2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[kurai]

there is no substance to the claim that you have to be directly connected to the national committee in order to be considered a part of republican strategic discourse - this exists beyond party structure and beyond the RNC.

the overall republican strategy is absolutely not just the RNC.

the life and essence of the party relies on so much more action and support than just that, i have no idea why you are claiming it has some exclusive domain on republicanness or republican strategy. it only oversees official RNC strategy, there are obviously other aspects to republican strategy than merely this. consider that the RNC has a very minimal role outside of election time, and yet the goal of party success is nonetheless advanced - this is done through a different kind of independent republican strategy, as embodied in the example of sarah palin.

you are just providing a semantic argument which makes no difference to the importance of sarah palin (or any other prominent republican media figure), and has no bearing on anything i've said about her role and purpose. the RNC is not the embodiment of the only republican platform, and not the only source of republican strategy.

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yes, if your system requires that a body acts as a "gatekeeper" to "prevent even more lawsuits", it is a bad system. you are standing on the assumption that a mass influx of frivolous lawsuits stands to cripple the justice system.

discrimination claims can only legitimately and ultimately be found to be frivolous through the justice system - through judicial review. you assume that stopping lawsuits is the ideal goal, but perhaps the opposite is true...? let people seek justice openly.

if this is the goal, and we accept that "a flood of lawsuits" was possible, the demand would necessitate a new inferior judicial court - simply provide it with original jurisdiction over civil discrimination cases. there is no need to throttle the access to legal proceedings, this only serves to throttle the access to justice.