Posted on 08/28/2012 7:31:55 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
At 2:00 p.m. today in Tampa, the Republican National Committee, led by Team Romney, is moving to shut down conservative grassroots activists. I’ve been on the phone with several individuals involved in the fight who tell me that the fight is not over, it is only just starting.
Specifically, the media is reporting that the rules fight is over because Team Romney is abandoning Ben Ginsberg’s effort to allow candidates to control delegates. Under an initial proposal, delegates would, in effect, be chosen by the presumed nominee’s campaign and not based on votes in the states and delegate selection processes in the states.
That issue appears resolved, but several people I’ve spoken to this morning make clear that Team Romney and the RNC establishment are using that compromise as a red herring to distract from two major rules change proposals that would decimate Republican grassroots and prevent upstart political campaigns.
Reports that the floor fight threat is over might be designed to calm the grassroots and get them to ignore what is coming at 2 o’clock.
The first rule to be proposed is one that would give the Republican National Committee the power to change rules between conventions with a three-quarters vote of the RNC. One source tells me, “With a Republican President, of course this is doable. Everybody will roll over if a President Romney asks them too. They’ll be able to get Ben Ginsberg’s proposal next year.”
In other words, if Team Romney prevails in this rules change, they don’t have to worry about Ben Ginsberg not getting his way today on the delegate changes. They’ll be able to do it later when the press and grassroots are not watching.
The second rules change would front load winner takes all primaries.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Are you ready for the consequences? Hope you've got your 6 month's of ammo, food, water, and whatever meds you should be taking, but aren't.
Got what I need, n00b. Enjoy your chains, unless, of course, you are RINO scum yourself.
LOL, I’m right with ya’...
When you face it honestly Romney is not that different from Obama. I dislike individuals like Romney for the same reasons I do not like Obama. They are not thinking in terms of the constitution or the well being of hard working Americans. Nothing will change under Romney except the military receiving more funding.
“Time to start the TEA PARTY for real.”
Yes it is.
Let's be accurate, shall we?
“Daddy, if you put duct tape over my mouth and lock me in shackles in the basement, I’m running away from home! WAHHHHHHH!”
J., you are a poster child for a “useful idiot” category to your illustrious Establishment maneuvers, manipulations and machinations.
Brace yourself for your cliff fall of disappointment and betrayal.
This is what FreedomWorks is asking us to say:
Please call your state's Rules Committee delegates here and ask that they oppose the "compromise" on Rule 15, oppose Rule 12, and support the full Minority Reports on the Rules.
I think that's applicable to a O defeat as well lol.
I am so upset that Romney is telegraphing he’s not going to go more mainstream, but way to the left.
Oh Rita, I’ve already gone through that phase and braced myself for that. I judged that to be less painful than Obama. You can do whatever you want.
Hey, I am not making excuses for them, I am just stating the excuses that I predict they will give.
There is something to this issue that I think is being over looked. It’s the influence of the Libertarians, who want to see the social conservatives, excluded. The Libertarians have been causing trouble at state conventions over “rules”. This is their M. O. The goal is simply to disrupt the convention and prevent real work from getting done.
It’s not being overlooked. This is a coalition of convenience between the Tea Party and the Paulites. Both of us lose if these rules pass. We will obviously have our separate battles with them in the future. But we both die on the battlefield today if these rules pass. Besides, if the Tea Party got more organized and mastered the delegate rules like the Paulites, we’d easily overwhelm them in numbers. They’re not much of a threat.
both of Florida’s Rules Committee members, Peter Feaman and Kathleen King, have been removed from the Rules committee and replaced with Romney-appointed delegates.
Clearly anticipating a grassroots backlash against the “compromise” on Rule 15 and the changes on Rule 12 has caused the Romney camp to preemptively replace delegates to ensure they have support on the Rules Committee.
It’s enough to make your blood boil. Please call your state’s Rules Committee delegates here and ask that they oppose the “compromise” on Rule 15, oppose the changes to Rule 12, and support the full Minority Reports on the Rules.
UPDATE: Delegations we should be focusing on include the following states: North Carolina, Oregon, Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
It sounds to me, like a candidate’s campaign ought to be able to vet any delegate elected under their name. Seems like that should be done before they go on the ballot though.
I think letting rules changes be done outside of the conventions is dangerous and gives too much power to the GOP-e.
What Rove and Romney are doing is making sure that “a good crisis doesn’t go to waste.” The Paulite interference is being used to justify this massive power grab. It’s your classic Hitleresque/Obamaesque strategy. Use some jinned up “crisis” to stage a massive takeover by the central authority over individual freedom.
Telegraph? Hell’s arrival! He is moon launching his own exhibition of mooning conservatives!
The poser is a ruse Republican inside and out, intent on leading his parade with our replacements-socialist dupes and disenchanted Obama Marxists, like you-know-who.
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