Posted on 02/16/2012 5:09:11 AM PST by opentalk
I’m not into the Ron Paul, but Ron Paul actually winning the Maine caucus instead of Romney and the GOP hiding it, I’m starting to believe.
According to the Daily Caller, the Maine Republican Party has updated and additional votes “accidentally” omitted from last day’s Maine caucus. However Maine’s state party man Charlie Webster said those votes won’t be publicly released. Why? Do they have something to hide?
“We don’t want any more drama,” Webster told TheDC. “I’ve already got death threats and 1,800 emails.” Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was declared the victor in Maine over the weekend, claiming a slim 194-vote lead over Texas Rep. Ron Paul.Paul supporters, however, expressed dismay over errors in tabulating vote counts in various localities, including several towns in Waldo County. That county’s Republican committee passed a motion of censure against Webster on Tuesday.
The other candidates weren’t close enough for it to make any difference if the “lost” votes were for them, so the R-e would have no reason to hide them. The only reason for hiding them is if they would show Romney not to be the winner, and the only votes that would do that would be Paul votes.
The R-e hiding these votes is basically an admission that they were Paul votes, logically speaking.
The other candidates weren’t close enough for it to make any difference if the “lost” votes were for them, so the R-e would have no reason to hide them. The only reason for hiding them is if they would show Romney not to be the winner, and the only votes that would do that would be Paul votes.
The R-e hiding these votes is basically an admission that they were Paul votes, logically speaking.
And the fact that the people in the areas where the votes were taken are hopping mad about it - mad enough to censure the R head - says they also know who those votes were for.
Webster is a toady for Olympia Snowe. No more need be said.
The Maine caucus was open to registered republicans only.
The Maine GOP instructed the caucus secretaries to NOT reveal the individual town results to the public; but rather send them directly to the party head.
Every discrepancy found so far has been in favor of Mitt Romney.
Charlie Webster, Ruth Summers, and Kim Petengill (3 major players in MaineGOP) all have very close ties to the Snowe machine.
Why are the Democrat/socialist/progressive/Marxists getting involved in a Republican primary?
It was obvious when that buffoon stepped to the podium on caucus day that Romney did NOT win the Maine caucus, when he said “many precincts have declined to report their caucus results.”
It was obvious when that buffoon stepped to the podium on caucus day that Romney did NOT win the Maine caucus, when he said “many precincts have declined to report their caucus results.”
..people feel threatened —they don't want to see a bunch of kids who may have voted for Barack Obama take over," Wead said. "They feel a sense of ownership over the party —but there has to be an accommodation.
I saw no oversight of ballots or any way to verify the results.
That is a scary proposition, mostly because it seems like the commitment of the leadership (either current leadership or the Ron Paul supporters who are poised to take over positions of power in the R-e) is to this or that candidate rather than to THE RULE OF LAW.
It’s the same thing I fear within government itself. I hear people ask why Linda Lingle - a REPUBLICAN! - would lie about Obama’s records in Hawaii, and I wonder if they can even grasp that when people are lawless it doesn’t matter whether they have an R or a D behind their name. Lawlessness is just lawlessness, and a lawless person does whatever supports their agenda, period. You can’t trust them to deal in truth, only in expedience.
What we need is people and leaders who deal in truth and in the law - not in lawlessness and expedience. Commitment to a particular candidate is dangerous unless it is matched by an even-greater commitment to both truth and the rule of law.
I’ve been saying a long time that the illegal election of the current usurping man of lawlessness in the White House would lead to an epic crisis over the very rule of law. I wish I had been wrong about that, but what we’re seeing in EVERYTHING right now confirms that that’s precisely what the country is dealing with. And it’s a crisis larger than the economic crisis. It is the foundational crisis that has allowed the smaller crises to rise to such lethal levels.
Ron Paul entire support I’d from
Democrat party !
Huh?
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