WTF are they thinking? RNC moves up national convention to late June, early July

[RandySF]

The Republican National Committee has agreed to condense the 2016 presidential nominating calendar, and move the national convention to late June or early July.

The changes ensure that the June 2016 Republican Convention will be the earlier convention in either party since 1948. Kansas City is competing with Las Vegas, Columbia, Denver and Phoenix, to host the convention.

During Friday’s committee meeting, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus rallied the GOP troops, saying, “We should set the standard for future RNCs and also set an example or other Republicans.”

The earlier nominating calendar is aimed at helping the party avoid the kind of in-fighting that may have dented Mitt Romney’s general election appeal in 2012.



http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/political/rnc-moves-up-national-convention-to-june#ixzz2rSbjlQtA

[Tx4obama]

1. The earlier they pick a nominee the earlier they can start spending 'general election' money. n/t

[RandySF]

4. And what are the odds Hillary will be using public funds?

I remember when the conventions were a month apart. In 1988, Dukakis came out with a head of steam and the Republicans chewed him up by August.

[former9thward]

8. Odds are zero.

No candidate will ever use public funds again.

[Thinkingabout]

2. Maybe they are trying to get a jump on hurricane season. Probably trying to shortrn the

Hunting season.

[warrior1]

3. It's a stupid idea

But hey this is the Republicans were talking about.

[Squinch]

5. The earlier to shake the Etch-a-Sketch, my dear.

[Benton D Struckcheon]

7. Yeah, etch-a-sketch explains it.

Given the likely field in 2016, they'll want some time to fasten the loose screws the nominee will have rattling around in his cranium. Better use a good strong wrench to get that last turn in after they're done using the screwdriver though. Can't be too careful.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Not to mention the savings on gas for the clown car.

[MADem]

6. Get it over with so they can enjoy the summer. They know all they've got are stinkers this time. nt

[Coyotl]

9. They know how far behind they are.

And they know how long it will take to forget all the negative primary ads.

[MrScorpio]

10. They're trying to head off the party nut jobs at the pass

Which means they want to find the most establishment minded candidate possible.

So it looks like we'll be seeing Jeb Bush in 2016.

[TheKentuckian]

12. They are thinking it is best to put as much time between the clown car and the general as possible

That money is essentially no object.

That their red meat, klan meeting of a convention only creates a dead cat bounce in a highly positive media environment before going on to generate about as much muck as the clown car, best to get some distance from that debacle as well.

That shortening the campaign makes money and organization more of a factor which should give the establishment a little more hand.

Shortening the campaign should give message discipline a little better chance to hold up, the less time the official narrative has to hold the better, they got shit.

More time to establish the bullshit "reach across the aisle", "compassionate conservative", "bipartisan" story and give the Teabaggers the old "who else ya gonna vote for".

[legcramp]

15. Nail on head

And it will give them a few extra months to go after Mrs. Clinton who they see as the presumptive Democratic nominee without all the GOP party infighting.

All in all a good plan.

[rufus dog]

13. WTF are you thinking? That Repubs think?

Just kidding, seriously though I think they are delusional. They believe that people should just get in line and follow, just like they do. By shortening the process they believe they can control the outcome, have an unscathed candidate and the the poor ignorant freeloading masses can be force fed their chosen one.

They really and I mean really don't get it, they don't comprehend why they are losing in the college educated demographic. You see when they went to college all of their fraternity friends thought just like them, all of those other liberal slobs, they were pot smoking losers who were never going to amount to shit. Why Asians, Middle Easterners break from them, they don't know many of them but they are different and seem like law abiding people, but there's aren't that many of them. Women? All the ones they hang out with agree with them, the occasional liberal bioch they run across when spewing their bullshit? Well she is just a small minority, it is only the single moms that vote for Democrats.

What pops into their head when the think Democrat is low life Mexicans, Blacks, and some over educated pot smoking, book reading dweeb. So the big issue is they don't see the vast majority of us, they simply can not comprehend we exist. So moving up the date makes perfect sense that will just allow for more time to get everyone on board, because everyone they know gets on board. They will have more time for get togethers, " hey what happened to Julie and Kenny?" "Don't know, haven't seen them much since 2004, remember when Kenny got pissed that one night and called you an ignorant fuck over the WMDs in Iraq?" "Yup he could be a douche, the ass wipe voted for Kerry." "What about Danny and Angie? Last I saw them was 2008 when he laughed at you over Palin being qualified, that dude had some Liberal guilt, bet he is proud of Savior Obama now, what a tool." A few may get it, but the majority are so narcissistic that they will just keep on living in the bubble never figuring out that it ain't the poor Mexicans and Blacks in the bad part of town that out votes them, it is the neighbors that don't tend to hang out with them much, or the old successful college buddy that made a disparaging comment about the Ted Nugent post prior to un friending them are the ones that out vote them.

To put it succinctly, they don't think individually, because if they did, they wouldn't be a Republican.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Ringling Bros. ties up for the summer, clowns need work.

[MadrasT]

16. Fuck it, just do it now.

Why wait?

[lostincalifornia]

17. I think it is to limit the debating in the primaries

[morningfog]

18. The primary for the goppers, will be brutal again.

There is no front runner, there is no cohesion, there is no national platform. They have an incentive in ending as soon as possible.

[NBachers]

19. They need to circumcise the rotting foreskin of the demented also-rans

and try to inflate the remains.