RobertNashville

We don't need a "Tea Party" political party nor any other third or fourth or fifth party...the Tea Party is a movement attempting to push the country toward smaller government, less/fair taxes and the Constitution. If it wants to be effective it needs to keep doing what it's been doing which is identifying and encouraging good people to run for office and then winning their elections. If they become another political party they'll be no more effective than the Libertarian or the Green or any other small group.

I don't really give a damn about the party but I've looked at this; all I see is an attempt to allow the winning candidate in a primary to pick and have control over who his delegates are at the convention - seems only logical to me and I don't see any way that this harms "grassroots" efforts unless such efforts wanted to circumvent what the voters in a state voted for (by substituting a losing candidates supporters for the winner's).If conservatives or libertarians or the religious right or any other subgroup who identify with the Republican party want to steer the party in a particular direction then they have to run and support appropriate candidates and win.

You just can't make this stuff up. Link: http://www.guns.com/california-bb-gun-law-10783.html

How about we dispense with the hypotheticals and just consider that a political party should be able to control its own operation as it sees fit???

So, I'm operating in "my own ignorance" but you mean no disrespect? I can't help but wonder what you would have said if you did mean to be disrespectful.I've read the rule changes; I don't see this as some horrible impediment to grassroots movements - I understand just fine, I simply don't agree with you.

Labels like RINO's aside, it should be up to the party to decide how that party runs its nomination process and convention.

I'm not interested in propaganda - I've looked at the rule change and I see nothing wrong with what they seek to do. This is not about making elections not matter, in fact it's the exact opposite. Delegates should be absolutely required to vote the way the primary goes but some, mostly Paulbots, think they should keep promoting their "man" and ignore the electorate of their state.

Maybe my memory is shot but to the best of my knowledge, if a majority of voters in a presidential primary pick a candidate, there aren't any rules that is going to keep that candidate from getting the nomination; which is as it should be.The answer to the "elite" is to run and vote in good candidates; short of doing that, there are no rule changes that are going to matter.

It would seem to me that the best way for grassroots organizations to make a difference is to run and support great candidates??? I don't know that the rules, as they currently exist have done anything for the grassroots organizations like the Tea Party have they? The party elite will always do whatever they have to do to retain control - the only way I see to end that control is for the voters to elect the candidates they want in office regardless of what the party elite want. I still think, based on what I know of this, that the motivation to change the rules is in response to the shenanigans some of the Paulbots were trying to pull.

OIC...this isn't about Combat Pawn, it's another chance to beat up on James Yeager thread.

It's the Republican party and the party's rules...they can change them when the see fit to change them. Perhaps I misunderstand but doesn't this all stem back to states where the electorate voted for Romney but certain delegates (i.e. Paulbots) don't want to nominate Romney and, therefore, are willing to, or at least say they are wiling to ignore how the electorate voted?

Curious...there certainly is a lot of posting activity here considering that it's a show that supposedly isn't worth watching (an opinion I happen to agree with).

It's Illinois; they tend to do what they damn well please there and the Constitution is just about last on their list of concerns.

Except it's not plain and it's not simple I think some folks here would be complaining about our "lessor of two evil" choices even if George Washington was one of the choices.

I wear a suit more often than not and carry a either a G31 or 20 or 21 or a full sized 1911 with no problem concealing...if I'm not in a suite I'm in dress slacks and a dress shirt; I never thought carrying that way was any more difficult than any other???.Regardless of someone's "rights", if someone is carrying (especially if unholstered) a weapon and it looks like a full auto, I hope they stop that person and find out what that person is up to. While no all folks carry to make a statement many clearly do and many clearly want a confrontation as well; they do a disservice to all when they do.

Absolutely. RP has a couple of crazy positions on issues but mostly good ones. But as you said, reality is reality. Some refuse to accept that Ron Paul did not win the nomination and will not be President but refusing to accept that isn't going to change that reality nor will videos of speeches.

That's sad news; I have four Crossbreed Supertucks; they are practically the only holster I use anymore. He founded a great company with a great product and the company sponsored many of the firearm related shows on TV...I hope he had plans in place for his company to go on (although at his age it would be easy to think that he had plenty of time to prepare for that).

Being a native of Ohio, we were extremely proud that a favorite son was the firs man to walk the surface of the Moon. I've been to the Neil Armstrong Air and Space museum in Wapakoneta; a very understated but very worthwhile museum should any of you ever be in the area. How sad that we now have to hitch a ride into space because our own space program is all but gone. May he rest in peace; he certainly deserves it.

The only issue that matters right now is the economy. Any continuation of $Trillion and greater deficits absolutely will collapse the economy. There won't be anyone around to bail us out of our stupidity and we'll have the rioting and revolution that some seem so wishful for. It may not happen by the end of an Obama second term but it will happen...one tiny bump in interest rates and just servicing our debt will take 50% or more of the country's revenue leaving less and less for anything else; including the truly necessary Federal responsibilities. Anyone who doesn't think it can happen here is simply wrong. I've spent some considerable time in Greece in the past...it is rapidly collapsing in on itself even with "help" from the EU; we are not far behind.

You guys have it all wrong; this was orchestrated by all the Paulbots who are going to get the nomination for RP in spit of they 1,000 delegate count difference.

We have plenty of commies around, one is in the White House and many of the others are running unions.

There are two parties and there are stark differences in what the parties stand for nor do we need a third-party...the "parties" are no more to blame for where we are as a country than a gun is to blame for a murder...political parties are just tools that allow the system to work; nothing more. The only things really wrong with the system we have are the candidates who run and the largely uninformed, uneducated, uninvolved, stupid electorate. You can deny the truth about Ron Paul all you want but he lost this time just as he did before and just as he did before that...he's been see by the public and rejected; it's not the media's fault nor the fault of the "system". There are stark differences between Romney and Obama; refusal to see the differences doesn't change that

You can't make these kinds of changes with a microwave oven - yes every election cycle you vote for the best candidate that can win. But what I also said was that it takes real work and real time for things to change; and by work I don't just mean voting and I don't just mean writing posts on Internet forums. Those things are fine but they are a tiny piece, at best, of what has to be done. You need to spend some time. You need to spend some money. You need to call radio talk shows. You need to write letters and emails. You need to go to rallies and conventions and learn how to get even more involved and more effective - not everybody can do everything but everybody can do some of those things and the more of us who actually do some of those things the faster things can get better. It's a long trip; not a walk down to the corner store. Further, some the people who complain need to get their asses out there and run for office themselves.

I keep many magazines loaded but most of mine are unloaded. I suppose I've never seen any reason to keep them all loaded all the time. But, I guess also depends on how many magazines you have - I have quite a few but if only had a few I probably have them all loaded all the time!

I guess sport ruling bodies like to promote the impression of clean, open and honorable competition...you know, sort of like how the NCAA still tries to make people believe that college sports is about sportsmanship and building storong minds and bodies; and not the revenue.