSION!
In our last post, we posed the question “Who Chooses Candidates! Parties or Primaries? This post begins the “trial” in the Court of Public Opinion!
While Gaslighting Republicans was defeated by the Progressive Primary Conspiracy in the 2024 Presidential Primary, Missouri voters have given us the opportunity to defeat all primaries in the “Courts”. (See “Only the Courts Can Save Political Parties”)
The question before the “Courts”: Do primaries deprive members of political parties of their First Amendment rights to choose their candidates for public office under color of law?
HOW DID THE PROGRESSIVE PRIMARY CONSPIRACY SURVIVE IN 2024?
First, every reader must know that “Primaries” are nothing more than public opinion surveys if the results of primary votes are not “binding”, or final.
Here is a real world look at how the conspiracy works in this example of a libelous MEDIA ATTACK on this author.
Ed Kilgore, writing for the New York Magazine’s “Intelligencer” publication, on December 1, 2023 wrote:
Now as in the recent past, Republican National Committee rules require that delegates who are pledged to specific candidates via the conditions of their selection (in 2024, there will be 2,365 pledged delegates and just 104 unpledged delegates) stick with their candidate for at least one ballot.
Is there a way to unbind them? Well, Republicans went through a bit of a test of this question the first time Trump ran for president, in 2016, when longtime party heretic Curly Haughland of North Dakota got a lot attention from NeverTrump Republicans with his argument that delegates inherently enjoy the right to vote their consciences at conventions notwithstanding national or state party rules binding them to candidates via primary or caucus results. There was an actual effort at the RNC in Cleveland in July to formally unbind the delegates during deliberations of the convention’s rules committee. It failed, predictably, and then failed definitively after a voice vote to accept the rules on the convention floor.
So there’s no specific loophole in the rules unbinding delegates just because their candidate he has been convicted of a felony or is even already in the slammer. That means the only way to unbind them is via a vote to change the rules in the convention’s rules committee or to suspend them on the convention floor. The former is extremely unlikely since the rules committee is dominated by RNC members and party loyalists. And the latter requires a two-thirds vote, which is quite a reach. Even then, the convention and party lawyers would have to contend with the problem of delegates from the 14 states where delegates are legally required to follow the results of primaries, sometimes for multiple ballots.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/12/could-rnc-delegates-dump-trump-if-hes-convicted-or-in-jail.html
So, keep in mind, THE COURTS IN SESSION!
Kilgore wrote and the INTELLIGENCER published that I am a “long time party heretic”.
Labeling me a “heretic” devalues my opinion causing me to lose influence in the political community and is libelous.
He then implies that the fact that “delegates enjoy the right to vote their conscience at conventions notwithstanding national or state party rules binding them to candidates via primary results” is “heresy”.
Heresy is defined as “opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted”.
This is a case about “what is generally accepted” being false.
Click on blue links in Kilgore’s work reveals his sources.
The court reporter produced transcript of the 2016 Convention Rules Committee reveals that delegates were eventually “bound” to vote according to primary results by Rule 37(b), a new rule adopted by the 2016 Convention itself.
Delegates were not pledged or “bound” at any time prior to the 2016 Convention vote to adopt the complete Rules of the Republican Party.
ORIGINAL SOURCE OF ALL FALSE INFORMATION IS THE RNC, Inc. STAFF
The plain language of the Rules of the Republican Party betray the “generally accepted” lie.
Here is a link to the complete Rules of the Republican Party.
CAUTION! Reading the “rules” without first reading the Preamble to the Rules will likely lead you to a state of confusion. To help you avoid that, here is the pertinent part of the Preamble:
PREAMBLE
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the following be and hereby
are adopted as The Rules of the Republican Party, composed of the rules (1-12) for
the election and government of the Republican National Committee until the
next national convention, the rules (13-25) under which delegates and alternate
delegates shall be allotted to the respective states in the next national
convention, and the rules under which such delegates and alternate delegates
shall be elected and under which contests shall be considered, and the rules of business of this national convention. (26-42)
So, reading carefully, you will note that the Rules of the Republican Party, as currently published, are not in the correct chronological order.
Obviously, rules to govern the RNC “until the next national convention” must FOLLOW “the rules of business of THIS national convention.
(This intentional confusion was created by the Primary Conspirators at the 2000 Republican National Convention. (See February 8, 2023 Substack post “Rules Confusion Explained)
BINDING DELEGATES UNDER THE RULES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CAN ONLY BE DONE AT THE CURRENT CONVENTION; NOT AT ANY TIME PRIOR TO!
That gets us back to the subject of the Progressive Primary conspiracy.
Two main participants in the conspiracy are essential to its success. They are the media and the political party leadership.
Ballotpedia currently displays this information about the Republican Party on its website:
Pledged delegates
Pledged delegates, also called bound delegates, are bound to vote on at least the first ballot at the national convention based on the results of their states' primary or caucus. The Rules of the Republican Party, as passed in July 2020 and amended in July 2022, state the following:
“Any statewide presidential preference vote that permits a choice among candidates for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in a primary, caucuses, or a state convention must be used to allocate and bind the state’s delegation to the national convention in either a proportional or winner-take-all manner for at least one round of balloting, except for delegates and alternate delegates who appear on a ballot in a statewide election and are elected directly by primary voters or delegates bound to a candidate that withdraws from the presidential race. [4]
”—Rule 16(a)(1), The Rules of the Republican Party[5
Obviously, this information was provided by the leadership of the Republican National Committee, Inc., based on the dates given.
Also, this information is completely meaningless and intentionally deceptive based on what we learned above from the Preamble. (Rule 16 would apply only to the time between the 2024 Convention and the “NEXT” convention in 2028.)
Rules 26-42 apply only to each and every convention of the Republican Party. Period.
Each convention is the beginning of a four year cycle that ENDS when the next convention begins.
The Republican Party is not a permanent organization.
Therefore, the “Court” case becomes a little more clear as we separate the plaintiffs from the defendants to the likely Civil Rights lawsuit needed to bring this matter to the conclusion that political parties nominate their candidates for public office. Period!
Members of political parties will be plaintiffs.
Media, political party leadership, secretaries of state, consultants, pollsters, lawyers, academics and others who knowingly and willfully participate in the conspiracy to deprive members of political parties of their rights will be defendants.
Media should take notice that reporting that normalizes “primaries” as a “political weapon” contributes to the “generally accepted lie” that primaries must choose Republican candidates for public office.
Something can be “generally accepted” while also depriving individuals of their Constitutional rights.
NOTE: The evidence presented here and in future posts will assist in the ultimate Federal Civil Rights lawsuit necessary to preserve the First Amendment rights of members of political parties.