Paul delegates mounting floor fight over new rules
Source: AP-Excite
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Ron Paul's delegates are trying to mount a floor fight over new GOP rules designed to limit the ability of insurgent presidential candidates to amass delegates to future Republican conventions.
They are getting help from other delegates, though it is unclear whether they can rally enough support to challenge the rules on the floor of the convention Tuesday.
Mitt Romney, the party's presumptive nominee, has plenty of delegates to win any floor fight. But the dispute could provide an unwanted distraction for party leaders who would rather focus on promoting Romney and defeating President Barack Obama.
"It's so heavily scripted. This is not the forum in they want to air the proverbial dirty laundry," said Juliette Jordal, a Paul delegate from Minnesota.
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Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks at a rally at the University of South Florida Sun Dome on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Was it wind and water the GOP feared for today?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,922 posts)highplainsdem
(49,060 posts)Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)Infighting in the GOP's a good thing, and the Maine delegates were legitimately wronged anyway, so I'm glad they're fighting back instead of just using the same tired furherprinzip that the GOP seems to like so much these days.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)I am not going to watch the repug Convention but if there is hair pulling please post it somebody!!!!
NBachers
(17,155 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Welcome to our political system.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)once the full power of the right wing death star aims it's planet killing laser on them.