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"It may be too late to stop Ron Paul’s strategy"

Childlike Empress

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I thought Ron Paul was just stubborn to not officially resign from his candidacy, but it turns out he actually has a strategy:

Washington Post said:
[...] The idea behind Paul’s “delegate strategy” is to exploit the difference between what the GOP nominating process looks like and what it really is. What it looks like is a rolling series of miniature election days, with attack ads, flag-waving rallies and statewide votes.

It really is an eye-glazing, posterior-numbing series of meetings.

These usually happen after the votes: Local conventions elect delegates to state conventions. State conventions elect delegates to the national convention. Then, in Tampa in August, national delegates will cast the votes that choose the nominee.

In nine states, the first step determines the later ones: All delegates are “bound” to vote for whomever the voters chose. But in the other states, delegates are split between candidates. Or they are allowed to ignore the voters and choose for themselves.

For Paul, that means a battle lost at the polls can be refought in a hotel ballroom. [...]
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Politico goes into more details: A Ron Paul Revolution is brewing

Politico said:
[...] if for some reason Romney doesn’t get 1,144 delegate votes at the national convention — or 50 percent — another round of balloting is held and all of the delegates are free to vote for whoever they please. [...]

RNC rules clearly say a delegate can abstain from the vote. Wouldn’t that set Paul loyalists free from voting for Romney? Well, probably not. In practice, when a majority of delegates decide they are going to abstain from the nominating vote, that state’s delegation is skipped over in the roll call.

Putnam said the rules aren’t clear what happens after all of the states vote and the skipped states get a second shot at it. If they abstain again, it could create an endless “feedback loop where the convention gets stuck.” [...]
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His supporters seem to be confident that if they continue with their grass-roots successes in the upcoming big states conventions, they have a realistic chance to "beat the system" through the back-door and nominate Paul.

According to their "real" delegate count, right now it stands 342 Romney : 109 Paul

Bizarre.
 
Childlike Empress said:
I thought Ron Paul was just stubborn to not officially resign from his candidacy, but it turns out he actually has a strategy:




Politico goes into more details: A Ron Paul Revolution is brewing




His supporters seem to be confident that if they continue with their grass-roots successes in the upcoming big states conventions, they have a realistic chance to "beat the system" through the back-door and nominate Paul.

According to their "real" delegate count, right now it stands 342 Romney : 109 Paul

Bizarre.
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I don't think there's a more optimistic group in the world than Ron Paul supporters, however misguided their optimism is.
 
Didn't he throw in with Romney already? I assumed he just wanted to be a prime-time speaker on one of the earlier evenings.
 
Honestly, I want a Ron Paul nomination. It would make for one hell of a Republican National Convention. The party faithful would be rioting on the streets of Tampa.
 
Beerina said:
Didn't he throw in with Romney already? I assumed he just wanted to be a prime-time speaker on one of the earlier evenings.
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Oh no, Ron Paul never gives up. That would stop the flow of campaign donations he doesn't spend on campaigning.
 
Once RP finally concedes, I wonder who he'll endorse.

He might endorse Romney. Or maybe Gary Johnson, the LP candidate. Or maybe he'll endorse neither, like in 2008 when he endorsed Constitution Party candidate Pastor Chuck Baldwin, the Christian separatist who's nuttier than an almond orchard.
 
Isn't basically Ron Paul's presidential campaign a poorly disguised personal fund raiser?
 
Ron Paul's strategy at this point can, at best, get his platform heard on the floor of the convention (which would be a huge image problem for the GOP) shortly before being crushed by Romney's delegates.
 
varwoche said:
Once RP finally concedes, I wonder who he'll endorse.
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I doubt he's going to endorse anyone, or concede for that matter. He'll probably just continue to go around giving speeches to the faithful as long as he can keep raising the money. Eventually he'll fall off the radar totally.

"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away..."
 
varwoche said:
Once RP finally concedes, I wonder who he'll endorse.
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A. Shicklegruber. :p

A Laughing Baby said:
Ron Paul's strategy at this point can, at best, get his platform heard on the floor of the convention (which would be a huge image problem for the GOP) shortly before being crushed by Romney's delegates.
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Not likely. It's well known within and without the GOP that Ron Paul is the crazy uncle of the republican party. He shows up at family reunions and sits alone but otherwise is a non-entity.
 
varwoche said:
Once RP finally concedes, I wonder who he'll endorse.

He might endorse Romney. Or maybe Gary Johnson, the LP candidate. Or maybe he'll endorse neither, like in 2008 when he endorsed Constitution Party candidate Pastor Chuck Baldwin, the Christian separatist who's nuttier than an almond orchard.
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Is there a law that actually enforces endorsements after you drop out of the presidential race?
Because if not, there will be no endorsement for Romney from Paul. Simple as that.
 
In the eyes of Ron Paul supporters, an endorsement of Romney would be like the shock socialists felt when Stalin signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
 
I think that Ron Paul's goal is to get enough delegates so that the party will be forced to give him a prime time spot at the convention. I may have to tune in for that speech.

I don't know whether or not he'd endorse Romney. If he did, I can't see that many of his supporters would take it to heart.
 
Sword_Of_Truth said:
Not likely. It's well known within and without the GOP that Ron Paul is the crazy uncle of the republican party. He shows up at family reunions and sits alone but otherwise is a non-entity.
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The image problem would come out of losing the veneer of unity, not out of his platform itself.
 
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