Paul supporters create delegate mischief

The Washington Times ^ | May 1, 2012 | Ralph Z. Hallow

[no dems]

Mitt Romney may be the presumptive GOP nominee, but Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is quietly racking up some organizational victories that could complicate Mr. Romney’s coronation at the Republican Convention in Tampa, Fla.

Exploiting party rules, loyalists for the congressman from Texas in recent days have engineered post-primary organizing coups in states such as Louisiana and Alaska, confirming what party regulars say would be an effort to grab an outsized role in the convention and the party’s platform deliberations.

In Massachusetts, Paul loyalists over the weekend helped block more than half of Mr. Romney’s preferred nominees from being named delegates at state party caucuses — even though Mr. Romney won his home state’s primary with 72 percent of the vote. Many state GOP establishment figures, including longtime state Republican National Committee member Ron Kaufman, won’t be going to Tampa in August as official delegates.

Paul, “is doing more with less than any modern presidential campaign in recent memory,” said Doug Wead, a Paul campaign adviser. “More surprises coming,” Mr. Wead blogged this week. “It means that Ron Paul will be a factor in Tampa.”

In DeKalb County, Ga., Gingrich won the state’s March 6 primary, but the selection of delegates to the national convention takes place in subsequent party caucuses. So Paul loyalists can run for delegate slots ostensibly as supporters of Mr. Gingrich or another candidate.

In Alaska — where Mr. Paul came in third in the primary — his supporters organized to elect two Paul loyalists as chairman and co-chairman of the state party, beating out candidates backed by the Alaska GOP establishment.

In Alaska, tea-party-backed 2010 GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller and wife Kathleen struck an apparent alliance with Mr. Paul’s team, and she won election March 27 as a delegate to the Tampa convention.

[Dead Corpse]

So not only are you an admitted retread... After jumping me over pointing out that the last two standing are Paul and Romney...

Now you wanna play nice.

Apparently, you got zotted for a reason.

I don't like Paul. I don't like Romney. I REALLY don't like Zero or any of the other Communists screwing with my Country.

If keeping Paul alive to spoil the brew for Willard will get us a brokered convention and a chance at getting a conservative back on the ticket... Then so be it.

[Jack Burton007]

Play nice? You’re the one who started calling me names and you want me to feel bad for thinking you’re a paultard because you were attacking me for voicing opposition to Paul?

You’re smoking too much of that Paul dope.

I would love a brokered convention but I somehow doubt it will happen. Regardless of Paul or anyone.

In my memory I can’t remember a worse election year with no choices at all left for us to make.

If the choices are Paul, Romney and Obama then I choose NONE OF THE ABOVE. I’ll write in Palin or Newt.

I plan on voting in as many conservatives to the house and senate and local offices as possible and hope it slows down the bleeding of our rights, but at this point in time I hold out no hope at all for any of the remaining presidential candidates.

[Jack Burton007]

By the way, your first post to me was attacking me for you believing that I was a Romney supporter. In that post you favored Paul so that gave me every right to believe you are a paul supporter. You assumed that I was a Romneybot but you came off like a Paulbot.

That makes you a jackass?

[Dead Corpse]

Actually, I didn't call you any names.

You stated this:

I would vote for Romney or Obama before I would vote for Paul.

This says you would vote for ROMNEY over Paul or Zero.

My first post on this thread never mentioned Paul. Neither did my second.

It was only after that you started in with the "Paultard" pejoratives.

[Dead Corpse]

I would vote for Romney or Obama before I would vote for Paul.

"By the way, your first post to me was attacking me for you believing that I was a Romney supporter. "

Gee... Where would I have gotten that idea? You'd openly vote for a pro-abort gun hating RINO over an Ob-Gyn who still practices and has never performed an abortion nor voted to approve funding for abortion mills.

Nope. You are still pretty much a jackass.