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Mitt Romney does a number on Ron Paul and shuts him out of the convention

August 24th, 2012 by John Presta

Ron Paul will not have a speaking role at the Republican National Convention that starts on Monday, August 27th.

Ron Paul will not be formally nominated either, according to Politico. Thanks to some Romney-friendly “committee on contests,” Ron Paul's Maine delegates were were invalidated and the RNC split the at-large delegation in half.

Ron Paul needed five states to become part of the process. In addition to Maine, Ron Paul tried to make claims on Louisiana, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Oklahoma. The only states that Ron Paul effectively controls are Nevada, Iowa and Minnesota, which fall short of the five states needed.

Lest you think that this is a coincidence, the Romney campaign also will break tradition by nominating Mitt Romney on the first evening of the convention, reports the New York Times blog, The Caucus. Officials look at two potential threats. The first threat is from Hurricane Isaac which would help if the proceedings are cut short. The second threat is for possible disruptions from Ron Paul supporters, who are not averse to making their voices heard. The Ron Paul supporters have no great love for Mitt Romney either.

In fairness to Mitt Romney, the Ron Paul forces have not been frozen out completely and were part of the discussions. In the 2008 Republican convention, Ron Paul was completely taken out. Ron Paul supporters didn't get everything they wanted either.

By no means did the Paul backers get everything they wanted in the platform. Four attempts to add support for a ban on indefinite detention of American citizens failed. They lost some skirmishes against social conservatives over civil unions. The foreign policy section wound up not including restrictions on when a president could declare war, as they wished, but the document could have been decidedly more hawkish without them there.

Thus, the key differences between Mitt Romney, the sort of conservative, and Ron Paul, the uncompromising, real libertarian.

Ron Paul will be speaking at his own convention in Tampa. Ron Paul will deliver a keynote address to supporters at the University of South Florida’s Sun Dome at the campaign’s “We are the Future Rally,” which runs from noon to 6:00 pm ET. The venue is sold out with 11,000 seats and calls it, the speech “the Republican National Convention doesn’t want the rest of America to hear.”

So don't be looking for Ron Paul to make a major speech at this year's convention. But as a side note, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), son of Ron Paul, will be making a prime-time speech on Monday night.

Why?

Mitt Romney may need Rand Paul in the United States Senate. That's what politics is all about.

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does this meam RP will shave off his Hitler Moustache ?

Seriously, though..

To the victor go the spoils....

I do believe Rand will be speaking
or parking cars...

Robert they aren't following they're rules that's my point.

Bill I won't waste my time. Obviously you won't read what you don't want to.

This just it;

Romney admitted that he believes Obama was born in this county.



He is going to loose lots of votes from the Fox crowd . . . . . . . .

You dont get it.

Im not saying hes not Bill, never have.

Why are they changing rules throughout the process? Scared oligarchs want to maintain theyre power is why.

Either the GOP accepts change or the DNC will continue to ruin the country.

Anyone remember Paul Harvey? Well, here's the REST of the story: At the Iowa Caucuses, it was noted at many precincts that win, lose, or draw at the end of the evening, they asked for volunteers to be delegates. Almost all the Paul supporters stayed on, and volunteered. The delegates votes are ONLY COMMITTED TO THE WINNING CANDIDATE FOR THE FIRST BALLOT. Some people, before Mittens sewed up the nomination, thought the nomination process might boil down to a floor fight. It was thought that if that happened a bunch of the volunteers would suddenly change their votes to Ron Paul. There's not going to be a floor fight. If there was any thought of somehow twigging the first vote, requiring a second, it's now shut down. Stopping a possible attempt to bypass the system IS Democracy in action.

NOTE: Full Disclosure, I was in the Herman Cain area of the "anybody but Romney" camp. He's the nominee, I'll vote for him. Priority one is getting Obama out. Priority two is getting enough conservatives (NOT Republicans, CONSERVATIVES see what the Tea Party did in Indiana, Texas, and Florida, if you need clarification) in the Senate to keep Mittens honest.

" Stopping a possible attempt to bypass the system IS Democracy in action."



Yeah.........ok. Ignore the blatent changing and ignoring of their established rules to get the predetermined result that was desired.


Wheel he does serve a purpose. And I never had any grand illusions that he was going to win a landslide. He's bringing a voice of liberty back to the GOP, and a new generation is hearing that message. Like I said the party has to change.

CW if the Tea Party turns into a new haven for the purely christian conservatives than it will fail. You can clearly see two sects of TPers.

Wheel, gets it 100%. He just doesn't agree that it is as significant as you do. That doesn't make him ignorant or wrong. He just has a different opinion than yours. That's all.

Z,

Those are "their" rules, not everyone else's'. Nothing requires any political party to operate under a consistent set of rules or in any fashion representing any form of democracy. Political parties are private organizations with probably the greatest internal degrees of control and variance of any type of organization in this country- and it is even protected by First Amendment.

Well, if this type of stuff does result in the re-election of Obama, then it will be a hard lesson learned for the Republicans. And, that is just the way it will have to be. If you take a good look back through U.S. political history and potential third parties/viable new parties, these types of "plays" and "games' are, for better or worse, part of the way political parties operate. It's part of our culture in a sense- perhaps almost akin to certain aspects of capitalism where the ends are aloud to justify the means- again part of our culture. That doesn't make it necessarily right (or wrong), just the way it has been and is. And, I truly believe there is no such thing as "fair" in politics (or our greater society).

Agreed.

Dream on..
Nominate a Unicorn next election cycle...

does the word Pragmatist mean anything to you ?

Well, DUH! 75%-80% of the GOP wanted ANYBODY but Romney, but we couldn't coelesce behind any particular 'abR', and so Romney ran away with it with a minority of the popular GOP rank and file support What I find especially noxious are the fools who say "MY guy didn't get nominated, so he's going to run independent, and I'm voting for HIM!" WOW! First we gave the nominaqtion to Mittens, now you're willing to 'make a statement' by giving another four years to the Commie? The EXACT SAME WAY???

"We have met the enemy, and he is us"- Pogo

FORGET who to back in 2016, if that happens there wont be anything left to do but rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic!

I tend to never come in the politics section, just thought I would drop in and bring a little numistyle.


Lots of smart folks here, far smarter than I, although I do understand the actual process, years ago, I realized that if a certain group of folks in this country do not want you to be Pres., you will never get the chance, simple as that.


Better start learning to be as self sufficient as you can, see ya.

Ron Paul Not Endorsing Mitt Romney

Mr. Paul, in an interview, said convention planners had offered him an opportunity to speak under two conditions: that he deliver remarks vetted by the Romney campaign, and that he give a full-fledged endorsement of Mr. Romney. He declined.

“It wouldn’t be my speech,” Mr. Paul said. “That would undo everything I’ve done in the last 30 years. I don’t fully endorse him for president.”

Mr. Paul’s campaign chairman, Jesse Benton, acknowledged the frustrations that the Paul high command had been forced to manage.

Some true believers want to “dress in black, stand on a hill and say, ‘Smash the state,’ ” said Mr. Benton, who is married to one of Mr. Paul’s granddaughters. But “it’s not our desire to have floor demonstrations. That would cost us a lot more than it would get us.”

Al wasn't invited. You heard it here first!

lol!

Four more years goody.

What Mr. Paul doesn't understand is that
you must stop the hemorrhaging and get
the patient healthy, before you can put him
on a serious diet.

BTW, it'll never happen.
Too much 'easy money' in D.C.
Plenty of Red and Blue pigs at the trough.

Ron Paul is a trojan horse inside the socialist Republicrat Party.

Why would they want him around talking about inconvenient concepts like freedom and fiscal responsibility?

Ron Paul just doesn't understand that the USA needs to fight some more wars for Israel.

Iraq 1 was for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Iraq 2 was for Israel.

Peacekeepers in Lebanon were to cover the Israeli withdrawal. UNIFIL played that role for Israel in 2006.

Iran 1 will be for Israel

....and we fully funded all their wars since 1973!



Israel isn't going to be thrown under any bus.

How much taxpayer $$ do we fork over to prop up Israel every year? And how much do we fork over for all the other corrupt kuntrees like Pakistan, Egypt, Palestine etc?
Are we broke yet?