Posted on 01/24/2014 11:06:55 AM PST by GIdget2004
The Republican National Committee gave near-unanimous approval Friday to a package of rules changes that would condense the 2016 presidential nominating calendar and help the party avoid the kind of protracted party infighting that dented GOP nominee Mitt Romney's general election appeal in 2012.
The changes dovetail with the party's desire to move the convention from late summer to a June window, which would make the next Republican National Convention the earliest convention in either party since 1948. The RNC has announced its support for the June move but will formally vote on the change at a later date.
"This is an historic day for our party," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said after the vote....
The party is also taking steps to exert more control over Republican primary debates their moderators, but has yet to formalize any changes.
The rules changes, first reported by CNN in December, protect the traditional role of four early voting states while enacting harsh penalties against states that choose to hold early primaries or caucuses in violation of RNC rules. Those first four states – Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada – will hold their primary and caucus contests in February of 2016.
To prevent other states from jumping the order and compelling the first four to move their dates even earlier in January, as they did in 2012, any state that attempts to hold its nominating contest in February would have their number of delegates to the convention slashed to just nine people or, in the case of smaller states, one-third of their delegation - whichever number is smaller.
"It's the death penalty," said one RNC member.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Rule #1: If you are not acceptable to the ruling elite, you cannot be a candidate.
It can be done and I believe more easily than most would at first think.
For example, the Tea Party Convention could be a hybrid virtual convention where state TP delegations attend state convention centers with all conventions tied together in live video. No need to make one city the epicenter.
In addition to nominating a TP conservative a TP convention could adopt a platform.
Here’s why I think it’s a feasible and potent proposal:
The loose assemblage of Tea Party organizations has in the past and can again represent nearly 70 million Americans comprising conservatives, independents, libertarians, the blue collar Perot Bloc (more than 6 million) and Reagan democrats (more than 7 million). There will also be a significant bloc of voters that go with their perception of who will be a winner.
These numbers are possible and even probable given the grievances that most Americans have with both political parties today.
Republicans such as Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and other recent TP champions can attend both conventions. But their presence at the TP Convention one month before that of the GOP will empower them to be movers and shakers in the latter.
I agree. Three debates and one, single-day primary.
If what you want is the candidate with the deepest pockets and establishment support to win, that's the way to insure he wins.
States response. You cut our delegates, we don’t put you on the ballot and you are not welcome to campaign here.
I’ve been floating the same idea for about a month now.
Tea party gets behind one in the beginning. Much easier to beat the GOPe that way.
maybe even send a GOPe ringer in too.
Mitt Romney needed no help in that regard.
I believe you were addressing your post to somebody else.
At first glance this seems symbolic only. But upon further reflection, some united statement coming out of a "Tea Party Convention" about who conservatives should vote for could have a chance to affect the eventual nominee. If we could at least get all conservatives voting for he same guy, it might reduce the dilution of votes that always get the establishment and media "their guy".
This is a great idea. Heck, this is better than a great idea. This just might work.
It might be worth some of us sending out some letters to state Tea Party Organizers, Levine, Limbaugh, Palin, Etc.
THIS is important, however.... NO POLITICIANS ARE ALLOWED AT THE CONVENTION. We could have speakers there, but it needs to be organized in a way that is functional and actually debates and vets the candidates. The mission would be to finish a "convention" with an announcement that "encourages" all Tea Party Supporters and Conservatives to vote for one candidate.
You should post this as a new stand alone Vanity post. Some great things have come out of FR. Long shot maybe, but hey, who knows. JimRob knows some folks I'm sure.
Great idea to have the convention in June in the summer while more people are paying attention to politics.
I’d have to give it more consideration as this is a pretty fresh idea. But, initially, I would think a single (large) gathering with assumed representatives from all over the country in one place, void of political influence from potential nominees, would lend more credence to an affirmation of one candidate than several events that could be watered down by the MSM as “rallies”.
Worse, if there were different nominees chosen at different “conventions” if they did not get organized enough to link on the same day at the same time, we could do more harm than good. And if we insisted on speakers, they’d want to be at all of them to get their mug out there (politicians I mean).
This seems like a big idea brewed in a tiny lab here. Without some legs, starting with FReepers, I’m not sure it’ll get anywhere past this thread.
As I told another, and CC’d JimRob, it might be good to post this idea as a vanity thread topic. FReepers are pretty smart and collectively might be able to move some levers.
Except for Reagan, the current process has given us by “compassionate conservatives” and moderates. Not one of had the slightest concern about really reducing the size and power of the central government.
Excellent! That is giving the GOP-e some of their own medicine.
Let them dangle out there with their pampered powdered princes.
One month prior to the GOP Convention is six months too late! and would be just blowing smoke.
The state primaries will begin in February, and that is when the delegate accumulation begins.
Whatever the TEA Party does to consolidate its vote will need to be done, at the latest, before any early voting begins in the earliest primary, probably one month prior, or by the middle of January 2014.
Good point but you meant ‘by the middle of January ***2016***’.
Took the idea over to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3115314/posts
“...by the middle of January 2014...”
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Oops.
Too late!
What a crock of crap.
Yeah, 2016, that's what I meant. Aren't we all in a big hurry to toss obunga out?
I suspect this is related to the establishment party types getting behind one squish candidate early with a lot of money and hoping no conservative candidate has a chance to emerge by that time.
If the establishment guys had their thoughts on the general rather than the primary election, they would focus on who moderates the debates and not letting Dims vote in Republican primaries.
But they would rather be beaten by a Dim than by a conservative.
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