Mitt Romney’s Assault on the Grassroots at the RNC

Caffeinated Thoughts ^ | Sunday August 26, 2012 | Shane Vander Hart

[Bigtigermike]

Mitt Romney’s legal advisor, Ben Ginsburg, has been attacking grassroots activism within the Republican Party during the Convention of the Rules Committee that met Friday prior to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL according to a source at the meeting.  I was told late yesterday that one of the amendments that he offered and was passed by the committee changes the RNC rules so that the presumptive nominee and the state party can decide who the delegates are that can go to the national convention.  The language of the rule states that the presidential nominee and state party can disavow any delegate.

These are essentially the people who write the platform.  Think about the implications of this:  If the nominee is anti-life, he or she, can essential disavow any pro-life delegate.  If he is in favor of same-sex marriage, he can disavow those delegates.  This gives the nominee too much influence over the party and it diminishes the grassroots who choose the delegates to send.  It is a top-down approach which favors the establishment.

[MNJohnnie]

You might want to try finding a credible source, rather then a blog.

[Bigtigermike]

You are wrong according to this committee member:

The change, pushed by the Romney campaign’s top lawyer Ben Ginsburg originally allowed candidates to select all the delegates bound to them in state contests. Now it allows candidates to refuse the delegate, requiring another in his or her stead to be selected by the state.

“The bottom line is that the change adopted today essentially allows the Presidential campaigns to pick there own delegates, which makes it a complete insider’s ballgame and allows a bunch of Washington D.C. consultants to decide who does and doesn’t get to be a delegate,” said South Carolina delegate Drew McKissick.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/romney-rules-changes-could-spark-gop-convention-fl?s=mobile

[Monorprise]

It will certantly make it a lot more difficult for a nommity to hold together a Party and prevent fractures.

I find it interesting in a dull way how some politicians once in office try to bring my unity by means of squashing decent.

Mitt has a lot of bad liberals working for him, men who are no doubt undermining his campaign.

It is very likely that if we are going to win this election and get rid of the Abomination we may have to drag Mitt to the Finnish line yourself. The future of theses “united” States is increasingly at stake here.

[Monorprise]

That may be so Kazan, but we are between a rock and a hard place as far as Washington DC is concerned.

No man we send there will ever seriously give up power, it is not in the nature of politicians to give up the very power they run to possess. It is understandable why even when elected on this printable they have demonstratively dragged their feet to the point of failing or simply accomplishing nothing.

In many ways we are dealing with a machine the only differences is the leftist agenda lends itself well to the self-interest of that machine although not in the way Liberals think it does. The difference there is the reason why liberals never accomplish dream with government.

Still if we are to accomplish our goals we must create and enact a strategy capable of achieving that end rather than simply attempting to uses this machine to do that which it is not designed/inclined to do.

That means of course if we want to reclaim our rights, we will have to do it from outside of Washington with self-interested tools in opposition. Regretfully however that also requires overcoming certant historic barriers erected by the Federal Government to resist the same kind of attack upon its usurped power.

It is worth noting that most all of them are centered around Washington ability to uses force. So if we defang the Federal military, and beef up our states Washington;s many tricks become a lot less threatening, and as a result their power becomes a lot more consensual.