Topic: Ron Paul
Paulistas: Revolution Continues The revolution continues - as the presidential race on the Republicans side starts to slow down, determined Paulistas continue to fight the good fight. With reports coming out of mainstream sources such as the LA Times, New York Times, CNN, Fox News and the Washington post, the Paulisitas are over throwing the GOP establishment county by county.by jposty
(Libertarian)
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The revolution continues - as the presidential race on the Republicans side starts to slow down, determined Paulistas continue to fight the good fight.
With reports coming out of mainstream sources such as the LA Times, New York Times, CNN, Fox News and the Washington post, the Paulisitas are over throwing the GOP establishment county by county. The news organizations are covering Paul's supporters movement and gains more so now, than when the election cycle was in full swing.
Texas, Washington, Nevada, Missouri etc have all recently held their caucuses which, in a normal primary season are nothing more than a pat on the back, social event for the Republican party in their respective counties. However, with the infusion of 10's of thousands of new republican members surging the establishment ranks with a significantly different message to their old-time GOP party members, it has once again become a ground for serious political debate for the future of the Republican party.
Although Paul received just 3.8 percent of the vote during the primary race in St. Charles County, the Paul supporters were in the majority of the 131 people who attended the Saturday caucus. They quickly elected Brent Stafford, a Paul supporter from O'Fallon, as chairman.
"They were able to garner a few more people than we were," said Penny Bennett, member of the St. Charles Republican Central Committee. "Our people seemed to think that if they voted in the primary they didn't need to go in the caucus."
The Paul supporters filled most of the delegate slots from St. Charles County. At the county-level caucuses, delegates were chosen to attend the state and congressional caucus. Then at these events, the attendees will help select the 55 delegates from Missouri who will go to the national GOP convention, where a presidential nominee is chosen.
The scene was similar at other caucuses across the state. In Kansas City, Springfield, and several smaller counties, Paul supporters represented the majority of caucus goers. Some Paul supporters claim they have secured 1/3 of the total delegates who will attend the state convention.
Mr. Paul says that neoconservatives who hijacked the Republicans extol what he most abhors: the belief that government is part of the solution, not the problem, and that America's inherent beneficence entitles it to force selected other nations to make themselves over in America's image.
"We don't agree with them," he says. "We agree with the Old Right, and they're the New Right, which is The Wrong,' [because] the New Right has morphed into neoconservative."
Many of his 800,000 presidential nomination votes were from newcomers to the Republican Party the kind of dedicated small-donor volunteers the party needs, he says.
This however, isn't a unique story, it is literally happening in countless counties throughout the country. [link edited for length] -
The convention was rife with controversy, the majority of it surrounding an attempted unseating of the chairman of the Alaska Republican Party by other forces within the party, including our governor Sarah Palin. The atmosphere was pretty intense and the news reporters were ready for big headlines. Our Ron Paul group, which according to some was the largest and most organized group of individuals at the convention, had to decide which powers we could ally ourselves with to best further our agenda, and during the course of the convention we had to craft and change strategies constantly to stay in the game. I won't go into great detail concerning everything that happened, because you could probably write a novella about this convention, but I will say that it was better drama than television. I never expected to be quite so entertained by political maneuvering or parliamentary procedure!
We had several goals going into the convention, and although we were not successful on all fronts, we were overall *very* successful.
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Yes, it is true, Ron Paul supporters are garnering support, and will be a force to reacon with during the Republican National Convention in September.
The MSM has already declared MCCain as the nominee... And with the endorsemen of Guliani, Romney and Huckabee, McCain is stronger than ever.
I am certain the nation needs a better leader than McCain or Clinton. Someone like Dr. Ron Paul, or to some extent, even Barack Obama wll do. Until then, the Revolution will strengthen its grass-roots, and be ready during the 2012 polls.
Revolutions don't dissappear in thin air. And this time, we wil not fail. The neocons will be defeated... :)
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