Thanks for the thread hijack, idiots. This is an extremely important topic—establishment Republicans trying to crush the Tea Party movement—but it’s become a Ron Paul thread. Like we have any shortage of them.
Thanks, idiots.
Oh, I dunno. I like what happened with the Platform. If it was some other state, the GOP establishment might’ve pulled some stunt like pulling the fire alarm or cutting the power to the building. But they did see the process through to the end and they lost and they didn’t pretend that they didn’t lose or adjourn the meeting for a month and not tell the delegates when the new convention was. They behaved initially like they would much rather just have the original platform approved and they did behave in a way that suggests that they were trying to hide or bury the alternative platform. But they didn’t have a fit when they lost and they didn’t publically embarrass themselves.
So, I’m not sure that I’m seeing much of “crush the Tea Party movement” here.