Their strategy won’t work. Reince Priebus has made it clear that state delegations will be disqualified if shenanigans like what happened in Nevada happen.
From the reports last week, if this and the story from Nevada are true, that makes four or five states disqualified. Does that lower the number of delegates ORomney needs?
Based on what? The state parties have the right to handle their own business and elect their own delegates. With what standing would Priebus have to remove all state delegates that aren’t for Romney?
With that said, how excited and big can Romney’s base be when they can’t even muster enough people to get their own delegates in place? Romney won in states where voter turnout was depressed. It’s not much of a victory when your campaign strategy was to simply discourage people from voting.