I watched one of the Maine videos that supposedly “showed” this. They had a “similar delegate list” which didn’t mention Ron Paul anywhere, and which followed a standard form for delegate lists, and happened to start with the Governor like Ron Paul’s list did. Because it was in the same “format” the video asserted it was a trick. Oddly, the Ron Paul list didn’t mention Ron Paul anywhere — which some would say was itself a trick to not let people know who the delegates were supporting.
The video then found some random guy passing out his own slate, and asserted with no evidence that the guy was a Romney supporter. The problem with this 3rd list was that it had Ron Paul people on it who hadn’t actually agreed that they wanted to go be delegates. Later, the woman making the video says someone nominated her from the floor, and she had to run out and decline.
No possibility existed in her mind that someone who knew her might think to nominate her, or that someone might have known some people he thought would be good nominees and pass out his own list.
And of course, for those who argue conspiracy (as you seem to be doing here), there is nothing in any video I’ve seen that precludes these fake lists actually being from the Ron Paul campaign, which they then report as being from other campaigns in order to cause trouble and get sympathy.
Of course, anybody can do anything at a convention, so it is possible that someone who wanted Romney to win, and who had heard about previous Paul lists at earlier conventions, might have decided to try payback. What is most unlikely is that Romney, having actually won the Nevada delegate votes, and therefore not needing to care about who actually went to the convention, would actually sanction fake lists, and then do it so badly that he lost the delegate fight anyway.
“I watched one of the Maine videos that supposedly “showed” this. They had a “similar delegate list” which didn’t mention Ron Paul anywhere, and which followed a standard form for delegate lists, and happened to start with the Governor like Ron Paul’s list did. Because it was in the same “format” the video asserted it was a trick. Oddly, the Ron Paul list didn’t mention Ron Paul anywhere — which some would say was itself a trick to not let people know who the delegates were supporting.”
I’m not sure why you continue to resist me on this. This level of apologetics for Romney is definitely undeserved. You aren’t looking hard enough and I am not aware of any delegate slates that were captured on photo or video that were ambiguous. There were two slates. Both of them with the Ron Paul logo. That is not disputable. One with Ron Paul’s delegates, the other with Mitt Romney delegates and a few misspelled Ron Paul delegates who were likely the better known. It’s pretty clear. You cannot dispute this. I even saw this on live video from what one of the Paulbots who were streaming the caucus.
This link has a photograph as an example: http://www.dailypaul.com/231180/romney-camp-distributes-fake-ron-paul-delegate-slate-at-nevada-convention-cnn-censored
I have seen several, none are ambiguous, and none match your description, so I have no idea what you’re looking at. Maybe you’re reading or watching something from a few months ago.