What little commentary we’ve seen from the media on Ron Paul’s silent coup presently underway in the Republican Party has focused mostly on its implications for the 2012 Republican Primary and whether Paul can hold back Romney’s delegate count just long enough to ensure a brokered convention, which is the only feasible scenario in which Paul could emerge as the party’s nominee.
But perhaps more important and far-reaching in its implications for the future of national politics in the US, is not Ron Paul’s delegate count, but the fact that his supporters are successfully taking over the Republican Party district by district, county by county, state by state. That the fiercely independent Republican congressman from Texas might still have a tiny chance at winning his party’s nomination, while interesting, is less important than what he will most certainly have succeeded at doing: Ron Paul has built a political machine.
Judging by recent events in state and local GOP conventions across the country, it may not be at all presumptuous for Ron Paul’s supporters to call their burgeoning movement a revolution.
In Iowa, it is no exaggeration to say that Ron Paul’s people have taken over the GOP. After a stunning coup on April 21st, the new Iowa GOP state central committee now has six members who have publicly expressed support for Ron Paul’s candidacy– and that includes the new state chair of the Iowa Republican Party, A. J. Spiker, the former vice chairman for Ron Paul’s Iowa campaign! Think about that. This is major news. It signals a sea change in the Republican Party. We are now living in a world where the head of the Republican Party of Iowa is a Ron Paul supporter.
And it’s not just Iowa, though Iowa is especially significant because of its prominent role in the national primary process. Ron Paul’s supporters are taking over the Republican Party everywhere. This weekend during the April 28th district conventions, Ron Paul supporters also took over the GOP in Louisiana, with not a bare majority, but a whopping 74% of the delegates to Louisiana’s state convention in June. You can bet they’ll show up and you can bet they’ll elect their own to positions of leadership in the state GOP.
Read More at IVN. By W.E. Messamore.
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GOOD.
The “regular GOP” is totally LAME so somebody who isn’t OWNED by the Elite needs to do something!
Tonight we elect our county delegates to the state convention.. (MI.)..55 from livingston county I doubt that many show up.. but the ones that do will be Ron Paul supporters..MUHahaha..MUHAHAHA…
* second amendment
If Romney wins the nomination I will write in Ron Paul for POTUS. I would like to see Allan West as his VP.
Agreed 100% NBP (nobody but Paul) If enough of of make our intentions clear, sooner or later the GOP is going to figure out that they can’t win without us .
If we give them a hint that we will fall in behind their pre-selected shill we’ll never get any respect. We’ve got to show them that our visage is fiercer than theirs.
. We’ve got to spread this idea far and wide, so our numbers can be counted and the party can get some idea what they’ll be lacking when it comes time to face obama.
I’ve come to the conclusion that it might be better for the country to get a lame duck with an approval rating in the toilet along with a conservative legislature than it would be to get Goldman Sachs employee B with a brand new mandate and a lapdog, rubber stamp congress.
I don’t know about you, but the Charlie Brown fieldgoal routine is not something I am going to be doing any more.
So tell the world- NBP! and let the chips fall where they may.
Make the GOP establishment prove to us that all they care about is clinging to their power, not winning an election
Ron Paul supporters are the greatest people out there. Like Ron Paul, they want this country back to what it was during the Reagan years, only smaller. So many people are afraid of Ron Paul. He’s kind of like Robin Hood., take from the rich and give to the poor. Thank God he’s blessed with millions of Merry Men! God favors a Christian man, who has spent years and years in congress, and everything he has told them, has come to pass! Ron Paul is a man of honor, and he knows this country! He will do the right thing by America!
Not like, Obama, where he’s ready to stick Americans into those Fema Camps, and forget about them , just for thinking. Have you seen the mass piles of coffins? Don’t think they won’t poison people off to get rid of too many, because if there’s too many they can’t control them all. That’s why he is happy to keep this Trayvon thing in the spotlight. They need riots so they can arrest American people! Do you think this is the first time that a young black kid has been killed by a gun? It happens everyday, and not just to blacks. It happens to all races, no matter what Religion they are.Is there anybody out there seeing to it that these polling places aren’t being set-up for fraud? There is so much fraud going on in this country, and it is ripe for the pikens! Will your vote count for anything at all? These are good questions that we need to be asking.