first tier primate has no idea that the demo convention is going to be explosive!
Oh, and it's a state convention- not the national one.
sniffa (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-27-08 01:30 PM
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Amid boos, GOP convention recessed
Advertisements [?]Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders shut down their weekend state convention and now must resume the event, probably in Las Vegas, to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention to be held in September in St. Paul, Minn.
State Sen. Bob Beers, R-Las Vegas, the convention chairman, was booed loudly as he called for a recess Saturday evening, saying the party's rental contract for a big meeting room at a Reno hotel-casino had expired and there was too much work left to complete.
The abrupt shutdown ended a long day that pitted outnumbered supporters of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain against well-organized Paul supporters _ whose large share of the more than 1,300 state convention delegates enabled them to get a rule change positioning them for more national convention delegate slots than expected.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/apr/27/amid-boos-g... /
Ha ha!
ronpaulbots. Ugh. they are more democratics that rupublicans.
lisa58 (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-27-08 01:35 PM
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1. so it's not just us
they are you, you idiot.
GoneOffShore (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-27-08 01:40 PM
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2. But the schaudenfreude tastes better when they do it.
Personally, I like my Schaudenfreude with a nice light Riesling and a thick slab of foie gras.
I prefer mine bent over and lightly oiled.
chimpsrsmarter (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-27-08 01:40 PM
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4. that is a good read and those Paul supporters are hard core. Paul is a nut but....
the gop is shutting down their own who wont blindly follow them.
coming from the hive this is just funny!
JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-27-08 01:47 PM
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5. The Obama/Hillary fight is nothing compared to this.
The press is not covering what the Paul/McCain split is doing to the Republican Party. It will be much easier to heal the Hillary/Obama split than to heal the Paul/McCain split, and the Paul/McCain split will grow stronger over the next four years regardless of who is in the White House. Hillary and Obama agree on the basic issues, but Paul and McCain do not. The Republican Party views the Paul supporters as outsiders, as crazies, but their philosophy is the logical conclusion of ultra-conservatism applied to the Constitution. This is the story the press is missing. It think the press is intentionally "missing" because it is just so fraught with danger for the current powers that be.
Ronpaul, maybe 5% of the vote. McCain, 48%. Yup, same as Clinton/Obama
cbayer (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-27-08 02:06 PM
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8. You are so right.
We have two candidates with almost identical platforms duking it out over style. We won't have any difficulty coalescing around our candidate.
The republicans, on the other hand, have a major problem on their hands.
We got the ronbots, who are ****ing loons that even the hive recognizes, who will try their hardest to pry away a part of the [R] vote. You've got the Clintons who are successfully destroying the democratic party one day at a time.
