Republican convention

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Well, lookee here-----first day of the convention and “controversy” is already brewing…

news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/texas-delegates-planning-floor-mutiny-over-rnc-rules-225837647.html
TAMPA–On Monday morning, at a meeting of more than 100 Texas 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.
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Paul voters (yes, good old Ron has not “gone away” :D) are particulary miffed:
Paul supporter Karen Skrill, an alternate delegate from Vermont, said she and her husband, Stewart, a delegate, are upset about the changed rules.

“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.
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As to me----------don’t get me wrong, I will support Romney when the time comes (we cannot have another four years of Obama, period)----but I DO get where the Texas delegation and others in the convention are coming from.:o

Sounds troubling to me, at least. Not to mention “undemocratic.” But that is just me.

What about others here? Discuss…👍
 
Romney will get my vote, but no longer my money or my time…neither will the corrupt party leaders of the GOP. If they wish to disenfranchise Conservatives, Tea Partiers and Paulist Libertarians, then good luck winning in November because it was the former two who brought the landslide victory to the GOP in 2010.

What I saw from Reince Preibus and John Boehner this after-noon was just disgusting. They simply acted like tyrants. I fled from the Democrat Party to avoid that, looks like I will have to flee from the GOP too if Mitt Romney and the cigar-chomping “Boss Tweeds” of the GOP wish to attack and shut-out those whom either disagree or are not-to-thrilled with them.
 
austenbosten said:
Romney will get my vote, but no longer my money or my time…neither will the corrupt party leaders of the GOP. If they wish to disenfranchise Conservatives, Tea Partiers and Paulist Libertarians, then good luck winning in November because it was the former two who brought the landslide victory to the GOP in 2010.

What I saw from Reince Preibus and John Boehner this after-noon was just disgusting. They simply acted like tyrants. I fled from the Democrat Party to avoid that, looks like I will have to flee from the GOP too if Mitt Romney and the cigar-chomping “Boss Tweeds” of the GOP wish to attack and shut-out those whom either disagree or are not-to-thrilled with them.
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What did you see from Boehner and Preibus?
 
OrdinaryMelkite said:
As to me----------don’t get me wrong, I will support Romney when the time comes (we cannot have another four years of Obama, period)----but I DO get where the Texas delegation and others in the convention are coming from.:o
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To me that’s playing right into the Rove-driven hands and will only perpetuate the shutting up of all those who pose a threat to their attempt at power, be it Ron Paul or the Tea Party. It has very little to do with abortions.
 
_Abyssinia said:
What did you see from Boehner and Preibus?
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Just arrogance and a Banana Republican-attitude. When Boehner was holding a roll call vote on shutting out grassroots and non-establishment GOP from being delegates there were clearly more NAY votes, but Boehner just decides to approve the minority vote.

No point in giving any money to the GOP now or ever, until they clean up their morally bankrupt dirty politics and decide to allow fiscal-, social-, paleo-, Christian-Conservatives; and even some of the Paulist Libertarians a voice in their ever-shrinking Republican Party.
 
austenbosten said:
Just arrogance and a Banana Republican-attitude. When Boehner was holding a roll call vote on shutting out grassroots and non-establishment GOP from being delegates there were clearly more NAY votes, but Boehner just decides to approve the minority vote.

No point in giving any money to the GOP now or ever, until they clean up their morally bankrupt dirty politics and decide to allow fiscal-, social-, paleo-, Christian-Conservatives; and even some of the Paulist Libertarians a voice in their ever-shrinking Republican Party.
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I do not agree with these tactics, but the Republican party is not shrinking.
 
ProVobis said:
To me that’s playing right into the Rove-driven hands and will only perpetuate the shutting up of all those who pose a threat to their attempt at power, be it Ron Paul or the Tea Party.
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Each state is entitled to the delegates they elected and sent. It is unconscienable that they could be replace by the nominee. I guess I will wait and see if Romney tries to drag that out of his carpetbag. I have not decided who I will vote for, but if he replaces the Paul nominees with his own, I will not vote for him.
 
Each state is entitled to the delegates they elected and sent. It is unconscienable that they could be replace by the nominee. I
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Well said,

John
 
_Abyssinia said:
Attack of the Giant Vaginas: Abortion Activists at GOP Convention

lifenews.com/2012/08/27/attack-of-the-giant-vaginas-abortion-activists-at-gop-convention
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I actually thought you were being surprisingly edgy here Abyssinia.

Clicking the link was an eye opener. < This particular prank makes anything you say (that comes after it) sound a bit double-entendre. 🤷😊

What will those intellectuals come UP with next? :hypno: Uh - oh just thought of a possibility. Have to wash my mind out with soap now. :bigyikes::eek::bigyikes:
 
Luigi_Daniele said:
I do not agree with these tactics, but the Republican party is not shrinking.
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Wait until after this election. Whether Romney wins or not, the GOP is done. IF he wins, the disenfranchised will simply not be rallied again for a “this is the most important election of our time” speech, and if he looses, the grass roots will simply brand the GOP a bunch of loosers and simply drop their affiliation with the party.

Karl Rove and “win at all costs” modus operandi have killed the GOP. Enjoy it while it lasts, because after November, that’s the end of the road.
 
austenbosten said:
Then explain all of those growing number of “Independents”. Maybe votes for the Republican Party is not shrinking, but card-carrying members are.
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This is the last election that the GOP can pull out the “if we don’t win this election, the country is doomed” card.

Come November, the GOP will be a shadow of its former self.
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
This is the last election that the GOP can pull out the “if we don’t win this election, the country is doomed” card.

Come November, the GOP will be a shadow of its former self.
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Uh huh…I’ve heard the same thing the last three elections. I suspect I will hear the exact same thing being said two and four years from now.
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
This is the last election that the GOP can pull out the “if we don’t win this election, the country is doomed” card.

Come November, the GOP will be a shadow of its former self.
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As someone said (I would credit them if I could remember who) the last election was the
most important in our lifetime, and we blew it. Winning this November will help us to
get it back on track, however, it will be very difficult.
And, yes, it will be a different GOP, hopefully much more conservative!
 
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