The primaries are not binding. Mitt has been counting his chickens before they are hatched, and so have most people in the media. But two days ago, Fox News admitted that Ron Paul will be there, at the convention, and will have someone place his name in nomination. (Unless he trades that away, and he'd have to get a real ironclad concession out of Romney before he would do any such thing.)
No guarantees, but after all, if Warren G. Harding could do it, why couldn't Ron Paul?
Then it will be up to him.
Could Ron Paul win the GOP nomination after all?
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On Thursday evening, Ron Paul stunned the media again: he won most of the delegate votes in Washington State. IB Times tells how significant this is:
Washington is now the third state, after Iowa and Minnesota, in which Ron Paul
has locked up at least half of the state’s nominating delegates. In
order to be officially entered in nomination at the Tampa, Fla.,
convention, he needs to secure half or more of the delegates in five
states, and as of Thursday, he looks poised to grab a majority of
delegates in other states like North Dakota and Maine in coming weeks.
Rob Richie and Elise Helgesen, at Politico.com, said
as far back as November 25 of last year that the Republicans might not
nominate a candidate in one ballot. They discussed whether the rules
let States move their primaries up. But those same rules made the
primaries largely non-binding. And Rule 40, paragraph b, clearly says
how many State majorities a candidate needs to be on the ballot:
Each candidate for nomination for President of the United
States and Vice President of the United States shall demonstrate the
support of a plurality of the delegates from each of five (5) or more
states, severally, prior to the presentation of the name of that
candidate for nomination.
Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have both suspended their campaigns.
They have done this so that they can raise money to pay off their
staggering campaign debts. But neither man has released any delegates actually bound to him. Furthermore, Ron Paul has taken delegate slots that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich might have gotten. And unlike Gingrich and Santorum, Ron Paul is not in debt. He has two million dollars in cash on hand.
Historical precedent
In 1920, Warren G. Harding came to the Republican National Convention
with six percent of the delegates, less than any other candidate. Ten
ballots later, the convention nominated him with 70 percent of the vote. He went on to defeat Democrat James Cox in a landslide.
Ron Paul hopes to do today what Warren Harding did 92 years ago. And
he will start with a higher proportion of delegates than Harding had.
See also this video of Ron Paul as a guest host on CNBC.
Read More: http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2012/04/28...
If we could get that fair and balanced FOX news to report on the Herzog arrest tying Romney and Jeb Bush to banking fraud and voter tampering and campaign fraud, Romney wouldn't even be a consideration come Tampa. Ron Paul would be the only one left standing! Make it so!
Inasmuch as I have coffee every Thursday with former chairmen of the Republican Party in Idaho I can personally vouch for the fact that they are extremely angry with the Idaho "Paulies" for the stunt they are attempting. The Paul supporters wanted a caucus instead of a primary, and they got it - but Ron Paul got his butt kicked by Romney, by over 5 to 1, and now they are attempting to reverse the outcome of the popular vote. Are you actually proud of that?
I'll ask the question again since you failed to answer it - are you proud of the fact that Ron Paul and his supporters are attempting, at least here in Idaho, to reverse the outcome of the caucuses they asked for by packing the state Republican convention? Have you adopted the "Rules for Radicals" idea that Obama works by, "the ends justify the means?" It would seem so.
You don't understand the difference between caucus and delegates if you think he is trying to "reverse" the outcome. Maybe try reading the RNC rules ... Paul follows them to the letter while Romney is openly cheating and trying to stop Paul supporters to vote at all as they did in Maine.
I've told you for a fact what is happening here in Idaho from first hand knowledge. The Paul supporters wanted caucuses rather than a primary, and got their way. At the Ada County (Boise) caucus there were over 8,500 votes cast (the largest caucus in history!) and Romney got 61.6% while Ron Paul got 18.1%.
Those results, over 50% on the first ballot, gave Romney 100% of Idaho's delegates. Now the news is that the Paul supporters are going to try and pack the state Republican convention and send their own delegates to Tampa, who will only be bound to vote for Romney on the first ballot.
I was at coffee this morning with a former chairman of the Idaho state Republican party and the former chairman of the Ada County Republican Party, and both were concerned with the divisiveness of the tactics of the Paul supporters.
That sounds exactly like the kind of tactics Obama and the left-wing radicals who follow Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" would employ!
source: http://www.thegreenpapers.com...
“One of the great tragedies of human history is the difficulty of escaping from tyranny, since tyrants so ruthlessly maintain their power.”
For those who continue to support the status quo, they send a clear message to Washington that our Constitution, it’s Laws, and the value of liberty just doesn’t matter and in return they send another wannabe liar-in-chief for the 2012 election.
We didn't learn about it until the Maine caucus but we certainly have seen more evidence of it since. The GOP has been ignoring RNC rules, the are vetting delegates after the deadline, Romney followers have been stuffing ballot boxes to give Romney the projected lead.
This is what we get when we pick one evil over another ... just another flip-flopping liar in chief. When one stands for nothing ... they will fall for anything. And the DEM/GOP Progressive Party has got the average American's number ... dumbing down America is working.
I, for one, haven't just *heard* that Mitt Romney is trying to rewrite the rules, after he perhaps thought he understood them, but didn't. I have read the threatening letter that the RNC lead counsel sent to the Nevada GOP chairman: "Let Mitt Romney vet delegates, or else!" The Nevada GOP chose "else."
And I hate to air dirty laundry in public, but after all, this dirty laundry has been out there for awhile. The Idaho Republican Party, pre-Paul, is the same Idaho Republican Party who sent someone to Washington who disgraced himself sexually.
Nor does such disgrace limit itself to homosexuals (like former Senator Craig). Speaker John Boehner, I am given to understand, has girlfriends all over Washington. Eric Holder knows who every one of them are. And he has threatened to use that information if the Speaker does anything on the natural-born citizen question *or* on Operation Fast and Furious. If you hear of sex scandals breaking out in the next several days over that contempt citation, or if the Congressional contempt citation quietly dies for lack of seconds or votes, I hope you will both remember who predicted that one or the other thing would happen.
Before you ask: I was always the class Geek, Nerd, Grind (and not "Bump And"), Weir...
I, for one, haven't just *heard* that Mitt Romney is trying to rewrite the rules, after he perhaps thought he understood them, but didn't. I have read the threatening letter that the RNC lead counsel sent to the Nevada GOP chairman: "Let Mitt Romney vet delegates, or else!" The Nevada GOP chose "else."
And I hate to air dirty laundry in public, but after all, this dirty laundry has been out there for awhile. The Idaho Republican Party, pre-Paul, is the same Idaho Republican Party who sent someone to Washington who disgraced himself sexually.
Nor does such disgrace limit itself to homosexuals (like former Senator Craig). Speaker John Boehner, I am given to understand, has girlfriends all over Washington. Eric Holder knows who every one of them are. And he has threatened to use that information if the Speaker does anything on the natural-born citizen question *or* on Operation Fast and Furious. If you hear of sex scandals breaking out in the next several days over that contempt citation, or if the Congressional contempt citation quietly dies for lack of seconds or votes, I hope you will both remember who predicted that one or the other thing would happen.
Before you ask: I was always the class Geek, Nerd, Grind (and not "Bump And"), Weirdest, and Square. Go ahead: look up my high school yearbook, and you'll see: "Grind, Weirdest, and Most Unforgettable." I'd be the guy that the doxies loved to hate, because they wouldn't get any of my business. (If anyone of them tried to proposition me, I would hand them a Jack Chick Tract.) I'm blessed that I can at least list my relationship status on SH as "Widowed" rather than "Single" at my age.
I would more likely be a target of blood-and-lead assassination than of blackmail, did I become a Senator or Representative. I would sleep on a fold-away sofa bed in my office during the week, and take the Amtrak Acela home for every weekend from Union Station, an easy walk from the Hill. Just so I could go to my favorite church. (Or maybe I'd save up and get a Terrafugia Transition and fly that back and forth.)
Why can't we elect that kind of person to Congress?
And maybe the folks in Humble, Texas did.
It isn't Romney who is rewriting the rules, it's the Paul supporters who are attempting to go around them. Deny Romney the nomination on the first ballot, even though he has an overwhelming lead on Paul, and they hope for a "brokered convention", still giving Ron Paul a shot. That shot is somewhere between slim and none but the they don't give a damn about the damage they might do to the Republicans in November.
Mitt Romney is not the lesser of two evils. He is equally as evil as BO, maybe more if blood thirsty Rubio is his vice.
"Republican Delegate Tally
Delegate totals are from The Associated Press, and include the preferences of superdelegates, Republican party leaders who are free to support any candidate.
Last Updated: 5:18 PM ET
Mitt Romney 1084
Rick Santorum 253
Newt Gingrich 131
Ron Paul 119
1144 delegates needed to win nomination."
Ron Paul just won Minnesota and Iowa. And as the caucuses wrap up he is expected to gather more.
It's also important to realize that their are a number of states that have yet to hold or finish their primaries or caucuses. I think it's 16 or so. Ron Paul is very popular in California.
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...