Ron Paul Stealth Candidates Throw Temper Tantrum

Ron Paul Supporters are often like little children getting mad and pitching a temper tantrum. The video below shows them in action.

And they wonder why they can never get respect in the party? They show up once every two or four years and expect us to cater to their every desire and whim.

I'll have respect for them when they show up at local party and candidate fund raisers, when they show up to help set up for events, to place signs for party candidates.

I'll have respect for them when they show up at local party precinct meetings or when they show up to help build precinct walking maps, man the phones for local candidates, go knock on doors or take people to go vote.

Read more about the stealth delegate effort on the Ron Paul 2012 website http://is.gd/RPstealth

Read more about the stealth delegate effort on the Daily Paul website http://is.gd/DPstealth

Think this is a new phenomenon?

It is not. It is just a continuation of an effort by Paulbearers to gain power in the party, and if successful, the nation using nonviolent strong-arm tactics that subvert the results of the party primaries. If they want delegates, let them get them through legitimate means during the primary...by getting people to agree with them and show up and cast ballots. They don't do this because they know they can NEVER achieve power without having to resort to subversive tactics that reveals more about them than they realize. The Founding Fathers would recoil in horror at their tactics.

Read more about a similar effort that took place during the 2008 election on my blog http://is.gd/TP2008Stealth

Video source: Reason.tv Read their take on it at http://is.gd/A2t2DY

**note** I've also cross-posted this on Facebook because the nearly always clueless Matt Mittan has once again taken the side of old night and chaos.

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Mitt Romney Clinches Republican Nomination with Landslide Win in Texas

As of last night, with 69% of the vote in Texas, Governor Mitt Romney has secured enough delegates to clinch the nomination to be the candidate of the Republican Party in the 2012 general election.

His campaign released the following statement last night:

Today, Mitt Romney released the following statement on clinching the required number of delegates for the Republican nomination.

“I am honored that Americans across the country have given their support to my candidacy and I am humbled to have won enough delegates to become the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee. Our party has come together with the goal of putting the failures of the last three and a half years behind us. I have no illusions about the difficulties of the task before us. But whatever challenges lie ahead, we will settle for nothing less than getting America back on the path to full employment and prosperity. On November 6, I am confident that we will unite as a country and begin the hard work of fulfilling the American promise and restoring our country to greatness.”

As the above map shows, Texas was a Romney landslide and Ron Paul could only manage 11.9% of the votes in his own home state...the worst home state performance of any Presidential candidate this election cycle. (Mitt Romney 72.2% in Massachusetts, Newt Gingrich 47.2% in Georgia and Rick Santorum 18.3% in Pennsylvania).



The delegate count, according to the AP, stands at:

1,183 Mitt Romney
261 Rick Santorum
135 Newt Gingrich
129 Ron Paul

Now, the focus of the Republican Party, save for a few delusional people, will turn to working toward the election of Mitt Romney as the 45th President of the United States of America and the RNC National Convention in Tampa Bay [website], Florida will be a showcase for the Romney Campaign [website].

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Rick Santorum Takes Missouri (Again) Mitt Romney Dominates Puerto Rico Ron Paul Supporters Sabotage Missouri Caucuses

It is presumed that Rick Santorum has re-won Missouri (despite sabotage attempts by Ron Paul supporters) the state is scheduled to have another caucus on April 21st, where delegates will be chosen at the congressional district conventions. There are two more votes scheduled for Missouri. Here is an explanation of how the confusing caucus system in Missouri works:

How do the caucuses work?

• County Caucuses, March 17, 2012: Attendees will select delegates and alternates to the Congressional District Conventions and State Convention.  Delegates selected at the county level will not be bound to a specific candidate unless a rule is passed by participants of the caucus. (See below for a list of county caucus locations.)

• Congressional District Conventions, April 21, 2012: Delegates chosen at the county level will select 3 delegates and alternates to the National Convention and 1 presidential elector.  These delegates and alternates will identify their candidate before being chosen.  They will be bound to that candidate on the first ballot at the national convention. (For Congressional District Convention location information, please see the bottom of this page.)

• State Convention, June 2, 2012: Delegates chosen at the county level will vote on a slate of 25 at-large delegates and alternates to the National Convention and 2 at-large presidential electors. These delegates and alternates will identify their candidate before being chosen.  They will be bound to that candidate on the first ballot at the national convention.

Source: Missouri GOP

The results of the previous Missouri caucus.

More on the attempts to sabotage the Missouri caucuses by Ron Paul supporters is after the section on Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico


Mitt Romney won over 50% of the Puerto Rican vote, meaning he gets all 20 of the delegates. It is expected that he will get 2 of the 3 superdelegates as well.

The Puerto Rico Results with 83% of precincts reporting:

Candidate	Votes	Percentage
Mitt Romney	98,375	88.0%
Rick Santorum	9,524	8.5%
Newt Gingrich	2,431	2.2%
Ron Paul	1,452	1.3%

There are no victory speeches available, so here are a couple of other videos relating to the Puerto Rican primary and a look at the way at least one candidate got the results of the vote...

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Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño greets Mitt Romney


Ron Paul Supporters Sabotage Missouri Caucuses


St Charles County




An account from a caucus participant in Christian County, Missouri:

Hubby and myself were in the Christian County Republican caucus today. It was insane.

Nobody got arrested like in St Charles, because our sheriff was the sargent in arms--but it got nutso from the get go....

The Ron Paulites tried to take over the process by bastardizing Robert Rules of order, objecting to every teeny tiny thing.

Their leader stood up and threaten to take their votes to Obama if the the majority did not respect the Ron paul minority and elect the chosen Ron paul delegates.

Source: Atlas Shrugs (read the whole thing) 

Here is an account by a Ron Paul Supporter of what he observed in St Charles County:

GOP voters began showing up at the high school two hours before the caucus was set to begin at 10 a.m. Though the meeting didn’t start on time as organizers worked to accommodate the near-overflow crowd, attendees would get more than they bargained for before the day ended.

The caucus began shortly after 11 a.m. with an invocation and pledge of allegiance. It was followed by a reading of the rules by County GOP Central Committee Member Bryan Spencer and an introduction of County GOP Chair Eugene Dokes.

Dokes reiterated the importance of the rules and emphasized the ban on recording devices before pausing to implore a man in the bleachers to turn off his video camera or face arrest.

Source: Bob McCarty Writes (he also links to other coverage of the chaos)



Video from Christian County


A Ron Paul Supporter describes the plan to subvert the caucus process by putting forth delegates as Trojan Horses


I, as a conservative, am disgusted by the unruly and anarchistic behavior of the libertarian supporters of Ron Paul. Perhaps the events of this weekend will encourage the Republican party to move away from a voting method that is easily sabotaged by a handful of organized bad actors. Primaries are not so easily sabotaged and they allow for the participation of more people in the process of selecting the nominee of their party.

Delegate Math

The nomination of the Republican party candidate for President is essentially a numbers game. The 2,286 delegates who attend the RNC 2012 Convention in Tampa, Florida will select the nominee of the Republican party based on the varied (and often confusing) rules of the state or territory they represent. The candidate who will be the nominee of the party has to receive the votes of 1,144 of the 2,286 delegates.

In past election cycles, most states were winner take all and the nomination was usually acknowledged before March by a majority of the serious candidates and they would drop out in order to clear the way for the candidate who had demonstrated they had a plurality of support in the party.

This year, things are different in two ways. First, the RNC voted to change the calendar and made most states give out their delegates in a proportional manner in order to prolong the nomination contest. This, in my opinion, was an important ingredient in a recipe for disaster. The second change, is the unwillingness of candidates to acknowledge they cannot win the delegates necessary to be the nominee of the party. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are running as spoilers, hoping to deny the front runner the number of delegates necessary to be nominated. The reason I don't include Ron Paul in this category is because he has never been a threat to upset the process; he simply does not have the level of support necessary to pull it off and...the majority of his supporters are not likely to vote for the Republican nominee if that nominee is not Ron Paul.

Here is the state of the nomination contest to date: (March 19, 2012)

Candidate	Delegates Won	% Delegates Won	Delegates Needed	% Remaining Needed
Mitt Romney	513	44.84%	631 of 1328	47.52%
Rick Santorum	239	20.89%	905 of 1328	68.15%
Newt Gingrichl	139	12.15%	1005 of 1328	75.68%
Ron Paul	69	6.03%	1075 of 1328	80.95%

The numbers are stark. It is virtually impossible for anyone other than Mitt Romney to win the nomination and, at this point, to stay in the race is a destructive act that adds nothing to what has previously been said. All it does is increase friction and discord within the various ideological factions within the party. All this when we will be facing a very well funded candidate (Obama) who will be enjoying an unprecedented army of organized supporters who will be building on their 2008 campaign experience.

I've used the numbers from CNN for this table. Most of the "guesstimates" of how many delegates each candidate has is within 20 delegates of the numbers used above and, if those other numbers are used, change little in the look of the table.

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Ron Paul Declines Re-election to US House

LAKE JACKSON — After serving almost 24 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Ron Paul told The Facts this morning he will not be seeking another term for the District 14 seat.

Paul, 75, will instead focus on his quest for the presidency in 2012.

“I felt it was better that I concentrate on one election,” Paul said. “It’s about that time when I should change tactics.”

His announcement will give enough time for anyone with aspirations for his seat to think about running, he said. Paul didn’t want to wait for filing in the 2012 primary to let people know he wasn’t seeking reelection.

“I didn’t want to hold off until in December,” he said. “I thought it shouldn’t be any later than now.”

Paul has served 12 terms in Congress. District 14 encompasses a 10-county area along the Gulf Coast.

Source: The Facts

Commentary


This is the end of Ron Paul's service in public office. He will not win the GOP Primary. He should have done this in 2008. 

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From My Email: Some Things Cannot Go Unanswered My Response to Adam Kokesh being Body Slammed

Image courtesy of The Silent Majority. See their article on the Traitor Adam Kokesh.

I get a lot of unsolicited email. A lot of it is conspiracy theory hyping chain mails that never seem to die despite having been proven wrong over and over again. A recent email hit a nerve, and I'm posting it and my response for the public record. 


I have removed the name of the sender, but if you are familiar with the local conspiracy theorists, you'll know exactly who sent this particular email.


Adam Kokesh and fellow retards engaged in an illegal protest at the Jefferson Memorial. Here is video of his invite to people to participate in the protest:






Now, here is the Email (altered only by the removal of names of the sender and recipients):

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From: [NAME REMOVED]
To: [NAMES OF SEVERAL RECIPIENTS ALSO REMOVED]
Sent: Wed, June 1, 2011 2:39:46 PM
Subject: WARNING!! ALERT!!!DANGER!!! SHOCKING!! THE MOST DISTURBING THING YOU WILL EVER SEE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jUU3yCy3uI

IF YOU WATCH THIS VIDEO AND ARE NOT ASHAMED OF WHAT THIS COUNTRY HAS BECOME THEN YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.

THIS IS THE MOST APPALLING VIDEO ON THE NET. DONT THINK YOUR NOY ON A LIST

PRIVATE: This is Not A Public Communication!

This private email message, and any attachment(s) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2521, and is for the sole use of the intended recipient and contains privileged and/or confidential information. To all public servants, including but not limited to Federal, State, or Local corporate government(s): I accept your oath of office as your firm and binding contract between you and me, one of the People, whereby you have promised to serve, protect, and defend me, guarantee all of my unalienable rights, and defend the Constitution for the united States of America. Any/all political, private, or public entities, International, Federal, State, or Local corporate government(s), private International Organization(s), Municipality(ies), Corporate agent(s), informant(s), investigator(s) et. al., and/or third party(ies) working in collusion by monitoring My (this email) email(s), and any other means of communication without My express written permission are barred from any review, use, disclosure, or distribution. With explicit reservation of all My rights, without prejudice and without recourse to any of My rights. Any omission does not constitute a waiver of any and/or all intellectual property rights or reserved rights.

Notice to Principal is Notice to Agent / Notice to Agent is Notice to Principal

a de a de a de THATS ALL FOLKS!

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Here is the video in question embedded for your viewing pleasure:

And here is the response I sent to the sender and all the others on the receipt list:

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The only thing I see wrong with the video is a bunch of retarded children making a scene and disturbing the peace. I commend the police for their restraint in subduing and arresting these idiot protesters who were desecrating the Jefferson Memorial and crapping on the memory of one of our Founding Fathers.

As far as Adam Kokesh goes, he is liar. He went around for years claiming to be a Sergeant and failed to inform people that he was demoted to Corporal before being less than honorably discharged for bringing a looted pistol back from Iraq (technically, that makes him a war criminal). He is not even eligible to join the VFW with his DD214 discharge papers. The guy is a fraud, [Name Removed].  [Link] 

The patriots at the Patriot Action network have more about him. [Link]

The Green Room has even more about him. [Link]

~Bobby, aka Thunder Pig.

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Ron Paul Expected To Launch 2012 Campaign Today

This is the Press Release:

April 25, 2011 04:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time 

Media Advisory: Ron Paul in Des Moines Tomorrow to Make Important Announcement

LAKE JACKSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Congressman Ron Paul will be in Des Moines, Iowa tomorrow, April 26^th, to make an important announcement about his political organization.

Dr. Paul will hold a press conference at 3:45 pm CT in the Library Room at the north end of the Holiday Inn Des Moines Airport, located at 6111 Fleur Drive in Des Moines. Members of the Media are most welcome to attend.

Contacts

Liberty PAC
Jesse Benton, 202-246-6363

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It looks like Ron Paul will be having another go at becoming President. In the 1988 Presidential Election, he he ran as a Libertarian and received 0.47% of the popular vote. In the 2008 Republican Primaries, he garnered 1.6% of the delegate count despite his online jihadists infantile poll swarming tactics. In the 2012 Republican Primaries, I expect him to receive no more than 8% of the delegate count.


I hope that his followers will be nicer this time around, but I'm not holding my breath. 


If you are interested in finding out more about Ron Paul, visit Ron Paul.


Previously:


Ron Paul Articles

I've written extensively regarding the regional Ron Paul Supporters, so join me for a walk down memory lane. 

Takeover Series (in chronological order):

Local Libertarians Plan to Ride Wave of Ron Paul Populalarity: Control of Buncombe GOP

Commentary: A Molehill of a Republican Takeover

Who Is Ron Paul? And Who Are His Supporters?

Are Ron Pal Supporters Planning Bloodless Coup in North Carolina and the Nation?

Conservative Blogger Opens Dialogue With Ron Paul Supporters

Pauleroids Still Plan Disruptions For The GOP Conventions

Paultards Hope To Steal Nomination for Ron Paul

Bill Fishburne Calls Shenanigans on the Asheville Tea Party

The Asheville Tax Day Tea Party Rally: ATPAC Endorsed Candidates to Speak, 

Others Barred From Speaking in Public (Updated)

Erika Franzi, Tim Peck Resign From Asheville Tea Party and ATPAC

And, in reverse chronological order, here are other posts about Ron Paul and his supporters over the course of the past couple of years they've been on my radar as I attempted to draw distinctions between them and conservatism:

Congressman Ron Paul Is An Idiot, (Part 3,293)

r3VOLution Update: Ron Paul Punks His Idiot Supporters

The Progressitarian Alliance: Progressives Link Up With Libertarians

Paultards Hope To Steal Nomination for Ron Paul

Ron Paul Wakes Up, Quits Bid For President

Presidency Thwarted, Ron Paul Movement Morphing

Pauleroids Still Plan Disruptions For The GOP Conventions

McCain Clinches GOP Nomination (included because Ron Paul only got 5% in his home state of Texas!)

Brownshirted Ron Paul Supporters Attack Radio Host Sean Hannity

Ron Paul Calls Border Fence "Rather Offensive"

Ron Paul: Bought and Paid For By Anti-War Socialists at MoveOn.org

Conservative Blogger Opens Dialogue With Ron Paul Supporters

(VIDEO) Ron Paul on Glenn Beck in 7 parts

(VIDEO) Ron Paul Sucks (updated with Atlanta videos)

(VIDEO) Glenn Beck Calls Out Ron Paul

McCain to Paul--"Let Us Win!" (Updated with Music)

Are Ron Pal Supporters Planning Bloodless Coup in North Carolina and the Nation?

Asheville IndyMedia Call Ron Paul a Liar

Ron Paul is a Useful Man for Democrats

Ron Paul Bots Attempt Takeover of Internet

Who Is Ron Paul? And Who Are His Supporters?

VIDEO: O'Reilly Punks Paul

Another Reason Not to Vote for Ron Paul

Commentary: A Molehill of a Republican Takeover

Anti-Semitic and Far Left Supporters of Ron Paul

Local Libertarians Plan to Ride Wave of Ron Paul Populalarity: Control of Buncombe GOP

Qur'an Defiler Faces Felonies, Local Ron Paul Supporter Desecrates Flag, Assualts Deputy

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Erika Franzi, Tim Peck Resign From Asheville Tea Party and ATPAC

PRESS RELEASE






It is with great reluctance to announce that Founder, Erika Franzi, and Board member, Tim Peck have resigned from Asheville Tea Party and Asheville Tea PAC. It has been Erika's vision, leadership and unwavering belief in our mission that propelled the
Asheville Tea Party and the Asheville Tea PAC to its successes, presence and influence.


It is hard to measure the countless hours and tireless effort that Tim Peck has devoted to both organizations. There are few who are as philosophically astute and grounded in our founding documents as Tim. He was always a guidepost.


They both have left a legacy that will guide the Asheville Tea Party and the Asheville Tea PAC going forward.


That legacy of accomplishments includes:

 

That legacy of accomplishments includes:

• building two organizations, the Asheville Tea Party and the  Asheville Tea PAC
• redesigning the organization to a project oriented structure
• rallying for our rights
• e-mailing and phoning campaigns to our representatives
• meeting with Congressman Heath Schuler and Senator Kay Hagan to voice our concerns over the Health Care Bill
• unveiling journalistic conflicts of interest in the press
• educating us about our Founding Documents by organizing forums and speeches
• attending the National Tea Party Conference and giving presentations
• implementing a successful pre-primary debate for the District 11 Congressional candidates
• supporting Congressional candidate Dr. Dan Eichenbaum in the 2010 Primary to within single digits of victory
• endorsing, campaigning, and successfully getting four of ATPACs endorsed candidates elected in November, 2010
• educating the public and our subscribers to the Independence Caucus candidate assessment process in a forum with IC founder, Frank Anderson
• influencing Asheville City Council to put on hold their annexation plans of Royal Pines for twelve months
• revealing the excessive expenses the Airport Authority was spending to send people to an airport conference in Maui
• sending bus loads to DC to gather with more than 1.2 million other patriots on the Mall
• gathering patriots for the first successful "We Read The Constitution" Day

We will do our best to continue the fine work Erika and Tim have begun and to bring this country back to the place our Founders would be proud.  We wish them good health and success in their next endeavors. 

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Hat Tip: @Tim Peck

Commentary

Erika Franzi has been a passionate political activist since the Ron Paul run for President in 2008 and her entry into blogging in late 2008 with her Jane Q Republican (http://janeqrepublican.com) blog (since changed to Jane Q Public). She was one of the founders of the Asheville Tea Party in and its political fund raising arm, ATPAC. She was a vocal supporter of Dr Dan Eichenbaum during the 11th Congressional District Republican party 2010 primary. Since then, she has been involved in a sometimes very public series of attacks on the chairman of the Buncombe County Republican party, Chad Nesbitt...who is himself no stranger to launching very public attacks on political opponents. My personal opinion on the matter is that some of these attacks were designed to hurt the winner of the Republican primary, Jeff Miller. She found a willing accomplice in the Mountain Xpress online community. She also has had a period of bad health recently. The Asheville Tea Party and ATPAC will be better off without her involvement.

I wish her luck in her new endeavors and good health in the future. 

Tim Peck is another matter. He has had a history of generating controversy that is far too long to go into detail  here. Suffice it to say that the Asheville Tea Party and ATPAC will be better off without him. I would, however, like to see him to continue commenting on public forums. He does have a knack for generating extreme rage in progressives. See this screenshot of the thread dedicated to mocking him by the progressives on the Mountain Xpress Forums.

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