Posted on 03/31/2008 11:38:28 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
FORT WORTH -- Ron Paul supporters fought with local Republican leaders Saturday over control of local conventions and may have won the right to push their agenda at the state GOP convention.
Supporters of Paul, a congressman from Surfside who got 4.5 percent of the votes in the presidential primary, tried to overwhelm the senate district-level conventions by sheer numbers. The party regulars, aware that Paul's supporters won a similar campaign in Missouri, brought in extra troops of their own.
The two largest conventions in Tarrant County were still nominating their delegates at 9 p.m., and it may be days before the full effect is known.
"This is not unique to Dallas/Fort Worth; it's happening all over the state," said Stephanie Klick, Tarrant County Republican chairwoman.
Paul's supporters oppose GOP presidential nominee John McCain and want to push the party toward Paul's brand of conservatism, including reining in federal spending, ending the Iraq war and abolishing the Federal Reserve and other government agencies. Any delegates to the state convention will be required to support McCain, but they could still vote for changes in the state party platform.
Peace broke out early at the Senate District 12 convention.
Convention Chairman Tom Quinones worked out a deal to give the Paul camp delegates based on their numbers.
Chad Bishop, a Paul delegate, gave a speech seconding Quinones' nomination, saying the district's "conservative heritage is not lost on us."
Quinones said later, "I think the Ron Paul delegates will be well-represented on our state delegation list."
In Senate District 10, Paul supporter Jeremy Blosser challenged longtime Republican organizer Stuart Lane for chairmanship of the convention.
Blosser bristled at Lane's characterization of Paul's supporters as "outsiders bent on taking over the party."
Blosser said: "We are Republicans. I don't know how you take over something you're already part of."
Lane won the election by 2-to-1, but it took hours to count the votes, and the convention still bogged down with debate over the platform.
"Did we accomplish something today? We're here, and we stood up for ourselves," Blosser said.
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inroads for....what, exactly?
When oomPAULoompas attack....
let freedom ping....
Who, Lyndon LaRouhce?
So the Libertarian Party is following the Socialist Party method of take over? The DNC is run by the Socialist Party these days.
Blosser said: "We are Republicans. I don't know how you take over something you're already part of."
Yeah. Sure:
http://www.demsforronpaul.org/
The Left is acting on the proposal Michael Moore made years ago. He considered running for the president of the NRA if only he could get enough libs to join and support his election.
This is particularly wonderful because McCain has most of Paul's foreign policy deficiencies (plus some additional ones), but almost none of his domestic policy strengths. It comes down to valuating the war in Iraq vs UN-internationalism plus a laundry list of domestic big-government BS.
The onlt inroads that CAN be made at this GOP convention..
WOuld be a bunch of "Indians" throwing a Boston Tea Party..
Say releasing the balloons too early.. or in a speech pronouncing socialism is the new dirty word.. And seeking to describe the nastyness of it.. Exposing half the convertioneers as perverse republicans.. and many watching at home on TV.,.
All dressed as Indians of course.. Liberal republicans love to be entertained.. by tribal types.. They so look like democrats.. Loincloths and everything. republicans want just a hint of political porno..
The socialists themselves already took over the Republican Party. See the endorsement of international climate change treaties for a prime example of their success. See also campaign finance reform, broad endorsement of pro-amnesty positions, etc.
Who is this Ron guy anyway?
They tried to take over the Nueces County GOP convention so they could substitute their list of delegates and alternates to the Texas Republican convention in Houston in June. Their ultimate goal was to force their way into the Texas delegatation going to the national convention in Minneapolis. According to party rules they still would be required to vote according to the primary vote outcome in their congressional district on the first ballot even if they preferred Paul. Considering the party rules make each district winner-take-all if a candidate gets a majority, McCain won all the delegates available from every single congressional district in the state. Also, McCain won every single state wide at large delegate, because he got an absolute majority in the Texas Republican primary. The county leadership wasn't about to fill the lists of delegates with people who had never before been active in the party.
This attempt was similar to the successful attempt in 1988 by Pat Robertson supporters to take over the Nueces County GOP convention that divided the party for years afterward. The current leadership witnessed that takeover and vowed not to let that happen again. They were forwarned about this by the harrasment they got over the last several weeks from organizers of the rump convention.
Moonbats. there everywhere.
Don’t they know the primary is over, McCain won?
But the primary is just the beginning of the political process.
Like polyps on a colon.
Apparently not. You know how those truthers are.
“Ft. Worth Startlegram”
Now that’s funny! Ranks right up there with “Atlanta Urinal-Constipation”.
P.S. A pox on Elron and his rEVILution.
Although I can’t prove it yet, I feel like the SD6 convention was hijacked by the Paulistas this past weekend when I saw long time Republican activists voted down by Ron Paul supporters.
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/710/messages/2513592/
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/710/messages/2514572/
SD6 is Harris county isn't it?
I will admit, they were pretty slick in getting the word out about getting on committees early and vouching for each other to be on committees (committee members have more say so in electing delegates.)
California (State) senator wants to drop Cold War communist laws (AP 3/30/08)
Sen. Alan Lowenthal thinks it's about time that California removes some of the last vestiges of the Cold War from its laws.The Long Beach Democrat has introduced a bill that would scrap statutes allowing teachers and other public employees to be fired for being members of the Communist Party.
The measure, scheduled to be considered Wednesday by the Senate Education Committee, also would drop a requirement that representatives of organizations seeking to use school facilities sign a form stating they do not have communist affiliations.
Yep, with 4.5% of the vote. The Libertarians aren't making any friends.
Speaking of which.. I noticed how far the big L Libertarian party is moving away from the small l libertarian principles in having Mike Gravel as its candidate. They are moving further and further away from Conservative values and running back to the isolationist wing.
Rothbrard said it well about where he saw the Libertarian movement going..The major lesson of the history of the movement to libertarians is that It Can Happen Here, that libertarians, despite explicit devotion to reason and individuality, are not exempt from the mystical and totalitarian cultism that pervades other ideological as well as religious movements. Hopefully, libertarians, once bitten by the virus, may now prove immune.
Ayn Rand said...They are not defenders of capitalism. They're a group of publicity seekers... most of them are my enemies... I've read nothing by a Libertarian (when I read them, in the early years) that wasn't my ideas badly mishandled—i.e., had the teeth pulled out of them—with no credit given.
real wackiness (sarc)....one of those other agencies being the IRS
Good for them. We need to reform the republican party away from statism.
The local Repbulican party hardly supports statism. I would bet most of the delegate attending the my convention voted for candidates other than McCain.
So are bad spellers.
The fact that the majority of my fellow citizens fear freedom has graduated from an annoyance to a threat.
keep the light shining brightly on these Paulbots attempting to co-opt the GOP.
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