"Win. Lose. Who cares. I am in it for the money
and my socialist agenda."
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.
It doesn’t make any difference to me — I wasn’t going tovote for the S.O.B. anyway. Romney/Obama, Obamney, Robama, whatever, you can’t tell ‘em apart in a dark room. This is just another reason to vote for the person (not neccesarily the candidate) you feel is best qualified for the job.
Whichever candidate wins the Presidency, we Americans are going to lose. Voting for either of them is tacit approval of whatever they do. They’ll do it but you will have enabled and approved it with your vote.
Enjoy the descent into Socialism. You’ve earned it!
Vote Sarah Palin. Your vote may not count for her but at least it won’t count against you!
Do you have that photo of Mitt raising money for abortions, as a fund raiser for Planned Parenthood?
About time people got serious don’t ya think?
There are two political forces in the USA, the ruling class and the country class.
The democrats and their little puppets known as the GOP-e form the aristocracy. The rest form the peasantry.
The idea of Republicans versus Democrats is an illusion.
The real parties should step forward as The Tea Party versus the Statist Party. That would be a more accurate representation.
"Win. Lose. Who cares. I am in it for the money
and my socialist agenda."
Thanks STARWISE and onyx.
“Hannity pressed Rick Santorum on these issues and RS appeared to be apathetic about it.”
I’m apathetic as well. Why are people wasting so much energy on something so meaningless? The primaries have displaced the convention’s role in the nomination process. The platform was written before the convention started. There’s nothing going in Tampa worth getting worked up over. The Romneybots are going overboard trying to make sure order is maintained for this little dog and pony show, despite the presence of so many Paulists. Good for them. I don’t even care if we have a convention, I certainly don’t care how they conduct it, as long as they can keep from embarrassing themselves on TV.
“Without the energy and wisdom of the grassroots, the GOP would not have had the historic 2010 electoral victories.”
AND it was a BLOWOUT! You wouldn’t know it by the timid, media courting behavior of the elite establishment since. Reagan stood up, called Carter MR. CARTER, talked straight about the mess the Carter administration had made of the country, and STOOD . . never mind how ASHAMED and MORTIFIED the country club RNC elites were. Now Reagan lives in legend, and the RNC elites live in anonymity and hard headedness, still straining to be “accepted” by Chris Matthews.
I really do not think republicans care whether or not they win this election. Unfortunately they are more concerned about destroying their own. More and more I’m thinking this is all they ever meant to do. Their hatred of their base is incredibly passionate. They do not deserve to be in Washington. They seem to be capable of nothing more than destruction.
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Posted on 08/28/2012 1:05:10 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2923884/posts
It beats me. Hannity also talked with Michelle Bachmann about the convention and MB did not mention one word about it.
In fact Didn't he say he didn't want to return to Reagen/Bush?
Screw You Mittens, and the Donkey you road in on!
“It’s a direct attack on grassroots activists by the GOP establishment, and it must be rejected. Please follow the link to Michelle Malkin’s article about this.”
It certainly IS a reason to have a strong 3rd party in place the next time around. Screw romney and our gop elitists.
I prefer Paul over Romney any day. But I prefer Newt or Palin over either of them by a hundredfold.
The presidency is lost no matter who wins. The thing to do now is get control of the Senate and strengthen the numbers in the House. This can stop Rombama until we get Newt or Palin in 2016.
Let the Paulinians torture the aristocracy that makes up the democrat and GOP elites. Screw ‘em.
You can blame Ron Paul and try to rationalize away the fact that it is the GOP elitist that are taking the actions to silence the base but it is still wrong and will take a very serious toll and the Grand Old Party.
PALIN, NOT RUSH - he’s been for mitt all along. I stopped listening to him.
YES, we’ve been saying it all along! Where’s the Jim thread you speak of?
They weren’t silencing the base, they were silencing the Paulers. You can rationalize this all you want, but it worked out just the way the Paulers planned. They have the two sides of the Republican Party at each other’s throats and the Paulers are standing there giggling as usual. Yeah, giggling, that’s what they do.
not a thread, but a comment on the egop actions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2923728/posts?page=237#237
Don’t waste bandwidth on that EVIL snake in the grass POS!
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