Romney's Agents Stage Coup at GOP Convention

Conservative HQ ^ | 8/27/12 | Richard A. Viguerie

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Fresh from the 2010 Tea Party wave that brought millions of new conservative voters into the Republican ranks and restored the GOP to control of the House of Representatives, Washington’s Republican political class is wasting no time in ensuring that the same grassroots conservative voters who have brought them to the threshold of capturing all three branches of government are permanently frozen out of influence in the Republican Party apparatus.

In response, grassroots conservatives have launched an unprecedented Rules fight that threatens to up-end the carefully choreographed coronation of Mitt Romney.

The Rules Committee report, which is set to be adopted Tuesday, includes Rules changes that shift the balance of power away from state and local Republican committees, who elect delegates to the National Convention every four years, in favor of DC’s permanent political class.

The Rules changes would:

•     allow presidential campaigns to, in essence, “fire” duly elected delegates they don’t like and replace them with individuals of their own choosing;
•     allow changes to the Republican Party Rules between Conventions, without a vote of delegates elected by the grassroots of the Party; and
•     undo the rules regarding the primary calendar that were designed to stop the trend toward front-loading the primary season and preserve the opportunity for Republicans across the country to have a say in who their presidential candidate would be.

Principled conservative Republican Party leaders Morton Blackwell of Virginia and Jim Bopp of Indiana are spearheading the drive to gather the votes necessary to adopt a Minority Rules Report and defeat the proposed rules changes on the floor during Tuesday’s procedural sessions.

To read Morton Blackwell’s letter to Republican National Convention delegates go here http://mranalogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Morton-RNC-Letter.pdf

To read Jim Bopp’s email to Republican National Convention delegates go here:

http://www.conservativehq.com/article/9513-james-bopp-jr-letter

Indiana’s National Committeeman, James Bopp, who also serves as Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee, said in an email to delegates, “This is the biggest power grab in the history of the Republican Party because it shifts the power to select delegates from the state party to the candidate. And it would make the Republican Party a top down, not bottom up party.”

Virginia’s Morton Blackwell, a member of the Republican National Committee’s Standing Committee on Rules and on the National Convention's Committee on Rules and Order of Business said these are “rules changes that could fundamentally change our Republican Party -- and not for the better.”

Blackwell noted that DC election lawyer Ben Ginsberg brought these proposals to the Rules Committee where “he represented himself as the leader on the Committee for the Romney Campaign.”

Ginsberg, Blackwell observed, had earlier this year worked for conservative Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign, “is unencumbered by principle.”  “After working for Bachmann’s grassroots campaign he is advocating Rules that would centralize power, restrain and eliminate grassroots influence and create a top-down, rather than bottom-up Party – the very antithesis of what allowed a candidate like Michele Bachmann to run,” said Blackwell.

RNC Vice Chairman Bopp dismissed any notion that the Rules changes had an ideological motivation, noting that they represent “a threat to both moderates and conservatives who could be purged, depending on who is the Republican Presidential nominee” and that to preserve the bottom-up nature of the Party the issues raised should be taken care of by changes to state laws and state GOP rules governing the selection of their state’s delegates to the national convention.

To oppose this power grab by Washington’s permanent political class grassroots GOP activists must shine the light of day on this behind the scenes power grab; call your Republican National Convention delegates, blog about, email it to your friends and contacts, post it on your Facebook page and social media sites and call your local and national conservative talk radio programs.

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I thought both Ann and Chris last night spoke very well TO THEIR ASSIGNED TARGET AUDIENCES.

For better or worse, Romney is running the show his way.

We wanted red meat and we were served salad.

We wanted to be thanked, and we got snubbed.

Politics, Romney style, is now on display.

It is different from the McCain Method, so I will give it a ‘wait and see’ for now to the Romney/Ryan Method, unless they play small ball with their Campaign.

Christy had a short leash, but was dead serious about the TRUTH that we can expect to hear from Romney in his Convention Speech.

If Romney cannot give us the Truth that we need to hear in his Convention Speech, then the RINO wing of the once Great Republican Party may well join the Whig Party in the dustbin of History.

BTW Romney, convince us that you REALLY want to beat Obama.

Patience is not an American Virtue.

Tick-Tock Romney, Tick-Tock.

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Wow another comment from yet another dipsh!t, hopefully you can get a synapse to fire between both of your 2 brain cells before you breed, that way at least your offspring won't be a total moron just like you.

Not making any assumptions that they won't be, but being the optimist that I am, "hope springs eternal".

OH yea, piss off, troll.

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Not sure, but your boy Romney does.. Please refer to the previous post for an answer that applies surprisingly to you as well.