 state gop violates their own rules  honesty integrity fairness and following the rules  you wonder why the electorate are so disenchanted with the two political parties it rsquo s because of all the stuff that goes on ldquo behind closed doors rdquo and ldquo under the sheets rdquo you would think in an election year as important as this one that the republican state party would follow the rules that they made and live by them instead of voting to override them so romney can claim a win in michigan instead of a tie the state party chose to change the rules so romney could have more delegates than santorum as a conservative that believes ldquo rules were made to be followed not broken rdquo i am extremely disappointed in what the republican party did by changing the rules and i congratulate mike cox on his stand and his ldquo no rdquo vote on the rules change even though he is a romney supporter the question is whether that single delegate for romney is a big deal probably not but it could be that isn rsquo t the issue the point is it was wrong and these types of back door politics need to stop for an article on what transpired click on the following link  http wwwbostoncom news politics articles 20120301 michigangopchangesdelegateawardaftervote  19  state gop violates their own rules  