RNC Shuts Out Grassroots Despite Loud Opposition
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August 29th, 2012
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by Tim Brown
While some think that the rules adoptions today was all about Ron Paul, they are mistaken. Cynthia Kennedy reported in two stories that the RNC were setting up last minute rule changes to go into effect before the nomination process. As a result, the party overwhelmingly voted for Mitt Romney to represent the party, but they also approved rules that will effectively stifle the voices of any and all grassroots efforts in the Republican party in the future.
Before things started today on the convention floor columnist Michelle Malkin Tweeted:

Later on as things were developing and the RNC was pushing through their power grab via the head RINO, Speaker of the House John Boehner and John Sununu, they didn’t even try to differentiate between the yes and no votes. Personally, I think either Boehner had one too many drinks or needed his ears cleaned or both. Because even on C-Span you could hear there was significant dissent.
On top of that the RNC would not seat the Maine delegates and that brought about chants of “Seat them now!” However, at several tweets indicated that some convention people were to chant “USA!” in order to drown out dissent.
Michelle Malkin reports,
Update 2:50pm Eastern…The Rules Committee just voted 78-14 to accept the Romney-approved deal on Rules 15(16) and 12. There is now an effort to gather enough signatures to force a floor vote on the minority report. 25 percent of committee members are needed.
Apparently, the Virginia delegation was stuck on a bus and didn’t make it in time for the vote.
Update 3:34pm Eastern Dissidents have until 3:47pm Eastern to gather enough signatures to force the floor vote, according to right-leaning Examiner’s Tim Carney, who is on scene. Left-leaning BuzzFeed’s Zeke Miller, also on scene, says it appears dissidents have gathered enough signatures for minority report on Rule 12, but not yet on Rule 15(16).
Carney says that Drew McKissck has emailed a minority report to RNC leaders within the rules deadline…
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Update: 4:34pm Eastern Well, that was…something else. First, Maine delegates were replaced with Romney people. Then, rules chairman John Sununu and GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner stood on stage at the RNC to rule on the compromise rules report. No minority report was mentioned. When asked for yeas and nays on the report, the room seemed equally divided. Boehner forged ahead and approved the report over loud boos and calls of “point of order” from activists on the floor.
No vote on the minority report.
FW’s Dean Clancy observes: “If @SpeakerBoehner had been wielding the Speaker’s gavel instead of the GOP convention gavel, he wouldn’t have gotten away with that trick.”
And the show went on…GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn just declared that “this has been a great exercise in grass-roots” and that GOP stands for “Great Opportunity Party.”
So my friends, if you are in the Tea Party or a supporter of Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul or anyone else in the future that the establish does not want nominated, too bad for you. You’ll get exactly whom they say and you’ll have no voice in it. Things were bad, but now they took a major nose dive. Even Romney supporters said it was bad, like Morton Blackwell, whom i was told was unable to make his case before the committee regarding the RNC power grab because security held him and his bus up. Isn’t that just perfect?
Romney took the nomination with a total of 2061 votes. Should he be elected this year, he will also determine who the delegates are in 2016. That’s right, grassroots people will no longer have a say in the matter.
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Really? You are surprised at this? I have been expecting this since the third party candidates were laughed off the stage or not allowed to attend at all. This is EXACTLY why all I ever say to the Left-Right, Cons-Libs, Dems-Reps only crowd is that they are the problem. There was and still is a better choice other than Obama or Romney. Neither one of those choices are worth a damn. The 2 party line is the same system crap on both sides. Its all about profiteering and corruption.
There is no ‘We the People’ with this 2 party system. Its simply ‘How much are we gonna get and When will we get it’…oh and…’God Bless All of USa nd screw the rest of you, Amen’! Times up folks. We have let them win and most of us don’t even know we lost yet. Even worse, the majority still don’t realize that there was a game at all but they have still lost.
Home of the fear, Land of the slave. Pathetic.
This should force the tea party candidates to break ranks with the republicans all together. The tea party should work in these next four years to be a truly independant party and not have there candidate ride on the coat tails of the republicans. Just because they share some of the same ideas doesnt mean they need to put a R behind their name because they think that is the only way to be elected. We need to push forward with the tea party being a legitimate third party not influenced and controlled by John Boehner and John Mcain the rihnos who are controlled by the money train coming from the lobbiest of the banks and large corporations.
The teaparty was used because they wanted to cut social programs to help their grandkiddies. But not the programs they are on. A convenient way for republicans to pass the buck.
Occupy was used because they disrupted conservative events and the dims could gather more discontents to their side.
Neither are needed or wanted now, tis a system of the banks and corporations for the elite. The rest of us are just serfs.
Wrong. Occupy was created to fight wall st. and the corporatocracy, for which both dems and reps are poster children. But how would I know? I’m only a US small manufacturer who happened to be there, hoping this country would wake up and stop the oligarchs. Boy was I disappointed.
Nothing has changed, except the elites are still winning and Americans are still fighting each other. Just how they planned. It’s almost too hard to look at anymore.
The Tree of Liberty must occasionally be nourished by the blood of both Patriots and TYRANTS!!!!
Preferably MORE TYRANTS!
All of a sudden I feel like (the HORROR!!!) voting for Obama, just to let the GOP establishment bitches know, I DON’T LIKE THEIR GAMES!
Both groups were created by people who were passionate about a cause. I said the groups were used and only welcomed to support the dim,republican agenda. Now they are not needed and the parties wish them to go away.
Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR:
Omnibus Appropriations, Special Education, Global AIDS Initiative, Job Training, Unemployment Benefits, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, Agriculture Appropriations, FY2004 Foreign Operations Appropriations, U.S.-Singapore Trade, U.S.-Chile Trade, Supplemental Spending for Iraq & Afghanistan, Flood Insurance Reauthorization , Prescription Drug Benefit, Child Nutrition Programs, Surface Transportation, Job Training and Worker Services, Agriculture Appropriations, Foreign Aid, Debt Limit Increase, Fiscal 2005 Omnibus Appropriations, Vocational/Technical Training, Supplemental Appropriations, UN “Reforms.” Patriot Act Reauthorization, CAFTA, Katrina Hurricane-relief Appropriations, Head Start Funding, Line-item Rescission, Oman Trade Agreement, Military Tribunals, Electronic Surveillance, Head Start Funding, COPS Funding, Funding the REAL ID Act (National ID), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, Thought Crimes “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Economic Stimulus, Farm Bill (Veto Override), Warrantless Searches, Employee Verification Program, Body Imaging Screening, Patriot Act extension., Supplemental Appropriations, Patriot Act Extension, Debt Deal, South Korea Trade Agreement, Omnibus Appropriations, Line-item Veto, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)..
Marsha Blackburn Voted AGAINST:
Ban on UN Contributions, eliminate Millennium Challenge Account, WTO Withdrawal, UN Dues Decrease, Defunding the NAIS, Iran Military Operations defunding Iraq Troop Withdrawal, congress authorization of Iran Military Operations, Withdrawing U.S. Soldiers from Afghanistan, Libya Troop Withdrawal, Libya. stopping Indefinite Detention.
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her “blatantly unconstitutional” votes at :
http://mickeywhite.blogspot.com/2009/09/tn-congressman-marsha-blackburn-votes.html
Mickey
I will be voting but it more because I want slow down the damage they want to do. I started vote in 1972 had to wait till I was 21 back then.
I do not believe either party will do us any good.
And if work out as I fear it will be my last.
I too believe this coming election cycle will be the last one by the American people. I believe that the coming condition of the USA will more resemble MAD MAX than the land of the ELOI and our own damned gubmint, blacks and muslims will be our Morlocks! Arm up people!
Doesnt matter who is for what and what they say. Some people even send the politicans money they could give to the poor or save for themselves..
Vote but vote against Romney AND Obama! Vote for one of the others. Send a loud message of “NOT YOU”
to both parties.
Cara, I disagree here. The important thing in the coming election is to get the black muslim socialist out of office by any means necessary.