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 Ron Paul
Convention Revolt
"Ron
Paul forces quietly
plot GOP convention
revolt against
McCain...". He
may not have gotten
much press when it
appeared he was more
of a viable
candidate on the
Republican ticket
for US President
even when he managed
to raise record
amounts of money
over the Internet.
But those hardcore
supporters - as well
as new one's -
haven't exactly
disappeared as the
GOP might have liked
them to.
No
better place for Ron
Paul to be thrust
back into the
spotlight than on
the
Drudge Report,
which on Monday
morning featured the
headline leading to
the
LA Times blog
associated with this
story.
Ron
Paul is still
running for
President of the
United States on the
Republican ticket,
we should remind
you.
From
the Times Blog:
Virtually all the
nation's political
attention in recent
weeks has focused on
the compelling
state-by-state
presidential
nomination struggle
between two
Democrats and the
potential for
party-splitting
strife over there.
But in the meantime,
quietly, largely
under the radar of
most people, the
forces of Rep. Ron
Paul have been
organizing across
the country to stage
an embarrassing
public revolt
against Sen. John
McCain when
Republicans gather
for their national
convention in St.
Paul at the
beginning of
September.
What's been largely
overlooked is Paul's
candidacy as a
reflection of a
powerful lingering
dissatisfaction with
the Arizona senator
among the party's
most conservative
conservatives,
according to the
Times Blog.
This was illustrated
in the fact that Ron
Paul had managed
around an 8 percent
showing in the last
two Primaries while
walking away with a
solid 16 percent of
the votes in
Pennsylvania.
A
potentially damaging
internal splits that
could cripple their
chances for victory
in a narrow vote on
Nov. 4, the Times
points out.
The last three
months Paul's
forces, who donated
$34.5 million to his
White House effort
and upwards of one
million total votes,
have, as The Ticket
has noted, been
fighting a series of
guerrilla battles
with party
establishment
officials at county
and state
conventions from
Washington and
Missouri to Maine
and Mississippi.
Their goal: to take
control of local
committees, boost
their delegate
totals and influence
platform debates.
Paul, who's running
unopposed in his
home Texas district
for an 11th House
term, still has some
$5 million in war
funds and has
instructed his
followers that their
struggle is not
about a single
election, but a
longterm revolution
for control of the
Republican Party.
So eager are they to
follow their
leader's words, that
Paul's supporters
have driven his new
book, "The
Revolution: A
Manifesto," to the
top of several
bestseller lists.
While
some attention has
been paid to the
likes of independent
Ralph Nader and
Libertarian
candidate Bob Barr
of Georgia as
individuals who
could siphon votes
away from other
candidates, Ron Paul
is the man who could
cause some serious
damage to John
McCain's prospects
of becoming the next
US President.
Paul
favors reduced
government and
elimination of the
IRS. He has
also been backing
those with similar
platforms to his,
such as New Jersey
Republican Senator
hopeful
Murray Sabin.
Ron
Paul is a strong
supporter of one's
right to gamble over
the Internet.
He and Democrat
Barney Frank
recently proposed a
bill that would
hopefully make this
possible in an
effort to heal the
US troubled economy.
Online gambling is a
billion dollar
industry but
operators are
prevented from
running such
establishments on US
soil.
-----
Christopher
Costigan,
Gambling911.com
Publisher
CCostigan@CostiganMedia.com
Originally published
May 12, 2008 11:28
am EST
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