Posted on 08/27/2012 2:32:18 PM PDT by Ron C.
Drew McKissick is a longtime conservative activist and blogger who is in attendance at the Republican National Convention’s Rules Committee meetings. He and others on the ground are sounding the alarm over rules changes that he and many other attendees believe will hurt grass-roots movement conservatives. The battle is being cast by some observers as a narrow fight between Ron Paul advocates and the rest of the party. Drew says that’s not true. And many other state delegations who oppose top-down delegate choices are chiming in.
First, here’s Drew’s call to arms (my emphasis added in bold):
Fellow conservatives,
Those who are in Tampa working to maintain the influence of grassroots conservatives in the Republican Party need your help!
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
If he keeps it up, he'll lose far more than a few votes at the convention!
Well folks, how would you have liked it if say Sarah Palin or Jim DeMint had ran and won the nomination by winning the popular vote in the caucuses and primaries - except that some little faction took over the conventions in the various states and rigged the delegates to their candidate instead.
That’s exactly what the Paulsheviks did in Iowa. Santorum and Romney tied, Paul ran a distant third, but of our delegate slate of 28, 23 are voting for Ron Paul. Is that what you want, a small group rigging delegates with smoky back room deals made by the 1% of the 1%, or the will of the people reflected?
We also had those who supported Ron Paul at the convention but said they supported Romney so they would get elected. If this were again, a Sarah Palin or Jim Demint, would you want false flag operatives ambushing you at convention by claiming to support one candidate but voting for another?
This rule didn’t come out of a vacuum. Let’s think this thru more, because next time it might be a bona fide conservative that someone is trying to undermine.
kook paul is not in any way main stream. He is not tea party, main party, or anything other than a joke.
historically we always have these kooks pop up when their nutjob candidate does not make it. kook paul should man up and unite with the party and tell his paulists to stand down. Even IF there was a floor fight it would be over before it started since kook paul has no significant votes.
This isn’t about the Paulsheviks - this is about shutting down Tea Party delegates, which pose a far greater threat to the GOP-E.
They represent us, they don’t own us.
‘...give Romney at shot.’
Mormons don’t drink, Sarah.
The time for that battle is in the local republican clubs and parties.
Take over those AFTER this election, RIGHT AFTER the election. You have to do the work now, right now, with an eye towards 2014.
To have these fight now is usuless and only demonstrates disorganization for the media.
In the words of Mr. Spock, “please, not in front of the Klingons.”
Well I may be colored by my recent convention experience here in Iowa Ron, but I’m so tired of seeing the popular will of the people ignored. I don’t care how just the cause, when 1% of the 1% can rig things to their liking, it bugs me.
I fully understand that’s how we do the electoral college, but at least there’s some play off the popular vote. It is so easy to pull strings via the convention process with only a moderate amount of organization. Not a Romney fan but I’m just thinking about the future when we have a candidate we DO like.
Then I assume you would prefer a state’s delegates to reflect and represent the popular vote of the party membership as a whole.
It wasn’t just Romney that got screwed in Iowa, it was Santorum too.
What is a delegate if he’s not allowed to vote? They had better stop this top-down stuff, in both parties, before people give up on the system.
Romney and Rove are the ones who are remaking the party to be liberal on many issues including social issues. And this effort to disenfranchise delegates is being led by Romney. Read the full article. It talks about many Tea Party types who have tried to boot RINOs out in primaries opposing this change. With this change Romney can apparently ban any delegates he doesn't like and pack the convention with his own. Then the delegates the states elect will have no say in anything the party does.
Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks is on the scene. Many Romney supporters are now coming forward to disavow the Romney campaign-led effort:
The first state to split from the establishment plan and speak up against proposed changes was Texas but it has now been joined by a number of other state delegations including Iowa, Nevada, Nebraska, Minnesota, Virginia, South Carolina, Indiana and probably more by the time you receive this. Opposition is snowballing because Republicans don’t want to see their party traditions tossed aside by big government insiders.
The battle is being cast by some observers as a narrow fight between Ron Paul advocates and the rest of the party.
The bottom of the article has the state GOP phone numbers they want you to contact in bullet point #1 below.
THE BELOW LINK has the phone numbers for the CONVENTION RULES COMMITTEE members for each state (2 per state). In bullet point #3 they want you to contact them as well.
CONVENTION RULES COMMITTEE members phone numbers/e-mails
1) We need all conservative Republican grassroots supporters to contact their state GOP and let them know that they OPPOSE the rules change that will give future presidential campaigns control over who gets to be a delegate (current RULE 15, but is being renumbered to 16)…and OPPOSE the new RULE 12 which allows the RNC to change the rules at any time between conventions.
2) We need them to contact any DELEGATES to the convention they may know and tell them they OPPOSE the rules change and want them to support a move on the floor to amend this change via the MINORITY REPORTS – and support a demand for a ROLL CALL VOTE if necessary.
3) We need them to contact the CONVENTION RULES COMMITTEE members for their state (each state has two) and tell them they want them to SIGN THE MINORITY REPORTS before Tuesday’s session at 2:00PM. You can find a copy of the list here.
A third party should have been formed about 3 elections back. It’s too late now.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Romney’s poll numbers drop after the convention.
Thanks for the heads up. Emailed my reps and shared on FB.
Thanks very much, dearest RedMDer!
FB = great idea!
The candidates that I am supporting are there and currently posting on FB so they should see my “share”.
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