Topic: Ron Paul
Another One for Ron Paul Ron Paul's delegate count increases by a whopping seven per cent as stealth delegate commits to libertarian cause.by Random Outlier
(Libertarian)
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Sound the trumpets, beat the drums, another GOP convention delegate committed to Ron Paul lurks.
Your obedient and faithful servant has just heard from a lifelong friend, a veteran political staffer and activist devoted since the dark ages of Nixon to transforming the Republican Party into a tool for the advance of liberty.
He reports to me that by a strange set of circumstances he has been named a 2008 delegate. His selection results from his association with a GOP unit years ago.
Despite the hideous expense of five days in the Twin Cities, he has accepted. Not even the prospect of rubbing elbows et al. with ten thousand Republican women, they of the iron corsets and varnished hair, dissuades him.
This guy is okay, even though he read his Cervantes at an age too impressionable and is known to annoy companions with frequent outbursts of "The Impossible Dream."
Jack Jones he isn't, but he's a truthful man, and I, his amanuensis for the present purpose, swear to the truth of this reporting, except for his real identity which I am sworn to protect. Readability requires a nom de guerre here, and I suppose Reardon is as appropriate as any.
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"My first reaction (Reardon writes) was amazement. I assumed my contributions to this outfit were long forgotten, and, in any case, too modest to justify anything like this opportunity.
"But I accepted, even knowing the brutal tyranny of Chase Manhattan, the thieves who grant me use of plastic, and the Minnesota merchants singlemindedly pursuing the goal of bankrupting me in five short September days. I did it for one reason only. To cast a convention ballot for Ron Paul.
"This will not be my first national convention, though I attended the others as either a staff person or as a reporter. I'd assumed and perhaps even hoped that I would never attend another. Aside from the expense, I generally tend to avoid groups of more than fifty thousand persons.
"But anything for Dr. Paul, even though as a committed libertarian capitalist I wonder what the good congressman will do for me in return for increasing his pledged delegate strength by a whopping seven-point-one per cent.
"I ask for nothing strictly personal, and I would be content if the Ron Paul campaign rewarded me with a small but professional presence. A headquarters. A hospitality suite even if it must include a cash bar. An event or two at which we lonesome Paulites might mingle with others. Surely among the fifteen of us there are one or two with enough personal charm to persuade a few others to abandon the lesser-of-evils approach.
"If Paul forces kiss off the St. Paul affair with a desultory effort, if they attend mopingly resentful that the process has done them wrong, it will validate the position of our detractors. They will be correct in viewing us as a mob of wild-eyed utopians devoid of any sense of practical politics. That would not be good for the future of the movement.
"And it would piss me off."
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Thus spoke my friend Reardon.
It set me to wondering if Nolan Chart readers happen to include any of the other fourteen delegates putatively pledged to Dr. Paul, not to mention any Paul staffers who might be assigned to the convention on his behalf.
If so, Nolan Chart might be a good place to get a dialog started. The general question: What, actually, do we DO in St. Paul?
I mean, a guy can spend only so much time hanging around coffee houses where they garnish the six-buck lattes with lutefisk.
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Good job, but Ron Paul's delegate count increased by a lot less than seven percent. Even the lamestream media has him with over 20 delegates, so it would be less than a 5% increase. The real number is closer to 50, so less than 2% with each new delegate.
And if the stories from Missouri and Alaska and Washington and Texas are true, triple digits might be possible.
Yeahey, Reardon! Don't forget to grab yourself one of thick, juicy gigantic slabs of fried bologna while your up there. A couple pieces of dark rye, some spicey mustard, a big dill pickle .... yuuuummmmmmmm! Dayum .... now that's some good eats!
I am one of the not accounted for delegates, who the MSM has incorrectly given Romney. Minnesota 42 delegates are non binding. In two weeks I may be a national delegate and on my way to Saint Paul, all 14 miles worth. If I Make nationals as a delegate plan for some expoloring non convention hours with us as guides.
Posted By: Kevin Houston
Date: 2008-03-23 22:54:18
South dakota has a full slate of Ron Paul delegates. We will be awarded proportionately depending on the primary vote (with a minimum of 20% to seat any delegates at all)
Since there are 24 delegates, and a 20% cut-off, if Ron Paul gets any delegates at all, he will have at least 5. As I am #4 on the list, it is a good bet that I will be going.
There are no stealth Paul delegates in the McCain camp that I could see. It looked like they were all GOP party reptiles in that group.
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