If the country elects Romney, we will survive to have another election.
Posted on 08/28/2012 7:31:55 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
At 2:00 p.m. today in Tampa, the Republican National Committee, led by Team Romney, is moving to shut down conservative grassroots activists. I’ve been on the phone with several individuals involved in the fight who tell me that the fight is not over, it is only just starting.
Specifically, the media is reporting that the rules fight is over because Team Romney is abandoning Ben Ginsberg’s effort to allow candidates to control delegates. Under an initial proposal, delegates would, in effect, be chosen by the presumed nominee’s campaign and not based on votes in the states and delegate selection processes in the states.
That issue appears resolved, but several people I’ve spoken to this morning make clear that Team Romney and the RNC establishment are using that compromise as a red herring to distract from two major rules change proposals that would decimate Republican grassroots and prevent upstart political campaigns.
Reports that the floor fight threat is over might be designed to calm the grassroots and get them to ignore what is coming at 2 o’clock.
The first rule to be proposed is one that would give the Republican National Committee the power to change rules between conventions with a three-quarters vote of the RNC. One source tells me, “With a Republican President, of course this is doable. Everybody will roll over if a President Romney asks them too. They’ll be able to get Ben Ginsberg’s proposal next year.”
In other words, if Team Romney prevails in this rules change, they don’t have to worry about Ben Ginsberg not getting his way today on the delegate changes. They’ll be able to do it later when the press and grassroots are not watching.
The second rules change would front load winner takes all primaries.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
LLS
The hairy guy with the Sammich board yelling in the town square isn’t always wrong ;)
Another Doomsday cultist! Good for you, do you have a space ship ready, or are you just going to hunker down in your bunker?
I always thought that there was some similarity between Ron Paul and Marshall Applewhite. It’s more than just that crazy look in the eyes.
My Gawd.
We are men without a political party.
Both parties are bound and determined for pure tyranny.
People may want to challenge the next President (Romney) and may be unable to do so fairly, that’s what I’m concerned about. - Mark Levin.
Bottom line, that’s the whole point.
Well, I won’t be volunteering now. Just don’t feel like it anymore knowing that the GOPe takes my vote for granted. They don’t want us Tea Party Conservatives, heck they don’t want Conservatives at all.
Way to go GOPe, you just dampened the enthusiasm of the people that you really NEED to get Odummer out of office. Replace one tyranny with another? Why even bother to have state conventions? Heck, why even bother with primaries? Just have the washington belt insiders tell the Republicans who to vote for.
I won’t be watching now either. STUFF IT RNC.
My conservative friend who is a reporter and who is at the convention just answered. Was unaware of this all. Pointed him to Levin’s guy, Morton Blackwell. He should be writing about this. He’s interested.
If the country elects Romney, we will survive to have another election.
Yea but look right here on this thread. There are GOP apopogists mocking us for stating the obvious. The gen pub will never grasp what this really means.
Of course there wont be one. There HASN’T been one since REAGAN!
But people cling to a fantasy and thing the Blue Fairy will make them a real boy if they say it enough times.
“Romney may not be great, but he is ALL we’ve got, our last hope.”
You got less chance than a Massachusetts fetus if Willard is all you’ve got.
How did I know a long time ago that I couldn’t trust Romney? This is sickening.
LLS
Ah, another doomsdayer! I’ll ask you the same question, do you have a space ship arriving, or are you just going to hunker down in your bunker and wait for the end?
“Another Doomsday cultist! Good for you, do you have a space ship ready, or are you just going to hunker down in your bunker?”
LMAO...that’s good. Don’t worry, the loud shouts are a loud Paulian minority. Not unlike the Romney haters in here.
Talk about not having the commons sense to see the forest for the trees......or better they can’t have a navy of ships, because none of them are perfect and unsinkable, so just scrap them all.
BTW, please keep me informed. Thanks!
LLS
Informed my reporter. He’ll go find out about this. He’ll freak when he hears the PROGRESSIVE PARTY quote.
Doomsday-call all you want. You, too, will feel the boot.
Boehner overruled Morton Blackwell (old guard GOP committee member) saying there were no objections, even though, clearly there were..
I understand completely.
LLS
“Why even bother to have state conventions? Heck, why even bother with primaries? Just have the washington belt insiders tell the Republicans who to vote for.”
We just did in this election show. This just makes it easier to do via emails and phone calls.
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