Ron Paul supporters gone wild ping!
>> “This is not what the Republican Party is about,” Weber said.
What percentage of the constituency would say the Party’s a joke?
Ron Paul supporters are trying to infiltrate the GOP convention so they can riot.
I hope the GOP is not that stupid.
I heard about this today.
It sounds like the Paulites tried to stage a coup!
Other than “because they could,” whats all this about anyway?
McCain is the nominee, so whats the hubbub, bub?
I mean being nuttier than a fruitcake isn’t going to help conservatives at all, and although I am not supporting McCain, I don’t see any point.
We are meeting next month in Virginia to pick delegates to the convention, and our biggest focus is making sure Ron Paul supporters to lie about supporting McCain to sneak in and disrupt the national convention with anti-war diatribes.
This is serious stuff. The media would love to show a large anti-war anti-mccain contingent at our convention, and our nominating process is very easily taken over by people who want that to happen.
It was the State Party who assailed us with long-winded speeches (twice) about contributing to the Patiot Fund (a worthy cause, but redundant after the same speaker came up to “kill time” while they counted the ballots). In fact, a lot of time was wasted by a party wholly unprepared for a contingency who was not going to be railroaded into accepting thier slate of delegates to the National Convention. Again, and I think it bears repeating: It was not only the Ron Paul people who were po’d about the State's attempt to strong-arm the convention.
Even though I'm going to be wearing full HAZMAT gear when I vote for McStain (I believe in party unity), what the State Party pulled was crap, pure and simple. I'm a conservative who thinks Ron Paul took a left turn off the reservation, but in this case, his people were not the bad guys they're being made out to be. Sure, they were vocal, but they weren't the only ones.
This convention was hijacked by the Nevada Republican Party leadership with their pre-determined ballot of delegates. When the Paul group AND OTHERS voted to open up the floor to delegates from the floor, the leadership realized they were not going to be able to load the slate with their pre-chosen people. It was their abuse of rules technicalities, including ending the meeting abruptly and without any kind of vote, that was wasting the thousands of dollars the convention delegates spent of their own money to go.
Now, contrary to RNC rules, they're going to reconvene in Las Vegas. Perfect. If you don't like the rules, break ‘em, or make your own up. How utterly typical. No wonder many Nevada Republicans are leaving the party and becoming independants in droves.
These are the kind of silly shenanigans that happen when our sitting President neglects his political responsibility by having a strong, personable VP in place for this year’s election.
I fault Bush for maintaining Cheney in the second term.
Then again hindsight is 20-20 and we are at war.
The GOP is in very bad shape