GOP kinda sorta maybe will help Veterans vote. Perhaps.

From The National Review:

I’m hearing that a delegate to the GOP Convention Committee on Rules will introduce an amendment at today’s meeting that would instruct caucus states to provide for some way for soldiers to vote. As it stands, military members deployed abroad have no way to participate in caucuses, and a coalition of veterans’ groups has been trying to change that. I’ll be at the meeting, and I’ll update you as soon as I hear anything.

So how hard is it to actually make sure that Veterans have a way to participate in caucuses? For the GOP – led by John McCain – harder than you’d think:

The amendment passed, but not before delegates from Texas, Louisiana and other caucus states led an effort to render it non-binding. I’ve posted the amendment below, with the original language in strikethrough, so you can see what they did:

Any process authorized or implemented by a state party for selecting delegates and alternate delegates or for binding the presidential preference of such delegates shall may use every means practicable, in the sole discretion of the state party, to allow encourage active military personnel the opportunity to exercise their right to vote.

Clearly, this language changes the rule to something more like a recommendation …

But hey, Republicans are the party of defense, right. I’m not kidding.

–WKW

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