Yes, they offered joint fundraising to all the campaigns (at the time, Santorum and Gingrich were still in the race.)
The RNC is not declaring Romney their nominee with joint fundraising. Not officially, anyway. And there's nothing "illegitimate" about it... campaigns work to raise funds with their party during the general election.
The Paul campaign, along with Gingrich and Santorum's camps, turned down the offer because the money raised with the party can only be used during the general election, and not for primary activities. At the time, it looked unlikely that those three would be able to raise funds for the general election since it looked unlikely they would be the GOP nominee.
Again, the RNC is not officially declaring Romney the nominee and the money cannot be used until the general election begins. This is standard practice and was offered to each campaign, including Ron Paul. It's important that we have the facts when discussing this type of stuff.
More info: http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns...y-camp-to-start-joint-fundraising-119430.html
Rules don't apply to the people that write them
RNC is treated as "Private". So you come into my house and break some rules in my house, its not something you you could take me to court over if I kicked you out. At the same time, I let you and another guy in my house, I might even go so far as to let the other guy get away with breaking the rules, but not you.
If we do anything, we ought to find a way to get Romney indicted for Money Laundering, Tax Evasion, and the shitload of other laws and chargable crimes that we all know damn well he is guilty as sin over. We do that, we discredit him to the point where the Republican Party disassociates themselves from him, then we get the Nomination. Dig deep. Find real charges that we can make stick to Romney.
Fun idea: lets win the nomination and then demand the funds that Romney raised for the "Nominee"
It can be brought up as a point of order mid-business at the relevant (possibly all) state conventions no?
Yes, they offered joint fundraising to all the campaigns (at the time, Santorum and Gingrich were still in the race.)
The RNC is not declaring Romney their nominee with joint fundraising. Not officially, anyway. And there's nothing "illegitimate" about it... campaigns work to raise funds with their party during the general election.
The Paul campaign, along with Gingrich and Santorum's camps, turned down the offer because the money raised with the party can only be used during the general election, and not for primary activities. At the time, it looked unlikely that those three would be able to raise funds for the general election since it looked unlikely they would be the GOP nominee.
Again, the RNC is not officially declaring Romney the nominee and the money cannot be used until the general election begins. This is standard practice and was offered to each campaign, including Ron Paul. It's important that we have the facts when discussing this type of stuff.
As much as I want to believe that he's going to be invalidated, I think we know that the RNC won't hold up its own rules.
Rules don't apply to the people that write them
It needs to be forwarded to the Ron Paul people