We don’t caucus in my state, but it is my understanding that this is exactly how a caucus works. If your candidate doesn’t cut it in the first round, you are free to switch to another candidate. If I remember correctly, a little more than half of the McCain delegates went to Huckabee, but without the Paul delegates, Huckabee would not have won.
Doesn’t sound like a backroom deal to me...sounds like a caucus.
Doesn’t sound like a backroom deal to me...sounds like a caucus.
I never said it was against the rules. I said that the Paul people made a deal for 3 delegates instead of 5 because of some supposed slight then caught the Romney folks, as the Paul guy said, "off guard", which means they gave the impression to the Romney folks that they weren't going to deal then made a DEAL FOR LESS DELEGATE BOOTY with the Huckabee crew. The only thing less sneakier would have been for the Huckabee folks to have offered MORE delegates than Romney and then pulled the switch. That would have made sense. But this "they weren't nice to us" defense for taking a worse deal doesn't cut it.
And whether only half of the McCain folks switched just means the deal was orchestrated so as to spread the fingerprints. It was smart backroom politics and an obvious deal to create an early Super Tuesday Romney-loss storyline to the benefit of the other three candidates.
Bottomline: the Baptist made a deal with the Foreign Policy Nut and the Frontrunner to cut down the Mormon. Now we are supposed to believe The Baptist should replace the Frontrunner. I know it's politics but when it comes to the veracity of a single, biased account on a convention switcharoo...don't pretend we should ignore the inherent bias, obvious contradictions and specious reasoning.