[Libloather]

Ron Paul would game the system? Say it ain't so...

[autumnraine]

Read an article about Lamar County Georgia delegate issue with the Ron Paul’ers.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Either we have a delegate system or we don’t. Set the rules and live by them. I’m tired of the Rino’s and others gaming the system. And people wonder why we have such bad government. It starts before anyone is elected.

[null and void]

Uppity voters.

[Think free or die]

I was poll watching in SE PA during our primary. A Paul supporter came early in the day with a pile of leaflets which pushed 3 delegates and 3 alternates. The literature not only did not say who was advocating these votes, but also did not say who paid for the literature. We alerted the election judge, who spoke with him and got back-talk. He was obviously prepared for the question because he insisted that unless it cost over $1,000, the literature didn't need to show a funding statement. He also had Ron Paul flyers which were tri-fold glossy items lacking the same funding information.

Our election judge called the county officials, and put him on the phone. He was told to stand no closer than 10 feet from the building. I watched him from the window and made sure I clarified with every voter who took his flyer that it was a Ron Paul supporting slate. Voters have a right to know. I was really angry at their tactics. I reported it up to our area leader who assured me that it would be discussed with lawyers. I never heard whether there was further follow up. I expect this was going on county and state-wide here in PA. Voters usually don't know anything about the delegates so it's relatively easy to sway some of the votes. In a low turnout primary, it could easily make a difference.

[rellimpank]

-—and the Nevada Republidunces can’t do anything right, anyway-—

[muawiyah]

See where Priebus is going with this? He certainly didn't threaten this way back when the Republican big dogs in Virginia decided to change the rules at the last minute to disqualify all the other candidates than their "Chosen One".

He is not, to my understanding, making any attempt to force the proportionality rules on Florida.

The corruption runs from top to bottom in that crowd ~ it will run out over the floors and spill into the Senate and House elections.

The degree of corruption at the RNC is so great it probably explains why our 2010 advances were not equaled in 2011 in the various by-elections around the country.

I think we have the sort of problem at the top that ought to probably lose the confidence of the Republican big dogs around the country.

So, what do we do next?

[UncleSam]

They Say!

“National Republicans worry that if grassroots party loyalists aren’t supporting the presumptive nominee, the party could struggle against President Obama’s fundraising and organizational efforts.”

What does a ‘National Republican” look like? Pink faced little pudgy guy like Karl Rove? The National Republican peoples didn’t do so well in 2008 and plans are afoot to pee on them again this year.

 

[ngat]

I am curious. Could you explain exactly why you loathe Libertarians?

Please take enough space to explain fully, as I am not so familiar with Libertarianism, and would really like to know.

[rawcatslyentist]

Did the scammers get scammed?

Poor widdle RNC same as the DNC. They got gamed!

I'd vote RP before MR!

[jdirt]

Wait a minute, ron Paul is a republican. Rnc, you made the rules, now live with it.

[freeandfreezing]

Actually I’ll bet the RNC would do that for any state that dared not to send a slate of delegates holding Romney signs.

[AuH2ORepublican]

L. Ron Paul and his cult members tried to do the same thing in 2008, but Nevada’s State GOP Chairman, Sue Lowden, put a stop to it and Nevada allocated its delegates to the Republican National Convention in proportion to the results of the state’s caucuses. The Paulestinians never forgave Lowden for preventing their chicanery. When Lowden ran for the U.S. Senate in 2010 as a solid conservative who would have defeated Harry Reid in the general, the Paulestinians started spreading every lie and unsubstantiated rumor possible about Lowden, which, combined with Lowden’s gaffe regarding health care (she used a terrible example of the free-market system, saying someone could pay a doctor with a chicken), ensured that Lowden lost the primary and the not-ready-for-primetime Sharron Angle got the nomination instead.

[JediJones]

Any damage Ron Paul can do to Mitt Romney is welcome. Ron Paul is at least a radical fiscal conservative despite his nutty foreign policy. That beats Romney’s statism and socialism any day of the week. A Ron Paul presidency would without a doubt do more to solve our debt crisis than a Romney presidency would. Just maybe the party will back a candidate who’s conservative on SOMETHING next time.

[lewislynn]

Like Ron Paul or not everyday the Republicans come up with reason after reason to stay home in November.

[Mechanicos]

This is great news! Despite the lies in the media from both the DNC and GOPe propaganda machine Romney may not get enough hard delegates to win the first vote at the convention. In the last 3 liberal states he got at most 57% running virtually unopposed. Hes not going to do any better in the upcoming conservative proportional allocation states.

So regardless of what you think of Paul and his devotees. the fact is he is the last chance we have of getting a brokered convention and getting rid of Romney. Do you really think Paul can win the nomination? No. That’s laughable. Can he force a brokered convention? Possible, if conservatives would not fight what hes doing...

[Keith in Iowa]

Iowa has the same Ron Paul problem.

The state Republican Central committee has been taken-over by Paulisinians. And when the state delegates are finally selected at the state convention, the make-up of Iowa’s delegation will not reflect the caucus results at all... bye-bye first in the nation caucuses... and at this point, I don’t give a flying crap. The Republic Party of Iowa will reap what’s been sown.