What about the GOP delegates?

Amid all the Democratic turmoil over uncounted primary votes and banished delegates, folks often forget Florida Republicans also were punished for busting the official primary schedule. Despite an appeal from the RPOF, the national party cut Florida delegation in half, from 114 to 57. With Barack Obama calling now calling for full voting strength for the FL and MI delegations, that means Florida Democrats may technically wind up with more of a voice in their nomination than FL Republicans (In reality of couse, FL Republicans basically decided the nomination 1/29, while Democrats were more or less irrelevant).

RPOF Chairman Jim Greer on Saturday sent a slate of 57 Florida delegates to be certified, but said he has been assured by John McCain that Florida is fine sending 114 delegates and 111 alternates. Unlike some GOP chairs, he's also not chafing at the prospect of only 57 being able to vote for McCain as the nominee: "The actual count of how many votes will be cast is not relevant because we don't have a disputed nomination," Greer told Buzz. "But I do think it is important and I will continue to figt for Florida to have a full delegation at the convention."

Comments

[Mark Foley]

please bring our children to the GOP convention!

Who cares, what does it matter at this point?

Adam, please! We can't have stories that point out the Republicans were doing precisely what the Dems were doing even as they criticized the Dems for that action. No posts on Republicans taking Florida for granted, wanting to come in for money only, disenfranchising (half?) of the voters and retaliating against the awful Republican Party by voting Democratic in the fall. Greer now says, yeah, we disenfranchised but not in a disputed primary. Well, at the time of the disenfranchisement, it was when the Republican Party's nomination was being hotly contested. So the same people upset about the so-called Dem disenfranchisement, should be flooding this space with their concern for the Republican voters of Florida. And John McCain should be leading the way. If he doesn't, not only does he hate Florida, but he hates freedom...and Moses.

So where is the news in this?

GOP consistently enforced the rules. There were no surprises during the campaign, UNLIKE the DNC which chose to ignore their rules and completely abandon FL and MI.

This threw the primary process into chaos and installed Dean's golden boy as their candidate. Now the golden boy wants to kiss up to those he abandoned.

GOP never abandoned. GOP AND DNC now realize how important Florida is and that the primary should be early.

[Ingrid]

because the republicans are scared no one will show up. didn't you hear - several states have had to cancel their state conventions - no one was interested.

ha ha ha

We GOP are going to get the nominee we have had in our sights since early this year. And since I am not a delegate, I don't care about this.