Party Leadership Walks Out
It looks like the last days of the two party system.by rtbohan
(Libertarian)
Sunday, April 27, 2008
nolanchart.com
Accoring to the Reno Journal Gazette,(www.rgj.com) the Republican Party leadership walked out of the state convention today. Faced with the prospect that the elected delegates to the State convention would send a Ron Paul delegation to the Republican National Convention, the state party leadership announced the the convention was cancelled and that it would be rescheduled at an unspecified later date.
The Convention seems to have been looked on by the leadership of both the national and the state Republican party leadership as powerless. Instead, the delegates selected by the local conventions decided to exercise their right under the party's rules and the State leadership walked out.
Since John McCain has an apparently insurmountable lead in delegates, he and the party leaders decided that his finishing third in the Nevada caucuses should be disregarded and that a solid McCain slate of delegates should be sent to the national convention. John McCain himself felt that Nevada was so insignificant that he did not have to attend the convention or try to mend fences in a state which had rooundly spurned his candidacy. Mitt Romney, who finished first in the caucuses, did come, and urged the convention to send a delegation to the National Convention which was solidly for McCain.
But Ron Paul was also as the convention pursuing his campaign to call the Republican Party back to its origin. His speech was greeted with resounding cheers and demonstrations. It was followed by the proposal and acceptance by a supermajority of the delegates to scrap the list of delegates nominated by the party leadership and have the delegates nominated and elected from the floor of the convention.
As the vote got underway and the first delegates were elected, the leadership announced that they had lost their lease on the convention site and walked out. The McCain and Romney delegates elected by the caucuses followed them, saying that sending a Paul delegation to the National Convention would "marginalize" the state's delegation. This is a statement beyond the reach of satire.
In most of the states of the union, the Paul Revolution is alive. Like all revolutionary movements, its eventual success relies not entirely on its own strength but on the stupidity and missteps of the defenders of the status quo. In Nevada, the revolution today moved closer to victory.
Both the major parties seem bent on self destruction this year. This might be the last year of the two party system as we have known it. |
