- The Republican Party has a real problem with Ron Paul.
He just won't go away quietly. He is still a candidate for President. He
hasn't conceded or dropped out--despite media wishful thinking. Best of
all, he refuses to endorse front runner John McCain, the worst warmongering
candidate of the entire Republican field. Frankly, Dr. Paul both scares
and embarrasses the Republican leadership. They are afraid that if he gets
any momentum or significant number of delegates to the convention they
will have to let him make a major address on prime time TV and thus more
converts.
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- Dr. Paul is certainly capable of making converts. He
takes all the traditional positions the Republican Party was built upon
and that core Republican voters love: small and limited federal government,
low regulation, non-aggressive foreign policy, honest money, anti-abortion,
and pro-family values. The Republican National Committee wants him to go
away so they can get on with the promotion of Sen. John McCain-a totally
dishonest and corrupt insider, according to his own son--and continue the
hidden globalist agenda which now rules the Party at the highest levels.
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- This week in the Nevada GOP convention, the party leadership
shut down the convention when it became obvious that Ron Paul supporters
outnumbered those loyal to party leaders who wanted to elect only McCain
delegates to the national convention--even though Romney won the primary
and Paul came in second, above McCain. It's as if they are saying, "If
we don't like the results of the vote, we'll adjourn till we can muster
enough of our people to outnumber you!"
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- Here's the best account of what happened by C. Bunce
of the Daily Paul online newsletter. It is specific enough to show my readers
just how evil this really was and who did it [edited for clarity].
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- "On Saturday April 26th , 2008, in Reno Nevada,
the Republican State convention came to order with a set agenda and rigged
rules to basically give complete control of the Delegate process to the
party. The original rules would have only allowed for a set list of people
that could be chosen as a whole to represent the state. This slate was
created by a small group of people and were never published, and even as
we began the convention were not known.
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- "This was the first attempt to keep complete control
of the delegate selection process. After three hours of [debate], the convention
modified the delegate selection process to allow anyone to run for a national
delegate position. Three would be chosen from each of the three Congressional
District and twenty-two from the entire body by each person voting for
twenty-two people.
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- "It was lunch at that point in time, giving two
hours for the next play to be planned. Upon reconvening from lunch at 2:27pm,
[the party] wasted no time in unfurling a new plan, which was to not vote
for twenty-two people at large (that would take far to much time), but
instead vote for only five. Anybody with an eighth grade math understanding
would know this was intended to cut our voting by four. This just rejected
by the convention getting with a 75% rejection vote.
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- "At this time we split into three districts and
began to vote on delegates, this only took about an hour and went rather
smoothly in district three and one. District two was continually delayed
because of a dispute of whether a printed ballot was acceptable or a handwritten
one... After this we came back and began to debate planks on the floor.
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- "From our previous count from observers in the rooms
of Congressional District's 1 and 3, Paul Supporters had won all three
delegates spots in District 3 and one Paul supporter in District 1. The
counts of these districts took about 30 minutes after voting was completed.
The 2nd District was taking very long to complete and no one could understand
the delay of more then an hour. Information from observers within its count
room relayed that Paul supporters had swept its three delegates as well.
This meant that Paul Supporters took 7 out of 9 possible Congressional
District delegates to the National Convention.
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- "The person walking from the counting room made
a straight line to State Chairwoman Sue Lowden, leaning over and whispering
into her ear. After the person walked off Sue sat there for about 30 seconds
tapping her foot and then stood up and walked over to Councilman Woodbury
who was sitting in front of me, leaning over she said, 'If we can break
Quorum, can we invalidate this?' After saying this rather loudly and glancing
at the expression on my face she quickly quieted down and I was unable
to hear the rest of the conversation.
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- "I figured out what would constitute a quorum in
this convention of 1347 delegates--674 delegates. Soon after Chairwoman
Lowden left, a John McCain staffer, Paul Johnson, came by. I had been gathering
signs and information from him all day, and he believed I was a hardcore
McCain supporter... He began his conversation with, 'They [presumably the
Ron Paul supporters] are trying to pull a coup, we are going to leave and
quarter the convention.' I responded, 'Do we even have the numbers, all
they need is a couple hundred to keep Quorum?' He answered back, 'The powers
that be [NOTE: the insiders know the term and use it] have the numbers,
I am just doing what I was told to do by my boss.' At this moment I knew
that they had lost control of the convention and were desperate.
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- "I watched the party officers directly in front
of me huddling up with the parliamentarian and trying to come up with something.
Soon after this huddle, the party began to filibuster the convention [purposely
taking up time] filling it with videos and speakers over a course of 60
minutes. During this time Sue Lowden began barking at Chairman Bob Beers,
and I could clearly see Chairman Beers not agreeing with what she was telling
him. First it was just her talking to him, but by the fourth time he stepped
off the stage, eight people were surrounding him and pressuring him, which
I can only assume was to end the convention, since that is what happened
next.
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- "When he returned to the stage for the last time,
Chairman Beers ended the convention illegally calling an indefinite recess
without a vote of the delegation to do so, at 6 pm. This was not before
their first plan of ending the convention was attempted to be put into
play by a member that was not informed calling for a Quorum which we would
still have had. But Beers interrupted him saying, 'I will save you some
time', and called the indefinite recess. Later it was claimed to be the
end of the contract of the room. But upon request from the Hotel they gladly
gave us three more hours for free.
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- "After five seconds of pure silence, disbelief,
and confusion, a once consistently civil and controlled convention was
thrown into ten minutes of anarchy, while the party [leaders] vacated the
room out the back doors. Bob Bears attempted to speak with an angry mob
with little to no avail before leaving. After this occurred we attempted
to reconvene the meeting but fell 70 people short of a quorum." Too
bad.
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- What was done in Nevada is merely a prelude to what will
happen at the national convention in Minneapolis MN on September 1-4. National
GOP leaders will attempt to marginalize Dr. Paul since he "can't win."
They may even try to avoid a vote and proclaim McCain the candidate by
acclamation. That means dedicating the entire convention to McCain and
his potential Vice Presidents ignoring Paul's challenge. I spoke with Ron
about the convention and he feels confident they will treat him fairly.
He says the GOP national chairman Mike Duncan was very friendly to him
on the phone. I think that's all a ploy to disarm the good doctor. I think
we will see Dr. Paul completely sidelined at the convention. Even the RNC
website speaks only about building the team necessary to see John McCain
elected president. They act as if there will be no contest at the convention.
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- In light of these developments, not at all unexpected,
I'm going to recommend that all Ron Paul supporters continue to seek to
become delegates to the GOP convention and to be prepared to embarrass
the party if it continues to deny Dr. Paul a voice. That said, we must
also be prepared to fight on under a third party banner after the Republicans
reject Dr. Paul. Under no circumstances should constitutional conservatives
vote for John McCain as the "lesser of two evils." There is no
such thing anymore among the major party candidates.
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- Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution
permitted.
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- Cite source as Joel Skousen's World Affairs Brief ( http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com )
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