Under this deal, delegates bound to a candidate (say Romney) can’t rebel and give support to another proposed surprise candidate, like Paul or even a bigger surprise Palin.
So this effectively ends any hope anyone here may have had for a convention shocker. Not that it matters much anyway at this point; in a few days it’s going to be a matter of simple history that Romney has the nomination.
However going forward, what this means is, the primaries are all more important. After say March, or at latest April, there will be (or should not be) anymore hopes that at the convention, a surprise candidate will rise to the occasion and oust some elitist.
This deal also eliminates the proposal that a candidate can choose his own delegates, thus prohibiting even more cronyism and back door deals in choosing the Republican nominee.
So let’s take this to heart, take the primaries seriously next time, and by JANUARY at the LATEST, RALLY behind a clear conservative choice!
Some of the uglier and more vitriolic anti-Romney (anti-GOP, anti-Ryan, anti-RNC, anti-USA, anti-vote) posters smell of troll, because, in my mind, Christian conservative patriots just don't talk like that. Often I've wanted to wade in and set them straight about God, country, and duty. But to do so only gets screams of "Romneyite" and threats of the "zot-dot", which, as a dyed-in-the-wool Tea Party type, really ticks me off.
Frankly, I find being afraid to speak somewhat stultifying.