Posted on 08/28/2012 5:17:51 AM PDT by xzins
Fresh from the 2010 Tea Party wave that brought millions of new conservative voters into the Republican ranks and restored the GOP to control of the House of Representatives, Washington’s Republican political class is wasting no time in ensuring that the same grassroots conservative voters who have brought them to the threshold of capturing all three branches of government are permanently frozen out of influence in the Republican Party apparatus.
In response, grassroots conservatives have launched an unprecedented Rules fight that threatens to up-end the carefully choreographed coronation of Mitt Romney.
The Rules Committee report, which is set to be adopted Tuesday, includes Rules changes that shift the balance of power away from state and local Republican committees, who elect delegates to the National Convention every four years, in favor of DC’s permanent political class.
The Rules changes would:
Principled conservative Republican Party leaders Morton Blackwell of Virginia and Jim Bopp of Indiana are spearheading the drive to gather the votes necessary to adopt a Minority Rules Report and defeat the proposed rules changes on the floor during Tuesday’s procedural sessions.
To read Morton Blackwell’s letter to Republican National Convention delegates go here http://mranalogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Morton-RNC-Letter.pdf
To read Jim Bopp’s email to Republican National Convention delegates go here:
http://www.conservativehq.com/article/9513-james-bopp-jr-letter
Indiana’s National Committeeman, James Bopp, who also serves as Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee, said in an email to delegates, “This is the biggest power grab in the history of the Republican Party because it shifts the power to select delegates from the state party to the candidate. And it would make the Republican Party a top down, not bottom up party.”
Virginia’s Morton Blackwell, a member of the Republican National Committee’s Standing Committee on Rules and on the National Convention's Committee on Rules and Order of Business said these are “rules changes that could fundamentally change our Republican Party -- and not for the better.”
Blackwell noted that DC election lawyer Ben Ginsberg brought these proposals to the Rules Committee where “he represented himself as the leader on the Committee for the Romney Campaign.”
Ginsberg, Blackwell observed, had earlier this year worked for conservative Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign, “is unencumbered by principle.” “After working for Bachmann’s grassroots campaign he is advocating Rules that would centralize power, restrain and eliminate grassroots influence and create a top-down, rather than bottom-up Party – the very antithesis of what allowed a candidate like Michele Bachmann to run,” said Blackwell.
RNC Vice Chairman Bopp dismissed any notion that the Rules changes had an ideological motivation, noting that they represent “a threat to both moderates and conservatives who could be purged, depending on who is the Republican Presidential nominee” and that to preserve the bottom-up nature of the Party the issues raised should be taken care of by changes to state laws and state GOP rules governing the selection of their state’s delegates to the national convention.
To oppose this power grab by Washington’s permanent political class grassroots GOP activists must shine the light of day on this behind the scenes power grab; call your Republican National Convention delegates, blog about, email it to your friends and contacts, post it on your Facebook page and social media sites and call your local and national conservative talk radio programs.
They are designed to cut any influence by normal republicans from all important processes.
Finally, whether adopted or not, THEY SHOW THE HEART of the liberals running the Romney show.
Only one purpose in this: get rid of anyone in their way not speaking their speak.
Only one purpose in this: roll over top of anything in their way.
Gary Johnson, because he ain't Romney or Obama
I know someone who lives in Ohio who is backing and organizing for Gary Johnson knowing that votes in Ohio for Johnson are really votes for Obama.
plus Gary Johnson wants to legalize pot.
There was no coup. The issue has been resolved as of 12 hours ago.
It appears that there is a compromise but I don’t trust the establishment. They’re just regrouping and rearming.
The GOP shows their hand. The grassroots must really have them scared if they are willing to take away the power of the people...their constituents.
LOL..are we still “no third party?”
If they are so afraid we could upend nomination events...are we close enough to truly tell them to go to hell in a hand-basket yet?
NSDQ!
Romney is just being the big dog in the fight.
Isn't becoming to whine about losing.
compromise or not, read the 3 points above and see what is in the HEART of the romney/gop-e camp.
They have a dictatorial spirit operating within them.
Why would a conservative want to lock the tea party out?
(((((PING)))))
It isn't becoming to slurp elitists in public, either. RNC (and their ballwashers) can KMA.
Anything else is suicide.
I don’t trust them a bit but is they want to commit party suicide, they need to do it out in the open.
How did they resolve it?
Let’s hope Paul Ryan will say everything Romney won’t.
Is Rule 12 still in the document? If so, then nothing is resolved.
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