Read the whole article. I have a reason.
Was this the reason?
“The change might also require approval from the U.S. Department of Justice.”
If that statement is correct, President Obama gets a vote in setting the Republican Party primary rules.
11 posted on Thu Apr 05 2012 21:43:29 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by katiedidit1: “Would love to hear what Gov Perry has to say about that...and of course the Bush family. Santorum will never take Texas.”
I am no expert in Texas Republican politics but I would agree with Katiedidit1 that I'd love to know what Perry and the Bush family think about this change.
Perhaps the most important question is what the Gingrich campaign thinks about this rule change. My guess is that much will depend on what happens in Pennsylvania.
This campaign is very close to being over. Unfortunately, if Mitt Romney is the nominee, the general election may also be over. I would certainly hope that conservatives who are strongly opposed to Mitt Romney would concur that stopping Romney is something worth fighting for.
Barring a radical game change -- an obvious example would include a late decision by Gingrich and his two endorsers, Perry and Cain, to publicly call for a Santorum vote to stop Romney -- this race is probably over. A win by Santorum in Pennsylvania could generate the momentum required to win in Texas on May 29, and that could put California's June 5 primary into serious contention.
I'm going to share something from what may be considered ancient history. In the 1980 presidential campaign, Michigan Gov. Bill Milliken was so upset by what he considered to be the likely victory of an unelectable candidate that he pulled out all the stops and mobilized all the resources at his disposal to deliver Michigan for a last-ditch candidate who he considered to be the only hope of a Republican victory in the 1980 elections against a deeply unpopular Democrat. In Gov. Milliken's mind, and that of many others in Michigan Republican Party leadership, the nomination of the frontrunner would pull defeat from the jaws of victory and it was worth the effort to keep the frontrunner from winning.
Who was that longshot last-ditch candidate? George H.W. Bush, the moderate Republican who won Michigan but was then defeated by a massive Reagan victory in what was then a winner-take-all California primary.
Nearly everyone on Free Republic believes Milliken was wrong in fighting Ronald Reagan. My point is that the Mitt Romney wing of the Republican Party has been willing to fight last-ditch battles before -- and I think Romney is fully aware of his own family's history in fighting last-ditch battles when he believes losing the presidential race to a Democrat is at stake.
FYI, here's the remaining primary schedule from Election Central:
http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012-republican-primary-schedule/
April 24, 2012
Connecticut 28 delegates (Primary)
Delaware 17 delegates (Primary)
New York 95 delegates (Primary)
Pennsylvania 72 delegates (Primary)
Rhode Island 19 delegates (Primary)
May 8, 2012
Indiana 46 delegates (Primary)
Thanks to a recount reversing the previous report, Rick Santorum will indeed qualify to be on the Indiana ballot. See this report from the Indy Star on the recount of signatures.
North Carolina 55 delegates (Primary)
West Virginia 31 delegates (Primary)
May 15, 2012
Nebraska 35 delegates (Primary)
Oregon 28 delegates (Primary)
May 22, 2012
Arkansas 36 delegates (Primary)
Kentucky 45 delegates (Primary)
May 29, 2012
Texas 155 delegates (Primary)
Due to litigation regarding redistricting, the April 3 date for the Texas primary has been changed to May 29. See this report.
June 5, 2012
California 172 delegates (Primary)
Montana 26 delegates (Primary)
New Jersey 50 delegates (Primary)
New Mexico 23 delegates (Primary)
South Dakota 28 delegates (Primary)
June 26, 2012
Utah 40 delegates (Primary)