What does Romney’s RNC power grab mean for the future? At least three things:
Conclusions from FW.
1) As of today, the GOP is now much less representative of state parties and voters than it was yesterday, and thus more representative of whichever interests are smart and powerful enough to dominate the RNC.
2) Grassroots activists will now have to add “Monitoring the RNC” to their “eternal vigilance” list.
3) FreedomWorks will have to add “Influencing — and when necessary, fighting — the RNC” to our “Hostile Takeover” strategy.
“engineering of consent”
dirty tricks that were employed
1. Florida activist Laura Noble informed us that both of Florida’s Rules Committee members, Peter Feaman and Kathleen King, were removed from the Rules Committee and replaced with Romney-appointed delegates.
2. Some Rules Committee members were physically barred from entering the room, despite having proper credentials.
3. Some delegates were told that Blackwell was trying to use the situation as an excuse to reopen a settled debate that he had lost four years ago regarding Rule 12. Not true.
4. Some delegates were told Romney personally knew nothing of the matter and it was just his overly aggressive lawyers acting beyond their authority and there was nothing to worry about, he would put a stop to it once he found out what was happening.
5. Some delegates seem to have believed that the rules fight was really just a proxy fight in the larger battle being waged between the Romney and Ron Paul camps over who would represent certain states on the convention floor. This assumption may have discouraged some Rules Committee members from supporting the minority reports.
Well it does in fact give a “strong governing framework” for the party over the next four years. Any authoritarian need powers such as these. Vote individuals after being very skeptical of what they promise. The only reason I’ll vote this time is to support Art Robinson over Pete DeFazio for congress - likely a lost cause.
So much for changing the GOP at the local level. Face it, the PUBs are an elephant in its death throe. What more will it take for Conservatives to get the message that we are not wanted?
Mark this date, August 29,2012 and this statement: “The GOP has no intention of beating 0bambi and Romney will find a way to throw the election.”
There are silver linings no one seems to pay attention to. This MIGHT stop the individual states from moving their primaries into ‘me first’ dates that screw up ALL the primaries, not to mention states losing their full slate of delegates. It might also change some of the ‘open’ primaries where dem crossovers choose who wins. Maybe we will not see again what happened in Virginia this year.
MAYBE it isn’t as bad as you think.