it's reasonable. what if something happens between now and the convention, romney gets his name pulled for some reason. massachusetts would have these guys legally bound to vote for him no matter what? that doesn't even make sense. the dels proposed an alternate pledge that was less specific and changed it so it would pledge them to follow the party rules, not to follow mitt romney as a named person. apparently the alternate affidavit was not good enough. the state party threw these guys out, even the ones who did turn in the affidavit were told they were out. they didn't sign it quickly enough. evan kenny and 16 other officially elected delegates were disqualified by the state republican party even though they won fair and square. they were disqualified as dels for failing to deliver the i pledge myself to mitt romney affidavit or for delivering it too late. so their own rules, their own duly conducted election be darned, the republican party came up with a whole new rule after the fact to keep the ron paul supporting rebel out.