Posted on 04/13/2013 6:05:27 AM PDT by Bratch
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — In the GOP’s ongoing establishment vs. grassroots saga, chalk one up for the establishment.
Since Mitt Romney’s loss, the Rand Paul wing of the party has been on the ascendency. But libertarians hit a roadblock Friday as the Republican National Committee opted at its spring meeting to keep in place a host of rules rammed through by the Romney campaign at last year’s national convention.
The move represents at least a small setback to Rand Paul’s 2016 hopes, potentially making it more difficult for him or another candidate with strong grassroots support to pick up delegates. Had the rules been in effect last year — they were adopted after Mitt Romney secured the nomination — the former Massachusetts governor would likely have wrapped up the nomination much earlier and avoided the drawn-out warfare that weakened him heading into the general election against Barack Obama.
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When I heard that Romney and Company changed the rules, I knew that it was the E-GOP at work. They screwed the Tea Parties and the libertarians enough to keep a bunch of them home on election day.
Or is it just simply too late:
Consent decree from 1982 prohibits the RNC from combatting vote fraud
Why the GOP won’t challenge vote fraud
RNC/DNC sign consent decree to not investigate widespread voter fraud
My first vote for president was for Barry Goldwater. I then voted for Nixon over Kennedy and Nixon again over Humphrey. I say this to establish that this “ain’t my first rodeo.”
My first Republican National convention was in Miami Beach, 1972, when Nixon was nominated for reelection. Several more followed, including the one in Detroit where that river I referred to in a previous post coughed up on shore the finest president of our lifetimes, Ronald Reagan.
So, I think I am qualified by both age and experience to urge patience and understanding. Politics is not like farming or any other enterprise.
Don’t count on any kind of serious conservative turnout next election. It ain’t gonna happen with these Republican ‘leaders.’
Unlike McCain 2008 and Romney 2012, if it’s Jeb Bush in 2016 - I am staying home and not contribute to RINO FAIL Part III. Don’t bother telling me the same old horse shit about the lesser of two evils. We are already past the American experiment, the future does not look pretty.
If your political universe is no larger than FreeRepublic you are deluding yourself.
The republicans just lost an election that they couldn’t lose against Jimmy Carter the second, by running a guy who doesn’t even belong in republican politics at all.
Your smug comfort level with the disastrous path of the GOP is the path to total irrelevancy for the party.
The fact is, we did lose one to Jimmie Carter, and we got over that too. Cradle yourself in the prevailing blind anger at your own party and watch the left that you so despise continue to take away what is left of the country.
Huh? You don’t know the difference between the Watergate contaminated unelected veep of Nixon losing to what appeared to be a social conservative Southern Governor, and losing to a second term Jimmy Carter?
No wonder you think that you voted for Nixon against Kennedy after voting for Goldwater for president.
You really are so devoted to your party that you have no concept of how it’s accelerated war against conservatives is destroying it, Romney’s shocking loss in an election that the GOP couldn’t lose, and his disastrous effect down ticket, should be opening your eyes, not have you wallowing in complacency and even more hostility towards conservatives and conservatism and calling an attempt to save conservatism, “blind anger”, break out of your complacency and blindness and strive for improvement and repair.
Thanks for your reminder that I first voted for Nixon against Kennedy in 1960, then Goldwater against Johnson in 64. Google is a wonderful thing. And yes, I do remember President Ford but not as you do. I actually knew the man. I was also at the Republican convention in Kansas City where he was nominated. So, big shot, go on with your bitterness and leave the real lifting to your betters.
The only thing you seem to be able to ‘lift’ is the lid on the septic tank.
Google? You need to google to see who you were voting for in presidential elections and to learn who was running? No wonder you seem so nasty and angry and bitter, your mind is slipping.
It is also no wonder that you seem so fond of the pro-abortion Ford, I’m not surprised that you were supporting him in Kansas City as Reagan came so close to defeating him, today you are still ranting against the Reagan wing.
I guess the GOP really doesn’t want to win the WH!
Nice try. My political universe ranges from having once been an elected Democrat official to becoming a Republican and now a Conservative. I get my information from the most intellectually honest sources I can find and brook no opposition when it comes to appeasers.
What are you doing here? Trolling?
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