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 Dave Ross

The only thing reigning in Tampa now -- is Harmony

August 28, 2012 @ 8:19 am (Updated: 8:24 am - 8/28/12 )

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Cue the slow-mo and sound the french horns. (AP)

After a rain delay, the Republican Convention is underway, and hold on to your hat but my sources tell me the nominee will be Mitt Romney.

And I'm being told he may have already chosen his vice-president, and that there's been a sighting of elephants chasing rainbows.

But harmony does not come easily.

Romney was never a Tea Party favorite, and certainly not the favorite of Ron Paul's libertarians, and there is still some bitterness. Not just over the rules that stopped Ron Paul supporters from even putting their man's name in nomination, but according to the e-mails that started flying around Monday, there was another rule change to give Presidential nominees veto power over who gets to be a delegate.

You see, Ron Paul's people managed to take over some state conventions, so that he ended up with 177 delegates, even though he didn't win a single primary.

So the proposed new rule -- and these rules are like trying to understand nuclear physics -- said that the Presidential nominee could veto any state delegate that he didn't like.

Seems a little weird -- that the delegates whose job it is to pick a nominee would themselves have to be approved BY the nominee first -- BEFORE he's the official nominee. Although it would certainly lead to a harmonious convention -- in a North Korean kind of way.

But Monday night they reached a compromise, under which that rule won't happen, but Mitt Romney will still be the uncontested nominee.

So harmony reigns, and now the convention can get down to the main business of all modern conventions, which is to show the candidate in slow motion backed by french horns.

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    If the rain delay is over, we need to get rid of the tarp...
    August 28, 2012 9:32 am
    Oops - that was 4 years ago. ... But starting today, at least, we get 3 days of Mitt Romney vetting HIMSELF to the American people, not the media/Obama version. Gees, who knows. He might be human.

    And this will be harmony, Dave. At least as much as ant Republican convention can be harmonious. Try as might, Republicans really can never be as atomatomic as Democrats. Nor want to be.

    IF, and I say IF (and IF YOU are reading right) this 'veto rule' were ever to come about, no presumptive nominee in his or her right mind would ever invoke it. Great way to piss off a lot of people who pay a lot of money to go to a convention. And to CREATE third parties. ... That's essentially what happened in 1912 when the Roosevelt delegates were denied seating. Didn't work out too well for Mr. Taft.

    As for now, I expect harmony will reign as best it can. Romney needs Ron Paul's support and Rand Paul had a future in the GOP that his Dad is NOT about to throw away. ... Still, this will be likely more exciting than the lock-step expected next week in Carolina. Heck, Chris Christy alone can guarantee that with his key-note today. And we might be lucky if we only hear 'Heck'.

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  • William Lawn wrote...
    You mean the TARP Ryan voted for?
    August 28, 2012 3:26 pm
    Is that the one you want to be rid of?

    Gosh, I read today the Chis Chistie's "turn around" state has nearly 10% unemployment.

    About a point above that of Queen Chrissy's Washington.

    And he is our hero?

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    lawnboy - don't ruin the tarp joke (stretching as it is).
    August 28, 2012 3:56 pm
    And for cripe sake, in 2008 about the only creature that DID NOT vote for that TARP was my dog.

    As far as NJ unemployment goes, it's 9.8%. Up .2% since last month while the US rate is 8.3%, up .1%.

    Never said he was good at economics. Just a great speaker. Kinda like a flip version of Obama. Also a great speaker. In a fog about the economy.

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  • roomtemp wrote...
    @Ron...
    August 28, 2012 5:04 pm
    "And for cripe sake, in 2008 about the only creature that DID NOT vote for that TARP was my dog."

    Your dog must be a Ron Paul supporter. He didn't vote for it either.

    http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/House/Texas/Ron_Paul/Views/TARP/

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Yes, she is.
    August 28, 2012 6:05 pm
    A true Lab-ertarian.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Romney was never a Tea Party favorite, and certainly not the favorite of Ron Paul's libertarians
    August 28, 2012 1:05 pm
    True but Obama certainly is not!
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  • CH wrote...
    The only thing reigning in Tampa now -- is Harmony? Really . . . .
    August 28, 2012 4:56 pm
    you need to talk to Ron Paul and his supporters. LOL
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  • Rangerhawk wrote...
    Ron who?
    August 28, 2012 5:35 pm
    LOL!
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  • Rangerhawk wrote...
    Catch 22 for OWS and other Idiots
    August 28, 2012 5:41 pm
    Worsened Economy + BS Storm Track thru Tampa = no budget for travel from parents basement to Tampa just to get blown by Isaac.
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  • pro_steel_header wrote...
    thanks dave!
    August 28, 2012 6:59 pm
    for at least mentioning ron paul. kuddos. now, let the destruction begin...
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