Well, cancel one cup of popcorn (get the other gallon of kernels fired up, though):
NYTimes is reporting tonight that Romney caved, er, reached a compromise with the tea-activists on the great power grab of 2012 issue.
Sayeth the Times:
Lawyers for Mr. Romney last week proposed rules that would give the Republican nominee the power to control who gets picked to be delegates to the next national party convention.
But those threats of mutiny from the Texas delegation appeared to have cowed the Romney camp.
For those of you unwilling to climb the NYTimes paywall, they report:
Under the compromise, delegates would be selected by the state and local level without interference or control by the party’s presidential candidate. That would allow competing voices inside the convention, both sides said.
But in a nod to the concerns of Mr. Romney’s campaign, delegates sent on behalf of a candidate would be required to vote to nominate that candidate on the first ballot. If they tried to vote for someone else, their vote would be recorded for the candidate to whom they were bound.
[I think that burns my 12 free articles, with just a few days to spare: damn! will have to turn to MSNBC and Daily Kos for my Convention news.]
I guess we won't be seeing that Texas mutiny after all.
But stayed tuned for possible antics from the supporters of Ron Paul, Todd Akin, whichever non-White or non-guy gets canceled for Ann Romney, or random tea partiers who think Romney is not Birtherier enough . . . .