How much do you wanna bet that the RNC will give Romney ALL of the delegates he earned in Michigan, and not half, if he really needs them. We all know this will happen.

Michigan was probably tired of Santorum saying that he won, so they stuck it to him.

Is Santorum’s campaign doing anything to contest this change?

Kick other candidates off the ballot in VA. Check!
Disenfranchise voters in Michigan. Check!

What’s next for this guy?

Mew

It’s stunts like these that really make me dislike Romney, his campaign and his supporters. Moved up primary dates, shifting ballot access rules and of course three card monte with delegate allocation. Leaves me and others I have spoken with a bad taste in our mouths. This process has all the credibility of a Cuban presidential election. My personal opinion is that these kind of “misunderstandings” hurt Romney’s image and the legitimacy of his campaign.

Romney beat Santorum by 32,000 votes.

Santorum got 16,000 friends of Michael Moore votes and 16,000 Daily Kos votes.

Final tally is Romney +64,000. The people have spoken.

So he gets two more delegates. Big whoop.

Stop whining, Ricky.

There’s something fundamentally wrong with someone who is visibly aligned with and actively campaigning for a candidate writing rules that benefit his candidate. Once again, a state Republican party is looking like they just got out of the clown car.

The thing I hate most about this is that ALL the media outlets (Fox included) declared Romney the absolute winner early in the evening. It was clear to anyone who was able to read a map that Santorum was probably going to take a significant number of CD’s. Surely, the brainiacs at Fox News could have also figured out it wasn’t a clear-cut “win” for Romney. But they all went with that narrative all night and most of the next day, giving Romney the illusion of having an epic victory over Santorum in both MI and AZ on Tuesday, with the requisite talk of it being over for Santorum.

Romney Derangement Syndrome.

In the long run, that one delegate is likely to cost the Romney campaign a lot. You know Santorum and Gingrich are going to complain loud and long about it. What good is it to Romney to be seen as a bully, cheating his fellow-Republicans and who know who else?

Creating enemies for one little delegate? Not worth it.

I realize that the Michigan Republican establishment probably made this mess but it is Romney that is going to pay for it. Therefore, it would be to his benefit to step up and fix it.

As a voter in MI I believe the commettee should all be replaced immediately. Knowing Saul is on the committee He is after all the man that wants to get rid of the electorial College for heavens sack. He is no friend to the Republicans of MI

If this was just the first hiccup in the administration of a primary/caucus that would be one thing… if this was just the first controversy over the results to come up that would be one thing… but this pattern is now, if not troubling, at least quite bizarre and embarrassing.

I mean the Iowa deal was a mess with a victory declaration for Romney that turned out not to be right. We had the Maine declaration for Romney when they couldn’t even count all the votes and some of the votes got lost because the e-mails went to spam. Now we have the people voting and the party deciding after the vote they’re going to arrange the votes such that they give Romney one more delegate and take one away from Santorum?

I don’t want to think this is a Romney conspiracy, but if it’s not… then how do you explain it other than incompetent leadership.
Did Steele screw up things for the RNC that badly with the new delegate allocation scheme and not properly training people how to deal with it and a prolonged primary? Or is Reince going to have to answer for some of this?

As far as the delagates in michigan…who cares?

I’ve got news for the media.

AZ was the one that mattered. That was winner take all. Romney should go ahead and give Rick the two delagates. Rick needs them a lot more than Mitt does.

I was impressed by the fact that mitt won despite the fact that liberals (not reagan democrats) voted for Rick despite the fact that it ‘makes me want to go take a shower’ as one reported after the act.

that accounted for 5% of his total.

But yeah by all means give rick the 2 delagates.

Hes done anyway

Nobody has explained how making FL issue delegates proportionally since they went early is somehow penalizing Florida? It is penalizing Gingrich by the State not following the rules.

Florida was punished by losing half its delegates but someone explain to me how Florida is being punished doubly or at all by changing Winner take all to proportional, according to the freakin rules?

again!!

Save the crocodile tears Erickson. Your conservative poser tried to cheat the system by recruiting the opposition in bad faith, got his backside handed to him (lost by 11% republican votes) and now the committee is enforcing a rule they came up with in Feb 4th.

If your phony baloney theocon had won, rest assured he’d be whining about not getting the two at large delegates. Crud, he whines about everything else.

Maybe he’ll do better in Virginia. Oh, wait.

Like they say, “It pays to be a winner.”

romney likened it to Luciell Ball in the Chocolate Factory.

I actually like newt…a lot more than santorum…but romney’s comparison is a little more apt.

And are willing to risk every remaining drop of credibility to get it at this point..
Then let them. By super Tuesday, the word will be out.
And we shall pass Judgement.

Why no headline about the vote fix in MI? Rhetorical question, I know. It’s more important to report that Santorum’s cell phone died in an interview with a hostile Ohio radio host.

Speaking of hostile, if I keep getting 4 nasty anti-Santorum calls a day from Romney’s people, what I do to my phone may involve ammo.

http://www.thatssaulfolks.com/2012/03/01/saul-anuziss-statement-on-michigans-delegate-allocation/

Statement by Saul Anuzis
Republican National Committeeman from Michigan
Member of the Michigan Republican Credentials Committee

At the February 4th State Committee meeting held in Lansing, the Credentials Committee unanimously passed the procedures for allocating Michigan’s delegates to the National Convention in the event that the RNC imposes the 50% penalty on our delegation.

We agreed that if only 30 delegates would be designated as voting delegates, the Michigan Republicans would send 2 from each congressional committee and 2 at large. We agreed that the two at large delegates would be taken from the top of the slated delegations as submitted by the candidate who received the most votes statewide.

Last night the Credentials Committee met via teleconference and voted to apply the rules as passed unanimously on February 4th which results in the 2 at large delegates be awarded to the statewide winner, Mitt Romney.

There were no changes in rules or procedures, the Credential Committee only ratified the existing rules as previously passed after some made erroneous claims to the media that the at-large delegates would be split.

There is no disagreement amongst the members that this was the intent of the Credential Committee and there is email traffic between the committee members and counsel discussing the same.

Regrettably, there was an error in the memo drafted and sent to the respective campaigns. There were questions raised at the time the memo was drafted as to whether the legal language used was accomplishing the goal of the committee and we were advised that it was, but now it is clear that the memo did not properly communicate the intent of the committee. The email traffic surrounding the drafting of the memo in early February makes explicitly clear what the intent of the committee was.

The committee convened again last night to affirm that the intent was clear and that the memo was inaccurate. That affirmation came in a 4-2 vote. While we all regret the error in the memo, it does not change what was voted on by the committee, which was to award the two at-large delegates to the statewide winner. It was premature for any candidate to be declaring the delegate count prior to an official announcement by the Michigan Republican Party

This is much to do about nothing. The rules were set in place, in advance, by a unanimous vote. A press conference should not force Michigan Republicans to change the rules.

NOTE: See Michigan Republicans Memo to RNC on Allocation linked on my blog.

The Romney people are so embarrassed that despite every possible advantage their guy could not close the deal. They are embarrassed that Romney had to spend $10 million to win a state that should have been a lay up. They wrote the primary law and then complained when Democrats were able to participate even though they did nothing to stop it. They wrote the party rules that allocated delegates propotionally and then try to change the rules to give their guy a victory he did not win under those rules.

They got their win. They got their earned media. Now they put it all at risk to try and steal one stinking delegate. Pathetic and ridiculous. Bobby Schostak is a great state chairman and should be above this. Saul Anuzis is a hack on the Romney payroll. The former Attorney General Mike Cox, who is a Romney supporter and Chairman of the Committee that wrote the rules, called it a Third World decision. The Legal Counsel for the State Party voted against the decision.

It is a dumb stupid joke.

If MI delegates truly believe in the rule of law then they need to throw him out!

and had him as my second choice behind Ken Blackwell for RNC chair when he ran against Steel after the 08 fiasco….

That respect is gone….rig the game for your show pony….good luck in November winning those you’ve screwed with these shenanigans over in the general election.

I’ll vote Republican in Nov like I always have….but I’ll do it with more disgust than I did in 2008….I never thought anyone could ever approach my white hot loathing for John McCain let alone supplant it….but you guys have pulled it off…

Congratulations

and the scared Romney establishment get nervous. Even if the rules were changed in early February, it’s still too late. They saw the handwriting on the wall, and decided to “fix” things. Shame shame shame.

I am not one who will say I will not vote for anyone but my candidate and I think it is very important to beat Obama. Nevertheless, these are something wrong with stuff like this, and if it keeps happening, and in the end, it swings this thing towards him, I am not sure I can drop principles and support Romney. I could never vote for Obama, and staying home is almost like doing that. However, gee wiz, what can I do. Any suggestions, does anyone else think they might have this opinion.

Romney has said all along that he already had the nomination ‘sewn’ up.

Well, what if it’s true?

It’s just not ‘Romney supporters’, who changed the rules. It’s the #RNC. They’re the ones who are demanding OUR MONEY, while promising the world. Yet telling US that we’re the extremist etc……

This isn’t the first time in 2011 & 2012 that such corruption has been evidenced.

How is it that in IOWA Santorum was ahead by 34 votes & with 8 districts not reporting? They took their sweet time in declaring Santorum the winner.

Yet in Florida, with 40 districts not reporting they rushed before the primaries were OVER to call it for ROMNEY (ahead by 40 votes)

Then in NV, the national review said many caucus goes were turned away for ‘being late’ …..

And in AZ with no districts reporting as of 7:00 PM mountain time; Romney was declared the winner.

Now we have MI, where it was actually a tie. According to the RNC rules, in that case the delegates in MI were supposed to be ‘divided’ proportionaly. And instead the RNC broke their own rules as they did in IO, and in other states for RINO Romney’s benifit.

Can any one say they’re surprised?

Now, the actual stealing of a delegate. There’s just no end to this slimy, elitist SOB’s digusting tactics is there!

I hope Barack Obama absolutely HUMILIATES this smug piece of crap if IT manages to slither its way to the nomination.

No more “anyone” but Obama for me! I actually prefer the sleazy socialist with his crooked but transparent socialist agenda to a complete sleazebag hypocrite pretending to represent the party of traditional values and fidelity to our founding principles!

Set my alarm 1/2 hour early last Tuesday, to make sure I had time to vote, on my way into work.

I voted Santorum. I should sent the Michigan GOP a bill, for my 1/2 hour of wasted time…

My precinct went for Mitt; 100 votes. Rick got 70 votes. A total of 233 ballots cast in my precinct.

this is a typical Liberal approach. Romney and the Romnulites are part of the left-wing Republicans. The GOP is ow Left-wing and they decided at the very beginning that Romney ws to be their nominee and they will stop at nothing to have it happen. This is the exact same thing that happen in 2008 and we lost then and we are going to lose now. Romney only has the left-wing of the party to draw from and he will not be able to hold the Tea Paarty or the conservative Democrats or the independents. That is why Obama is going to be a 2 term plus president. That is why we will lose the House and not even approach a win in the Senate. The GOP has their proverbial head up their proverbial Butts. They cn’t see the hand-writing on the wall. this fits Einsteins definition of insanity.

I think Erick is losing it. Look at the big picture, Erick.

Romney’s campaign absolutely scorches any candidate threat to his nomination eviscerating them. He uses the rules to win assorted battles. The fact he’s so adept at political warfare should be leading to applauding him acknolwedging he’s by far the candidate we most want going against the Obama $1 Billion war machine.

We don’t want to send any boys out to do a man’s job. Mitt Romney has shown to be the MAN in this campaign who knows how to take down his opponents. I can’t wait to see how he deals with Obama, as he’s got the best campaign and the only candidate smarter than Obama.

Jump on board with our best candidate, Mitt Romney.

Find another candidate…

I will not vote for Mitt Romney for any office EVER.

If that means electing Barack Obama AGAIN, I’m at peace with it.

I like Santorum. I like Gingrich. I don’t like Ron Paul, but I trust him and I’d vote for him.

Demint, Jindal, Barbour, Palin, Perry, Walker, Kasich, Bush, Daniels, Rubio, Ryan, Dewine, Thompson, Pawlenty…. there’s a whole list of good Republicans that I’d be honored to support.

But Mitt Romney has no credibility on anything. The only thing he knows how to do is spend money and avoid responsibility. We have enough of that in Washington already.

So take it to the bank…

This is one past Republican party chairman who will not support the Republican ticket in the fall and who will guarantee a 2,000 vote Obama win in a county that has voted Republican in every election since 1980 with the exception of 1996 when we put another stands for nothing RINO on the ticket.

Now why is this important? Because said county happens to be in North Carolina. Obama won the state by 10,000 but McCain carried this county by 1000. So figure you have to make up 13,000 now instead of 10,000.

that is a critical state. I would not believe that NC went for Obama in the election. Must be the eastern portion of the state.

This is not a Bible Belt thing people…they don’t like him for who he is and nobody is listening. What did Pat Caddell say…Democrats..Party of corruption…Republicans…Party of stupid. Somebody better wake up on this one.

If the egos could get out of the way…Gingrich President, Santorum VP and chop Romney off at the knees. If they would annouce that now…Super Tuesday would be a different story.