Posted on 08/27/2012 6:35:37 PM PDT by JediJones
The following [are excerpts from] an email sent out by Morton Blackwell of the Leadership Institute
I was Barry Goldwater’s youngest elected delegate in 1964, I was honored toserve on President Ronald Reagan’s White House Staff from 1981-1984, and I have attended every Republican National Convention Rules Committee meeting since 1972. My wife and I have contributed major donations to the Romney-Ryan campaign.
These rule changes are the most awful I’ve ever seen come before any National Convention.
I’m writing you today to urge you to join the growing effort to stop the worst-ever changes in this Rules Committee’s Report
But many state leaders, liberty-minded activists, and grass-roots conservatives are up-in-arms as word of this power grab spreads.
it would amount to a power grab by Washington, D.C. party insiders and consultants designed to silence the voice of state party activists and Republican grassroots
These rule changes would give good folks like you less of a say over our Republican Party in favor of insiders and consultants in Washington, D.C.
(Excerpt) Read more at stevedeace.com ...
I would too ... can’t stand him. How he has brainwashed thousands of supporters is beyond me.
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Political Insider
Tea partyers push for a GOP floor fight over 2016 rules
11:35 am August 27, 2012, by jgalloway
TAMPA — Matt Kibbe, the president and CEO of FreedomWorks, one of the top organizations behind the tea party movement, was at the Monday morning meeting of the Georgia delegation – attempting to foment a revolt that could undo GOP efforts to keep tea partyers happy, and quiet.
That’s one reason why Georgia’s delegation meeting was closed to press. The other: State GOP Chairman Sue Everhart on Tuesday wants to pledge all of Georgia’s 76 delegates to Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich has cut loose his delegates, and Rick Santorum has done the same.
But four Georgia delegates refused to sign a document that would allow their votes to be cast by proxy – despite the pressure of “Mitt! Mitt! Mitt!” chanting by other delegates.
Ron Paul won no delegates in Georgia’s primary. But three of the four holdouts have now declared themselves Ron Paul supporters, despite signing pledges to support the party’s nominee.
Which brings us back to the rule change up for approval by the convention on Tuesday, which — in 2016 — would give the Republican nominee the power to vet delegates to the national convention. In other words, the rule change would allow the nominee to pick those who will pick him/her.
The conservatives need to shut up and work on the Liberal Republican plantation for Massa Romney?
No thank you.
To tell the truth, I think most of his supporters are stealth demonrats. Disrupters who want us to fail and will do anything to that end.
JMHO.....
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Go buy some more cheeseburgers and give some to your dog Mark -
There is no new bestseller book in this for you - the “big-idea” candidate had several billion ideas/solutions too
Levin is always a complainer - he never has an actual winning strategy and never was an advisor in that area
I see no solutions in his resume
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Read Liberty And Tyranny and try again
Sounds like you are nuts. Drudge a Romneyite. Geez.
Was that sarcasm? Drudge is in the back pocket of the GOP establishment and was hooked up by the GOP with Matt Rhoades, Romney's top campaign operative years ago. Guess you weren't here in the primaries when FR chronicled day in and day out how Drudge coordinated negative headlines on Romney's opponents while never saying one bad thing about Romney. Also, it was documented that Drudge doesn't post all his own stories anymore and has a couple of Romney's campaign operatives assisting in publishing stories directly to his site.
Well, true, that. I think I’m just tired of all of it. *sigh*
My candidate didn’t get the nomination, and I have no say now. I think I’m done.
So let me get this straight. It turns out in part this is an attempt by the Paul people to hijack the convention?
I understand why we don’t want the rules changed, but how do we stop some jackwagon like this from doing what they’re doing with the GA delegates. Paul won no delegates in GA, but we have 4 of them supporting him anyway?
I don’t like Romney much, but he is the elected nominee, and of all years we need to be unified. Obozo can not have 4 more years, or we won’t have to worry about any of this in 2016. We’ll all be in re-education camps.
Has anyone heard from either Romney, or Ryan about this. Any statements, or comments from either?
Not yet. He's a candidate for the nomination, not the nominee. Quit doing the RiNOs' work for them.
......and of all years we need to be unified.
After the convention. Will you say that if the convention bolts and nominates a conservative instead?
I wanted Sarah, she didn’t run. I wanted Cain, he fell. I wanted Newt, he fell.Romney won the Primary elections. The other candidates have released their delegates to him. Now it looks like a candidate that didn’t win enough delegates is trying to corrupt the process.
There are no white knights riding in on stallions to save us from ourselves. We have who we have. We should have moved to keep the Dems out of our Primaries over the last 4 years, but we didn’t. I didn’t want W the first time, but after he received the nomination, I supported and worked for his campaign twice. So far, Romney, and Ryan look like they want to fight, and they want to win. Barring the earth being struck by an asteroid, they have my support.
By the way I love Rand, he’s my Senator, but his daddy is a couple of fries short of a Happy Meal, and I want him in the White House about as much as I want another 4 years of the Muslim.
I’m pretty in the dark about party machinations at a convention, but perhaps this helps as a continuation to the thread lead. Sure sounds like some heavy handedness is going on by the GOP-e and the grass roots.
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MORTON C. BLACKWELL
Dear Fellow Delegate,
On Tuesday of this week, as Republican National Convention delegates, you and I will be voting on rules changes that could fundamentally change our Republican Party — and not for the better.
Over the years, I’ve served on the Louisiana and Virginia GOP Rules Committees. I currently serve on both the Republican National Committee’s Standing Committee on Rules and on the National Convention’s Committee on Rules and Order of Business.
I was Barry Goldwater’s youngest elected delegate in 1964, I was honored to serve on President Ronald Reagan’s White House Staff from 1981-1984, and I have attended every Republican National Convention Rules Committee meeting since 1972. My wife and I have contributed major donations to the Romney-Ryan campaign.
These rule changes are the most awful I’ve ever seen come before any National Convention.
I’m writing you today to urge you to join the growing effort to stop the worst-ever changes in this Rules Committee’s Report and to vote in favor of amendments to Rules 12 and 15. The Minority Reports will restore important rights and protections which state parties and grassroots Republicans would lose under the Rules Committee Report as written.
These amendments to Rules 12 and 15 are contained in Minority Reports supported by at least 25% of the members of this convention’s Committee on Rules and Order of Business.
It’s rare for Minority Reports to come before our national convention, but the issues involved here are vital to the future of our party.
I must tell you there is tremendous arm-twisting now to peel signers off of the Minority Reports.
Finally, whether on Minority Reports or on voting down the Rules, it will require at least six states’ delegations to insist upon a roll call vote.
I will not pretend that the deck is not stacked against us.
But many state leaders, liberty-minded activists, and grass-roots conservatives are up-in-arms as word of this power grab spreads.
Our convention will make this important decision Tuesday as some of our first work. Many folks skip these procedural sessions thinking nothing of importance occurs.
This year, that is far from the truth.
If the Rules Committee Report were to pass without adoption of the Minority Reports, it would amount to a power grab by Washington, D.C. party insiders and consultants designed to silence the voice of state party activists and Republican grassroots by:
*** Handing national party officials the power to change national party rules adopted by state and grassroots leaders at the Republican National Convention. For generations, the prohibition of manipulated changes in the national Rules of the Republican Party between national conventions has served as one of the crown jewels of our party. It’s a power grab which opens the door to many future power grabs.
*** Stripping state parties in all states with binding primaries of the power of choosing who will represent their states as national delegates and alternate delegates.
This outrageous change would empower presidential campaigns to disapprove and remove delegates and alternate delegates selected by rules adopted by state Republican parties. Rather than grassroots activists who won delegate and alternate delegate slots by following state party rules, a large majority of positions would be handed to top donors of the winning campaign.
Rest here:
http://beforeitsnews.com/tea-party/2012/08/rnc-urgent-rules-vote-tuesday-2451244.html
This all stinks of Ron Paul.
He is not a Republican and he was to get a speaking time if he would agree to endorse Romney.
Like every other candidate. He will not. So now his loony tunes are going to attempt to give the liberal media a dissension story by making asses of themselves on the floor.
RON PAUL SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE IN ANY FUTURE DEBATES. PERIOD.
“The guys at the top don’t care if they win this year provided they can control the choices in 2016”
They do not need a rule change for that. The GOP-E got Romney for a nominee now with the old rules.
The non-supporters of Romney on this forum have been saying that all along.
The Republican Party is rejecting social conservatism.
Supporting Romney will end access for full conservatives and will open the door to leftist republicanism.
Tell them you’re not going to support Romney unless they drop their little power grab.
PING!
It has been resolved - did you not see the story in breaking?
I’m with you. Ron Paul is nuts. The people supporting him are rabid tools and they don’t even understand what he stands for.
The proposed rule changes appear to be a way to stop RP and his zombies from disrupting the convention. But, a lot of people see this as a way for Romney to take over. Huh? He’s already the nominee.
Hatred for Romney is just as strong as hatred for Obama on FR.
A lot the posters here are pissed the Saint Sarah isn’t the nominee and are taking it out on Romney.
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