Vernon Robinson Brings Ron Paul to Duke Friday! Damn!

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders abruptly shut down their state convention and now must resume the event to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention.

Outnumbered supporters of expected Republican presidential nominee John McCain faced off Saturday against well-organized Paul supporters. A large share of the more than 1,300 state convention delegates enabled Paul supporters to get a rule change positioning them for more national convention delegate slots than expected.

"I've seen factions walk out. I've never seen a party walk out," said Jeff Greenspan, regional coordinator for the Paul campaign.

Delegates cheered earlier in the day as former presidential hopeful Mitt Romney urged support for McCain. Later, though, Paul got even louder applause as he delivered his message of individual freedom and fiscal responsibility.

State Sen. Bob Beers, the convention chairman, was booed loudly as he called for a recess Saturday evening. He said that 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.

State GOP Chairwoman Sue Lowden said the rules change wasn't anticipated. She denied any anti-Paul bias, saying expected slates of national delegates were prepared through a fair and open process by the convention's nominations committee and the party thought the convention would accept them.

href="http://www.progressivedemocratsnc.org/blog">Progressive Democrats of North Carolina

Hello all, I have just been informed of an exciting opportunity for all of you Ron Paul Revolutionaries. Dr. Paul has endorsed Dr. B.J. Lawson, a Republican Candidate for U.S. Congress in North Carolina District 4, writing: "I am pleased to endorse BJ Lawson for the Republican Nomination for US Congress in the 4th District of North Carolina. BJ impresses me as somebody who has a wide array of knowledge on the issues that face our country. As a physician, he knows full well the details of health care policy and as somebody dedicated to limited constitutional government, he is exactly the kind of person I hope to see join me in Congress next year." Before the rally on Friday, Dr. Paul will be hosting a private fundraising lunch for B.J.'s campaign. Due to the hectic nature of campaign, which both B.J. and Dr. Paul have faced this year, the event will be a low-key, exclusive, and intimate event, with only 15 slots available. (As of this email, one has been taken.) With a $2,000 donation to B.J.'s campaign, you will be able to reserve one of these slots an have lunch with both Dr. Paul and Dr. Lawson, who has been called "Ron Paul, Jr." by his primary opponent. It is a steep price to pay, I know, but considering this exciting opportunity to have a private lunch and conversation with the primary advocate of liberty in American politics, this is price that is fully worth it and will go to getting Dr. Paul some help in Congress. To reserve a slot, donate at this link: https://www.lawsonforcongress.com/donate/ In the "referral/event information," enter "RPLunch" as the Project Code. If you are unable to make the lunch, please send a donation of whatever amount you wish. The campaign ran an internal poll over the weekend, and we are currently ahead of our primary opponent. However, we found a very large number of undecideds, so there is little room for comfort. The campaign has a media blitz planned for the days before the primary, and they need to raise $30,000 by Friday. Every little bit helps. If everyone RSVPed to come to the UNC rally gave just $25 dollars, then the necessary amount would be met. Please inform all of your guests about the possibility to eat lunch with Ron Paul, about B.J.'s campaign, and about the fundraising drive for this last push before Primary Day on May 6. Paige Michael-ShetleyChairman, UNC Students for Ron Paul

RuPaul and Ron Paul, a perfect match

"jump in where you can and hang on"
Briscoe Darling to Sheriff Andy

That really helps a lot.

Just curious... how did you get access to them? I assume you won't be coming to the event.

And Vernon, as far as I can tell, hasn't had much role in Ron coming here. I haven't spoken to him at all, and I have yet to see him CCed on an email.

My next door neighbor and I attended the Paul event at UNC. About 1600 Ron Paul fans show up. Most were lower middle young families with their children which shows the appeal the Paul campaign reach in this state. In fact, you could consider them blue collar democrats from the old days. The speaking system was terrible at the start and my neighbor and I almost left thinking this was a Mexican political race from the sputting and cutting out and loud noise from the Arena speakers. Finally, some idiot fiqure out that the Speakers had a balance button for left to right and finally turn the speakers toward the crowd. I believe the young man who started the show was Paige, the dude who visits here to promote Paul and BJ. I have no idea what he said and neither did the crowd for 15 minutes telling him they couldn't understand what the f### he was saying. [reminded me of that scene in Airplane where nobody could get their name right with the noise in the cockpit] After much hollering at him and some moving around, he presented a dude name Eric Smith who is running for State School Super as a republican. Frankly Mr Smith makes John McCain a normal sane human being after listening to Mr Smith. Mr Smith no doubt is a escape lunatic who should be shot on sight or wrap in a hundred year straight jacket from Iraq and waterboard for good luck.

BJ was next and did a nice little speech on free markets and why he would stomp the democrat [ Congressman Price] in the fall. I like BJ, but he is a lost little boy in a big pond. His competitor [ the republican] is a craze fundentalist Korea preacher who makes Eric Smith a normal sane human being like McCain.

BJ than presented Ron Paul who gave his standard campaign speech with much cheering from the fans. Somehow this campaign reminds me of the Children Crusade during the early middle ages. Other than that, it was nice and my neighbor said that he like it, but somebody should tell them it is over. By the way, I informed Mr Smith as I was leaving that I would straight out his crooked neck and head by ripping it off and heal it with natural born spring water from my body should he ever call my wife looney like the Republicans did the next time. Mr Smith than headed to the restrooms to change his shorts after this brief encounter payback at a political rally.

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Republican Ron Paul predicts a President Obama come January

Rep. Ron Paul, the House member from Texas who technically remains in the race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination against Sen. John McCain, predicts that Democratic Sen. Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States.

According to the campus newspaper of Maryland's Goucher College, the 72-year-old Paul made the surprising statement during campaign remarks Thursday at a school presidential forum.

The newspaper report said the auditorium was overflowing with students and parents, who interrupted the congressman with applause nearly two dozen times during his speech.

Paul was very successful in political fundraising during the past year, amassing more than $34 million, more than twice the amount collected by more prominent candidates such as ex-Gov. Mike Huckabee.

But Paul, whose views often run counter to standard Republican policies, had very disapppointing showings in party primary elections, with a couple of second-place caucus results but mainly third-, fourth- and fifth-place finishes in primaries. At one point in New Hampshire,...

...Fox News even excluded him from a nationally-televised GOP debate as politically irrelevant.

Paul has absolutely no chance of turning his handful of delegates into an upset over McCain, who already has sufficient votes to capture the nomination in Minneapolis-St. Paul come September. But he may hope to disrupt the candidate's coronation with platform or floor fights.

But despite the adverse numbers and his professed belief that a Democrat is destined to win on Nov. 4, Paul has continued to campaign sporadically, often on college campuses where he receives large crowds and enthusiastic responses to his message of drastically smaller government and an end to foreign military involvement.

His dedicated followers have scored some recent successes at county GOP conventions that his partisans hope will boost the number of delegates pledged to Paul at the national convention.

Paul, a former ob-gyn who is unopposed for his 11th House term in November, was the lone Republican presidential candidate to oppose the Iraq war and, as a result, refuses to endorse McCain, a strong proponent of finishing that job without a precipitous withdrawal.

As reported in The Ticket, Paul is also traveling to promote his new book, which was released this week and, propelled by the eager purchases of his dedicated followers, immediately soared to No. 1 on the Amazon.com bestseller list.

According to the Goucher paper, The Quindecim, besides his unexpected Obama prediction, in his nearly 40 minutes of remarks Paul touched on his standard strict constitutionalist positions, advocating much less federal involvement in citizens' lives. Many of the students were apparently more curious than they were devoted Paulunteers.

"I told my mom I was coming to see him," said Lindsey Rich, a senior international relations major, "and she was like 'Oh my God, that's the lunatic fringe!' "

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May 05, 2008

Log Cabin Republicans Endorse BJ Lawson in 4th District GOP Congressional Race

In the race to see who gets the opportunity to take on Congressman David Price (D-NC, 4th), BJ Lawson has received an endorsement from the Log Cabin Republicans. Log Cabin Republicans are a group of gay Republicans that believe President Lincoln was homosexual. Their politics vary from the very conservative to the liberal, based on individual beliefs.

Your blogger was copied on the mean-spirited e-mail to Augustus Cho, below:

From: Log Cabin Republicans of North Carolina

Dear Augustus Cho:

Did you forget something?

Details? Details?

Hate to break it to you, but that is what Washington is all about.

While you were confusing having unquestioned patriotic hubris with true loyalty while downing martinis at a Seoul Korea bar in one of your recent blog postings, the Log Cabin Republicans of North Carolina were reading B. J. Lawson's thoughtful writings.

Though some of us at Log Cabin Republicans of N.C. like you have been in bars in our time, we certainly don't condone this type of behavior.

So, we're voting for LAWSON.

JOIN US AT:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCRNorthCarolina/

EDITOR'S NOTE: Your blogger is not involved in this contest, nor any congressional race. KCC thinks there is a hint of racism here, referring to South Korean bars and ugliness by implying that Cho is a heavy drinker. We didn't think a group of gay Republicans, who have their own battles to fight for acceptance, would stoop so low.

We do understand why they would endorse BJ over Augustus. As a closeted Libertarian, who has been a registered Republican all his adult life, BJ probably has a more "live and let live" approach to gay issues. However, your blogger has warned in the past that followers of former Presidential candidate, Ron Paul, are trying to take over the GOP.

Paul, who once ran for President as a Libertarian, leads a huge movement. Known by their detractors as "RonTards", they are trying to take over the Republican party at every level in an attempt to force Ron Paul's candidacy onto the floor at the National Republican Convention in July.

Conservatives have been lucky that these Ron Paul followers have not been educated in the mechanics of party politics at any level and they have found it difficult to earn delegate spots for the national GOP convention.

These slots were up for grabs at the recent district conventions that were held across NC and the US. This, most certainly, will not be the case in the next national election cycle.

KCC is saddened by this attempt by Libertarians to take over our once Grand Old Party. These people had their own party. It failed, and now they are out to ruin the Republican Party, too. Do us all a favor, and hook up with the Democrats first.

Progressive Democrats of North Carolina