Newt Gingrich Is Right (NYT Ed on Fla)

NYT ^ | 12-3-12 | Rosenthal

[wardaddy]

nice

[aruanan]

The primaries are over and Mitt won and even Rush Limbaugh believes we need to get behind the nominee and focus our energies on going after Obama.

1. There is no nominee yet.

2. Except, according to the RNC rules that existed prior to the primary and that still control, Romney cannot be awarded all 50 delegates. In fact, according to the rules, if the state had not amended its procedures to proportional awarding of delegates before the primary, the results of the primary itself are void, since a winner take all state is forbidden to hold a primary before April.

[RainMan]

Riddle me this ... how is it fair that IA, NH, and SC all loose half their delegates for running primaries before April 1, AND they also have to do proportional ... and FL does NOT.

IF the contest is before April 1, they WILL loose half the delegates, and it WILL be proportional allocation. Otherwise, every state that has already run can say they are winner take all, and Santorum gets all the delgates from IA, Romney from NH, and Gingrich from SC. After all, thats only fair.

[Riodacat]

1. There is no nominee yet.

The Republican establishment begs to differ.

[absalom01]

Thank you. That’s a much better way to say it.

[Pelham]

That sums it up.

[chrisnj]

Rules only matter in Virginia.
Right!
rules in GA don’t matter at all - obozo doesn’t have to show up in court as ordered and doesn’t have to show any genuine hard-copy of bc to be ruled born in Hawaii thus nbc and has access to ballot!