Paulbots Attempt to Hijack County Republican Convention Process

Down here in Galveston County, the Ron Paul bots tried to hijack the convention using subterfuge and tactical advantage of surprise, that would have made al Queda proud (high-placed sleeper, multiple coordinated attacks with a goal of causing a larger scale effect at the State convention and later at the National convention.

Unfortunately for them it was discovered and thwarted for the most part by perceptive Republicans that took action and alerted others to help block their efforts. But it did make for a long and chaotic mess.

Like jihadists, they took advantage of a weak Party leadership in transition and general apathy of Party activists and precinct delegates.

A high level trusted elected official used the opportunity of a sick convention coordinator, a lame duck Party chairman and an honorary convention chair that did nothing but show up to give a speech at the start of the convention, to appoint weak commitee chairmen and pack key committees (Nominee, Credentials and Platform) with Paulbots, who had never been active in the Party before. To cover the obvious, a few "go-along" follower types were added to the committees to ensure the Paulbot block vote would not be challenged.

I sat in on the Resolutions/Platform committee after seeing some disturbing planks in the draft Platform. I witnessed a shocking railroad job of a Libertarian platform pushed through with highly questionable planks voted through with little opposition. Including one listing a list of complains against Sen. McCain and stating a no confidence in him as the Party's nominee. This was later removed in a heated floor fight.

Also the trusted official tried to get a change to the rules to allow people that had not voted in the Primary to be allowed to considered as State delegates. Supposedly to allow his daughter who had just turned 18 to go to State as a delegate (an understandable excuse.) But because I had been alerted to the plot to stack the nominations and Credentials committees, I knew that this could also be used to let Libertarians, who had not voted in the Republican Primary to be rammed through as sleeper Ron Paul delegates, merely by swearing to a worthless Party loyalty oath. The Parliamentarian eventually figured out that it was against State Party rules and it was withdrawn, before I could get my turn at the mic to explain the potential hazard of our entire SD delegations being disqualified at the State convention by the Credentials committee discovering that some of our delegates had not voted in the Primary.

They even had the audacity to add Bob Smither to the Nominating committee. Spither ran in the 2006 General election as the Libertarian Party candidate for CD 22. He didn't show up to the convention, but it was a clear evidence of a concerted Libertarian plot to hijack the Nominations process.

Most of the State delegates and alternates ended up being known Republicans, but there were a few that made it, that I didn't recognize as well as quite a few known Ron Paul supporters. So don't be surprised if other Paulbots make it to the State convention in Texas and elsewhere and try to infiltrate the State committees and attempt other mischief in a vain attempt to push Ron Paul as a viable nominee over McCain.

Although we are not thrilled with McCain as the presumptive Republican nominee, we cannot allow the resulting Party angst and apathy to be exploited by another Party, the Libertarians (and their radical Left and Right Paulbots) to hijack our State and National conventions.

"Delegates must VOID McCain's wins !!!" http://www.ronpaulforum.com/showthread.php?t=307129

: The delegates in these states need to file the motion at their conventions : for Mccain to be revoked of all his delegates in those states for failure : to comply with election ballot state law requirements.

"Republicans have choice - Ron Paul supporters tend to fall into two camps. Some believe he may still pull off a David vs." Ron Paul Topix forum http://www.topix.com/forum/us-house/ron-paul/TJQJFHLSRLIGG4PJA

: We held down the fort in Texas. Delegates at the least representing : Paul's platforms are in place.

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.

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