Party Takeover??

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Haiku

Makes the ganglia twitch.
This is going to be interesting...it's starting with their own!

Republicans have fallen in line behind Mitt Romney, but even so, there's a rebellion brewing against some of his efforts to consolidate control of the Republican National Convention. Rule changes pushed through by Romney's campaign would allow presidential nominees to refuse specific convention delegates elected at the state level. In other words, Romney is having fits over the threat of Ron Paul delegates making some noise and decided the rules should change to prevent that. The spectacle of Paul making a 67-minute speech to an adoring audience of 7,000 in Tampa on Sunday is unlikely to soften Romney's resolve to shut him out of the process.

What passes for a grassroots uprising within the Republican party is being led by what Buzzfeed's Zeke Miller characterizes as "key figures in the conservative movement and on the committee" including "Virginia delegate and longtime RNC member Morton Blackwell, a former Reagan aide who founded a conservative training academy called the Leadership Institute." Some of these blades of grass look suspiciously like trees, in other words.

According to Blackwell, "These rule changes are the most awful I've ever seen come before any National Convention."

"This is the biggest power grab in the history of the Republican Party because it shifts the power to select delegates from the state party to the candidate," said Indiana National Committeeman Jim Bopp in an email to RNC members late Sunday, calling it an "overreaction" to Ron Paul. "And it would make the Republican Party a top down, not bottom up party."
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Organizers are trying to force a roll call on "minority report" amendment to the Rules Committee report; to get the roll call they must have majority support from six state delegations. As you might imagine, the Romney campaign will be putting considerable pressure on delegates to prevent this from ever coming to a vote.
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What do you think, nothing to see here??
 
Haiku said:
This is going to be interesting...it's starting with their own!

What do you think, nothing to see here??
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When Romney loses, then you'll see all-out war within the Republican Party. It has been taken over by the Tea Party and their agenda is far too putrid for the American people.

Their base is shrinking and the republican brand is in the toliet.
 
blackascoal said:
When Romney loses, then you'll see all-out war within the Republican Party. It has been taken over by the Tea Party and their agenda is far too putrid for the American people.

Their base is shrinking and the republican brand is in the toliet.
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I hope so because from this side they reek. My thinking is that with the combination of voting machines and suppression of the vote they'll steal it again.
 
Haiku said:
I hope so because from this side they reek. My thinking is that with the combination of voting machines and suppression of the vote they'll steal it again.
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The "they" who does the stealing is the plutocracy that owns this country. Only they have access to the software that counts the vast majority of American votes.

There is only one relevant question to ask when considering who will win this election.

Which candidate will best serve the interests of the plutocracy that owns this nation?

The answer to that question is Barack Obama by far. He can get away with crap that Romney cannot .. and Obama can get away with it without hearing any opposition from the American people.

Take the issues of war and attacks on civil liberties for instance.

There is no such thing as lesser evil. The evil is that corporations own the United States .. and neither corporate-owned candidate is going to do anything about that.

Rest assured, Obama has already won.
 
The obvious bias against Ron Paul should be a wake-up call to the people. The GOP has ignored him. The media has done all they could to trivialize what he has said and what he has done.

The GOP wants one of their corporate drones and party hacks to win, and have done everything possible to insure that. What is best for the nation has never been their concern.
 
blackascoal said:
The "they" who does the stealing is the plutocracy that owns this country. Only they have access to the software that counts the vast majority of American votes.

There is only one relevant question to ask when considering who will win this election.

Which candidate will best serve the interests of the plutocracy that owns this nation?

The answer to that question is Barack Obama by far. He can get away with crap that Romney cannot .. and Obama can get away with it without hearing any opposition from the American people.

Take the issues of war and attacks on civil liberties for instance.

There is no such thing as lesser evil. The evil is that corporations own the United States .. and neither corporate-owned candidate is going to do anything about that.

Rest assured, Obama has already won.
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not to mention the billionaires that are trying to buy the election
 
WinterBorn said:
The obvious bias against Ron Paul should be a wake-up call to the people. The GOP has ignored him. The media has done all they could to trivialize what he has said and what he has done.

The GOP wants one of their corporate drones and party hacks to win, and have done everything possible to insure that. What is best for the nation has never been their concern.
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i do not support ron paul's agenda, but i admire his organization

he almost get enough delegates to win a spot at the convention, but mittens organization woke up to that fact and through various changes in rules froze him out

bummer
 
blackascoal said:
When Romney loses, then you'll see all-out war within the Republican Party. It has been taken over by the Tea Party and their agenda is far too putrid for the American people.

Their base is shrinking and the republican brand is in the toliet.
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If that's true then how comes they control the house of reps, will probably gain seats in the Senate (might even gain enough to control the Senate) and are running a tight race for the White House (which they'll probably lose but still.)? Dems might have an advantage with the popular vote but Repubs hold a substantial geographical advantage over Dems. So, yea Repubs need to work a hell of a lot harder towards being a big tent party and shed their image of being the party of plutocrats and angry white rednecks but their brand is hardly in the toilet.
 
Don Quixote said:
i do not support ron paul's agenda, but i admire his organization

he almost get enough delegates to win a spot at the convention, but mittens organization woke up to that fact and through various changes in rules froze him out

bummer
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I fear Ron Paul and his adoring but misguided Libertarians far, far more than I do a corporate droid like Romney. Romney though certainly will govern pro-business, pro-corporation and pro-1% will certainly govern competently and responsibly. That's far, far more than what you could say if an anarcho-libertarian were to ever reach the White House.
 
people who think that TEA party took over the GOP, really need to smarten up. that did not happen. what you've seen is the GOP hijacking the TEA party, then expanding it to pursue their own corporatism.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I fear Ron Paul and his adoring but misguided Libertarians far, far more than I do a corporate droid like Romney. Romney though certainly will govern pro-business, pro-corporation and pro-1% will certainly govern competently and responsibly. That's far, far more than what you could say if an anarcho-libertarian were to ever reach the White House.
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because freedom is SCARRYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
 
blackascoal said:
The "they" who does the stealing is the plutocracy that owns this country. Only they have access to the software that counts the vast majority of American votes.

There is only one relevant question to ask when considering who will win this election.

Which candidate will best serve the interests of the plutocracy that owns this nation?

The answer to that question is Barack Obama by far. He can get away with crap that Romney cannot .. and Obama can get away with it without hearing any opposition from the American people.

Take the issues of war and attacks on civil liberties for instance.

There is no such thing as lesser evil. The evil is that corporations own the United States .. and neither corporate-owned candidate is going to do anything about that.

Rest assured, Obama has already won.
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Can't argue with you here however I wonder, given this reality, why Romney is supported with so much Koch etc. money and dark money. What do you think that's about?
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I fear Ron Paul and his adoring but misguided Libertarians far, far more than I do a corporate droid like Romney. Romney though certainly will govern pro-business, pro-corporation and pro-1% will certainly govern competently and responsibly. That's far, far more than what you could say if an anarcho-libertarian were to ever reach the White House.
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When it comes to crazy Romney will cave. His religion is every bit as radical with women's issues as any seen.
 
Haiku said:
Can't argue with you here however I wonder, given this reality, why Romney is supported with so much Koch etc. money and dark money. What do you think that's about?
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It's called "electioneering". Romney does it. Obama does it. All politicians do it because money is the mothers milk of politics.
 
True Mott, however I was referring to such big money support focussed on the right as opposed to the left.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I fear Ron Paul and his adoring but misguided Libertarians far, far more than I do a corporate droid like Romney. Romney though certainly will govern pro-business, pro-corporation and pro-1% will certainly govern competently and responsibly. That's far, far more than what you could say if an anarcho-libertarian were to ever reach the White House.
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Exactly what part of Ron Paul's platform do you find scary?
 
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