By Jonathon Van Maren, First Things - Gayle Ruzicka, who has served as a delegate on every RNC since 1992, bar one, told me that the RNC process was different this year. Ruzicka is a national board member for Eagle Forum, the socially conservative interest group founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972. (It was Schlafly who originally fought for that 1984 line about a “fundamental individual right to life.”) In previous years, the committee process took several days, with sub-committees meeting, proposing amendments, and thoroughly discussing the platform before voting on it. When Ruzicka flew into Milwaukee last weekend, she was expecting several days of similar deliberation. Instead, it was all over before lunchtime on Monday.