Maine GOP delegates walk out of convention, plan to boycott

[Maine-ah]

Source: BDN

TAMPA, Fla. — Some of Maine’s delegates walked off the floor and intend to boycott the rest of the Republican National Convention after an effort failed Tuesday afternoon to overturn a ruling that removed half the state’s delegation pledged to support Ron Paul.

Members of the delegation unsuccessfully appealed to an RNC committee report that recommended splitting the state’s 20 delegates evenly between backers of Paul and those favoring Mitt Romney. Ten Paul delegates were removed and replaced by 10 for Romney.

Maine’s delegates wanted the full slate of Paul supporters reinstated, said Mark Willis, a newly elected state Republican committeeman and delegate who was among the 10 disqualified.

The convention opened Monday and was adjourned immediately due to Tropical Storm Isaac.

Read more: http://bangordailynews.com/2012/08/28/politics/maine-gop-delegates-threaten-to-boycott-convention-if-appeal-denied/

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[allan01]

1. re:Maine GOP delegates walk out of convention, plan to boycott View profile

the party is bolting . and the rnc isnt listening to the party. first texas . now maine . the phot is priceless . "the big stink " .

[a geek named Bob]

2. sigh

I figured the party would fracture within 20 years...

Wasn't betting on it THIS quick...

[obamanut2012]

8. Why the sigh?

[a geek named Bob]

12. I sighed because

Fractious break ups never end well.

At heart, I want as much peace as I can get, for everybody.

[a geek named Bob]

13. Also...

Looooong ago, republicans were the good guys.

I hate to see what they've become.
(somebody in the GOP might as well order a shipping truck of jack boots.)

[PatrynXX]

20. thats usually Ron Paul fans

the last of the original republicans who followed the rules. and didn't make up rules.. and could actually get alone. Willard Paul , start of extreme's which will kill that party eventually. It's a minor party now.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

26. when was that?

that the Republicans were the good guys? Did we have electricity then?

[amuse bouche]

29. lol

My thought too

[wordpix]

32. in the days of Lincoln when he founded the party, that's when

[JHB]

37. If you count telegraphs, I suppose...

Last edited Thu Aug 30, 2012, 06:37 AM - Edit history (2)

Originally they were considered the leftist party, the "Radical Republicans". Check out this 1860 political cartoon against them and play a drinking game with the teabagger tropes that are still with us:

Person enamored with charisma or celebrity: take a shot
Person who conservatives consider a sexual deviant: take a shot
Paired with an unpopular religion: take a shot and make it double: it's the Mormons!
Minority caricature wanting special rights: take a shot
Women's rights person hates men: take a shot
Collection of layabouts, foreigners, and thugs: chug, chug, chug!

And a candidate who will give the lot of them everything they want: just stick your head under the tap and have the whole barrel (beer, wine, whiskey, doesn't matter at this point)

The Republican Party going to the right House


Title: The Republican Party going to the right House
Creator(s): Currier & Ives.,
Related Names:
Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932 , artist
Date Created/Published: [New York] : Published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. N.Y., c1860.
Medium: 1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 24 x 40 cm.
Summary: Abraham Lincoln's supporters are portrayed as radicals and eccentrics of various stripes. The satire is loosely based on an anti-Fremont cartoon from the previous presidential race, "The Great Republican Reform Party" (no. 1856-22), also issued by Nathaniel Currier. Here Lincoln, sitting astride a wooden rail borne by Horace Greeley, leads his followers toward a lunatic asylum. Greeley instructs him, "Hold on to me Abe, and we'll go in here by the unanimous consent of the people." Lincoln exhorts his followers, "Now my friends I'm almost in, and the millennium is going to begin, so ask what you will and it shall be granted." At the head of the group is a bearded man, arm-in-arm with a woman and a Mormon. He claims to "represent the free love element, and expect to have free license to carry out its principles." The woman looks at Lincoln, saying "Oh! what a beautiful man he is, I feel a passionate attraction' every time I see his lovely face." The Mormon adds, "I want religion abolished and the book of Mormon made the standard of morality." They are followed by a dandified free black, who announces, "De white man hab no rights dat cullud pussons am bound to spect' I want dat understood." Behind him an aging suffragette says, "I want womans rights enforced, and man reduced in subjection to her authority." Next a ragged socialist or Fourierist, holding a liquor bottle, asserts, "I want everybody to have a share of everybody elses property." At the end of the group are three hooligans, one demanding "a hotel established by government, where people that aint inclined to work, can board free of expense, and be found in rum and tobacco." The second, a thief, wants "the right to examine every other citizen's pockets without interruption by Policemen." The last, an Irish street tough, says, "I want all the stations houses burned up, and the M.P.s killed, so that the bohoys can run with the machine and have a muss when they please."
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-1990 (b&w film copy neg.)
Call Number: PGA - Currier & Ives--Republican Party going... (B size) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a05729/

[Tunkamerica]

50. +1 how times have changed.

[PotatoChip]

52. This is fantastic!

I had never seen it before. An interesting piece of Americana.

The fact that it was published by the iconic Currier and Ives makes it even better.

Thanks for sharing.

[JHB]

54. I updated to add in the URL for it...

I'd intended to put that in but forgot.

[a geek named Bob]

38. I think the last spark was Eisenhower

[Posteritatis]

56. The 1956 platform's particularly unoffensive, after taking the then-new Cold War into account. (nt)

[newspeak]

60. some of the old time republicans

are looking pretty liberal by today's standards (exclude the likes of fanatic mccarthy). The party has gone so far down the rabbit hole, they're starting to look like brownshirts; and to me, is not a good sign.

[lib2DaBone]

3. The Big Tent isn't very big.....

Had to Barf when Scott Walker got an ovation...

[tanyev]

4. Ouch!

[Politicalboi]

5. Hey Teabaggers

The clothes pin goes on the OUTSIDE of your nose assholes.

[caseymoz]

9. Thanks,

I thought it was some new message rather than "stink."

[Maine-ah]

11. actually...

putting them on the outside of your nose hurts after a while. The grooves built into clothes pins fits better on the inside, you can still breathe, and they still get their message across with out the pain.

As a fellow Maine-ah, I thought it was quite smart.

[petronius]

23. That's a very comprehensive and careful analysis! I always wondered what you

Maine-ahs did and talked about up there all winter - now I know...

[Maine-ah]

51. well...

it's either that or keeping each other warm Winters are long

[Po_d Mainiac]

58. Huh?

I thought we sat around and laughed at what the rest of the country called winter..Ah those lovely months without black/deer flies.

[Myrina]

15. Even disgruntled Republicans can't get their protest-accessories right!!

[bluedigger]

24. It's called a symbolic protest.

I think they made their point pretty well.

[shrdlu]

6. As Maine goes, so goes the nation...

One can hope...

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. GO MAINE GO!!!!

Damn, there will be fireworks.

[HockeyMom]

10. My daughter went to USM

We lived in NY. I love Maine and their citizens. Even for a Republican, Maine lost when Snow resigned.

Wonderful state and great people of Maine.

[RBInMaine]

25. Ah, Snowe who toed the GOP line 80-90% of the time. Not really a "moderate". Just sounded sane.

[Cha]

27. Right... Hopefully, Maine

will gain with a brand new Senator. King is it?

[dmallind]

57. Funny - Dems who vote party line 80-90% here are called Republican plants, traitors, fascists, etc

But Republicans who do the same are still Republicans, and not even moderate ones?

[newspeak]

61. yeah, the thing is snowe and chaffee actually sounded sane

maybe the repugs could name their new party the "supply side jaysus corporatist party." corporations over people, any global corporation will do.

[HockeyMom]

63. Well, I am an old woman

in comparison to what the Republican Party is today, Snow, Collins, and Chafee were the remnants of any sanity, and bi-partisanship, left in their party.

The up and coming Ryans are the extreme and offer no hope at all of working ANYTHING out.

[caseymoz]

14. Teabilly dumb.

It's not like Ron Paul has a chance there anyway. The committee might as well have given them Maine, and when faced with the loss of delegates, the rest might have well have stayed.

Just goes to show how well Repubs deal with disagreement, so consistent from the party of obstruction and gridlock.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. For the delegates it's the lack of respect.

I get why they're upset, I even agree with them on this issue.

Like you said, it wouldn't have cost the GOP anything in the long run. This was a stupid display of power on their part.

[wordpix]

34. however, GOP stands for Grand Oligarchy Power so a display is what they do

[HooptieWagon]

48. Exactly. It was a needless act.

Romney has enough votes to secure the nomination, it was totally unnecessary to disrespect the Paul delegates. That arrogant move could cost Romney the election.

[progressivebydesign]

18. several other States has more Paul delegates, and were shut down.

that party is in a world of hurt. They're fractionalized by old school republicans, teaparty, Ron Paul, and the hard core libertarians. I think that the more traditional Conservatives, would run screaming from that band of losers.

[Blue_Tires]

53. I've been amused at how hard the libertarians have tried to co-opt the GOP platform

instead of working with their own, real party...

Then they have the stones to be shocked when the GOP isn't "libertarian" enough for them

[JBoy]

17. These people have a weird habit of putting things on their faces:

[WorseBeforeBetter]

19. Ugh, I still have a visceral reaction to that purple band-aid woman. (n/t)

[Arkansas Granny]

21. +1

[Cha]

28. I know..I scrolled down really fast

and just got enough to know it was that ugly perv.

[amuse bouche]

33. Me too

but at least now I don't retch

[calimary]

41. Horrible woman.

With her horrible "purple heart band-aid" that these adorable "patriots" came up with and were passing around, to mock John Kerry's war medals, thereby insulting and cheapening the Purple Heart that soldiers are awarded when they're WOUNDED!!!! And I'm sure she still considers herself a true-blue American, too. Too stupid to know shame.

[newspeak]

62. same here!!!

kerry risked his life and came back to tell the truth about vietnam. little boots partied while kept state side. And, I think, he even flubbed that up. This woman disgraces all who have served in the military. The repugs had no problems going after democrats running who bravely served; pro-war chickenhawks, many who had never served or never seen war up, close and personal. And, then they get all arrogant about being american and shouting "USA, USA." A patriot does not ridicule those who served; especially those who have seen war.

[Auntie Bush]

22. TOuch! That must hurt! Tried putting a closepin on my nose in my youth...damn painful!

[AsahinaKimi]

30. They should take the Presidents advice...

"Don't Boo.. vote!" And vote for Barrack Obama!

[amuse bouche]

31. The lobster

is a nice touch

[YellaDog1950]

35. And, as Maine goes, so do other states......

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/ron-paul-supporters-rebel-convention-floor-fuck-you-tyrants

[Amonester]

45. PRiceless!

"One Nevada delegate and Paul supporter, Mark Carducci, thrust two middle fingers into the air toward RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), screaming "Fuck you, tyrants!"

The Democratic Party's Convention is going to be all united and... yes... sane, like the adults in charge always behave in public!

[HooptieWagon]

49. Well, the Obama/Clinton battles were as fierce as I can ever recall.

Even so, Hillary and her supporters were respected at the convention, and she even became a member of the Cabinet. It looks like Romney just enjoys bullying people.

[MNBrewer]

36. Pic of the woman from MN

I have an acquaintance who is there as a delegate and I'm sure he's a Ron Paul supporter, big time libertarian. I wished him luck in getting the libertarian platform enacted, LOL. Just to taunt him for being a big enough dick to go to the Republican convention.

[Exen Trik]

39. I think boycotting was the wrong decision

I don't think for a minute that the ones who have offended them are sad to see them go. They'd do better to stay and cause more ruckus.

But I don't mind because they've done a good service already: the blatant disregard for them has offended a lot more than Ron Paul supporters. The GOP will come apart at the seams all that much faster now.

[calimary]

42. Welcome to DU! Hopefully they'll pout and stay home on Election Day.

Great to have you here!



Now get busy!

[Exen Trik]

44. Heh

I'm not new at all, I just post very rarely! But I'll try to pick it up, since life is getting less stressful soon.

[nauthiz]

40. Serves them right

I hate Ron Paul.

They should've seen how they've been treating Dems with voter id laws. If you can't win, cheat.

[calimary]

43. Welcome to DU!

Agreed!


Glad you're here and please get busy!

We have an election to win!

[silvershadow]

46. Hope they do. Texas too, I heard...??

[Jamaal510]

47. So does anyone here know if

RP will run for Congress again to help his GOP pals obstruct Obama, or will he finally retire?

[snooper2]

55. CAPTION: Honey, this pinches a little-

Do It for the COUNTRY WOMAN!

[and-justice-for-all]

59. This whole conevntion, I mean circus of theirs is a bloody mess!!

and I love it!