Betsy McCaughey
The knives are out to sabotage
Donald Trump’s nomination, defying the wishes of the record number of
Republican primary voters who chose him.
Pols who backed losing
candidate Ted Cruz are mounting a sour-grapes campaign to rig the Republican
National Convention rules. Their goal is to deny Trump the nomination.
Meanwhile, in Virginia, a state where Trump came in first in the primary, a
lawsuit filed Friday by an anti-Trump pol claims he and fellow delegates should
be free to ignore the voters and follow their own “conscience” when they choose
a nominee at the Convention.
Be prepared for more whining
and skullduggery ahead, as an embittered minority of Republican insiders tries
to derail Trump’s unorthodox candidacy.
This unsavory drama will play
out between now and the Convention’s start on July 18.
The sour-grapes contingent is
quietly trying to persuade convention rule makers to turn the balloting for
presidential nominee into a free-for-all, never mind the will of voters back
home. The plotters hope to dump Trump and slip in another candidate. It could
be distant second place finisher Cruz — who still refuses to endorse Trump — or
also-ran John Kasich, not to mention a warmed over Mitt Romney.
Though unlikely to succeed,
these wily efforts to subvert Trump are helping Clinton. The plotters are
sowing disunity and discontent just when Republicans need to capitalize on the
electric enthusiasm that drew an unprecedented number of people to vote in the
primaries.
The intrigue isn’t confined to
stacking the Convention rules against Trump. The saboteurs have gone to court
to stop him. Carroll Correll Jr., a longtime Virginia party regular chosen to
be a delegate, is suing to avoid any obligation to vote for Trump in Cleveland.
That’s even though he signed a pledge to abide by the results of his state’s
primary.
Serving as a delegate is a
juicy perk for party insiders and big donors. It’s not the College of Cardinals
choosing a pope. Delegates are customarily rubber stamps for the primary
voters.
Correll is trying to weasel
out, claiming his “conscience” bars him from voting for a man he says is “unfit
to serve as president.” Hold on. Why should Correll’s opinion override the
decisions of Virginia voters?
Correll is twisting the First
Amendment, claiming it protects his “right” to follow his own whim.
Nonsense. If he wants to
exercise his conscience, he should just resign as a delegate, stay home and
watch Trump accept the nomination on TV. As for Correll’s right to express his
own “conscience,” he can yell all he wants at the screen.
Worse than Correll’s lawsuit
is the mealy-mouthed “support” for Trump offered by Republican big shots like
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and
House Speaker Paul Ryan. Don’t they realize their waffling risks handing the
presidency to Hillary Clinton on a silver platter?
On Sunday, McConnell refused
to say whether Donald Trump is “qualified to be president.” The senator quickly
conceded that “our primary voters have made their decision as to who they want
to be the nominee.” But he has so little respect for those voters that he’s
withholding his own support. That is precisely the arrogance that Trump voters
hate.
McConnell’s only praise for
Trump is that he’s started using a teleprompter. Few Americans think we need
another totally scripted politician. Trump’s spontaneous style knocked his 16
GOP competitors out of the race. Americans are fed up with canned scripts and
political correctness.
They want real change. The
nation’s economy has been slogging along at under 2 percent growth for nearly a
decade. It’s depressing our standard of living and destroying our young
people’s dreams of success. Clinton will make it worse, with more regulations,
higher taxes and a war on fossil fuels.
Trump offers a radical vision
for economic resurgence. Don’t let the insiders snatch this chance away from
us.
Betsy McCaughey, GOP USA, June 30, 2016 at
6:55 am
Betsy McCaughey is chairman of
the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a senior fellow at the London
Center for Policy Research and author of “Government by Choice: Inventing the
United States Constitution.” To find out more about Betsy McCaughey and read
features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the
Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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