The Convention Chair then showed the crowd a couple of fish wrapped in a delegate’s ballot.
“Its a Republican message. Ron Paul sleeps with the fishes…”
A democracy can only function when the rules set forth by the authority are followed. The rules in these states provided for what was basically a “straw vote”. The results of that vote were to be among the criteria for selecting the delegates that would represent the state at the national convention. These rules were published and made available to the public.
Each person participating in the process had the right to cast a vote for the delegates of his or her choice. In what way was the process undemocratic?
Possibly he feels it’s undemocratic that the straw votes were only among the criteria for apportioning delegates to the convention, rather than the criterion.
Feel free to file my prior post under “Statements That Are Accurate Without Being Germane.”
How do you feel about faithless electors?
[del]If they cone all of the highways out of town down to one lane, like Christie does in NJ, how will they ever get out of the path of the… [/del]
Go, Isaac, Go…!
Those heathens aren’t real citizens.
And if that wasn’t bad enough, they’ve now adopted Todd Akin’s position on abortions as part of the national platform.
[QUOTE=The Republican Party]
“Faithful to the ‘self-evident’ truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed,” said the draft platform language approved Tuesday, which was first reported by CNN.
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Note that their commitment to the “fundamental individual right to life” ends the second the kid clears the birth canal, though.
They don’t really believe what they are saying. Ask them to choose between saving a living newborn baby and a cannister of 100 frozen embryos and they will choose the newborn baby. So they for the most part already recognize that there are gradations of life that would justify sacrificing 100 “lives” for a single life, they just aren’t willing to sacrifice one of those “lives” just because it means a woman would have to carry and give birth to the child of her rapist.
Its a matter of priorities.
Hell, no! We want this clown show to play out in prime time!
If I were a multimillionaire, right now the Tampa area would be covered with “the circus is coming to town!” billboards.
Thing about God punishing people with hurricanes I have never understood: why does the Almighty have such bad aim? Couldn’t He just single out the biggest evil-doers with lightning bolts or something?
Anyway, I don’t know if ‘meltdown’ is the right word. More like a high-profile exercise in polishing a turd.
but that’d be too unambiguous. He wants people to have faith and for clever chaps like Pat Robertson to interpret every mysterious event for us.
Well, as I understand it it is Jesus who wants faith, whereas you are supposed to know God. From my understanding of the Bible, mind, which is of course a problematic source, but what else do we cite for questions like this?*
*Mormonism may vary.