This election is a done deal. Paul is older than dirt and this was probably his last campaign. This is not about Paul - that's a Shibboleth. This is about purging conservatives and making sure no more conservative presidential candidates slip through the GOP defenses like Reagan did. If these rules stand, the GOP will never nominate another conservative for president because the party machinery is completely owned and controlled by the left. Similar techniques have been employed by academia to purge themselves of the “right wingers.”
A very astute observation.