Quote:TAMPA--On Monday morning, at a meeting of more than 100 Texan delegates and alternates at the Saddlebrook Resort 20 miles north of Tampa, one topic got the crowd more fired up than any other. Delegate Melinda Fredricks read aloud a letter condemning recent changes to the national Republican party's rules that would allow the GOP presidential candidate to veto and replace state delegates.
"Our delegates are in shock that such an amendment even would be presented before the Rules Committee much less passed into rule," Fredricks said. "Please know from the Texas delegation standpoint that the only way a floor fight can be avoided is for this rule to be stricken."

At that point, the entire Texas delegation stood up and applauded.

The South Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, and Louisiana delegations (to say nothing of the states Ron Paul has contingents) are also quite unhappy about this.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/texas...37647.html

Mittens moved his ass fast on this one. I dare say he moved even faster than he did to create government run healthcare in this country!

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/08/...oor-fight/

I hope Rand does the same thing Goldwater did in 1960. Someone needs to stand up in the GOP and let these fools have it full force. It did not hurt Goldwater. He won the nomination the next time.

As a practical matter how could this rule work? You aren't the official candidate until the party selects you. So a GOP candidate could just show up and declare that they are getting rid of delegates? What if there are two who claim that power? Sounds like anyone could just declare that they are the GOP candidate because no candidates are officially selected before the convention. Mittens just alienated a whole lot more people. I mean if you're going to be a dictator in your own party, what are you going to do when you're president? No chance I could vote for this guy or Obama.

Best quote from the article:
"If this is how it's going to be, I don't want to be a Republican," Skrill told Yahoo News in a discussion on the floor Monday. The Skrills are retired farmers.

and then it'll get changed back the next convention.. and changed again the following convention.

I'll be honest this request/change doesn't make any sense whatsoever, as Jug said.. just go down, declare yourself a candidate and remove a delegate?

Jug don't blame Mitt on this one.. this is on the RNC. They're the only ones that can make this kind of change. I have no idea why they would, cause it would definitely piss some people off, regardless.

I'm pissed that they banned the RP delegates to the rafters and let municipalities and principalities on the floor.

(08-28-2012 09:34 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  I'm pissed that they banned the RP delegates to the rafters and let municipalities and principalities on the floor.

Me too. THose bastards!

(08-28-2012 09:34 AM)firmbizzle Wrote:  I'm pissed that they banned the RP delegates to the rafters and let municipalities and principalities on the floor.

Even though the press has seemed ignorant of it ... I think that is because even though Ron Paul has a small but vocal minority that is increasingly pissed off with Mittens .... I'd wager that an outright MAJORITY of the people there will NOT be excited about Mittens beyond him not being Obama.

Call and voice your displeasure. I did.

Convention Committee on Rules and Order Of Business

State Title Fname Mname Lname Suffix Zip Phone1 Email

Bettye Fine Collins.

The only Jefferson County Commissioner not to go to prison a few years ago. Of course, that may be that she was dumb as a sack of hammers and didn't get a slice of the graft.