Posted on 08/23/2012 6:52:34 AM PDT by cap10mike
Hurricane Isaac isn’t the only storm developing in Tampa. The Republican National Committee is brewing up one of its own.
Florida has a penchant for jumping in the gun when it comes to scheduling presidential primaries. We did it in 2008 and again in 2012. Republican National Committee rules provide that when a state moves its primary ahead of those of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, the state forfeits half its delegates. That rule ended up reducing Florida’s delegates from 99 to 50 at Tampa convention.
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The republican national committee is a good target for fixing and its relatively easy to do with a couple hundred dedicated individuals.
Saul Anuzis was one of those who voted to change the delegate allocation rules in Michigan after the primary. He was also a national committeeman. It only took a few hundred votes to remove Anuzis and another Michigan committeeman from the RNC and replace them with real conservatives.
The real question is: how much longer will conventions last. They are hanging on now only to serve up some free TV time for the parties, but that may not be true for much longer. As a political instrument, they are quite dead.
What is so important about Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada that they should have their primaries first. I agree with others, make a single Republican primary day. There is no reason that those four states should “pick” the Rep nominee, which is what seems to happen most of the time.
Yes agree, only closed primaries should count.
Also i would like a GOP that doesn’t actually pick a nomineee until DURING the damn convention.
It just seems like Romney was shoved down all our throats ALL the time these last 9 months... Now he is our baby.
I am with you 100% on that. Its time for the me me me to end.
They need to write down the name of each state on a small slip of paper, and draw them from a hat for the order of the primaries. Of course, this might just make it so that GOPe can’t control the selection of the nominee, so that would never, ever happen.
To reform the RNC every GOP voter has to pay attention to who's on the ballot for "national committeeman" in his district.......and who's running the show in his county's Republican County Committee and hierarchy.....all of whom have input and influence with the National Committee.
Conservatives love to spend their time getting all involved in social issues, but they dislike getting involved in party apparatus. The result is what everyone's kvetching about above. And this is why the RNC has slipped from our grasp.
It's a bottom-up thingy, not the other way around. Folks HAVE to get involved at the local GOP level.
Comprende?
Leni
It is the RNC “leadership” that is the problem.
Must be fixed as soon as possible.
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