Posted on 05/02/2008 6:16:29 PM PDT by writer33
As far as John McCain is concerned, the Republican presidential nomination is a done deal and the party is united behind him. But thousands of Republicans -- particularly supporters of Texas Rep. Ron Paul -- aren't buying that.
In the Pennsylvania primary, more than 215,000 Republicans cast ballots for Paul or former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who together captured 27% of the vote.
And that was tame compared with the uproar last weekend at Nevada's Republican Party Convention.
About 600 well-organized Paul supporters overwhelmed McCain's forces and engineered a rule change that permitted national convention delegates to be nominated from the floor, wresting the task from party leaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
A dismal and hopeless misunderstanding of the libertarian mindset.
Not only is that unlikely, it is impossible.
wow! both of the paulistas are going to vote hussein?
It may hurt but I am voting for McCain. I cannot bear to think of Shillary or Obama as Commander in Chief.
I’ve heard that delegates are required to vote as designated, especially on the first ballot (in many states). What happens if the delegates don’t show up?
“I’ll tell ya, if the Paul folks get the rules changed and we are able to pick someone other than him or McCain, he and they may have done this nation an amazing bit of service.”
Methinks you have uncovered the real “Operation Chaos” that elRushBo has ONLY HINTED at in the last week.
Given that the rule changes (in TX, MI, NV and ???) have been occuring UNDER the DBM radar it would appear that we patriots have a chance....
So if they can do the ditch work then let ‘em at it.
Ha!
I’d be worried if they were lining up behind McCain!
Keep hope alive! ;o)
McCain still does not have enough delegates legally bound to cast votes for him in the first round. I’m not sure he can get enough to guarantee that any longer. I know he could not have done so if Huckabee had remained in the race.
It has a good and bad side to it for McCain. If he blows up badly before the convention, he doesn’t win. Because the MSM knows this, they are not unloading on him yet.
I thought they were lined up behind Barney Frank.
Nope. Not too harsh at all.
I don’t know what happens if they don’t show. I’m not worried about the vote for Presidential nominee, but about the votes on the platform, and on the rules, and on resolutions.
If the paul people played things well, they could hold a majority of the delegation, vote for McCain, but also vote an anti-war platform plank.
BTTT
I suspect that part of their strategy is to prevent McCain from getting the votes he needs by becoming delegates and not showing up. They’re working really hard to become alternates as well, and are having even better success at becoming alternates than becoming delegates. They’re learning and trying hard to get their people in place as delegates and alternates. It does not appear that the McCain campaign is aware of what is taking place. It appears that McCain is simply letting the state and local party officials take care of things. Ron Paul supporters are working hard to get their people to every single meeting where delegates are elected. Maybe there aren’t that many die hard McCain supporters who care enough about McCain to spend a whole day or many days just to show up to vote for someone else to be a delegate. There are many Ron Paul supporters all over the country who are showing up at party conventions knowing exactly who they are supposed to vote for. The Ron Paul forces are extremely well organized, the McCain forces aren’t and McCain seems to need to rely on walkouts and the like to prevent delegate sweeps by Ron Paul. The Ron Paul people are only getting better at this, more experienced and better organized.
Indiana primary coming up - Paul gets my vote.
The attitude you and many others on this forum express convinces me that the ideals of our nation's Founding Fathers are dead. Even among supposed conservatives and supporters of the Constitution, the one candidate who most closely adheres to the founding principles of this nation is ridiculed. May God help us all!
Oh please, come MAKE me play ball! 'tard. Blackbird.
Hey! If yer gonna fritter yer vote away anyways, ya might as well make the Dems pist with it!!!
You know that Arnold Schwarzenegger hopped into the recall election in California just weeks before the vote. It was a neat trick because now the republican base is forced to pay for an austrian socialist to run their state into debt,to pandering to the illegals and into environmental socialism.
Its sweet, isn’t it, when the party puts up socialists and globalists and tells the principled conservatives like Tom McClintock to get lost. The socialists are completely in control of the party.
Now, another election, another globalist socialist for the republican party ,but this time its a national election instead of a state election.
So here you are, supporting the socialist candidate. Why?
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