Priebus Should Move RNC Convention Out of Florida

TheIowaRepublican.com ^ | 2/21/11 | Craig Robinson

[bigred08]

Just because the Republican National Committee and Democrat National Committee announced months ago that February 6th would be the date for the Iowa caucuses, doesn’t mean that’s when the First-In-The-Nation Caucuses will actually take place.

The rules set by the national parties don’t even guarantee that the caucuses will be the first contest in the nominating process. In fact, there is a possibility that the Republican nomination could be wrapped up by February 6th, just like it almost was back in 2008.

[Texas Eagle]

Another thing the RNC should do is push Republicans to defund corn subsidies.

Ahem.

[RightFighter]

Another thing the RNC should do is demand closed primaries.

[Mr. Jazzy]

And fire that rino asshole Chuck Grassley.

[Spartan79]

I for one am getting sick and tired of Iowa and New Hampshire preening and strutting about proclaiming their God-given right to select the candidates the rest of us get to vote for for president. It’s about time the parties started rotating the honor of going first. Hell, let it be West Virginia one year, Washington the next, then New Mexico. It’s rediculous that every Iowa voter feels like they have the right to personally meet and talk to every candidate, while the voters of many other states barely get the see the contrails of their campaign planes as they fly over on their way to somewhere else.

The current system is one reason we’ll never get rid of our God-awful wasteful and useless ethanol subsidies, which are contributing to world hunger and soaring food prices, and do nothing to reduce oil consumption - even the most ardent greenies now recognize their futility. It takes more than a gallon of oil to produce a gallon of ethanol, and the gallon of ethanol has only about 70% of the energy content of a gallon gasoline - and ethanol ruins engines. Not to mention costing the taxpayer billions of dollars. The only thing ethanol subsidies do is buy Cadillacs for wealthy Iowa and other farm-state farmers. But however useless and expensive the subsidies are, no presidential candidate dare call for their elimination unless they have a strategy of bypassing Iowa altogether.

[Vigilanteman]

New Hampshire's and Iowa's inflated sense of self-importance is due mainly to the attention paid to them by the enemedia. The enemedia needs to lose all credibility before this country has a fighting chance of becoming decent again.

[Sonny M]

Why the hell are they protecting Iowa and New Hampshire ?

One state is grabbing ethanol subsidies, which, because of the primaries, means that candidates fall over themselves protecting something that is insanely stupid, and the other state has open primaries, meaning that democrats, with no primary this year, can happily flock over to the polls and pick out the GOP candidate.....

This is pure idiocy, if NH at least closed its primary, then this could be understandable.....

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Florida, Texas and Ohio should all move their primaries ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire. I’m tired of RINOs and liberals tilting the playing field against our interests.