Posted on 02/12/2012 2:11:46 PM PST by Libloather
Rep. Ron Paul not conceding Maine vote
By Josh Lederman - 02/12/12 12:46 PM ET
Rep. Ron Paul is not conceding the GOP’s Maine caucuses, which state party officials and major networks called Saturday for rival Mitt Romney.
With 84 percent of precincts reporting, Romney has 39 percent to Paul's 36 percent, and Maine GOP Chairman Charlie Webster declared Romney the winner Saturday night, following a week-long series of caucuses.
But in Washington County, where Paul had expected to perform well, the caucus was postponed until Feb. 18 due to an expected snowstorm. Washington County Republican Chairman Chris Gardner told the AP he had no idea when the caucuses were postponed that his county would no longer count toward the grand total.
“This is an outrage," John Tate, Paul's campaign manager, said in an email to supporters. "But our campaign is in this race to win, and will stay in it to the very end."
Paul's campaign has accused the local GOP of postponing the caucuses to prevent the results from being reported on Saturday, arguing that "just the votes of Washington County would have been enough to put us over the top."
The campaign is also dismissing the notion that weather was a reasonable excuse for the caucuses to be put off.
“This is Maine we’re talking about," Tate said. "The Girl Scouts had an event today in Washington County that wasn’t cancelled!"
Paul's aides have maintained that the Texas congressman will wind up with the most delegates from Maine, despite Romney's apparent victory Saturday night. Maine's caucuses are non-binding, and delegates are selected at a state convention in May.
"We were a little bit disappointed last night," Paul said Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation. "But we were disappointed that the one county where we have done the best in the past, and we were expected to do the best, they canceled their caucus."
Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said the campaign was confident it would control the Maine delegation at the GOP nominating covention in August in Tampa, Fla.
I don’t think he should. His followers are going nuts claiming the race was stolen. Fraud has been committed.......it demonstrates the idiocy of Paul and his followers. The more irrational they become in public the more people will realize who Paul actually is.
Obviously snow in Maine is a conspiracy against Paul. The evil NeoCons used HAARP to create snow in several counties. Who ever heard of snow in Main in February?
nah....the NeoCons stole found the Rove/Cheney Weather Machine and used it to foil Paul.
And if he wins the challenge, it is very likely that he’ll move up to fourth place by the time we get to the convention. (Oh wait.)
ROFL!!
ROFL!!
I knew this was coming when I watched them announce the results yesterday.
The Paul supporters were immediately angry at just the announcement that Mitt had won.
Here’s the Paulistian activity to beware of: A Paulbot has just been seated as chair of the Republican Party of Iowa.
In states where national delegates are selected at state conventions, look for Paultards to be overly aggressive in getting friendlies seated as delegates to state conventions, and try to subvert elections of state delegates to national conventions.
Here’s the Paulistian activity to beware of: A Paulbot has just been seated as chair of the Republican Party of Iowa.
In states where national delegates are selected at state conventions, look for Paultards to be overly aggressive in getting friendlies seated as delegates to state conventions, and try to subvert elections of state delegates to national conventions.
Here’s the Paulistian activity to beware of: A Paulbot has just been seated as chair of the Republican Party of Iowa.
In states where national delegates are selected at state conventions, look for Paultards to be overly aggressive in getting friendlies seated as delegates to state conventions, and try to subvert elections of state delegates to national conventions.
I’d get a big charge out of it if Romney lost a race to Ron Paul. I don’t care if it’s Maine, or Guam.
“The evil NeoCons used HAARP to create snow in several counties.”
Don’t forget the chemtrails too. A special mind altering mix in the chemtrail spraying formula can be used to turn voters who otherwise would obviously want Paul to vote for someone else.
A large county was disenfranchised for no good reason and you think Ron Paul supporters are “idiots” for questioning this?
Just wait until the B.Hussein Obama thugs, and ghouls take over on Nov. election day...we haven't seen nothing yet..
Does Hussein scare you??? he sure in hell does me, with the MSM in his pocket..and he never takes blame for anything..
It wasn’t and yes.
I don’t.
I can’t stand Ron Paul or Mitt Romney. I don’t know which I detest more.
But if Ron Paul, who is not a threat to anybody at this point, can take votes or delegates away from the Mittster, I believe that’s a good thing.
And I don’t think it should take a genius to figure that out.
I used a Zionist curse to make it snow....Fear my power! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Seriously, WTH is wrong with these people ?
On this, I stand with the Nutbar.
Anything that hurts Romney, however slight, is a good thing.
Go Paul Go..........
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