The disgraceful operatives of the GOP, and their attempt to stop Ron Paul at all costs.

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Submitted by Paige_Michael-S... on Wed, 2008-01-23 13:50.

Yesterday was the Louisiana Caucus, where delegates to the state convention where elected to select delegates to the national convention. According to all reports, Ron Paul supporters outnumbered supporters of all the other candidates by a significant number. So what did representatives of the other candidates do? They pooled their delegates under a label of "Pro-Life/Pro-Family" to pool together the support of all of the candidates combined, which gave them a majority in every Congressional disricts. (Interesting that Giuliani reps did this, as he is pro-choice and, in the view of most GOP voters, takes stands that are anti-family; oh, the hypocrisy of the desperate!)

http://www.nolanchart.com/article1382.html

It's quite clear now that there is a anti-Ron Paul agenda among not just GOP voters, but GOP leadership itself. January 22, 2008: the day democracy died in America.

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Not Digging the Hyperboles

#5819 On Wed, 2008 01 23 15:01 Tangeng said,

Well, democracy didn't die yesterday. In fact, this sort of thing is what happens in Democracies. It's a trademark of how democracy works. In fact, you might say that democracy reared its ugly head in Louisiana, and instead of good ideas winning on their own right, you have a coalition of special interests winning.

But you are correct in that the Pro-Life/Pro-Family coalition is not aptly named. But recently newspeak and doublespeak have been 'in.' Sometimes the innovation and perversion of words strike me as funny, but recently I'm been a little more afraid to laugh. It's getting scary.

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Don't you know I'm upset?

#5822 On Wed, 2008 01 23 15:44 Paige_Michael-S... said,

GRR!!!!

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RE: Louisiana

#5823 On Wed, 2008 01 23 17:29 ka1igu1a said,

"It's quite clear now that there is a anti-Ron Paul agenda among not just GOP voters, but GOP leadership itself."

Umm, i think this has been clear for some time now...(however mainly Southern GOP establishment. The Northeastern GOP establishment, where the GOP has been devastated, much less so. For example NH GOP backed out of sponsoring the Fox Debate after Paul's exclusion).

"January 22, 2008: the day democracy died in America."

The less nefarious explanation is that Thompson supporters, whom by all accounts had one of the better organizations in LA, organized this combo slate after they had no candidate to back.

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Louisiana

#5825 On Wed, 2008 01 23 21:48 FreedomDemocrats said,

I'm with ka1igu1a, all stories I've read point to the fact that the Thompson supporters and delegates organized this ticket without a candidate to support, and they won over enough people of the other campaigns to pull off a potential close victory. Ron Paul could still pull it off, I don't know if they've counted all the provisionals yet.

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Final Order...

#5827 On Thu, 2008 01 24 04:00 ka1igu1a said,

Uncommitted Pro-Life,McCain,Paul,Romney

In the final analysis, Paul would have likely finished 3rd anyways if Thompson hadn't dropped out. The one thing I'm not clear about however is the reports that many Paul supporters that showed up weren't registered republicans and if their ballots were cast as unprovisional. I don't know, I'm not an expert on LA politics.

However, what should be a clear strategy to the Paul campaign is to focus resources on the Caucus states. States like Alaska, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Colorado, North Dakota(and which are outside of the establishment South). There's clearly potential to pull upsets there, given the other campaigns--except for Romney are out of cash--and these caucuses are light in turnout and heavily dependent on energized core supporters organization.

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