You know, that is actually kinda low for Mr. Inhofe. It is not like Paul was going to win the convention vote or anything. I especially found it bad that the speaker woman didn't mention Paul's name when he got votes from Alaska, Washington, West Virginia and Oregon.
Paul recieved 1.2 million primary votes. It doesn't do anyone any good to push that wing of the conservative movement under the bus while allowing a leftist like Joe Lieberman to freely speak at the convention.
Don’t think you realize what a tough time some of us have had with his people at our local Conventions. You should see the OK GOP Platform where they managed to themselves on the Platform Committee thanks to someone at OK GOP. It was only good for the trash can.
What'd they do? Add an anti-federal reserve plank to the platform like some Paul supporters reportedly did in Idaho? Oh no....
How in the world is this low for Mr. Inhofe. OK is a winner take all state. The Paul delegates went there with full knowledge of this and the agreement they would honor their delegate contract and vote for McCain.
As for the rest:
1. You must win the required number of primaries/caucuses to be placed into nomination. No other candidates qualified for this except John McCain. Someone yelled “Ron Paul” ...there was no microphone to be cut. It could have just been some random person. Only official delegates can nominate.
2. It does not matter because the only choices are 1) Those placed into nomination who are eligible or 2) abstain/not voting...since McCain was the only candidate nominated and eligible any votes for other candidates are counted as “other”.
3. If someone is “pledged” to a candidate they only remain pledged if that candidate is eligible to be nominated. Romney, Paul, Huckabee, etc were not eligible or were not placed into nomination, thus their delegates automatically become released.
4. Because there were and now are technically 0 Ron Paul delegates because once the roll call began, the only candidate eligible was McCain. They either became McCain or Not Voting.
At least lieberman lives in the real world. The Paulistas do not acknowledge the real world.
something tells me, he’s lying as well. I don’t think he’s a Ron Paul supporter. If he’s a libertarian, its just nothing something we would do. We respect freedom for ppl to speak above everything else. I’m guessing he’s more likely a leftist (marxist)
They were trying to turn the bus over and it fell on top of them.........
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