{"id":162,"date":"2015-12-29T03:57:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T03:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2018-01-20T03:33:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T03:33:33","slug":"interesting-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"The Rules Are Fixing to Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"191\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/?attachment_id=191\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rules.jpg?fit=260%2C176&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"260,176\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"rules\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rules.jpg?fit=260%2C176&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rules.jpg?fit=260%2C176&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rules.jpg?resize=260%2C176\" alt=\"rules\" width=\"260\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rules.jpg?w=260&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rules.jpg?resize=160%2C108&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>The Standing Rules Committee<\/h3>\n<h6><em>April 10, 2016<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>Remember, the first way the rules can change will be at the standing rules committee which has been meeting since the 2012 Convention.\u00a0 Morton Blackwell,\u00a0who&#8217;s been\u00a0part of the\u00a0Rules Committee since 1856 (kidding), has actively been trying to change the rules back to the way they were before the 2012 Convention.\u00a0 In fact,\u00a0his March 8th article,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/diary\/Morton_C_Blackwell\/2016\/03\/08\/rules-2016-republican-national-convention\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Rules at the 2016 Republican National Convention<\/span><\/u><\/a>, explains very clearly that he was ALMOST successful in getting the rules changed in the RNC Winter Meeting.\u00a0 Of course, back in January, we wanted those rules changed.\u00a0 Now, we really don&#8217;t.\u00a0 At first, leaving them the\u00a0same sounded good because it would cut Kasich out of the race.\u00a0 However, Morton is trying to change them for the good of the country.\u00a0 He&#8217;s trying to de-centralize the party, and help the grassroots.\u00a0 Helping the grassroots, however, in this race helps Johnny Boy, because right now he&#8217;s stuck in the grass.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you listen to Mark Levin&#8217;s March 31st interview with Morton Blackwell, you&#8217;ll see that there&#8217;s no indication in that interview that Morton is going to change course or stand down:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZGR7zkQvRcU&amp;ebc=ANyPxKo6zjJAjXg_HL8t6FaTkQU342CeLWsfAmmdqsEHn0HBQe5Z-iZHnt9zc-CbikfK08u4jCH3sk8TfHLaNB3ZLSNZZddf9g\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Mark Levin interviews Morton Blackwell about the RNC rules,<\/span><\/u><\/a>\u00a0 In the\u00a0article by Matthew Hurtt, from\u00a0RedState in 2013, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/diary\/matthewhurtt\/2013\/03\/25\/undoing-the-ginsberg-rules-at-the-spring-rnc-meeting\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Undoing the \u2018Ginsberg\u2019 rules at the Spring RNC meeting<\/span><\/u><\/a>, Morton has every intention of changing those rules; to open them up more for grassroots candidates.\u00a0 Hint:\u00a0Let Kasich on the ballot.\u00a0 Is Morton FOR Kasich?\u00a0 No, he&#8217;s a Cruz supporter.\u00a0 See:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/diary\/Morton_C_Blackwell\/2016\/01\/11\/please-join-supporting-ted-cruz\/\">Please join me in supporting Ted Cruz.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another article regarding the rules change:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/03\/republican-convention-rules-trump-cruz-221355\">GOP panelists eager to scrap rule that helps Trump<\/a>. There&#8217;s a misconception in this article that the current rules help Trump.\u00a0 The current eight state majority rule does NOT help Trump.\u00a0 It would help him if he was way in front and Cruz was not so close on his heels.\u00a0 As of this weekend, Cruz is on the ballot; he has a majority in eight states.\u00a0 Because of Trump&#8217;s lack of national campaign infrastructure and\u00a0Cruz&#8217;s amazing ground game and ability to secure 2nd and 3rd ballot delegates, the current rules actually hurt Trump.\u00a0 So he <strong>NEEDS<\/strong> them changed.\u00a0 Luckily for him, there&#8217;s enough delegates, and a Morton Blackwell,\u00a0out there that are so mad at the Romney campaign, they don&#8217;t realize that they may likely shoot themselves in the foot by scrapping these rules.\u00a0 Yuck.<\/p>\n<h3>When is the next Standing Rule Committee Meeting?<\/h3>\n<p>In Spring.\u00a0 Sorry, that&#8217;s all that&#8217;s out there.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a Spring Meeting.\u00a0 In Morton&#8217;s March 8th article (mentioned above) he states that it&#8217;s at the end of the month of April.\u00a0 <del>However, Hurtt&#8217;s article (mentioned above) states that it&#8217;s April 10th &#8211; 13th.\u00a0 That&#8217;s today!\u00a0 It&#8217;s supposed to be in Los Angeles, California, according to the article.<\/del>\u00a0 (Sorry that was a 2013 article)\u00a0 Also found was an article\u00a0at the DailyCaller, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/04\/07\/rnc-rules-member-expect-tweaks-to-rules-at-upcoming-florida-meeting\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">RNC Rules Member: Expect &#8216;Tweaks&#8217; To Rules At Upcoming Florida Meeting<\/span><\/u><\/a>,\u00a0 that says that it&#8217;s 2 weeks from this past Thursday (4\/7\/16) in Hollywood, Florida.\u00a0 The Establishment\u00a0doesn&#8217;t really want anything reported on this anyway.\u00a0 They&#8217;re going to want to shape the public perception of the outcome.<\/p>\n<h3>Kasich&#8217;s Hand is Showing<\/h3>\n<p>This Friday, in Michigan, something interesting happened that suggest\u00a0a foreshadowing of things to come.\u00a0 Apparently, Trump and Kasich joined forced in Michigan to keep Cruz delegates from getting important Convention positions.\u00a0 According to the CNN article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/04\/09\/politics\/michigan-republican-delegates-ted-cruz-donald-trump-john-kasich\/index.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Trump, Kasich box out Cruz in Michigan delegation<\/span><\/u><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Michigan delegation picked one\u00a0Trump supporter, Matt Hall, and one Kasich supporter, Judi Schwalbach, for the two seats on the powerful rules committee. The\u00a0Cruz campaign lost votes for both seats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh what do you know?\u00a0 How convenient: Trump and Kasich delegates working together to have power over the rules.\u00a0 Newsmax includes a quote from the Cruz side of things, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/cruz-michigan-trump-kasich\/2016\/04\/09\/id\/723102\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Cruz Campaign: Trump, Kasich Plotting Against Us<\/span><\/u><\/a>, Wendy Day, a Cruz delegate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Kasich and Trump teams actually cut a deal and took all those slots.\u00a0 We couldn\u2019t get any of them. That&#8217;s fine, it\u2019s politics, but it was interesting to see those two campaigns team up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This fella at RedState explains exactly what the plan is in his article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/california_yankee\/2016\/04\/09\/proof-kasich-stays-trumps-bidding\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">More Proof Kasich Stays in only to do Trump\u2019s Bidding<\/span><\/u><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It looks more and more like the double-crossing Spoiling Kasich is campaigning to be the Donald\u2019s running mate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So others are seeing the inevitable union of Trump and Kasich.\u00a0 Do they need to unite to change the rules?\u00a0 Not if Morton Blackwell has anything to do with it.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s very confusing.\u00a0 People pushing to keep them the same\u00a0will probably be the\u00a0ones that were angry that they were changed.\u00a0 And people wanting them changed will be the ones who changed them and will unite with ones that were angry that they were changed.\u00a0 Make sense?\u00a0 Yes, It&#8217;s\u00a0going to be chaos.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s underhanded about it, is Trump is claiming that he&#8217;s anti-Establishment, and Kasich is out there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/seth-abramson\/john-kasich-will-be-the-r_b_9638598.html?\">saying that he&#8217;s going to be the next President;<\/a>\u00a0 when both of them are lying\u00a0through their teeth. The deal is already made.\u00a0 Think about this.\u00a0 Cruz already\u00a0this week clenched his eighth\u00a0state with the majority of delegates and he&#8217;s bound to win a few more.\u00a0 He\u00a0DOES NOT\u00a0NEED a rule change to get on the ballot.\u00a0 Kasich does.\u00a0 He&#8217;s acting like he&#8217;s going to be on the ballot, because he&#8217;s made the deal already to get on the ballot; he obviously has expectations.\u00a0 Trump is the one losing delegates and everybody and their mother knows he will lose at the contested convention, unless he comes up with some delegates.\u00a0 Kasich and Rubio have delegates for sale.\u00a0 Trump needs some.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s a trap.\u00a0 Tea\u00a0Party, grassroots, conservative people have long wanted the rules\u00a0of the convention changed to get more power coming from the bottom.\u00a0 And any other time, they would say, &#8220;Yes, change the rules!&#8221;\u00a0 But old Johnny Boy is at the bottom right now.\u00a0 And he&#8217;s Establishment.\u00a0 He only wants in to take out Cruz.\u00a0 Very slippery slope.\u00a0\u00a0Now, it&#8217;s unclear how many of\u00a0Kasich delegates will stay loyal to him and do his bidding at the second and third ballot and go to Trump; but it sure smells like a\u00a0rat.<\/p>\n<h3>The Bluff is Still On<\/h3>\n<p>Anyhow, the bluff is still going strong.\u00a0 Check out this headline from Trump surrogate, Breitbart:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2016-presidential-race\/2016\/04\/10\/the-immaculate-nomination\/\">\u2018The Immaculate Nomination\u2019<\/a>.\u00a0 And of course, there&#8217;s a picture of Paul Ryan waiting to be anointed the Republican nominee.\u00a0 Apparently this name has been coined by the Obama administration.\u00a0 This is simply Establishment propaganda.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s no truth to it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we still have Rush pushing the false narrative:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/04\/08\/anti_trumpsters_buoyed_by_trump_s_decision_to_cancel_trips_stay_in_ny\">Anti-Trumpsters Buoyed by Trump&#8217;s Decision to Cancel Trips, Stay in NY<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paul Ryan continues to say, &#8220;No way, no way,&#8221; but is producing an ad now. I told you yesterday, if you want to find out what&#8217;s really going on, keep a sharp eye on the media. You&#8217;ll start seeing stories, personality profiles on Ryan. &#8220;What a great guy Ryan is!&#8221; Stuff on the family, how hard he&#8217;s worked, Speaker of the House. We&#8217;re not electing speakers of the House. If you start seeing things like that, it could be an indication that they are making a move or planning on a move at a contested convention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul Ryan is never going to be on the ballot.\u00a0 His brother, David Limbaugh, does get it\u00a0though and does an excellent job explaining the ramifications of this bluff.\u00a0 He was interview by Hannity regarding this impossibility:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/transcript\/2016\/04\/08\/trump-campaign-capitalizes-on-new-york-values-comments-mike-huckabee-john\/\">Trump campaign capitalizes on &#8216;New York values&#8217; comments; Mike Huckabee: John Kasich should not drop out of the race.<\/a>\u00a0 Hannity puts the bluff out there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HANNITY: \u00a0Let me &#8212; let me go to an issue that I think you guys are actually going to agree on. \u00a0You know, if you look at John Boehner&#8217;s comments, talking about a contested convention and he brings up, Oh, anybody can be &#8212; anybody&#8217;s name can be nominated on the convention floor, and Karl Rove saying, Well, We need somebody who&#8217;s battle tested, strong conservative principles, a fresh face &#8212; he&#8217;s not &#8212; he&#8217;s talking specifically about somebody that hasn&#8217;t run&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>HANNITY: \u00a0Do you think that there&#8217;s a possibility the establishment will try to disenfranchise voters of Trump and Cruz?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, some do agree:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GUILFOYLE: \u00a0Yes, I think there&#8217;s a real, distinct possibility that could happen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>COHEN: \u00a0&#8230; I agree with her 100 percent&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But David does NOT agree and says the truth about <a href=\"http:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/?p=122\">THE BLUFF<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LIMBAUGH: \u00a0There are certain people in the Republican Party who fantasize about that, who hate both Trump and Cruz. \u00a0But I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a realistic possibility. \u00a0As Newt says, when those two, Trump and Cruz, have received some 80 percent of the delegates and 80 percent of the votes, it&#8217;s not realistic.<\/p>\n<p>Reince Priebus is talking about it not being realistic. \u00a0There&#8217;s no monolithic force in the GOP establishment that has set out to do that.\u00a0 I think they know better than to do that. \u00a0It would be the end of the Republican Party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He goes on to explain the purpose of the bluff.\u00a0 You see, he&#8217;s nailed it and doesn&#8217;t really know that he&#8217;s nailed it.\u00a0 Look at that expression he uses:\u00a0 &#8220;&#8230;it obscures the fact&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 That, my friend is the definition of a bluff.\u00a0 Read on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think the problem with talking about this so much &#8212; and people can talk all they want about it &#8212; is that it obscures the fact that there can be a genuine fight in the convention if nobody ends up with 1,237 going in, and I want there to be a fair fight.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz and Trump can fight after the first ballot, after the second ballot in a fair way, a legitimate way, in a way that regards process and the law and the rules. \u00a0And whoever wins is legitimate as long as there&#8217;s no shenanigans pulled.<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t want it to be perceived if Ted Cruz ends up winning&#8230; because he pays attention to details&#8230; that he was part of the establishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But guess what?\u00a0 That&#8217;s exactly how they&#8217;re going to try to paint it.\u00a0 Cruz is trying to pull shenanigans!\u00a0 Cruz is trying to steal the election!\u00a0 Look at this article that came out already:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/video\/2016\/04\/10\/trump-aide-cruz-using-gestapo-tactics-win-delegates\/\">Trump Convention Manager: Cruz Using \u2018Gestapo Tactics\u2019 to Win Over Delegates.<\/a>\u00a0 Trump is already threatening riot and chaos if he doesn&#8217;t get his way at the convention:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/trumps-convention-strategy-the-fix-is-in\">Trump\u2019s Convention Strategy: \u201cThe Fix Is In\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 He&#8217;ll try his best to delegitimize Cruz and obscure the fact that Cruz has emerged the strongest candidate, the most honest, and what the American people really want.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember, the first way the rules can change will be at the standing rules committee which has been meeting since the 2012 Convention.  Morton Blackwell, who&#8217;s been part of the Rules Committee since 1856 (kidding), has actively been trying to change the rules back to the way they were before the 2012 Convention.  In fact, his March 8th article, Rules at the 2016 Republican National Convention, explains very clearly that he was ALMOST successful in getting the rules changed in the RNC Winter Meeting.  Of course, back in January, we wanted those rules changed.  Now, we really don&#8217;t.  At first, leaving them the same sounded good because it would cut Kasich out of the race.  However, Morton is trying to change them for the good of the country.  He&#8217;s trying to de-centralize the party, and help the grassroots.  Helping the grassroots, however, in this race helps Johnny Boy, because right now he&#8217;s stuck in the grass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,11,6,8,12,9,13,7],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political","tag-contested","tag-convention","tag-cruz","tag-kasich","tag-republican","tag-rule-40","tag-rush","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rules.jpg?fit=260%2C176&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qg4l-2C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thereisnewsinthetruth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}