From: Roman Buhler
LIBERTY MOVEMENT MAY BE FOCUSING ON THE WRONG ISSUE FOR SUMMER RNC MEETING:
Fighting for a "Rule of Law" Resolution to ensure an honest 2016 Convention, may be a far better issue for the Liberty Movement for the Summer of 2013 and beyond rather than continuing to fight a losing battle to repeal all the Rules adopted in 2012,
After rejecting this approach in April, the RNC is not likely to change its mind and vote by a 3/4 margin support the Blackwell motion to overturn all the Rules adopted at the GOP convention.
The problem with Tate's approach outlined in this email, is that the Rules, he wants to overturn, advertised as empowering the grassroots would allow delegates to ignore the presidential choices of voters in a primary or caucus attendees who vote in a presidential preference ballot at a caucus.
So there is a credible argument to opponents, that the liberty movement wants to disenfranchise the grassroots GOP voters and caucus attendees and give party insiders (the delegates and those dedicated attendees who stay for hours until the end of a caucus instead of leaving after the Presidential preference ballot) the power to vote however they wish and select delegates who will vote however they wish.
While giving party insiders who work the hardest may be a winning argument at some party conventions and with people who are hard workers be or want to be delegates, it is not necessarily a winning argument in the media or with average GOP voters.
So there is little chance that 3/4 of the 168 RNC Members (126), who already don't already want to support repeal are going to be pressured into support repeal.
The argument that delegates' presidential vote SHOULD BE be bound by the votes of primary voters or the ballots of caucus attendees will be strong enough to allow RNC members to resist pressure to repeal that Rule.
In fact the motion to repeal this Rule got only 49 of more than 150 votes cast at the RNC meeting on Friday, losing 2-1.
The Liberty movement now has a record vote on that issue, there is an identified list of friends and opponents. But refighting the battle at the next meeting isn't going to accomplish too much, compared with other strategies.
In fact there is a good argument that the Liberty Movement needs to shift its RNC focus to a new, more achievable, goal where the national media will be on its side and the RNC members will be on the defensive, not just with Liberty movement insiders, but with average GOP and independent voters.
That would be a "Rule of Law" or "Convention Integrity" resolution.
Almost every Liberty movement supporter feels that Ron Paul and his delegates were treated unfairly at the GOP Convention in 2012. Many who understand the details believe that Paul and his delegates were cheated in violation of the rules.
And almost every Liberty movement supporter fears that Rand Paul and his delegates will be treated unfairly and may well be cheated in violation of the Rules in 2016 by the Party establishment.
The key is, will the issues of "who followed the rules" be decided by party insiders or by a neutral referee.
A simple RNC Resolution could put the RNC on record as supporting neutral arbitration to resolve disputes that cannot be resolved by negotiation among the parties themselves.
The Rule could direct the RNC to develop a method to ensure that there was a neutral, independent authority decided disputes that could not be resolved by negotiation.
Once the Liberty Movement begins to demand honesty, integrity, and Rule of Law from the RNC, their momentum both to insiders and to the public will grow.
The problem is that some party insiders don't want to give up their power, or to have the RNC establish the precedent that might limit their power to manipulate the rules at every level of the party, including states and counties.
They prefer what could be called the "Chinese model" where the Party leaders control the judicial process rather than what we would agree is the "American model' allowing independent authorities to enforce rule of law.
Fighting for a "Rule of Law" Resolution to ensure an honest 2016 Convention, may be a far better issue for the Liberty Movement for the Summer of 2013 and beyond rather than continuing to fight a losing battle to repeal all the Rules adopted in 2012,
After rejecting this approach in April, the RNC is not likely to change its mind and vote by a 3/4 margin support the Blackwell motion to overturn all the Rules adopted at the GOP convention.
The problem with Tate's approach outlined in this email, is that the Rules, he wants to overturn, advertised as empowering the grassroots would allow delegates to ignore the presidential choices of voters in a primary or caucus attendees who vote in a presidential preference ballot at a caucus.
So there is a credible argument to opponents, that the liberty movement wants to disenfranchise the grassroots GOP voters and caucus attendees and give party insiders (the delegates and those dedicated attendees who stay for hours until the end of a caucus instead of leaving after the Presidential preference ballot) the power to vote however they wish and select delegates who will vote however they wish.
While giving party insiders who work the hardest may be a winning argument at some party conventions and with people who are hard workers be or want to be delegates, it is not necessarily a winning argument in the media or with average GOP voters.
So there is little chance that 3/4 of the 168 RNC Members (126), who already don't already want to support repeal are going to be pressured into support repeal.
The argument that delegates' presidential vote SHOULD BE be bound by the votes of primary voters or the ballots of caucus attendees will be strong enough to allow RNC members to resist pressure to repeal that Rule.
In fact the motion to repeal this Rule got only 49 of more than 150 votes cast at the RNC meeting on Friday, losing 2-1.
The Liberty movement now has a record vote on that issue, there is an identified list of friends and opponents. But refighting the battle at the next meeting isn't going to accomplish too much, compared with other strategies.
In fact there is a good argument that the Liberty Movement needs to shift its RNC focus to a new, more achievable, goal where the national media will be on its side and the RNC members will be on the defensive, not just with Liberty movement insiders, but with average GOP and independent voters.
That would be a "Rule of Law" or "Convention Integrity" resolution.
Almost every Liberty movement supporter feels that Ron Paul and his delegates were treated unfairly at the GOP Convention in 2012. Many who understand the details believe that Paul and his delegates were cheated in violation of the rules.
And almost every Liberty movement supporter fears that Rand Paul and his delegates will be treated unfairly and may well be cheated in violation of the Rules in 2016 by the Party establishment.
The key is, will the issues of "who followed the rules" be decided by party insiders or by a neutral referee.
A simple RNC Resolution could put the RNC on record as supporting neutral arbitration to resolve disputes that cannot be resolved by negotiation among the parties themselves.
The Rule could direct the RNC to develop a method to ensure that there was a neutral, independent authority decided disputes that could not be resolved by negotiation.
Once the Liberty Movement begins to demand honesty, integrity, and Rule of Law from the RNC, their momentum both to insiders and to the public will grow.
The problem is that some party insiders don't want to give up their power, or to have the RNC establish the precedent that might limit their power to manipulate the rules at every level of the party, including states and counties.
They prefer what could be called the "Chinese model" where the Party leaders control the judicial process rather than what we would agree is the "American model' allowing independent authorities to enforce rule of law.
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