Over Loud Boos, Romney Supporters Pass New Rules

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Mitt Romney's supporters passed new rules governing future primaries over the loud boos of Ron Paul supporters and other conservative activists who had objected to what they said was a power grab by the party's establishment leaders.

The House speaker, John A. Boehner, called for a vote on the rules on Tuesday afternoon after Mr. Romney's advisers said they had reached a compromise with activists on Monday night.

When Mr. Boehner called for the "ayes," the crowd roared in the affirmative. But when he called for the "nays," an even louder "no" echoed through the convention hall, led by supporters of Mr. Paul.

Mr. Boehner ignored them, pressing ahead by saying the rules would be adopted "without objection," even as the crowd continued to roar its disapproval. Mr. Boehner announced that the rules were approved and quickly moved on to the adoption of the party's platform.

The loudest protests on the floor came from the back of the Texas delegation, from delegates in Lone Star shirts and white cowboy hats, and from a group adjacent to them at the far end of the hall to the right of the podium.

Advisers to Mr. Romney had proposed rules that would make it harder for a candidate like Mr. Paul to amass delegates to mount a challenge to a more established candidate.

Under the compromise, delegates would be selected by the state and local level without interference or control by the party's presidential candidate. That would allow competing voices inside the convention, both sides said.

But in a nod to the concerns of Mr. Romney's campaign, delegates sent on behalf of a candidate would be required to vote to nominate that candidate on the first ballot. If they tried to vote for someone else, their vote would be recorded for the candidate to whom they were bound.

The anger over that move had lingered for the last several days.

Opponents of Mr. Romney's efforts to change the rules had threatened to disrupt the proceedings and embarrass the party's soon-to-be nominee. But Mr. Boehner moved quickly, leaving the protesters little opportunity to catch airtime.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/blogs/over-loud-boos-romney-supporters-pass-new-rules.xml?f=19

Repugs are extremely enthusiastic about Gecko, and the factionless Repugs are solidly united!

:lol

[Clipper Nation]

Willard: so great, he had to cheat to "win" the nomination....

[angrydude]

but but but we have to stop socialist Obama! ... even if it means replacing him with socialist Romney

[jack sommerset]

Off topic...christie is hitting a home run at the repug convention. God bless

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I'm sure post-mortem will show that Christie is exasperating and lying and slandering

[Clipper Nation]

Off topic...christie is hitting a home run at the repug convention. God bless

:lol Desperately trying to change the topic from Willard's cheating

[jack sommerset]

Actually, lazy. I didn't want to start a repug convention thread. I am loving msnbc right now. I don't think I have watched fox or msnbc more than 5 minutes this year. They are going nuts. Very entertaining. Not even 1 minute after tonight's speeches and they are laying the wood to the repugs. God bless

[jack sommerset]

The msnbc crew are giggling at everything. Cry havoc would be loving this. God bless

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Four Facts About New Jersey’s Economy Chris Christie Won’t Talk About At The Republican Convention Tonight

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– New Jersey ranked 47th in the nation in GDP growth in 2011. [Bureau of Economic Analysis]

– The Garden state’s unemployment rate of 9.8 percent is fourth highest in the nation, trailing only Nevada, California, and Rhode Island. [Bureau of Labor Statistics]

– New Jersey lost 12,000 jobs last month, the most in the country. [Bureau of Labor Statistics]

– The state ranked 44th in personal income growth in 2011. [Bureau of Economic Analysis]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/28/760501/christie-rnc-keynote/

[Wild Cobra]

Boner may have just lost the election for Romney. I'm sure that has disenfranchised a great deal of voters for republicans. I may even spoil my vote now, and write in Ron Paul.

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Paul Supporters' Protest Signals Deeper Division


Mitt Romney's tightly choreographed nomination here was disrupted on Tuesday when a contingent of Ron Paul delegates from several states protested what they said were new rules by the Republican leadership to squelch their movement's rise within the party.

Mr. Paul's supporters shouted several times during the late-afternoon proceedings, and part of Maine's delegation walked out in protest over a decision to strip away half the candidate's delegates from the state.

By the time most Americans tuned in to the convention proceedings on Tuesday night, there was little evidence of the protests. But they signaled deeper party divisions bubbling under the telegenic surface of Mr. Romney's nomination here, harking back to the primary season when Tea Party activists threw their support to a succession of Mr. Romney's insurgent challengers.

"This is a return to smoke-filled rooms," said Steve Dickson, a Paul supporter from Oklahoma.

The protest centered on resistance by Mr. Paul's supporters and other grass-roots activists to the Romney campaign's late attempt to tighten the party's rules to give candidates more control over delegates assigned to them during primaries for the national convention.

But grass-roots activists said the rules would undercut insurgency bids like those of Mr. Paul, former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and former Speaker Newt Gingrich, should Mr. Romney win in November.

Delegate apportionment varies by state, but under the current rules some states allow supposedly "bound" delegates to switch allegiance to another candidate on the convention floor. That system helped induce Mr. Paul, Mr. Santorum and Mr. Gingrich to continue competing in the primaries and caucuses, even as their losses mounted, with the hope that they could win in a delegate fight at the convention.

On Monday night, Mr. Romney's campaign scaled back the changes it sought in a compromise struck with a contingent of party activists, suggesting the standoff had been resolved. But some activists complained that party leaders left themselves the power to change the rules later.

In a meeting Tuesday afternoon, the compromise won approval at a rules committee meeting overseen by a Romney adviser, former Gov. John Sununu of New Hampshire. Opponents said they had enough support to push a special vote at the full convention, but they were ignored by Mr. Sununu, who took a simple voice vote over their loud protests. Some said their microphones had been turned off, which party officials denied.

"We got smushed," said Robert Tyree, a sympathetic Nevada delegate.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/us/politics/ron-paul-supporters-protest-signals-deeper-division.xml?f=77

Gecko, The Great Divider :lol

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http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/ron-paul-supporters-rebel-convention-floor-fuck-you-tyrants?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[baseline bum]

Off topic...christie is hitting a home run at the repug convention. God bless

Like Palin in 08?

[jack sommerset]

Like Palin in 08?

Palin did a better job than Christie, IMO. Problem was the blame bush craze was in full bloom and all Repugs were compared to Bush. Edwards would have won if he got past Obama and Clinton. That's a scary thought. God bless

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"blame bush craze"

... was and still is fully justified. 2001-2008, National Disaster, that continues still.

[z0sa]

It's so funny how Boutons shamelessly pimps his love of the blue team and his hate for the red team. He's extremely glad the Republicans are divided, not because it might mean a better Republican party or better America in the future, but so his team can win right now and of course, he can be vindicated for being such a douche 100% of the time.

America is fucked and unfuckable because of assholes/idiots like yourself, doltouns.

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don't despair, zozie, but GFY anyway.

Rove, Kock Bros, and their $Bs haven't really rolled out their non-stop lies and slander, yet.

combined with Repug suppressing Ms of Dem voters, and 10Ms of dumbfuck Americans, you red fuckers still have chance. :lol

[Clipper Nation]

Not really, as the neocon establishment just irreparably pissed off half their party through the blatant cheating they've done since the Iowa straw polls a year ago, culminating in rule changes at the convention that cut off any grassroots at the knees in 2016 and rigging the ultimate vote for Willard...

[ElNono]

Christie is all talk, all fat and nothing else. He's the epitome of politics as usual. I guess the love affair has to do with people not really knowing the guy past his narratives.