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To: Cincinatus' Wife
“There is no reason for this country to have any significant problems. They are almost all an artifact of a really bad governing structure and a really incompetent bureaucratic system.

Exactly!! Bad governing by either a GOP E or liberal president - neither cared about America but staying in power.

Go Newt! Time for a PATRIOT to lead! Someone who the GOP E/liberals don't want. Newt KNOWS where our former leaders went off the track and plans on putting it back on track and KNOWS how to do it!

7 posted on 03/28/2012 1:20:15 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name; All
To derail Romney at Tampa convention, change the rules

....."Let's look at a couple of plausible scenarios:

Scenario One: Florida and Arizona's delegates become free agents

Florida and Arizona were penalized half their delegates for jumping to the front of the primary calendar. But both were winner-take-all states, even though Republican rules clearly stated that early primaries had to allocate delegates proportionately. If the anti-Romney forces brought a challenge to the floor, there is nothing that would require anyone—bound, pledged or "morally bound"—to vote with the Romney forces. A loss here would mean that at least 30 of the 79 total delegates from Florida and Arizona could vanish from Romney's column.

Scenario Two: All candidates become free agents

Suppose the challenge to Romney is broader, and that, like the Kennedy forces did in 1980, the opposition offers a rule to free all the delegates from their commitments on the ground that the primaries have demonstrated Romney's weakness. Here, we could see a number of delegates bound to Romney vote to liberate themselves from the obligation to vote for him. (Again, we should note that delegates bound to vote for Romney as the nominee don't have to side with him on other votes that stand to determine his fate.) Sure, most delegates would probably stand by the former governor on grounds of loyalty, fairness or fear of reprisals. But if Romney has not garnered a large enough share of delegates by convention time, it would not take many defections to make every delegate a free agent, and thus turn the whole convention upside down."

Scenario Three: Wild card

Imagine a platform plank that repudiated health care individual mandates "at the national or state level," a clear stick in Romney's eye (and, I suspect, a sentiment the majority of delegates would embrace). Or imagine a proposal that the candidates participate in a debate in front of the convention before the balloting begins. Or suppose Romney prevails, but his foes contest his vice-presidential selection. There are countless other ways for a convention to turn contentious.".....

8 posted on 03/28/2012 1:31:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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