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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I doubt this is true, but I hope somehow it is. If Cruz were knocked out, he'd give his delegates to Kasich. Rubio would then do the same. Kasich would get the nomination and we'd have a sane person sunning against a sane person. Imagine fucking that!
Of course, this all assumes Comey doesn't resign. Yep. That's a risk. Hillary will not be indicted, but there is talk Comey is fuming and may resign if she's not indicted. This sort of scandal, along with a still technically viable and resilient Sanders campaign could leave us with Bernie v. Kasich. Still, sane v. sane.
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Kasich is only sane in relative terms in that party, but yeah. Delegates for Cruz+Rubio+Kasich would lead Trump 777-754. But I'm not sure the two drop outs can bind their delegates to Kasich (don't know) and not sure that Trump couldn't overcome that lead in the remaining primaries, where he would likely pummel Kasich.
Also: the email thing is a non-scandal. As usual.
But it did get me reading
this, which is sort of fun. Let's look at some bits:
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Ken Cuccinelli, the former attorney general of Virginia, knows the laws regarding classified information firsthand. ...He says Clinton’s actions in the e-mail scandal clearly satisfy all five requirements necessary to sustain charges of mishandling classified material
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Oh really? Well, if Cucc, who is clearly an unbiased expert commentator says so...
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Clinton obtained and created “documents and materials containing classified information” through her work at the State Department.
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Or, obtained materials that were not marked as such and only became deemed to be years later as they were reviewed for release amidst controversy.
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Clinton “knowingly removed such documents or materials.” Cuccinelli points out that she actually committed this crime on a significant scale three separate times: First, by setting up her e-mail system to route messages to and through her unsecured server, then by moving the server to Platte River Networks, a private company, in June of 2013, and then by transferring the server’s contents to her private lawyers in 2014.
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It's pretty hard to "knowingly" remove classified materials that are not yet classified, which none of these were as of the time of any of those actions.
ETA: Okay, I moved through this too fast. So, Cucc, that first time, that can't be "knowing" because there aren't yet any materials, much less classified ones. I'm not expert in this area of law, but I'm pretty confident that "knowing" does not mean having perfect foresight of the future. The second and third, what I said before.
