Mo GOP targeting 300 pro-Ron Paul at Monday ‘credentials meeting’

STLtoday.com ^ | 05/05/2008 | Jo Mannies

[Rebelbase]

According to an email from some Missouri supporters of Ron Paul, sent late Sunday night, the state Republican Party has scheduled a special “credentials meeting” for 10 a.m. Monday at the Blue Armory in Jefferson City.

At the meeting, according to the email, about 300 of the 1,900 elected delegates to the state GOP convention May 30-June 1 must disprove allegations that — presumably — accuse the targeted delegates of not being bona fide Republicans and/or not committed to supporting John McCain for president.

[Rebelbase]

Loyalty oaths to John McCain being required by the Mo. GOP?

[glorgau]

Can’t have anyone intrude upon the old monopoly.

[Cyclone Conservative]

That’s just not right. Agree or disagree with Ron Paul, his people worked through the proper channels(not the media) to try and elect their guy and now it’s basically a witch hunt for Ron Paul supporters at state conventions.

[MitchellC]

Whatever the case is here, the GOP reaaallllly needs to clean the rules up by closing the primaries and making the primaries results stick, so that just anyone can't walk off the street into a convention and derail the delegates process.

[frankiep]

The sooner the little people realize that their voice means nothing, the better. - The American Republicrat Party

[AmericanHunter]

The more they try to shove McCain down our throats, the more that ol’ gag reflex kicks in.

[jrooney]

Nothing like a bunch of whiny Ron Paul supporters to cry foul, when they have done everything to be disruptive, rude and infringe on the rights of other voters ever since the surrender monkey announced his steroid pumped Pat Buchanan run for the presidency. Paul will NEVER win the presidency this time or any time in the future because the majority of sane voters do not like a coward that would surrender to al Qaeda.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Well, if the Paulestinians wouldn’t try to overturn the results of the actual primary, then the MoGOP wouldn’t need to resort to tactics such as this.

[HOYA97]

Exactly my thoughts! You said it much better than I ever could!!!

[Rebelbase]

Hard to tell from your rant but are you approving or disapproving of the GOP requiring John McCain loyalty oaths by convention delegates at the MO. state GOP convention?

[jrooney]

I read the article and I did not see anywhere where they were requiring loyalty oaths.

[Rebelbase]

Ron Paul supporter delegates being called to a special meeting to disprove allegations that they don’t support McCain.

What is the purpose of that? Are not delegates free to vote for whomever they like?

[jrooney]

You are the one claiming they are requiring loyalty oaths. First you put the phrase with a question mark, then make the accusation again as a statement, as if it is a fact. Where does it say in the article they are requiring loyalty oaths or is that a figment of a paranoid Paul supporting mind?

[Man50D]

The GOP elite are loyal to their socialist candidate. I'm not a Paul fan but hopefully Paulbots can create a GOP version of Operation Chaos on the convention floor to create a wide open convention thereby preventing the GOP from nominating socialist McCain.

[JOAT]

You are the one claiming they are requiring loyalty oaths.

You don't understand party politics very well.

No state wants to be the first to go on national television without 100% of their delegates supporting the annointed one.

When I went to the national convention in 1992, our state would have been the first state to announce delegates for Pat Buchannan. The party hacks were going beserk. When the Buchanan people were clearly going to stick to principles, they moved us out of alphabetical order to the end, to ensure our results would not appear during prime time.

They may not technically be 'loyalty oaths' but the state level party WILL purge dissenters early to avoid embarrassment.

[GulfBreeze]

here here!

[Cyclone Conservative]

They used the system to their advantage and the are now whiny and disruptive? When Republicans become Republican’s again this stuff won’t happen.

[jrooney]

"You don't understand party politics very well."

I think I have a pretty good handle on party politics, enough to know I should not be lectured by a freeper that wasted a vote on the antisemitic Buchanan thinking he was fit to be commander in chief.

[Designer]

special “credentials meeting”

They're going to a whole lot of extra trouble.

They could simply do as our state did once: Don't ask for the ballots!

I kept my unused ballot for a while, and eventually threw it away.

They don't need no stinkin' "credentials meeting".

[jrooney]

Hate to break the news to you, Paul is not a Republican but a Libertarian and so are most of his supporters.