[Vigilanteman]

The Ron Paul camp won their delegates fair and square. The LA GOP needs to ask itself why.

Some actual results:

1. Minnesota: Santorum trounced Paul 45% to 27% in caucus goers. Paul ended up with 30 delegates to Santorum's 3.

2. Maine: Romney and Paul nearly tied in caucus goers, 39% to 36% respectively. Paul ended up with 21 delegates to Romney's 2.

3. Louisiana: Santorum trounced 4th place Ron Paul 49% to 6%. Somehow, the Paulistas think they are entitled to 30 of Louisiana's 46 delegates.

The Ron Paul camp may think running dyed-in-the-wool Paulistas as uncommitted delegates is winning them fair and square. But normal people looking in wouldn't be swayed by the above three examples alone.

Yes, delegate allocation rules need to be overhauled big time.

But the key to that overhaul should be in awarding a lot more delegates to the states which actually deliver electoral votes to the GOP in the fall and a lot less to those which don't.

Not in making the GOP more brownshirt friendly like the Democrats are.

[Bogey78O]

I don’t see how your argument is all that different from the Gore 2000 argument. The system can and should probably be tweaked but the rules exist. They should be followed.

Ron Paul supporters utilized grassroots activism, the same kind championed here, and parlayed it into getting a loud voice.

To say that they’re unrepresentative is not exactly true in that all candidates had the same access. If Romney cared to win these delegates, he should have ran a campaign for them. As is, those who show up on election day call the shots.

To say that the Paulistinians are acting like thugs or brownshirts is flat out wrong. To call them leftists is just not true either.