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RNC, Romney campaign will erect new organization to bypass (Nevada) state GOP

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RNC, Romney campaign will erect new organization to bypass state GOP - Politics: Ralston's Flash - Las Vegas Sun


“The goal is for us to be running get out the vote, running phone programs, voter ID, voter contact, everything through the Team Nevada headquarters,” the strategist told me. That is, everything the party is supposed to do, except the GOP here can’t raise money and has the inmates running the asylum. He continued: “The RNC has said it is willing to do everything possible as the state party appears not to be willing to work with us, so we will do it without them.”

The plan would be to transfer money directly to Team Nevada and/or funnel some through the Washoe Republican Party, run by the respected Dave Buell, who is well-liked by the RNC and Romney folks. To distill, the GOP insider said, “Essentially we’re setting up a shadow state party.”


Appears the RNC is less interested in the will of the People than they are getting their hand-picked hedge fund manager the nomination. When the results don't go their way they just make statements about the State Party like “They are still bogged down in the minutiae of whether Romney will be the presumptive nominee,” and then create a "shadow party" that gives them the results they want.

I suppose no one will be shocked that the wealthiest backers behind the Republicans care more about "their guy" than they do the will of the People, but wouldn't you expect them to show a little more finesse?

I wonder how rank-and-file Republicans will respond to this coup.

By the way, if you're wondering who/what a Reince Priebus is, just remove all the vowels: RNC PR BS.
 
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The last time I checked, the "wealthiest backers" were People, too. And, why SHOULDN'T they care about their guy?
 
This is just further proof that Romney is a dead-weight. The core of the Republican Party is not going to support him. The Conservatives will not support him. This is likely to be the biggest landslide presidential victory (for Obama) since Ronald Reagan's victory in 1984.
 
The last time I checked, the "wealthiest backers" were People, too. And, why SHOULDN'T they care about their guy?

They don't "care" about anything except themselves.

Their "guy" is a knee jerk reaction to notion of having to pay 3% more in taxes.

Last time I check, wealthy people only get to vote once, just like the rest of us. So why does it feel like their vote counts 100x more than the rest of us?
 
This is just further proof that Romney is a dead-weight. The core of the Republican Party is not going to support him. The Conservatives will not support him. This is likely to be the biggest landslide presidential victory (for Obama) since Ronald Reagan's victory in 1984.

Holy crap, I agree with The Tigger.

Biggest landslide in history.

Lowest turn out in history.

Thank God. Now if we can only give some of the Teabrains the boot, maybe we can get this country back on track.
 
Biggest landslide in history. Lowest turn out in history.

I'm not sure it'll be quite as big as Reagan's. 49 states would be hard to match. I do agree that there is going to be a very low turnout for this election. There are a lot of people who see no sense in picking between two equally horrible canddiates.

Thank God. Now if we can only give some of the Teabrains the boot, maybe we can get this country back on track.

I think you've got that backwards. The beheading that Romney is going to take will only STRENGTHEN the Tea Party/Conservative base. This will be their coming out party.... "Either placate us, or you will become a non-entity" is what they're going to tell the Republican Party.
 
The beheading that Romney is going to take will only STRENGTHEN the Tea Party/Conservative base. This will be their coming out party....


Dick Armey and the Koch brothers are coming out of the closet? It must be Obama's statement on gay marriage that liberated them!
 
The citizens of Nevada who voted in the Republican primary, and the Nevada Republicans who voted in their own caucuses.

Sounds to me like that's THEIR problem. If they don't like Romney, then they can vote against him come November. But, until November, nothing should stop Romney from trying to change their minds. I don't see him as doing anything wrong...or even remarkable.
 
Dick Armey and the Koch brothers are coming out of the closet? It must be Obama's statement on gay marriage that liberated them!

Obama is definitely the cause for the liberation. Liberation from the concept that IDEOLOGY is less important than Party Membership. Now, IDEOLOGY is what is the most important thing to many.most of the people on the Right End of the political spectrum. If you aren't going to support their IDEOLOGY with your Policies, they aren't going to support your Candidacy with their Votes.
 
My understanding is that NV has a very weak, disorganized GOP presence, which I'm sure is why Romney is doing his own thing. It isn't lost on him that the Republicans should have knocked off Reid quite easily and screwed the pooch.
 
It isn't lost on him that the Republicans should have knocked off Reid quite easily and screwed the pooch.

Yes, even I voted against Reid and he still won. The fact the GOP ran that wacko Angle is amazing to me even now. The GOP basically forced people like me and even many GOPers to vote third party or not at all.
 
Yes, even I voted against Reid and he still won. The fact the GOP ran that wacko Angle is amazing to me even now. The GOP basically forced people like me and even many GOPers to vote third party or not at all.

Yep, it's sad that extremists that would back Angle outnumber the sane Republican voters in Nevada.
 
Yep, it's sad that extremists that would back Angle outnumber the sane Republican voters in Nevada.

By "sane Republicans" I take it you mean gutless, spineless Liberals who shouldn't be allowed to call themselves Republicans, unless that Party has become simply a carbon copy of the Democratic Party.
 
By "sane Republicans" I take it you mean gutless, spineless Liberals who shouldn't be allowed to call themselves Republicans, unless that Party has become simply a carbon copy of the Democratic Party.

Don't get your hopes up, Angle (whom we called a whacko) is still a liberal compared to your views and was far from an authoritarian.

Sorry Tigger, but even the most righty like Santorum is still a liberal compared to you. Thank goodness no authoritarians ever run for office and win.
 
Dick Armey and the Koch brothers are coming out of the closet? It must be Obama's statement on gay marriage that liberated them!

or George Soros and Tony Rezko..
 
Don't get your hopes up, Angle (whom we called a whacko) is still a liberal compared to your views and was far from an authoritarian.

I don't have any hopes for the Republican Party, TNE. That ship sailed a long time ago. Any group that would refer to itself as "The Party of Lincoln" will not find itself receiving my support.

Though I do foresee a potential for an interesting development in US Politics... A Three Party system. One Left Wing party, one Right Wing party, and the Republicrats left in the middle. I don't know if it will happen or not, but I can see several different potentials for that sort of thing to occur.

Sorry Tigger, but even the most righty like Santorum is still a liberal compared to you. Thank goodness no authoritarians ever run for office and win.

We Authoritarians don't really look to elections as our primary means of obtaining power, TNE.
 
I don't have any hopes for the Republican Party, TNE. That ship sailed a long time ago. Any group that would refer to itself as "The Party of Lincoln" will not find itself receiving my support.

Though I do foresee a potential for an interesting development in US Politics... A Three Party system. One Left Wing party, one Right Wing party, and the Republicrats left in the middle. I don't know if it will happen or not, but I can see several different potentials for that sort of thing to occur.



We Authoritarians don't really look to elections as our primary means of obtaining power, TNE.



You need to get out of your bubble more often.
 
I fail to see why I should be outraged. The excerpt says the Nevada GOP is broke and unable to raise money. If somebody else can, why shouldn't they? Either way, the same guy's on the ballot. It isn't as if Romney is still trying to win the Primary...he got the caucus vote by a landslide.
 
Unfortunately the mindset in this country, is that idiot fools with no knowledge of the issues, the candidates, or the process that are complete failures in nearly every aspect of life, should have their vote count equally with people who are able, intelligent, educated, and successfull...

Id much rather see an election where the votes are staggered in their proportion, and to get back to our roots as a more representative democratic republic, the way the framers of the Constitution meant it to be...


PS, this was about a get out the vote plan... something the Democrats did effectively in Nevada last time around, why wouldn't the GOP counter that this election? Id like to see better scruitiny on how many useless threads can be made...
 
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Unfortunately the mindset in this country, is that idiot fools with no knowledge of the issues, the candidates, or the process that are complete failures in nearly every aspect of life, should have their vote count equally with people who are able, intelligent, educated, and successfull...

Id much rather see an election where the votes are staggered in their proportion, and to get back to our roots as a more representative democratic republic, the way the framers of the Constitution meant it to be...


PS, this was about a get out the vote plan... something the Democrats did effectively in Nevada last time around, why wouldn't the GOP counter that this election? Id like to see better scruitiny on how many useless threads can be made...

Oh, rest assured that the number of useless threads that can be made is infinite...especially since lefty came aboard.
 
Unfortunately the mindset in this country, is that idiot fools with no knowledge of the issues, the candidates, or the process that are complete failures in nearly every aspect of life, should have their vote count equally ...


Actually, I believe that's not a mindset, it's the Constitution. On the other hand, considering what we saw from the Tea Party, maybe we should have a literacy test for voting.

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