When things didn’t go the way the pro-Romney leadership wanted them to go, they simply created a new GOP to replace the old one. That’s what happened in Nevada when Ron Paul supporters managed to gain control of the state’s Republican Party apparatus at the state convention. In response, the pro-Romney and establishment Republican forces broke off and formed Team Nevada which is essentially a shadow Republican party. In addition, by pledging support to Romney, Team Nevada is receiving funding from the Republican National Committee. If all goes as planned on the Romney side, Team Nevada will provide Nevada’s delegates to the Republican National Convention. The duly-elected Ron Paul delegates, who were elected through state and local conventions in Nevada, will be barred from the convention floor.
The many ways in which the old guard of the Republican party has repeatedly sought to disenfranchise Ron Paul voters and delegates are too numerous to count. Some cases have been noted by Doug Wead and by others with anti-Paul strategies ranging from smearing Paul supporters with carefully edited videos to having Paul supporters arrested for no reason.
People unfamiliar with how parties have functioned historically, may be shocked by such things, but these actions are really just more of the same from the GOP and from American political parties in general.
This year’s efforts to simply destroy anyone the party leadership dislikes are hardly the first instances of occasions on which an American political party has taken steps to nullify or ignore primary and caucus results that it did not like. For example, in 2010, Dan Maes, a businessman who ran for governor in Colorado against former Congressman Scott McInnis, was abandoned by the GOP after receiving the nomination. McInnis was heavily favored as the moderate, establishment candidate while Maes was regarded as an upstart from the populist and conservative wing of the party. Near the end of the primary campaign, however, McInnis was accused of taking money from an employer for written work he allegedly stole from someone else.
McInnis’s support collapsed and Maes was able to win the nomination as the Republican candidate for governor. The GOP leadership didn’t care for Maes for a variety of reasons (some of them very good) and instructed him to pull out of the race so a candidate more to the party leadership’s liking could be appointed outside the established nomination process. When Maes refused, the party leadership threw its support behind former-congressman Tom Tancredo who ran on a third-party ticket. Maes was denied all financial support from the Colorado GOP and the RNC.
Read More at lewrockwell.com. By Ryan McMaken.
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Here’s an interview regarding Ron Paul (who I supported) that is unsettling:
http://dprogram.net/2012/06/05/tarpley-and-jones-the-great-debate/
It is time for Ron Paul to retire to Texas, he had one good idea and that was to audit the Fed and that was it. A good idea that he didn’t have a clue as to how to carry out. His nonsense gave us Rommney as our Canidate. He should have retired 10 years ago. He has nothing to offer as far as getting anything done in Washington. Go Home Ron Paul and enjoy what life you have left.
Joy you are so mistaken. Ron Paul has presented legislation that would have prevented the situation we are now in. He has done that ever since he was elected.
Recently he held session to review the Federal Reserve and ask for an audit.
I believe he is not liked because he is so honest which by the actions of the GOP is not to be respected.
I am and you should be outraged that votes will not count because the establishment doesn’t like the outcome? How UN-American is that? Sadly it does not bother Romney one bit and says a lot about his character or lack of.
Joy, I believe in Ron Paul….age has nothing to do with it…he has more experience than Romney but if Mitt is the republican candidate I will be forced to vote for him because anyone is better than Obama. But Ron will still be in my mind because I feel he is the best one to do the job.
Make no mistake that you do not HAVE to vote for Romney if you don’t want to. If your state doesn’t support enough room for a write-in vote, you can request an Absentee Ballot (without needing to give a reason) & can write-in vote with that.
One other advantage with the Absentee Ballot I forgot to mention…Unlike the electronic voting machines, Absentee Ballots leave a PAPER TRAIL that can be followed & confirmed.
we the people by me,and i mean everyone i know,is voting for ron paul,we haven,t listened to any media radio/tv/newspapers in a long long time,we know they are all bought and paid for by the treasonous traders ovomit and his band of treasonous traders,ovomit/lucifer the head racist a/g holdup,brian terry the border guard was murder,on holdup watch,and nothing was done about it,and he never apologized,or admitted the murder ever happened,what a treasonous a/g holdup is.ron paul is winning big time thats why the media is ignoring him,but it means nothing to we the people by me,and will all vote for him.god bless ron paul,sheriff joe and cold case posse chuck norris,and all american veterans/citizens.one nation under god
I only support ron paul. he is a true patriot. I will write him in if necessary.
George Soros is comfortable with either Romney or Obama, saying that the ideology of the two is quite similar. I have come to the same conclusion of similarity between the two and, therefore, will write in Ron Paul rather than vote for the party choices.
Excellent article – finally the truth comes out.
I kept wondering why the GOP would champion Romney when there seemed to be more votes for Paul.
Now we know their dirty secret and I am ashamed of the Tea Party for backing this candidate who doesn’t seem to mind that he is being promoted by lies. It does not say much for his character.
Romney would make an awful president because he has no experience and can’t hold his own even in a debate.Reid and Pelosi will have him for lunch which means nothing much will change and we will fall under the control of foreign powers. Thanks GOP leaders for helping to sell out America.