What Are They Thinking
Written by Sam on October 22nd, 2007Republican Party leaders on Monday recommended punishing five states for shifting their nomination contests earlier, moving to strip New Hampshire, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan and Wyoming of half their delegates.At least one state, South Carolina, is considering legal action in an effort to keep its delegates to next year’s Republican National Convention.Iowa, which plans to hold Republican caucuses on Jan. 3, would not be penalized because, technically, the caucuses are not binding on convention delegates. Nevada, which plans to hold its caucuses on Jan. 19, would not be penalized for the same reason.
“It’s very important that our party uphold and enforce the rules that we unanimously voted into place at the Republican National Convention in 2004,” said Mike Duncan, chairman of the Republican National Committee.
The rules ban holding votes before Feb. 5.
I don’t really know anything about this Mike Duncan, but after reading this my first impression is that he might be as much of a bonehead as Martinez. Howard Dean gave the Republicans a small gift in Florida and Michigan when he decided to not count the states’ votes in the Democratic Presidential nominations. I think the party could seize that opportunity to pull over some disgruntled Democrats disenfranchised by the DNC’s decision (the alliteration here was not intentional) and maybe help us win those two states next year. Instead Duncan wants to do almost the same thing.
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Sam
Duncan is making sure we dont have any tiny shred of winning next year. Hope that clears it up for you!
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You’re upset that, like the Democrats, they are following rules and upholding principles? Would you prefer them to disregard established rules and ethical standards so that they could “win”?
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Right on Dave, Right on
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Mitt Romney has guaranteed the entire Florida delegation will be seated if he becomes the nominee.
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How is any one candidate going to dictate “who is seated” over RNC rules should he become the nominee?!? Sounds like more MittPandering to me.