The rules are that they can be changed before the convention.
So, since the process in Colorado had so blateltly rigged “rules”, the RNC on the national level should vote to exclude the Colorado delegates — just to restore the RNC primary process credibility as viewed on the national level.
BTW, this would be within the “rules”
for all those who insists rules are to be followed.
Have fun with that.
You’ve nailed it.
The GOPe owns the party. The party makes the rules and can change them, just before the convention.
Yes, gaming the system is part of the game.
However, it could be that there are a substantial chunk of conservative voters out there who are just absolutely sick of GOPe gamesmanship, weasel words, sleight of hand and claims that “the system” keeps them from doing the right thing, or “the system” makes them do the wrong thing.
Maybe these voters see the clever diligence that lawyer Cruz and his team are using in an effort to wriggle around that lil’ ol’ problem of lack of voter support, and they think of the way the GOPe has treated them.
Spirit of the law? Not if you can use the letter as a tool to ignore what’s right or those damnable voters.
Hell, we haven’t had a budget since Obama got elected, and Paul Ryan just said we aren’t going to have one again this year.
“Conservative” GOP politicians spend like drunken sailors via a continuing resolution farce that uses the Porkulus bloated baseline every damn year. Why vote on a stimulus boondoggle when you can just build it in? It’s in the rules, depending on how you look at them. Debt ceiling? They just changed that rule, it’s gone.
That way there’s no voting on the debt ceiling, no government “shutdown” and no nasty budget to use as a yardstick to see how fast these “conservatives” are shoveling steroids down the maw of Fedzilla. It’s a great way to game the old and tiresome constitutional obligation to have an actual budget.
This might not be a year when gamesmanship plays well with the electorate.