Whatever. The whole long paragraph is a statement by a Paul supporter that says, without any explanation or substantiation, that the WV Romney delegates "weren't nice to us" and so we talked to the nice Huckabee folks. We made a deal with them for three delegates instead of Romney's offer of five because we've really dig each other. There was no backroom deal, we just "caught them off guard" by not waiting for the second vote and announced our switch.
The guy completely contradicts his shared view with Huckabee that there was no backroom deal. They just took two less delegates and jumped the gun before the second round. Romney couldn't counter offer because he had ALREADY OFFERED MORE DELEGATES TO THE PAUL PEOPLE THAN HUCKABEE.
This was a textbook example of a backroom (clandestine) deal. And Huckabee and his supporters that deny such show exactly why me and others believe Huckabee to be a bald-face liar and insulting to our intelligence.
We don’t caucus in my state, but it is my understanding that this is exactly how a caucus works. If your candidate doesn’t cut it in the first round, you are free to switch to another candidate. If I remember correctly, a little more than half of the McCain delegates went to Huckabee, but without the Paul delegates, Huckabee would not have won.
Doesn’t sound like a backroom deal to me...sounds like a caucus.