Yes, the Rontards are still at it.

As I went to my Senatorial Convention this spring, I had an eerie feeling when I noticed all of the Rontard bumper stickers that were there in attendance, and how the turn out was in no way a reflection of the actual number of votes cast for Ron Paul in the county. I have to give it to them, they are organized. So, for the past several months now, I have been monitoring some of the communication that is coming out of the Ron Paul camp looking for this very thing.

As far away as a year ago, I began hearing rumors that the poor showing in the polls, and at the ballot box was going to force the hand of the Ron Paul camp to try and seize control of the National Convention by flooding it with Ron Paul supporters, much in the same way they flooded every single web poll, or IM poll during the debates. Not satisfied with Democracy in action, the Rontards would instead take matters into their own hands. The plan would be to take over the Precinct meetings to elect the Delegates for the Senatorial Conventions and in turn affect the Delegate selection all the way up to the National Convention. For this type of “Rube Goldberg machine” to actually happen, every single domino would have to fall the right way.

While I don’t think it is plausible, there will be some serious repercussions if were to actually it happen. Personally, I already feel disenfranchised at the way our current candidate was pre-selected for us before we even got the chance to vote in Texas. The prospect of having to support McCain this election season does not necessarily excite me, but a brokered Ron Paul selection will surely will make matters far worse, and will sink the Republican Party for this election cycle for sure. You think Republicans are angry and want to sit this one out now, just wait until until a brokered convention, and Ron Paul steals the nomination. That will most certainly cause a real revolution.

HOW TO GET RON PAUL NOMINATED - ANYWAY
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*This is not the time to back off and just haggle about resolutions and platforms at state and national conventions. It’s time to FIGHT!*
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*by Alex Wallenwein*
(Conservative)
Friday, April 18, 2008

http://www.nolanchart.com/article3486.html
A Strategy

Some Meetups are already giving up hope, but there is a way for us to get Ron Paul the nomination, and it is absolutely doable.

In a nutshell: If enough delegations *sit out the first and second vote*, McCain won’t get his required majority, and the national convention will become a brokered one-which means anything goes.

There are two main hurdles to accomplishing this:

1. To be even*presented* for nomination, Ron must be able to “demonstrate the support” of a majority of the delegates from at least five states.
2. Getting enough state delegations to sit out the first two votes won’t be easy but it is totally within the realm of the possible!.

What depresses so many delegates is that in order to even be selected as delegates to go to the National Convention, they are required by state party rules to sign a pledge that they will “support” John McCain. That is not the end of the story, however.

The only consequence of that is that a delegate’s vote for anyone other than McCain will simply not be counted.

*That’s all!*

There are no legal ramifications for breaking that pledge. There are only possible ethical concerns. These ethical concerns, however, are completely

swept aside by the possibility of simply NOT VOTING the first time around.The RNC’s party rules expressly contemplate and acknowledge that State Delegations may choose to sit out a vote. Rule 37c states:

(c) In balloting, *if any delegation shall pass when its name is called*, then at the conclusion of the roll call all delegations which passed shall be called in the order herein before established. *No delegation shall be allowed to change its vote until all delegations which passed shall have been given a second opportunity to vote*.

That means (a) it’s ok to abstain from voting, and (b) the only consequence is that the passing delegation(s) must be given another chance to vote before any other delegations are released from their pledges.

*The Big Challenge:*

The big hurdle to climb is the requirement of paragraph (b) of Rule 40, which states that in order to even be presented for nomination, a candidate must be able to demonstrate the support of a majority of the delegates of at least five states. Here is the rule:

(b) Each candidate for nomination for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States shall*demonstrate the support* of a majority of the delegates from each of five (5) or more states, severally, prior to the presentation of the name of that candidate for nomination.

The rule does not define what precise “demonstration of support” is required. In other words, it is not necessary that Ron Paul must have won a majority of the “beauty contest” (popular primary) vote in five states in order to be entitled to all their delegates.

What is a demonstration of support?

A candidate can ask that the delegations of five states where he believes he has enough support be polled by roll call so as to enable him to demonstrate that he has the support of a majority of delegates then and there at the National Convention.

That means we have to get to work on the delegates of each state after the state conventions are over.

Many Republicans hate McCain, or at least dislike him.

There is a huge arsenal of issues on which McCain has exposed himself as a sell-out to conservative Republicans: national sovereignty, free speech (McCain/Feingold), amnesty, guns, abortion you name it, he has voted against conservative values on these.

There is also evidence he “sang” in Vietnam, costing untold numbers of his fellow POWs their lives.

It should not be too difficult to convince conservative delegates not to vote for him with that evidence especially in light of the fact that the party rules explicitly contemplate the “passing” of votes by state delegations!

*The Strategy:*

The strategy therefore must be to get as many Ron Paul delegates selected to represent their states at the National Convention.

That means our delegates need to stay low- key.

Resolutions are a dead giveaway, especially when they are fought over things like opposition to the war, or abolishing the Federal Reserve and the IRS, all signature issues of Ron Paul.

So, the best plan is to shut up, move along, do what you have to do to get selected, sign the pledge to “support” McCain (it doesn’t say you promise not to abstain!) and just get in short of outright lying, of course.

If there are any ethical concerns about this supposed “stealth tactic”, think about what ethical concerns you may have if you allow McCain to become president by your inaction.

Old guard Republicans may complain about supposed “stealth” or deception-but what is it their preferred candidates do when they swear in their oaths of office to “support and defend” the Constitution and then do the opposite?

What is more unethical?

What is more damaging to the country?

What is more destructive of the very foundation of our government and our way of life?

My question is: As long as there is even a sliver of a chance to get Ron Paul the GOP nomination why give up??

*Why resign yourself to debating endlessly about the fine points of endless party resolutions and platforms knowing they are routinely ignored, anyway?*

These party honchos and their favorite sell-out candidates constantly ignore and violate even our Constitution! What makes you think they won’t utterly ignore whatever provisions we manage to get into the national party platform?

Is that worth the price of being spotted and “marked for death” by the party honchos at the state conventions? I don’t think so.Not when you consider what’s really at stake.

So, please, please, *please *don’t give up! Ron Paul still has plenty of fight left in him at his advanced age. Why shouldn’t we?

Let’s fight for what’s *important* (Ron Paul *winning*) - not for what routinely gets ignored!

Alex Wallenwein

So, in a word, rules are meant to be broken. After all, Rontards are sooo much smarter than the rest of us. They are entitled to have Ron Paul as the Republican nominee. So what, you loose a little integrity. No big deal, they’re just cheating the entire Democratic process and disenfranchising the whole of the Republican body that did not even consider Ron Paul. You tell me, what is right about a Candidate who may have only gotten 5% (and I’m being very generous here) of the popular vote walking away with the nomination. This is, in and of itself, exactly the problem we have in Washington. There is no integrity around, anywhere, and this even includes you Rontards. It’s is time we stand up for our principles, stand up for integrity, and expose the liars, the cheats, and the disingenuous.

The writer then ends the message with the following quote

Posterity–you will never know how much it has cost my generation to
preserve your freedom.
I hope you will make good use of it.

John Quincy Adams

Now I thought that Rontards were well versed in history. Two things with this quote trouble me. First of all, I know it is easy to confuse the two, but John Adams is the actual source of this quote, not John Quincy Adams. The quote actually comes from correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in the twilight years of their lives. These letters have been the subject of several books, and the current mini-series appearing on HBO. Besides the fact that the quote is attributed to the wrong Adams, the Adams that the writer chose to hold up was John Quincy Adams author of the Tariff of 1828, also known as the Tariff of Abomination. It intrigues me that he would choose someone who was such a supporter of big government .

On this note, I will leave you with the following quotes from John Adams:

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”

“Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure than they have it now, They may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. They will only exchange Tyrants and Tyrannies.”

“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”

“What do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations… This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.”

UPDATED - RINO_Hunter

Michelle Malkin confirms the movement has started, read about it at her blog Michelle Malkin

Ron Paul has been having a bit of trouble lately. So much in fact, he has had to curb his Presidential bid in order to concentrate his efforts on “Plan B” (and you Rontards can shut up already, I heard him say it) his Congressional seat, which by the way should enthuse anyone whom he is supposed to represent. So as a result, I get to hear his commercials, and there’s a lot of them, every day. Commercials that are full of stale 10 year old data or quotes, obfuscations, and down right lies.

Congressional Quarterly names Ron Paul one the 50 most effective legislators - first this is an 8 year old article that frankly is quite stale, and second the article is not a list of “effective legislators”. That list does not exist.

He is trying to tie himself to the Reagan Revolution by airing a sound byte that is at least 10 years old where Reagan states “We need to keep Ron Paul”. Again stale, this is the same Ronald Reagan that Ron Paul blames for creating the OBL, and Sadam Hussein problem. So Ron Paul expects that he can rail against Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy on one hand, and ride his coat tails on the other.

He claims he is the tax payers best friend, well that’s a stretch coming from the Pork King of Lake Jackson. 400 million in one year for trivial projects that Ron Paul makes the earmarks for, and then votes down knowing his buddies in Congress will pass the measure.

He claims he is tough on defense. Meanwhile, he votes down every defense appropriation, want to cut military spending by 80%, do away with the CIA and the Air Force, and reduce our forces to ballistic submarines. Hmmm, that’s pretty tough allright.

He claims he is pro-family and pro-life, while he votes down measures to prohibit and increase penalties for transporting minors across State lines in order to get around home State abortion regulations.

The truth even eludes Ron Paul when it comes to his challenger. He ignores the fact that his seat is in serious jeopardy, refuses to debate or even have a forum. But, Ron Paul certainly cried foul when Fox did not invite him to the Florida debate.

As usual, Ron Paul says one thing, and does the complete opposite.

Texans have a choice. I invite you to check out Chris Peden’s site at chrispeden.org to get the facts about the 14th district.

We have the answer. As the race is slowing grinding to a halt for the nomination, it has become quite apparent why Ron Paul is running for President. Ron Paul knew from the offset that he did not have a snowball’s chance at ever winning the Republican nomination. And it does not appear he is interested in the being on the bottom of the ticket either, none of the front runners would have him anyways. So why run? For the first time in many years, Ron Paul has a serious challenger for his House seat in Chris Peden. The interesting part of the story is that Chris is not a career politician. He is one of many that stepped up from the private sector when run away taxation came to a head two years ago because then city manager stood up in front of the State Building and declared that his Friendswood constituents did not want tax relief, and were quite content with increases in their taxes every year.

Ron Paul used the national forum of running for the Republican nomination in order to raise a ton of cash so he could bombard the Houston-Metro area with his campaign ads filled with lies and distortions about his record. Running a national campaign offered Ron Paul the ability to raise money outside of his district, where it does not matter which account his campaigns get their money from. I have yet to hear a Ron Paul for President ad on our local radio stations. But you can’t turn a radio on for 5 minutes without hearing a Ron Paul for Congress ad.

As for his supporters, you got used, just like he has used his district, his office, and everything else.

Not only that, Ron Paul need to pull out of the race for the Republican nomination!

“[O]ur country is being destroyed by a group of actual and potential terrorists—and they can be identified by the color of their skin.”

“I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city [Washington, D.C.] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”

“We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational.”

“The riots, burning, looting, and murders are only a continuation of 30 years of racial politics.”

“The criminals who terrorize our cities—in riots and on every non-riot day—are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for all black ills, to “fight the power,” and to steal and loot as much money from the white enemy as possible. Anything is justified against ‘The Man.’ And ‘The Woman.’’”

“My friend waved to the tiny [African-American] child, who scowled, stuck out her tongue, and said (somewhat tautologically): “I hate you, white honkey.” And the parents were indulgent. Is any white child taught to hate in this way?” [As a matter of fact, Paul has appeared on a radio program called “The Political Cesspool,” which has featured the neo-Nazi twin pop stars Prussian Blue. –ed.]

“But this is normal, and in fact benign, compared to much of the anti-white ideology in the thoroughly racist black community. The black leadership indoctrinates its followers with phony history and phony theory to bolster its claims of victimology.”

“Korean-Americans, hated by blacks, never riot, and in fact are some of the most productive people in America (the reason for black hatred).”

“The cause of the riots is plain: barbarism. If the barbarians cannot loot sufficiently through legal channels (i.e., the riots being the welfare-state minus the middleman), they resort to illegal ones, to terrorism.”

“We must not kowtow to the street hoodlums and their sanctimonious leaders.”

“Regardless of what the media tell us, most white Americans are not going to believe that they are at fault for what blacks have done to cities across America. The professional blacks may have cowed the elites, but good sense survives at the grass roots.”

“Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country.”

“Blacks have ‘civil rights,’ preferences, set-asides for government contracts, gerrymandered voting districts, black bureaucracies, black mayors, black curricula in schools, black beauty contests, black TV shows, black TV anchors, black scholarships and colleges, hate crime laws, and public humiliation for anyone who dares question the black agenda.”

Source: The Ron Paul Report, “Los Angeles Racial Terrorism”

“Black males age 13 that have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary, and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.”

Source: The Ron Paul Political/Survival report, 1990-1994, excerpted by the Austin Chronicle

“We now know that we are under assault from thugs and revolutionaries who hate Euro-American civilization and everything it stands for: private property, material success for those who earn it, and Christian morality.”

“In San Francisco and perhaps other cities, says expert Burt Blumert, the rioting was led by red-flag carrying members of the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Workers World Party, both Trotskyite-Maoist.”

“Many people tried to buy guns to protect themselves. But, whoops, California has a 14-day waiting period. And then, just to make sure honest Californians could not get ammunition for the firearms they already owned (poor ragefilled youth might be shot), Mayor Tom Bradley ordered all gun and ammo shops closed, a great help to criminals who had stocked up earlier, or who could simply break in and loot.”

“Several days after the violence ended, we learned that there would have been blacks on the King jury—if the NAACP hadn’t engaged in jury tampering by telling potential black jurors that it was their racial duty to convict the cops. The blacks admitted this to defense lawyers, and were rightly excluded from jury. This is a serious crime, but the NAACP will not be prosecuted.”

“Two years ago, in a series of predictions for the 1990s, I said that race riots would erupt in our large cities. I’m now predicting this will be the major problem of the 1990s.” [Helter Skelter, anybody?—ed.]

Source: The Ron Paul Report, “Los Angeles Racial Terrorism”

“Last month I reported on massive, illegal spying by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith against its perceived opponents, as revealed in California. The ADL keeps track of people and groups from left to right, and purchases illegally obtained information on Americans from its agents in police departments in order to prepare and maintain hundreds of thousands of dossiers.”

“The [Los Angeles] Times also brought to light the ADL’s work against ‘cults,’ especially interesting given the BATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms]-ADL connection.”

“It was such a seminar [i.e. a cult awareness training seminar], arranged by the ADL, that targeted the Branch Davidians in the first place.”

Source: The Ron Paul Survival Report, June 15, 1993

“The intensity with which Israel lobbies in the U.S. Congress is surpassed only by its media campaigns to drown all criticism of Israel. Prominent U.S. Editors and media owners don’t even pretend to objectivity on the issue. They all follow the advice of Norman Podhoretz, editor of the influential neo-conservative magazine Commentary….” [Our emphasis –ed.]

“This bias [Martin Peretz’s] informs every opinion expressed in The New Republic. For example, it opposed Contra aid until the Sandinista government showed sympathy for the PLO.”

Source: The Ron Paul Political Report, date uncertain

“If this walking bomb had gone off, it would have demolished the House Chamber and most of the congressmen in it. Yet this attempted terrorist attack was buried by the media. Why? Because the perpetrator was an undoubtedly mad Israeli, furious over alleged slights to his country… [T]he Israeli lobby deep-sixed the story, and no one outside of Congress ever head about it.”

Source: The Ron Paul Political Report, date uncertain

“The Earth Summit is the creepiest meeting of politicos since the first gathering of Bolsheviks. Officially known as the UN Conference for Environment and Development, it will be held in Brazil in June; bad guys from all over the globe will attend.”

“[Hillary Clinton] is one of the most dangerous women in public life. Not only is she a fanatical abortion advocate, she wants parents to register with the government as a condition for having children to be able to sue and `divorce’ themselves from their parents. Maybe her daughter ought to sue her parents for attempting to raise her as a leftist. That sure qualifies as abuse to me.”

“Disgruntled taxpayer Dean Hicks fired bombs through mortars at night at buildings of the Internal Revenue Service in California. Hicks did damage federal property, but no individuals were injured… Hicks was sentenced to 20 years in prison, given a $45,000 fine, and ordered to pay $335,000 in restitution to the IRS. If he had been a serial murderer, he would not have gotten this sort of sentence.”

“There is good news after the L.A. riots. Statewide, gun sales are up 45% over the same period last year. People have been purchasing a record number. If the cops are not going to take care of the problem, the people will.”

Source: The Ron Paul Political/Survival report, 1990-1994.

h/t - Pajamas Media

Check out this read over at The New Republic. I think james Krichick has hit the nail on the head calling Ron Paul “Angry White Man”. His article reveals much about the candidates past writings, and explains why certain groups are supporting him. it is a must read…

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca

More info on this over at HotAir, and more here (audio), and Pajamas Media has more, and of course to be fair, here is Ron Paul’s response however pathetic it may be…

Let’s look at some of the issues he responded to:

Fox News didn’t invite him to the last debate (boo freakin hoo). “maybe they’re scared of my policies…” Hey Ron maybe they’re afraid you would put everyone to sleep with you droning.. or how about this… maybe it’s because you are an “also ran” and not a legitimate contender. And as far as suing someone for fraud. Look in the mirror you big phony.

Jay: “You’re a republican…” Ron: “and they’re not…” OK I calling B.S. on that… Ron you are a libertarian… and when you lose the nomination, you will go back and be a libertarian again, if they will have you back! And as far as embarassment goes, i think you colleagues are embarassed for you, not because of you. ANd Ron while you’re being so candid… name the candidate that said we should be in Iraq for 100 years. Ron Paul you are a bold faced liar…

On Romney… flip flopping … really… you’re gonna go there Mr. “I support term limits”… really… you want to do that? “I say the same thing no matter what year it is or crowd it is” more lies Ron Paul…

“We raised 20 million dollars, and I say it really is we” No Ron… the money bombs were organized by libertairian or fringe left wing anti war zealots. If you want to take credit for taking their money, then take the credit for taking money from pimps, whores, and white supremecist groups.