Posted on 08/28/2012 2:15:07 PM PDT by STARWISE
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Floor fight: Grass-roots activists battle attempt to rig RNC delegate rules Updated: Palin: “direct attack on the grass-roots;” RNC power grab showdown 2pm; Rush weighs in; purge underway?; Rules Cmte votes 78-14 for deal; dissidents gather sigs for floor fight; Boehner/Sununu declare”no objections” over massive boos on floor
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Update 3:34pm Eastern Dissidents have until 3:47pm Eastern to gather enough signatures to force the floor vote, according to right-leaning Examiner’s Tim Carney, who is on scene. Left-leaning BuzzFeed’s Zeke Miller, also on scene, says it appears dissidents have gathered enough signatures for minority report on Rule 12, but not yet on Rule 15(16).
Carney says that Drew McKissck has emailed a minority report to RNC leaders within the rules deadline…
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Update: 4:34pm Eastern Well, that was…something else. First, Maine delegates were replaced with Romney people. Then, rules chairman John Sununu and GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner stood on stage at the RNC to rule on the compromise rules report. No minority report was mentioned. When asked for yeas and nays on the report, the room seemed equally divided. Boehner forged ahead and approved the report over loud boos and calls of “point of order” from activists on the floor.
No vote on the minority report.
FW’s Dean Clancy observes: “If @SpeakerBoehner had been wielding the Speaker’s gavel instead of the GOP convention gavel, he wouldn’t have gotten away with that trick.”
And the show went on…GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn just declared that “this has been a great exercise in grass-roots” and that GOP stands for “Great Opportunity Party.”
Rob Port:
Watch until about 2:39:00 when Speaker of the House John Boehner takes the podium and asks for a voice vote on the rules. The “nays” from the floor were at least as loud as the “yeas,” but Boehner approved the rules “without objection.”
What a joke.
Meanwhile, a North Dakota delegate texted me from the floor of the convention saying that they were instructed to chant “USA” (you can hear it during the video) to drown out the dissenters.
I have to laugh. Libs have no idea what a neocon is. Maybe they just like to use the word neocon. In reality, Romney has more actual neocons associated with him than all the TEA party/right wing groups combined.
I also understand now the depths to which these RINO/GOP-e oligarchs will go in their fear and hatred of Sarah Palin. She scares them to death. She has frightened them so badly that they have abandoned their usual slow, under the radar, seemingly benign appearing practices and have come right out in the open with their power grab.
Perhaps they are still able to fool some people or maybe those people are just trying to act as cover for the GOP-e. It doesn’t matter. Anyone with eyes and a brain can see exactly what they are doing now. Perhaps they believe they are so powerful that no one will be able to stop them or perhaps they fear something is coming that will require the group of elites to have complete control for their own protection.
I don’t know exactly what the real situation is, but I do know that whatever it is they are doing, the majority would not think it beneficial if they knew about it. Because if it were really something good, they would not be trying so hard to pretend it away.
The most telling thing I saw today was RINO John Sununu standing with RINO John Boehner. As soon as I saw Boehner, I knew the fix was in. After he, on camera, intentionally ignored the truth of what occurred to hand the win to the elites, I knew they would go as far as playing cutthroat with their own people. The RNC/GOP-e is as serious as a heart attack about this and they are not done.
Get this airhead, if I could vote for obama I could vote for Romney. It may take a few years for that to sink in - so go crawl under a rock until it does.
It’s no wonder you have no compunctions about facilitating the Obama election, you have no rational thinking skills. Maybe you were one of those teenage pot heads with decreased IQ. When you sink to the use of ad hominem attacks, you lose. It’s an automatic default.
Go back under the rock and continue your worship of the godless - ROMNEY and OBAMA - and quit your babbling. No one is listening.
LOL! You and your fellow cultists are the Obama facilitators. Your like a bunch of old men, who are going to take their checker board an go home, but don’t really have any home to go to.
Yes. Eva is in worship mode now and airheads aren't capable of anything but babbling mindless rhetoric.
LOL! Now you are sounding like the Hare Krishna’s. Yeah, you’re wasting your time. I am not very susceptible to brain washing.
You, Eva, are TOTALLY brainwashed.
You tout the author of Death Panels AND ObamaCARE
and you purport he is “conservative”.
You attempt to mislead by blaming the Ron Paul supporters,
when this was NOTHING but RINO MOB RULE.
If you still have the remnant of a brain, think back 4 years
to how Mr. Romney helped his Tyrant assume power to
destroy America.
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
Re Elect Obama!/s
NO to Obama the Tyrant
NO to RINO replacements with the same agendae.
Wrong..Their agendas are NOT the same..
We must fight this war with the army we have..That army consists of Romney/Ryan along with numerous conservatives downticket.
Either Romney or Obama will be President the next 4 years..You vote how you like.
I want the Marxist OUT
I am voting for Romney and Ryan
Mr. RomneyCARE is friends with SOROS
and supports identical agendae with Obama.
So the only “war” is on TRUTH and CONSERVATIVES.
Obama's agenda is to destroy the country and transform it from the ashes into a totalitarian MarxoFascist Utopia that will serve at the bottom of all nations on earth to 'pay' for our sin of prosperity.
The Ruling Class/Romney agenda is to provide cover for him and hopefully get a seat or scraps from the Regime's table of total control.
They ultimately serve the same purpose.
Which is why I am actively working against Romney/Ryan for a write in. The GOP are nothing but Useful Idiots for Obama.
It's why Obama, the Ruling Class and the Marxist Media chose Romney to be the GOP nominee.
My goodness..that’s an amazing leap there..Vote as you please..
I will be voting to oust the Obamanation.
You’ll be doing nothing of the kind.
You’re simply duped, manipulated into voting for a propped up candidate foisted on us by the Ruling Class to create the illusion of choice.
Obama will remain.
Romney’s goal is not to replace Obama, but annihilate Conservatism into irrelevance. Yesterday he and the Ruling Class, did exactly that. Conservatives and grassroots will no longer have a voice in the GOP. Romney pulled a Cook County right in the midst of the Convention.
You watch, nary a negative word will be said against Obama at this convention, nor his actual record if it seems negative.
Romney/Obama/the GOP - are allies. Useful idiots.
Yesterday proved that without question or doubt. Willful blindness or cognitive dissonance are the only reasons a logical person refuses to recognize what is going on here. Romney was chosen to run against Obama BY the media and the Ruling Class so he can lose to Obama. Ryan was chosen so blame for the loss can be placed on the head of Ryan’s brand of Conservatism.
But if you would rather pretend your vote is going to matter in November, nothing I say is going to help you see the illusion you desperately want to believe. But it is the reality we now exist under.
Bless your heart
And as usual every 4 years the GOP-E figures they have nothing to lose because who else are Republicans and conservatives going to vote for? This SC will be skipping the top slot in November and instead vote down ballot for the conservatives that best reflect my beliefs and values.
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