Paulbots Attempt to Hijack County Republican Convention Process

3.30.08 | me

[anymouse]

If you wonder why Ron Paul hasn't conceded yet, maybe here is an answer. He needs to keep the Paulbots focused on further disruptive hijinx, not so much because he thinks that they will work. But for the same reason OBL keeps putting out video messages - to keep $$ flowing in to his war chest. If the Paulbots keep their irrational faith that RP will some how manage to gain any kind of position of power, they will keep sending in whatever they can. Arafat got very wealthy off of this game.

[Man50D]

This deceptive process reminds me at least somewhat of Rush Limbaugh’s operation chaos.

[Moonman62]

Libertarians lack any ethics whatsoever.

[Uncle Ivan]

All the more reason to vote for Chris Peden.

[Nextrush]

I am well aware of Ron Paul’s “get out of Iraq” views but I am also well aware of John McCain’s RINO record.

My attitude is that at least someone is standing up to business as usual liberalism disguised as “fiscal conservatism”, “mainstream conservatism” and all the other modified conservative labels the RINO’S put on themselves.

If I were in that convention, I would have supported good things the Paul people did and opposed the bad.

I wouldn’t have been so critical.

[xjcsa]

Sorry, but comparing political maneuvers to al-Qaeda is more than a little over the top. It's disgusting. Trying to beat the nomination system is not the same as hacking someone's head off.

Including one listing a list of complains against Sen. McCain and stating a no confidence in him as the Party's nominee.

I'd have voted for that.

[South40]

Like jihadists....

Yup.

[tgusa]

If the 5% of primary voters who are Paulbots can continue to tie the RNC’s shorts in a knot, what do you think the Clintons or BO will do? Holy crap, we’re in worse trouble than I thought.

[paleorite]

xjcsa,
IAWTP

[gidget7]

Thank you for your post! It just needed to be said. It is disgusting.

[deport]

Apparently they attempted the disruption/take over in other locations. Here’s a story of the their activities down in Nueces County:

GOP chairman thwarts takeover (by Ron Paulistas in Nueces County, Texas)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994090/posts?

[B Knotts]

Uhhh...you might want to double-check before you do that. The primary has already happened.

[deport]

All the more reason to vote for Chris Peden.

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Peden got less than 30% of the vote in the primary.

[Uncle Ivan]

Darn.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

As I reported in the similar thread referenced in post #11, the “Paulian’s” disrupted our district caucus here in Wisconsin by attempting to confuse, amend, and oppose almost every resolution. Their disruptive actions appeared to be both coordinated and premeditated and accomplished nothing except to waste everyone’s time and build lasting resentments toward them and their causes.

[anymouse]

Also similar tactics in Missouri.

“Ron Paul backers succeed in guerilla takeover of some GOP caucuses”
Ron Paul Forum - Pennsylvania
http://www.ronpaulforumpa.com/smf/index.php?topic=682.0

“Ron Paul backers succeed in guerilla takeover of some GOP caucuses”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/politics/story/2953AF413B298DD2862574100013EE2D?OpenDocument

: Never before had St. Charles County Republican Party Chairman Jon
: Bennett received so many queries about where this year’s party caucus
: was to be held. And Bennett didn’t recognize most of the callers.

: On Saturday, Bennett learned why. Dozens of avid supporters of Ron
: Paul, a Texas congressman who is running a renegade quest for the
: presidential nomination, staged a political guerrilla attack. At that
: caucus at St. Peters City Hall — as well as others across the state
: — party regulars like Bennett were overwhelmed.

: Caucuses in Missouri, held only in presidential election years, are
: typically low-key affairs attended mainly by party diehards. But this
: year, the pro-Paul activists commandeered gatherings in the city of
: St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and Springfield. Paul
: supporters also controlled caucuses in at least a half dozen rural
: counties.

: The result: Paul’s supporters predict they have snagged roughly a
: third of the 2,137 state Republican delegates. Those delegates will
: determine the state GOP platform this spring and help select the
: presidential delegates to the national Republican presidential
: convention in Minneapolis in September.

: The unorthodox push, which sparked shouting matches in some meetings,
: reflected Paul’s campaign — an anti-establishment, grass-roots
: movement built on passion.

: At many of Saturday’s caucuses, the Paul contingents also won approval
: for some of their man’s key positions, including resolutions for
: withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and against the
: federal Patriot Act and warrantless wiretaps.

: But the most politically explosive resolution called for repealing the
: Missouri Republican Party requirement that all of the state’s 58 GOP
: presidential delegates back the victor in the Feb. 5 primary: U.S.
: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., now the presumptive presidential nominee.

: But Missouri Republican officials plan to fight back. State Republican
: Party Executive Director Jared Craighead said party leaders will be
: examining the lists of caucus-goers, and of the newly elected state
: delegates. He contends that some of the Paul activists involved in the
: caucuses were really Democrats or Libertarians who should be tossed
: off.

: But Bennett accused the Paul forces of deception. At the St. Charles
: County caucus, Paul backers did not identify themselves as such.
: Instead they promoted a group of proposed delegates they called the
: Conservative Values slate.

: “They went out of their way not to use ‘Ron Paul,’” Bennett said.
: “Intellectually they were dishonest about their reasons.”

: in St. Charles County, gave credit to his side’s stealth preparations,
: which included mock caucuses.

[Supercharged Merlin]

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of RINOs.

I hope Ron Paul DOES succeed in some of these hijinks. The Stupid Party needs a by-God wakeup call, or we’re doomed to turn on the drive-time radio station one day soon and find out we’ve got an Emperor, and not a president, and all future elections are cancelled.

[torchthemummy]

This deceptive process reminds me at least somewhat of Rush Limbaugh’s operation chaos.

Oh what a crock! First of all Operation Chaos is, if anything, blowback on the Dems for their tinkering in open-primary states not just this election cycle but many before. A republican voter crossing over to throw a wrench is far from stealthly placing people in positions that negate the whole process to benefit a losing candidate while at the same time attempting to inflict as much damge as possible to the actual nominee.

Your thesis is beyond absurdity.

[BGHater]

‘I witnessed a shocking railroad job of a Libertarian platform pushed through with highly questionable planks voted through with little opposition.’

Thank God! At least it is a group of people who believe in less gov’t. This is great. At least it isn't Fabians who keep on getting elected.

[Supercharged Merlin]

And by the way, last time I looked, Ron Paul was a REPUBLICAN, not a Libertarian.