Romney's "RNC Power Grab": What Really Happened

 

Romney’s “RNC Power Grab”: What Really Happened

 

Freedom Works^ | 8/29/12 | Dean Clancy

 

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Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:27:53 PM by EBH

 

The noes clearly had it, but the party bosses gaveled the dissenters down, shutting off the microphones and ignoring cries of “Roll call! Roll call!”

 

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Yesterday, the Republican National Committee in Tampa adopted some rules changes that shift power from the state parties and the grassroots to the RNC and the GOP presidential nominee. Former Governor John Sununu of New Hampshiretouted the new rules as providing “a strong governing framework” for the party over the next four years.

 

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But in fact the the new rules should be very troubling and disappointing to conservative grassroots activists, because they move the national

 

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Republican Party away from being a decentralized, bottom-up party toward becoming a centralized, top-down party.

 

 

The Romney rules effectively disenfranchise grassroots delegates, and will thus tend to weaken and splinter the party over time. They specifically represent a blow to the Tea Party and the Ron Paul movement, and force grassroots conservatives of all stripes to contemplate their future within the GOP.

 

Party sage and long-time RNC member (and conservative activist) Morton Blackwell led a last-minute effort to stop the changes………..

 

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