I never saw him on TV either; so I figger a LOT of folks haven't.
So; enjoy!!
Posted on 08/29/2012 6:56:59 AM PDT by xzins
It seems like every time Governor Mitt Romney gets conservatives looking his way, his ham handed advisors and staff do something to weaken conservative support for his candidacy and drive away conservative leaders who could be rallying the troops for the fall election.
The latest unforced error on the part of the Romney organization involves an attempt by Washington election lawyer Ben Ginsberg, operating allegedly on behalf of the Romney campaign, to change the Republican Party rules. Ginsberg's changes would, among other things, allow the presidential campaigns to “fire” duly elected delegates to the National Convention.
This unprecedented power grab by the Washington-based insiders and consultants of the Romney campaign provoked outrage from state GOP leaders and activists across the country and threatened to upend Governor Romney’s carefully choreographed nomination in Tampa this week.
The controversy about this and other proposed rules changes -- including allowing Party bureaucrats to change the Republican Party Rules between Conventions, without a vote of delegates elected by the grassroots of the Party; and a plan to un-do the rules regarding the primary calendar that were designed to stop the trend toward front-loading the primary season and preserve the opportunity for grassroots Republicans across the country to have a say in who their presidential candidate would be -- prompted Virginia’s principled conservative Republican National Committeeman Morton Blackwell to organize a floor fight over the Rules changes.
Blackwell, a Romney delegate and substantial donor to the Romney campaign, said in a letter to fellow delegates, these are “rules changes that could fundamentally change our Republican Party -- and not for the better.”
Blackwell should know; he’s been a delegate to the Republican National Convention since the 1960s and is 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.
In a political party of millions of members, you can’t get every vote. Competing candidates and issues are what makes a party strong and brings new voters into the party as candidates and issues vie for support. This is something Team Romney has apparently never understood, as their half-hearted attempts to heal the Party after the hard-fought primary demonstrate.
We hope this kind of contempt for the grassroots of the Republican Party isn’t what Governor Romney really thinks of the millions of local GOP activists who are supposed to be out working for him this fall.
More to the point, if these undemocratic rules changes truly originated with Governor Romney, they speak very poorly of the character of a man seeking to lead the free world.
A president must lead, and presidential leadership -- particularly in matters of foreign affairs and dealing with the separate branches of our federal system of government -- involves persuasion, example and moral courage, not bullying.
If this is truly Governor Romney’s personal response to a few catcalls from the peanut gallery at the Republican National Convention, we wonder what he will do if Luxemburg and the Netherlands refuse to go along with some foreign policy of his, change the rules of NATO?
I would never trust Mitt Romney with judicial appointments. His will be no different than Obama's. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see Mitt channeling Gerald Ford, that patron of John Paul Stevens.
HMMmm...
This sounds vaguely familiar...
That is NO way to go thru life!
It ain’t a bridge; but an inverted siphon.
And...
It will sure get rid of them pesky EVANGELICALs that dog the ELITE at every turn!!!
There it is again!
I’m SURE I’ve heard it before...
I never saw him on TV either; so I figger a LOT of folks haven't.
So; enjoy!!
I know my mouth fell open when Boehner intentionally called that vote wrong. Where is the check on a moderator when he does that on purpose? If we don't have honest people in positions of authority, we are done. We all know now Boehner can't be trusted to be honest. We have a deceitful Speaker of the House.
Republicans who definitely going to vote for Romney in order to remove Hussein, likely don't care what Boehner did. Nothing matters to them except vote for Romney even though they don't like him.
Well, we have gone past “don't like him”, we have arrived at Romney destroying the Republican Party and taking it for his own. He did a “Bain” on us. Set in place a way to “buy” the Republican Party (change the rules) and get rid of employees (conservatives) he doesn't want and put in his own people so he can control the whole thing - that's his “Bain” protocol, works every time.
My tag line is so true.
I know my mouth fell open when Boehner intentionally called that vote wrong. Where is the check on a moderator when he does that on purpose? If we don't have honest people in positions of authority, we are done. We all know now Boehner can't be trusted to be honest. We have a deceitful Speaker of the House.
Republicans who definitely going to vote for Romney in order to remove Hussein, likely don't care what Boehner did. Nothing matters to them except vote for Romney even though they don't like him.
Well, we have gone past “don't like him”, we have arrived at Romney destroying the Republican Party and taking it for his own. He did a “Bain” on us. Set in place a way to “buy” the Republican Party (change the rules) and get rid of employees (conservatives) he doesn't want and put in his own people so he can control the whole thing - that's his “Bain” protocol, works every time.
My tag line is so true.
Boehner
Who’s running against him?
Time to unleash the hounds on these folk.
He’s screwed his state, conservatives, and the country as much as Obama
He has to go period. The cost of losing that one House seat against the cost to him remaining is small. Time to clean House.
The primary is over so he doesn’t have a Republican running against him. The Democrat would have to defeat him in November which won’t happen.
He needs to lose his speaker job. Our house Republicans need to vote for a different speaker next January. Dump him back to being just a representative with no power.
You’re missing the big picture, in that the Tea Party is slowly and methodically eliminating the RINOs in congress and the senate. Without them, while Romney might want to be a liberal, “nothing liberal this way comes.”
Right now, Romney might still win, but the fight for conservatives is that the Speaker of the House is *not* Boehner, and the Senate majority leader is *not* a RINO.
If the Tea Party is strong enough in the House to select a different speaker, than anything liberal that Romney wants is kaput. If he wants something the conservatives want, he gets it. His choice.
Even if he does an Obama, and tries to liberally rule by executive order, congress will just slash funding for that activity or agency. They mean to do some serious trash hauling as is. If Romney wants to increase the budget on anything, he is going to have to surrender twice as much in cuts.
The bottom line is that while Romney might want to focus on domestic policy, it is out of his hands. So he will have his best successes just cleaning up the international messes that Obama has left behind.
Conservatism is dead. PREPARE
While I agree with your sentiments, You are wrong to suggest that Conservatism is dead. It is the Republican Party that is dead. Conservatism has shown itself to be vigorously alive and well in both the TEA parties and Chick-Fil-A.
What is missing now (and has been missing for a long while, really) is a vehicle for Conservatism. A third party will fix that, but whether that can happen soon enough to change our direction is another thing altogether.
"PREPARE," indeed
A post worthy of reflection. Thanks, yefraget
I would like to get some of what you are smoking; if it is a legal substance.
He needs to lose his speaker job. Our house Republicans need to vote for a different speaker next January.
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The problem with that is that the leadership positions for the next house session are voted in by the lame duck Congress. That’s how Puddles got the gavel before the 2010 TP members were sworn in.
You didn’t really think they’d allow voters to upset the feed trough, did you?
;>)
“The problem with that is that the leadership positions for the next house session are voted in by the lame duck Congress.”
No, the speaker is elected when the new session, with the new members, starts in January.
Remember, when the Democrats won in 2008, Pelosi was elected in January when the new members were there.
Instead of name-calling, tell me who was more conservative than Mitt Romney? Surely you don’t mean “Read My Lips” Bush or Tarp Bailout Bush Jr.
Romney was against the GM-Chrysler-UAW bailout that Bush Jr forced through, and Romney said it in real time.
Please don’t respond if it is just name-calling. I have studied the issues carefully, and Bush Sr and Bush Jr were RINOs. Bush Sr was pro-abortion until the day Reagan picked him, and Bush Jr was moderate on everything, including trying to put pro-Choice Harriet Myers onto the Supreme Court.
Please have an intelligent response with facts.
“It will sure get rid of them pesky EVANGELICALs that dog the ELITE at every turn!!!”
I just thought of something: Since Romney could pick the delegates in every state, would that mean a national convention of Mormons? That would be possible, so why not?
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