Posted on 08/29/2012 12:55:52 PM PDT by Kolath
The noes clearly had it, but the party bosses gaveled the dissenters down, shutting off the microphones and ignoring cries of "Roll call! Roll call!"
Yesterday, the Republican National Committee in Tampa adopted some rules changes that shift power from the state parties and the grassroots to the RNC and the GOP presidential nominee. Former Governor John Sununu of New Hampshire touted the new rules as providing “a strong governing framework” for the party over the next four years. But in fact the the new rules should be very troubling and disappointing to conservative grassroots activists, because they move the national Republican Party away from being a decentralized, bottom-up party toward becoming a centralized, top-down party.
The Romney rules effectively disenfranchise grassroots delegates, and will thus tend to weaken and splinter the party over time. They specifically represent a blow to the Tea Party and the Ron Paul movement, and force grassroots conservatives of all stripes to contemplate their future within the GOP.
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“engineering of consent”
Are you familiar with Edward bernays? He was a master of this.
BFLR
Third party NOW!!! There is no point in replacing Obama with a GOP labeled Obama.
bump
Centralization of power is anathema to conservatism, hence is favored by the GOPe.
Tyranny by any other name is still tyranny
(((((PING)))))
Well then let’s just get rid of the Bill of Rights... things might just get better.
LLS
You have to slow the train down first before you can stop it.
Obama now and then we go after the congressman and senators to control Romney.
Mr. RomneyCARE’s “knives” in the backs of conservatives
and their children will NOT be forgotten.
Mr. RomneyCARE may play stupid, but WE are not.
Don’t mind me. I try to find silver linings everywhere. Doesn’t mean it will happen, but I can dream, can’t I?
brilliant photo ... brilliant !!!!!!!!!
You realize nothing they changed has anything to do with defeating Obama. When do you imagine they will get around to doing that? They seem to have so much more fun fighting conservatives.
new party here I come
I never said I trust Romney, I only believe the he will respect the rule of law more than Obumble’s will and will be easier to control
Mr. RomneyCARE overruled the Mass Constitution
to install RomneyMarriage (gay marriage).
Do you understand that? Do you care?
Apparently NOT.
After his people pull a stunt like this, and all we know about what Romney did to usher in gay marriage by executive order, you still imagine he respects the rule of law?
Well if you call his clown posse with fake the badges who pretended to be cops “the rule of law,” then perhaps you would be correct.
If this is all it took, he never had your vote. Be another Pontius Pilate voter. Go vote for Obama, err "Virgil Goode."
Voting tha partyline has gotten us where exactly? Say...in the last 3 decades?
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