Ron Paul going to convention. What will he do there?
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2012/05/09 00:12:55
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Last weekend, Ron Paul captured
most of the delegates at the State convention. His supporters knew the
rules; most others did not. The Ron Paul delegate strategy has always
been to force Republican Party regulars to follow their own rules.
The national Party seemed ready to break those rules in Nevada. Last week, the lead counsel for the RNC sent a threatening letter
to the Nevada Republican chairman. His message: let Mitt Romney “vet”
delegates “bound” to him, or else. Nevada Republicans chose “else.”
Twenty-two of the twenty-eight delegates they chose are loyal to Ron
Paul. (From the Associated Press.)
Twenty of them must vote for Mitt Romney on the first ballot. But if
Mitt Romney does not win on that ballot, those delegates may vote for
whom they please.
Charges of “dirty tricks” are rife from Nevada. Joel McDurmon at American Vision News sums up. (Play this video: very interesting dialog.)
Ron Paul has 94 delegates; Mitt Romney has about 856. Mainstream
reporters still expect Mitt Romney to have the 1,144 delegates he needs
to win on the first ballot. But Ron Paul will not stop. He expects to capture more delegates in Washington State. Remarkably, the regular Washington Republican chairman welcomes the idea.
I’d be disappointed if there wasn’t, I don’t want to have a boring convention.
Yet Tierney Sneed of US News and World Report suggested that
Ron Paul should drop out of the race. Commenters on that page
vociferously disagreed. At last report, voters in the poll
overwhelmingly voted “No!”
Minnesota, Louisiana, Missouri, and Iowa must still hold their State conventions. Ron Paul already has good positions in all four States.
Almost certainly, Ron Paul will win the right to have someone nominate him for the top of the ticket. The rules say that any candidate with pluralities of delegates in 5 or more States has that right.
The question now is: what can Ron Paul do next? Only two
candidates will have people introducing them: Ron Paul and Mitt Romney.
Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have both suspended their campaigns.
Whether that’s the same as withdrawing and releasing their delegates,
the rules do not make clear. Rick Santorum seems to have given his
delegates to Mitt Romney. But Newt Gingrich has not made that clear yet.
Can Ron Paul supporting delegates, though bound to vote for Mitt
Romney, vote for Ron Paul anyway? Not on the first ballot; the rules
won’t let them. Can they abstain from voting on the first ballot? That also depends on whom you ask. Even the Ron Paul campaign does not seem to know. At best, State Party rules govern that. Some States let delegates abstain. Most don’t.
But those rules say nothing about how delegates must vote during the
platform debate. More to the point, Mitt Romney knows that he cannot
anger either the delegates or the people they represent. So he probably
will not contest any delegate slots, as the RNC lawyer said he
might. Instead he will try to negotiate with Ron Paul; with what result,
none can say.
Read More: http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2012/05/08...
Top Opinion
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DDogbreath 2012/05/09 06:42:31Take the nomination on the second or third ballot.
+13Romney needs to debate Paul on the issues and their respective solutions. The true leader will be so obvious. We don't need another "puppet of the banker's" in the white house.
Ron Paul has planted lots of seeds in the minds of our youth and I would not be a bit surprised to see the Republican Party fading fast as a political force over the next decade if their hypocritical leaders continue to spout cheap rhetoric about Liberty while supporting progressively insane and destructive crony-cap policies which are fundamentally no different than the lefts.
That's why when Romney campaigns, he has a very low turnout of supporters. When Paul speaks people turn out in droves. The truth is refreshing to hear from a politician. His message of sound money and liberty speaks volumes over Romney's empty rhetoric.
If the Republican party expects to survive they need a new young voter base. Ron Paul brings them, Romney doesn't.
How could internet votes be skewed? I am a die hard Ron Paul supporter since 1986. You only get one vote from your computer. Do you think that a few Ron Paul supporters go from computer to computer to vote for him on these polls? Well guess what, it doesn't happen. Some of us actually 'have lives".
The only reason he has not gotten OVERWHELMING primary voting results is Independent voters are sadly "left out" of the primary voting process in most states.
What the other user was actually talking about, was the difference between sitting at your console and clicking a radio button and an action button, and getting into your car (or on the bus), driving (or riding) to a polling place, getting out (off), walking up to a door, pushing it in, walking a few steps to a table with some elderly ladies seated at it, signing your name (twice), getting the paper chit to carry, standing in line, and then walking into a curtained booth, punching some buttons, and slapping the big red button labeled CAST VOTE. (I assume that your polling place has by now stopped using the century-old Print-O-Matic machines that I trained on in my days as an election inspector.)
And I have another belief. A third party candidate will not win enough votes to win election as president. There are simply too many people today who vote R or D and there are not enough thinking, engaged voters who will do the research or even be exposed to a 3rd party candidate to allow them to win. Ron has said he won't run as a 3rd party this time around and I take him at his word.
In this case, I am only the messenger, so don't shoot me. I'd like to see RP win. I don't live in his district, but I live in an adjoining one and I frequently work in his district. I have followed him for a while and voted for him in the last primary. So get over yourself.
Romney has actually talked the talk as Ann Coulter has noted and I linked previously. I cannot say whether he will walk the walk. And Ron Paul, like any other president has only the power to say no. He has the bully pulpit to encourage good legislation, but it will be up to Congress to pass it or he can do nothing, either, short of passing executive orders. And we know that is not the way the government was intended to be run, so I have my doubts about how extensively he would use EO's.
What Romney did as governor cannot be looked at in a vacuum. We can criticize or disagree with what he did, but he wasn't exactly in a libertarian state and the states ought to be making crucial decisions independently of the federal government. He did balance the budget in MA and he did well managing the Olympics, Bain Capital and such that he obviously grasps the idea of basic finances. That alone will be an improvement over what we have today.
Wake up and stop trying to alienate those you need if you even hope to see RP get elected.
First time I"ve seen this one ... pass it around if you can. :-)
That is to say, Sarah Palin.
YOU GOT THAT?
UNDERSTAND?
YES, SIR!
"See? I told you so!"