Posted on 02/16/2012 8:34:06 AM PST by opentalk
By now, it is clear that the Maine caucuses were a complete mess.
Evidence is mounting that Mitt Romney's 194-vote victory over Ron Paul was prematurely announced, if not totally wrong. Washington County canceled their caucus on Saturday on account of three inches of snow (hardly a blizzard by Maine standards), and other towns that scheduled their caucuses for this week have been left out of the vote count. Now, it looks like caucuses that did take place before Feb. 11 have also been left out of final tally.
As the full extent of the chaos unfolds, sources close to the Paul campaign tell Business Insider that it is looking increasingly like Romney's team might have a hand in denying Paul votes, noting that Romney has some admirably ruthless operatives on his side and a powerful incentive to avoid a fifth caucus loss this month
According to the Paul campaign, the Maine Republican Party is severely under-reporting Paul's results — and Romney isn't getting the same treatment. For example, nearly all the towns in Waldo County — a Ron Paul stronghold – held their caucuses on Feb. 4, but the state GOP reported no results for those towns. In Waterville, a college town in Central Maine, results were reported but not included in the party vote count. Paul beat Romney 21-5 there, according to the Kennebec County GOP.
"It's too common," senior advisor Doug Wead told Business Insider. "If it was chaos, we would expect strong Romney counties to be unreported, and that's not what's happening."
...."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
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
LoL ;)
Even the most delusional have a good idea or thought every now and then. With Paul his foreign policies ideas are so delusional and devoid of reality that if he did become president, we would cease to exist as America, so they would be moot.
troops, correction
Please explain why you think his policies are delusional.
Have fun w Obama bro.
Paul is a 9/11 truther.
Paul blames America/Israel for all the problems in the middle east.
Paul does not understand defense and alias.
Paul for some reason does not understand that we have been fighting islam since 1779, he views that the founders never engaged in first strike. In fact in 1803 on this day the US sent the Navy to destroy battle ships at Tripoli that had been captured by islamic pirates.
He has no problem with the transport of minors across state lines for abortions.
He may have a point on the so called drug war, however there is a huge difference between marijuana use and heroin.
His desire to homosexuality the military.
The constant rambling that America/Israel is responsible for all earthly ills, is irritating beyond belief.
The world would be safe if OBL had not been killed.
He is vote to give aid to palistine but withdraw all aid from Israel points to is anti-Semitism.
and that’s just a start............
Yawn. Go vote for myth
Huh?
I will not vote for Romney, I don’t do liberals.
I will not vote for Paul, I don’t do crazy.
Whatever. Have funwith Obama. You have been brainwashed by vanity and levin.
Yea, no. wiki is not the most reliable source for anything, as any one can edit it.
My views on Paul’s view on Israel are what he has actually said, written and how he has voted. Paul is not a friend to Israel, and has been demonstrated over decades he is an anti-Semite.
Oh, yea the foreign aid thing. Paul always votes against foreign aid except for palestine, there he supports it.
The sound bites for “no foreign aid” are great sound bites, the reality is that foreign aid is only .16% of our GDP.
My experiences are that the Paulers are the second worse enemy of Ron Paul. They come across as pushy and insane and they turn people off.
The worse enemy of Paul’s is his foreign policy and immigration stance. The man has a lot of good ideas, and I can whole heatedly support an instant trillion dollar cut in the federal budget (although, it should be much more). I just can’t support abandoning Israel.
I agree completely, but it’s not just the foreign policy that I disagree with. The real clincher for me was when Ron Paul said that 9/11 was our own fault. Thinking like that is just plain nuts.
So yes, the Paulers do more harm than good, but Ron Paul has purposely drummed up the support of these people through pushing legalization of drugs and libertine social mores. It’s the same organizing method that George Soros uses when he goes into a country.
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