This is about Ron Paul and his followers’ pitiful and deluded attempt to disrupt the convention and make him the nominee.
Seriously.
Many of his young and very naive adherants truly believe this will happen.
Some of his followers masqueraded as being for other candidates in order to get delegate slots.
It’s a shameful display of self-centeredness on the part of Paul, who could put a stop to it if he would. But he won’t. I’m so glad the old coot is retiring.
That's essentially what happened at my polling place in Pennsylvania. There was a group politicking outside the poll for 3 delegates to get elected, but when I asked them who the delegates supported, they kept deflecting the question and just insisted they supported "the Constitution". Then I asked exactly who paid for the slick slate cards they were passing out. Again, they said it didn't matter, that I should vote for them if I believed in the Constitution. I said I agreed, as long as it wasn't to support any particular individual such as Ron Paul. THEN it came out and they became outraged, "WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST DR. PAUL?!?"
The jig was up at that point, but other less aware Republicans were probably falling for their deceptive schtick all day long, not understanding that the delegates would then try to negate whomever the voter actually voted for as presidential candidate at the same time.
It was a sickening deception trying to trick the party voters out of participating in a real primary contest.