Posted on 04/06/2012 10:24:08 AM PDT by Mozilla
An effort to shake up the GOP primary race is underway in the Longhorn State. The outcome could set the course for a brokered convention by keeping front-runner Mitt Romney from securing enough delegates to win the presidential nomination outright.
David Bellow, a member of the State Republican Executive Committee, told The Daily Caller that he believes there is enough support among committee members to call an emergency SREC meeting to vote to change Texas’ primary from a proportional system to winner-take-all delegate state.
According to Bellow, the effort has support from the necessary 15 SREC members to petition and call for an emergency meeting to make the decision.
In order for the committee to vote they will need a quorum of 50 percent, and in order to change the rules they will need a two-thirds vote of the SREC members in attendance at the emergency meeting.
“I think it is very likely that we get the two-thirds. We have not submitted the petition yet because we kind of want to make sure we have that two-thirds,” said Bellow. “We don’t want to call the meeting and then get there — all the way to Austin — and then not have the votes. So right now we are making sure we have the votes and it looks like we do have the votes.”
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I very well might in a four man race.
Yeah, cause changing the rules in midstream is such a bedrock, conservative principle, right?
What goes around, comes around.
We are fighting Alinskyites.
We can allow them to force us to live up to our own book of rules (Rules for Radicals #4) and lose, or we can use their own tactics against them and win.
Are you tired of losing yet, or do you want to keep doing the same thing over and over again (Bush I, Bob Dull, John McKeating, Myth Romney) and expect a different result?
“This thing will backfire on Santorum and his fanatics big time. This will absolutely, ruin his political future.”
If Santorum takes out Romney, and the eventual nominee goes on to beat Obama (something that Romney cannot do), then Santorum becomes a Republican LEGEND, on a par with Reagan.
Like your masquerading as a Newt supporter while shilling for Willard has backfired on you?
You have no credibility here - might as well change your screen name.
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