Opinion: The GOP Convention – ‘Both sides messed up’

David Tackett

You know, conventional wisdom says I need to keep my mouth shut.  I’m a candidate for State House and I don’t need to upset anyone inside the party lest they won’t help me.

But I just can’t be quiet.  And let me summarize it by saying this… Ron Paul people, you were right in principle, but wrong in execution.

First, let me try and say before the RPers completely ignore the rest of my diatribe…  Remember, I was the one who stood with you at the 1st Congressional convention, not because I’m a RP supporter, but because I believe in the rule of law.

Read all of Tackett’s column: .
https://www.facebook.com/notes/david-tackett/the-okgop-convention-both-sides-messed-up/10150876827397171


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  1. Orat, 16 May, 2012

    This article is replete with inaccuracies. For example, there was no vote on an appeal regarding the rules requiring a roll-call vote for the election of delegates. There was only a vote on an appeal on a decision that it was too late to request a roll-call vote pursuant to the convention rules which permitted any question to be put to a roll-call vote if such request had 20 seconds. This is an important distinction. The point raised about following the state party rules was a separate consideration and was unrelated to the convention rules provision regarding requests for roll-call votes.

    Even if there had been such a failed appeal, state party rules cannot be amended in this manner, and are not allowed to simply be ignored.

    It is interesting that one who claims such devotion to the rule of law devotes precious little space to the flagrant, and possibly delegation-imperiling, violation of rules, but instead devotes the bulk of the space to lampooning Ron Paul supporters. Also, not much, if anything, is said about the physical assault against Ron Paul supporters on the part of the anti-Ron Paulers. One would think that events such as these which generated national headlines would warrant clear and resounding criticism of the violently anti-Ron Paul crowd, but no such criticism is to be found in this supposedly “balanced” treatment of the events.

  2. Kent Friskup, 16 May, 2012

    While I salute the dedication and convictions of the Ron Paul supporters I cannot condon the approach taken at the state convention. As Republicans we must be sure that we are united in November as we gather to vote and be sure that Obama is a one term President.

  3. Orat, 16 May, 2012

    Can you be more specific about the “approach” you do not condone?

  4. Kent Friskup, 16 May, 2012

    The rowdy manner in which parlimentary procedures were approached, I have learned after 70 some years that sugar will get you a lot further than spice.

  5. Orat, 18 May, 2012

    I’ve watched the videos of the convention over and over several times now, and the only times you could say that the points of order got “rowdy” was when they were either being ignored (improperly) or were being handed clearly erroneous rulings, such as the preposterous ruling that convention rules supersede state party rules, or when the chair held a standing vote in a room where a third of the delegates in the hall had been cordoned off by a wall partition, meaning they could not be seen and therefore could not vote.

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