Amid boos, GOP convention recessed

[sniffa]

Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders shut down their weekend state convention and now must resume the event, probably in Las Vegas, to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention to be held in September in St. Paul, Minn.

State Sen. Bob Beers, R-Las Vegas, the convention chairman, was booed loudly as he called for a recess Saturday evening, saying the party's rental contract for a big meeting room at a Reno hotel-casino had expired and there was too much work left to complete.

The abrupt shutdown ended a long day that pitted outnumbered supporters of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain against well-organized Paul supporters _ whose large share of the more than 1,300 state convention delegates enabled them to get a rule change positioning them for more national convention delegate slots than expected.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/apr/27/amid-boos-gop-convention-recessed/

Ha ha!

[lisa58]

1. so it's not just us

[GoneOffShore]

2. But the schaudenfreude tastes better when they do it.

Personally, I like my Schaudenfreude with a nice light Riesling and a thick slab of foie gras.

[notesdev]

3. Nope

It's amazing how certain establishment-approved candidates do so well at the ballot box, but when actual living human beings need to show up on their behalf, they don't seem to have many supporters at all.

[AlCzervik]

4. that is a good read and those Paul supporters are hard core. Paul is a nut but....

the gop is shutting down their own who wont blindly follow them.

[rurallib]

6. Authoritarian leadership needs blind, unquestioning followers

there is a hardcore 28% that still obeys, but most others have seen the folly finally.

[JDPriestly]

5. The Obama/Hillary fight is nothing compared to this.

The press is not covering what the Paul/McCain split is doing to the Republican Party. It will be much easier to heal the Hillary/Obama split than to heal the Paul/McCain split, and the Paul/McCain split will grow stronger over the next four years regardless of who is in the White House. Hillary and Obama agree on the basic issues, but Paul and McCain do not. The Republican Party views the Paul supporters as outsiders, as crazies, but their philosophy is the logical conclusion of ultra-conservatism applied to the Constitution. This is the story the press is missing. It think the press is intentionally "missing" because it is just so fraught with danger for the current powers that be.

[cbayer]

8. You are so right.

We have two candidates with almost identical platforms duking it out over style. We won't have any difficulty coalescing around our candidate.

The republicans, on the other hand, have a major problem on their hands.

[alfredo]

9. How about Ron Paul Supporters demonstrating in the Twin Cities?

I bet they will be there pocket protectors and all.

Copies of "Fountain Head" at fifty yards.

[cbayer]

10. They could all pitch in after the convention

and start building that wall we are going to use to keep out those aliens from Canada! This could be fun!

[alfredo]

16. Libertarians talk, they don't act, and boy do they talk.

[JDPriestly]

18. I met up with some of them while in a crowd greeting Democratic

candidates including my candidate, Edwards, prior to a debate/forum (I believe on gay-lesbian issues) in L.A. Wow! They are aggressive and nutty. I'm sure they will make their voices heard loud and clear around the time of the Republican convention.

[nichomachus]

7. I hope the Dems are funding the Ron Paul nutjobs

[JDPriestly]

19. Don't need to. The Silicon Valley super-nerd loner misfits are

funding them.

[Faryn Balyncd]

11. In the UNOPPOSED PA primary, 16% of GOP voters turned out to vote for Ron Paul, against McSame.....

[Arugula Latte]

12. Come on, GOP! Let's see some RIOTS!

:woohoo:

[JDPriestly]

20. Don't ask for trouble. I met some of the Ron Paul supporters.

They are far more aggressive than the peaceniks of the 1960s, and far more numerous, and far more potentially, shall we say, troublesome. Riots are very bad for the environment. I would not wish riots on any city.

[Z.e.r.o]

13. i heard about this today

there was shouting of "mccain people go home" "paul people stay"
i guess romney's endorsement didn't help johnny with the morman vote

i saw an interview paul did for the local news before the convention. he said he would not support mccain even after the national convention makes him the official nominee. and also something about not chosing the "lesser of 2 evils" (BHO/HRC) and he's the real "change" candidate and it's time for the "revolution."

[annabanana]

14. This is the FIRST I've heard of this ongoing split. If CorpoMedia

won't cover it.. The the 'nets have to.

K&R

[izquierdista]

15. My drive across the U.S.

I drove from California to Georgia earlier this month, through LOTS of "red" country. Even in Arizona, I didn't see a single McCain sign or bumper sticker, but I did see many signs for Ron Paul. Things on their side are not as blissful as may appear.

[w8liftinglady]

17. in defense of Ron Paul supporters(don't flog me)

I attended the Republican Straw poll protest in Ft Worth last year as a member of Veterans for Peace,and there were a LOT of Ron Paul Supporters there.They were very sincere and vocal in their protest of the War in Iraq,and offered some of the more memorable jeers to the Repubs walking out of the convention.I may not agree with most of what they say,but I admire their tenacity.