This IS “Paulite” nonsense. The Paulers orchestrated this delay in the convention to further divide the “inside the Beltway” Republicans from the social conservatives. It didn’t take much, but it worked and they got Ron Paul’s face in all the pictures of the convention, today, instead Romney’s picture.
Just what the Democrats and the Paulers were hoping for.
Lie all you want, RomneyBOT.
This is ONLY about FASCIST ROMNEY and his
weasel lawyer who demand all bow
to Mr. RomneyCARE’s DEATH PANEL/TARP agendae.
I prefer Paul over Romney any day. But I prefer Newt or Palin over either of them by a hundredfold.
The presidency is lost no matter who wins. The thing to do now is get control of the Senate and strengthen the numbers in the House. This can stop Rombama until we get Newt or Palin in 2016.
Let the Paulinians torture the aristocracy that makes up the democrat and GOP elites. Screw ‘em.
THere is a lot of grassroot objection to the rules changes as well, but yes, it is being driven by Ron Paul supporters, and sadly that is also why it had to be defeated. The Tea Party would have done much better if the paul supporters weren’t trying to cause so much trouble.
It’s like how a good group of peaceful protestors can be overcome by putting a few violent ones in their midst, “provoking” a police response.
Anyway, I wasn’t surprised by the Maine delegation move, there was a lot of issues about how the Maine delegates were chosen to begin with. Some of it was sadly apathy amongst the first-tier winners, with the paul supporters being much more dedicated and following through on the process.
So for example, according to the preference polls taken at caucuses, the projection was that Romney would get 11 delegates, and Ron Paul 10. But with the Paul people pretending to support Romney, and using every trick at their disposal, by the time all the conventions were done, they had 20 of the 24 delegates, in a state where polls showed Romney was preferred by the republicans by a sizable margin.
So yes, it is a bad thing that they are replacing delegates. But it’s the lack of control of the state delegate selection process (meaning the lack of a good, understandable and fair process) that leads to this kind of result.
And yet, I wish they hadn’t replaced delegates. Why stir up a hornet’s nest? Well apparently to avoid another problem — Ron Paul had somehow managed to slip enough delegates into IOWA to try to claim a majority, and there was apparently going to be a fight over nominations. Remember the “5-state rule”? The push was to get Ron Paul a 1/2 hour of nominating speeches attacking the GOP and it’s nominee.
You can tell from watching CNN — they are running a “twitter tracker” and all the tweets they are picking are Paul supporters trashing the GOP, trashing Romney, calling for a mass defection from the party, etc. Not the kind of people you want at your nominating convention — a convention which, whether you like it or not, is about SUPPORTING THE PARTY.
I’m fine with people NOT supporting the party. But if you don’t, then don’t show up at the PARTY CONVENTION, and complain and moan and try to destroy the party from within.
Look, I don't like Ron Paul's foreign policy and lack of appreciation for Israel and AWOLing on most social issues any more than most others on Free Republic.
But even broken clocks are right twice per day.
Maybe Ron Paul is trying to use his relatively small group to ignite a firestorm between GOP-elites and social conservatives. Don't know.
What I do know is if the Republican Party were paying attention to social conservatives the way the Democratic Party pays attention to its core organized constituencies (labor unions, gay rights groups, etc.) we would have a much more conservative Republican Party.
Romney won. I get it. Elections have consequences.
But those consequences do **NOT** include allowing the Speaker of the House to ignore close voice votes in the Republican National Convention.
We are supposed to be the party of law and order, not of personalities or majorities running roughshod over dissenters. Mob rule is supposed to be done by the other party, not ours.