A member of the Republican National Committee rules committee listed three reasons why at this week’s meeting there were no recommendations made to change the party’s convention rules in July.
“We didn’t want to make changes in the middle of the game,” Randy Evans, a national committeeman from Georgia, told Fox News’ Hannity Thursday evening. He evoked baseball, saying the party’s nomination process is in the seventh inning, and that it would not make sense to change the rules so late in the game.
The second reason he listed was “cynicism.” Referring to what a colleague of his told him, Evans said “If we change a semi colon to a comma, one of the three candidates will think that is directed toward them and that we’re trying to make it more difficult for one candidate over the other.”
The last reason Evans listed was “unintended consequences.” Evans mentioned a proposal that was voted down at the party’s meeting Thursday in Hollywood, Fla., would have installed “Robert’s Rule of Order.” A convention operating under such a procedure would require that the chairperson recognize any point of order raised at the convention.
Evans warned that had the Robert’s Rules been passed, it would have run the risk of somebody stalling the convention, which could result in no candidate being nominated.
“Let’s just leave things the way they are,” Evans said.
