Ron Paul may have effectively ended his presidential campaign, but his supporters haven’t gotten the message.
Paul’s backers continue to seek the replacement of the Oklahoma delegation to the Republican National Convention with a pro-Paul group. They insist procedural rules were broken at the state convention, contending a standing vote of delegates was improper and a paper-ballot vote required.
To most, that’s a difference without much distinction. That’s likely why the Republican National Committee rejected the request to change delegates.
Oklahoma isn’t the only place Ron Paul supporters are fighting trench warfare over delegate spots to participate in a convention that will not — we repeat, not — nominate Ron Paul as president.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports a similar fight in Louisiana. As in Oklahoma, Paul supporters claim rules were violated. And, as in Oklahoma, the Republican National Committee upheld the original slate of non-Paul delegates.
A similar squabble is occurring in Massachusetts, where 16 Ron Paul supporters were ruled ineligible to participate in the national convention.
In Maine, the situation is reversed. A pro-Ron Paul slate of delegates is being challenged by Republican leaders who claim party and parliamentary rules weren’t followed.
These fights are unnecessary and pointless. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican and son of the Texas congressman, will be a featured speaker at the national convention; Paul’s views and supporters are hardly being ignored. The enthusiasm of Paul’s supporters is commendable but misdirected. Mitt Romney will be the GOP nominee this year.
After World War II ended, it took decades before the last Japanese soldiers surrendered. In the same fashion, Paul’s boosters are wasting energy fighting a battle long concluded when all Republicans need to unite and focus on the battle at hand — the campaign to defeat President Barack Obama.
©2012 The Oklahoman
Distributed by MCT Information Services
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Ron Paul supporters are not just going to fall in rank and file behind Romney. We are people who are awake to the status quo and we are tired of the mainstream corporate/media handpicked candidates. We have serious ideological differences from the romeny campaign and serious issues with him as an individual. He does not have a proven record of ideology or action. He is saying a lot of what ron paul has been saying for years. However he hasn’t been doing any of those things. He is a snake in the grass and will not move our society forward.
Bill Clinton’s mentor Carrol Quigley, the historian for the Council on Foreign Relations and the American branch of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, said that the CFR handpicked candidates from both the Democrat and Republican parties who were in favor of their overall agenda of global governance and in favor of eroding national sovereignty gradually from generation to generation so that people wouldn’t notice the changes and would adapt right along with them. The major media outlets also have people embedded within as journalists and editors who were CFR appointed minions and would steer public opinion as a form of “predictive democracy” to nudge people into having the correct opinions and people would parrot back the talking points given to them without having to think things through for themselves. The problems that society faces are never black and white, conservative or liberal, but rather our acquiescence into accepting the opinions of supposed experts who do a great job at giving us our perceptions of reality and make it that much harder for us to reason for ourselves. Ron Paul does not have all of the answers and he certainly won’t be nominated as the Republican candidate, but there has been a concerted effort from the mainstream media to limit the exposure of Ron Paul’s message to the general public for whatever the reason.
I don’t support Paul, nor do I care for his policies. However, even if he is unelectable, he is doing something that the GOP needed to have done. A shakeup. If there is this much brewhaha over the convention and seating of delegates, it brings to light a division in the GOP that they can no longer ignore. Keep fighting Paul-ers, get your voices heard. No you won’t get him elected, but the party will have to listen, and maybe GOP ideology will change as well.
“It ain’t over, til it’s over.” – Yogi Berra
Your cynical disregard for the true issue is disgusting. In all these States Paulists have made great gains in taking over positions of power within the Republican party. The goal (as you surely know) is not to elect Paul. the goal is to make over the Republican party so it reflects the views of its younger, more libertarian members. I’m in favor of this change. Lock these young people out at your peirl.
Catapult …… The Propaganda
we have not yet begun to fight
The point has never been to get him elected but instead to get his voice heard. As long as these convention fights stay in the news articles like this will continue to show up in the and people may look into Paul and see what he’s saying. It’s a slow and time consuming way to get the message out but as is being seeing it’s effective. While this year is gone and Romney will be the candidate (one that I won’t be voting for) the aim is to make people more knowledgeable for future elections.
I am not a Ron Paul supporter and rarely agree with LePage on anything but I do agree that these delegates sent by their state to represent the interests of their party need to be seated and to have a voice in shaping the direction of their party.