Ron Paul supporters come up short in rules fight

[Lasher]

Source: Washington Post

TAMPA — Grassroots Republican activists and Ron Paul supporters came up shy in their effort to beat back two major rule changes Tuesday at the Republican National Convention.

Amidst a contentious scene on the floor of the convention, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) ruled that the committee rules had passed by a voice vote — despite loud protest from many in the arena.

Delegates — many of them from the Texas delegation, where Paul serves in Congress — booed loudly after Boehner made the ruling and chanted “point of order” in an attempt to order a re-vote.

Soon, though, the fervor died down, and the business of the convention proceeded.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/08/28/ron-paul-supporters-gather-signatures-for-rules-fight/

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This is an outrage! Ron Paul should run for President as a write-in! Or his supporters should stay home and boycott the election in November! Stand up and fight for your principles, Paulites!

[Panasonic]

1. Hope that means the end of Paul

and the Paultards.

And the idiot neighbor of mine takes down his Paul sign in a deep blue territory.

[Lasher]

2. Be patient just a little longer.

He might run a write-in campaign or do something else to siphon votes away from Romney. That is my very fond hope.

[SunSeeker]

3. Come on Paul-bots. After contributing to all those money-bombs?!

Don't take this sitting down. Make Ron use all that money you gave him from your minimum-wage jobs and use it to run as an independent. Insist that Ron Paul stick to his guns...er, principles.

[Berlin Expat]

4. Actually, the Freepers

were going absolutely nuts over this, and they're not supporters of Luap Nor, either.

They reckoned it was a "war on conservatives"; even Sarah Palin got into the act. I checked out some of the tweets from Michelle Malkin and she was practically apoplectic.

[jimlup]

5. The Republicans seem to be about circumventing democracy any time they want

[Bluestar]

6. Hee hee! Can you say write-in campaign/third party? n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Worse (even better)

He'll endorse Johnson.

[bushisanidiot]

7. Wow. There is no energy in that room

Most people just standing around. Only a few half heatedly waving signs.

I think Romney is REALLY screwed. This was supposed to be an exciting moment and it really fell flat.

[intaglio]

8. Want to bet this won't end in court?

Pass the popcorn ...

[LiveNudePolitics]

9. I really tried

I really tried to give the televised parts of the Paul shadow convention a honest shot, but the speakers I saw just came off as crazy....just could not take any thing seriously that was said in that weird way they have....true believers give me the willies.

[graham4anything]

10. it's amazing no one gets what is going on here, it's not about Ron Paul

it's not about Ron Paul or Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan

TPTB are all Bush people, and this is solely for the benefit of Jeb in 2012 to stop any
one else who is not strong or is unknown at the start

and no one seemed to notice it

it's also surprising Mittens is stupid enough not to notice it himself

and Ron Paul and his son are a fraud, not someone the democrats should even give a second thought to. If only we heard the last of them. We should demand an audit of them.