Rigging The Vote For The Status Quo
From the floor of the convention last week, the RNC attempted to enact national committee rule changes to prevent any current or future grassroots Republican candidate from ever mounting a surge against the Establishment’s hand-picked choice – regardless of state-level primary or caucus results. Obviously this flies in the face of what elections are all about; one person, one vote. Right?
So, did their attempt pass? Did the people get fooled again?
Check out the video posted below, starting around the one minute mark. It’s the teleprompter leaders of the RNC used to facilitate the vote from the stage. Watch and listen carefully.
Here’s a little direction for to you follow along:
1:21: A motion is made to adopt the rule changes.
1:42: John Boehner, Republican Speaker of the House, takes over the microphone to call for the vote.
1:54: Boehner calls for the “Ayes”. The crowd responds.
1:58: Boehner calls for the “Nays”. The crowd responds.
Here’s where it gets hinky-dinky.
At 2:01 (three seconds after the vote) Boehner reads: “In the opinion of the Chair, the “ayes” have it…” signaling that the rules change passed “without objection” (see 2:06).
However – at 2:09 – AFTER he’s already been prompted to pass the change – we read this on the teleprompter:
[If objection is heard, go to SCENARIO 2]
Boehner never goes to SCENARIO 2, and the video does not reveal what SCENARIO 2 is. However, since we know SCENARIO 2 deals with a negative objection, we can assume it would have led Boehner in a different direction.
Question: Why did the wording for a positive result (“In the opinion of the Chair, the “ayes” have it…”) appear on the teleprompter BEFORE the instructions for what to do in the event of any objection? Had the RNC already decided the outcome they wanted PRIOR to the vote? What does this say about the electoral process??
And, listening to the number of “ayes” versus the “nays”, any reasonable person would say there was clearly objection and that a ballot vote should have replaced the floor vote. Yes, the “ayes” are louder on the video due to a couple of people being close to the microphone (a phenomena known as ‘proximity effect’), but that has no bearing on the actual number of people voting “aye” or “nay”. There are clearly enough “nays” to warrant the question.
Here’s the thing, though…. despite whatever you may think about the RNC rigging the vote change, the leftist mainstream media hasn’t run with this at all. Not a single outlet has picked it up. Why? This is bloody red meat for anyone wanting to slam the RNC for being a tyrannical machine that’s willing to do whatever it takes to get “their man” in office regardless of what their constituents want. So why aren’t they all over this? Simple.
The mainstream media WANTS Romney to be the Republican candidate. Why? They know as long as the election produces an Obama or Romney as president – NOTHING WILL CHANGE. They are both EXACTLY what the power-elite and political machine wants, and they EXPECT, no, they DEMAND, you pick one of their anointed ones. Doesn’t matter to them which one you choose – you get the illusion of a choice – as long as it’s Obama or Romney.
So, as you go to the polls in November and pull the lever for Romney thinking you’re doing the right thing for our country by kicking out Obama, I hope you feel good about yourself.
But know this: The powers that be, and those that blindly follow them, have a problem. A big problem.
Technology (like the cell phone that captured this video, YouTube, and even this email that you’re reading now), along with people like me. You know, those of us that won’t ever allow you to again claim you didn’t know you voted for evil. If you’re lucky, and you start paying close attention, we just might prevent the destruction of our nation by these corrupt bastards and those that continue to support them.
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