How would you have felt in 1980, if after getting the votes you needed the state party illegally changed the rules to deny you and other Reagan supporters the power due to you?
The Paulistinians have a right to be angry.
Like the left, they are perpetually angry. Yeah, the state party apparatus was a little heavy handed in dealing with them. Just like they were a little heavy handed in thinking a 6% primary vote should result in 30 of 46 (65%) of Louisiana's delegates.
They can take their fight to the convention and challenge the state GOP organization. They can make it all about Ron Paul's ego rather than trying to do something worthwhile like giving states which actually deliver electoral votes in the fall to the GOP a lot more delegates and those which consistently fail to do so a lot less.
How old are you anyway? Did you even read my Freeper profile page about something similar which happened to my candidate in 1976 and how we dealt with it?