[muawiyah]

Some doufous let the Paulbots run a campaign for Paul, and he's not a real Republican ~ he simply caucuses with them in the House.

Where Preibus and Romney need to tighten things up is the definition of who meets the brand standards.

It's pretty loose these days. Out of the 16 candidates I examined closely, only 3 had been lifelong conservative Republicans.

All the rest had recent, or questionable ties to the Republican party.

Screwing around with who gets to go to the convention will probably encourage exactly the sort of thing I want to see STARTING IN JANUARY AFTER THE INAUGURATION. So, Mittbots play into my hands!(Bwahahahaha)

[Ingtar]

...only 3 had been lifelong conservative Republicans

And none of those three won the nomination?

[Gunslingr3]

Where Preibus and Romney need to tighten things up is the definition of who meets the brand standards. It's pretty loose these days

Exhibit A: Mitt Romney.

Out of the 16 candidates I examined closely, only 3 had been lifelong conservative Republicans. All the rest had recent, or questionable ties to the Republican party.

Yeah! We need to make sure there are no more so-called 'converts' to the Republican brand! God forbid we nominate a 'convert' to the GOP like Ronald Reagan...

[Timber Rattler]

Some doufous let the Paulbots run a campaign for Paul,

Well, it seems to me that they've been incredibly effective...so much so that the GOP-E is having to deal both with them and Ron and Rand Paul.