GOP wants Dr. Paul's followers, but not Dr. Paul

AMonger

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More thuggery at the RNC, but it may bite them in the end, as Joel Skousen notes. Careful what you wish for, or better, as Obi Wan said, "You can strike me down, but I'll become more powerful than you ever imagined."

GOP Heads Off a Ron Paul Nomination at Tampa

by Joel Skousen World Affairs Brief

Even though it might have been a symbolic gesture, the delegates behind Ron Paul were intending to at least get Rep. Paul nominated at the convention. It would give a great boost to the grand liberty movement Dr. Paul has built for the last 20 years and the rebellion against establishment control of the GOP. They only needed delegate majorities from 5 states to nominate the good doctor and to keep Romney from going uncontested before the convention. But alas, the illegal maneuvers of the RNC have robbed the movement of their last show before the cameras, and contrary to assurances by an "insider" within the RNC, Ron Paul will get no speaking slot.

James Hohmann of Politico.com has a summary of the GOP movement to stop Paul. "The Republican establishment has quelled the Ron Paul Revolution, at least for 2012. Using... procedural hardball, Mitt Romney's campaign and his allies who control the Republican National Committee [actually, Romney controls no one at the RNC. It is run by a cadre of hardcore globlists. They are only allied with Romney because he got to the nomination despite their attempts to derail him. Their control over his advisors is total and complete] have ensured that the Texas congressman will neither speak nor be formally nominated at next week's convention.

"The 168-member Republican National Committee approved a report Thursday by the Romney-friendly "committee on contests"that invalidated Paul delegates elected in Maine based on irregularities at the state convention [actually, the irregularities were on the part of the establishment leaders trying to change the rules to halt Ron Paul from winning a majority of delegates at the convention]. The RNC [arbitrarily, and without basis in any rule] voted to split the at-large delegation in half, effectively depriving Paul of control."

Justin Raimondo added other details. "The Republican party Establishment is eager to crush any public expressions of dissent – both inside and outside the convention hall. Ron Paul's supporters in the GOP learned that the hard way, as the Romneyites used their control of the party bureaucracy at the state and national levels [actually it wasn't Romneyites, but the old guard elite inside the GOP that have always controlled things at the top] to retroactively change the rules in order to unseat duly elected Paul delegates.

"In Maine, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Oregon, Oklahoma, and elsewhere, the party bosses have disenfranchised Paul voters – closing down party caucuses, rejecting as delegates anyone under 50, and calling the cops when all else failed. And while Ryder's rule change failed [changing the number of states to nominate a person from 5 to 10] – thanks to RRNC'er Morton Blackwell –the Romney people did sneak in an amendment that would require delegates to state in writing who they intend to vote for on the convention floor at least one hour before the vote [and the vote is being moved up to Monday because of the coming storm that might force the cancellation of the convention]

Hopefully, this will end the movement's false hope that you can take over or reform the Republican party. Even if we did, the media and key politicians would suddenly claim the Republican Party was "captured by extremists"and move to form a new party which they would instantly grant majority status. That's what they did in Israel when they formed Kadima.

And even if it were possible to finally expose the conspiracy which controls both parties, they would reform and create new parties with new names and fresh faces, but controlled by the same people. That's what they did in Italy in 1994 when all the major parties were exposed for corruption. Fighting secret combinations of power in government is extremely difficult once they have gained control of a majority in Congress, the courts, and the media, not to mention the secret organs of enforcement in the police state.

August 30, 2012

Joel Skousen is a political scientist, by training, specializing in the philosophy of law and Constitutional theory, and is also a designer of high security residences and retreats. Visit his website.
 
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davekc

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Since he isn't endorsing Romney, no point in giving him a speaking slot. He has different views, some better than Romney's but the time for that was in the primaries. He didn't get it done so no reason to promote him at this point. His son endorsed Romney and he got a slot. I think it was really that simple.
 

Turtle

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"But alas, the illegal maneuvers of the RNC have robbed the movement of their last show before the cameras, and contrary to assurances by an "insider" within the RNC, Ron Paul will get no speaking slot."

That's disingenuous and grossly misleading. Ron Paul was offered a speaking slot, it was even initially scheduled on the speaking agenda for Tuesday night, but Paul refused the offer. Making such a false and misleading statement calls every single claim in the entire piece into question as being overly slanted or outright misleading. Can't trust a word of it.
 

AMonger

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"But alas, the illegal maneuvers of the RNC have robbed the movement of their last show before the cameras, and contrary to assurances by an "insider" within the RNC, Ron Paul will get no speaking slot."

That's disingenuous and grossly misleading. Ron Paul was offered a speaking slot, it was even initially scheduled on the speaking agenda for Tuesday night, but Paul refused the offer. Making such a false and misleading statement calls every single claim in the entire piece into question as being overly slanted or outright misleading. Can't trust a word of it.

they offered him a slot, crafting conditions they knew he could not accept. It's the same thing.
 

bobwg

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And if Ron Paul had won he and his followers would probably be doing the same thing choosing who would or would not speak laying down their own rules for the speeches
 

aristotle

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they offered him a slot, crafting conditions they knew he could not accept. It's the same thing.
Ron Paul doesn't get carte blanche to do as he pleases. He lost. Big time. The man is a loose cannon whose delusions of grandeur are surpassed only by those of his supporters. The GOP would be out of its collective mind to allow Ron Paul anywhere near one of their microphones. The guy can now return to Texas to sell newsletters of dubious distinction.
 

Turtle

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they offered him a slot, crafting conditions they knew he could not accept. It's the same thing.
They offered him a slot, crafting the same conditions that every other speaker was given. But even if the conditions were crafted specifically because they knew Paul could not accept, he was still, in fact, offered a slot, which is not what Goober stated in his article. I stand by my statement of fact.
 
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