Posted on 07/16/2016 5:53:38 AM PDT by SMGFan
During the RNC’s Rules Committee meeting, grassroots conservatives were crushed by the establishment. Openness, transparency, and the rights of the minority lost yesterday in Cleveland. It was a rout.
Sure, the headlines coming out of the Rules Committee meeting yesterday were that Free the Delegates and Delegates Unbound were soundly defeated. Hidden under the headlines is the fact that time and time again measures to devolve power to the members of the RNC and away from the chair were soundly defeated - ________
As the meeting finally got underway any rule that would have placed limits or checks on the Chair of the Republican Party was soundly defeated. These rules included allowing committees to elect their own chairmen, requiring the presence of a parliamentary professional at all RNC meetings, lessening the grip of the chair on the budget committee, among others. Every attempt was quickly characterized as an attack on Priebus. Priebus’ allies always couched their arguments against transparency in a veil of teamwork and unity. -
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativereview.com ...
Put some lotion on that Butt Hurt.
These vermin were all about the party rules when they were stealing states for Cruz. Now they cry like little bitches
Is that what Kasich meant by “finish” the border? I thought he meant “finish it off,” like abolishing whatever was left of it after Obama. So Kasich was just lying? Who could have guessed that!
In a turning point in the development of liberty as we know it, which laid the foundation of our form of government, the divine right of a minority to rule with no regard for the will of the people was laid to rest over 300 years ago by Algernon Sidney, John Locke and others. The Never Trumpers need to get used to it.
“During the RNC’s Rules Committee meeting, grassroots conservatives were crushed by the establishment. “
Thanks for the revisionist history. Grassroots as in old, wilting, compromised “roots”.
The article has it backwards. It was the Establishment - specifically the cheap labor group - trying to steal the nomination for their guy who was defeated by the grass roots aka voters.
It is not important that cry babies get their little piece of convention power allowing them to dominate the news.
What “conservatives” were crushed?
Exactly right. What they tried to do was to undo the state caucuses.
they will be assimilated
I don’t know about anyone else, but “I can see 1980 from my window.”
conservativereview.com ..
As someone once said, while reading a story abought the Peoples Republic of North Korea, : if you have to tell me what you are, You probably ain’t>
“American Party”. would that include our neighbors to the south and north?
I’ll never understand why we in USofA think we are America, when we are not even the whole of North America.
Good luck, I’ve been saying for 20 years we need to throw both democrat and republican parties out and start the American Party, same name you just used, and nobody wants to listen.
I don’t think they’re through yet, we’ll see more underhanded attempts at taking it away from Trump before it’s over...
They said “conservative” but they really meant W’s “compassionate conservative.” Basically a Democrat ideology under GOPe control.
other way around. Conservatives beat EStablishment effort to change rules to remove Trump
The reason no one listens is because you are wrong
That is the solution to a party strangling its base in the rules committee. It may come to that. I'd be very happy to bolt from a GOPe that has become merely a branch of the uniParty of urban globalists.
I lost a lot of respect for the GOP when I was a delegate in 2012.
Uh!....Maybe because we are the only country named United States of **AMERICA**. If others want to be called Americans then they can change the name of their counties.
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