Re: Ron Paul won’t even get to speak at GOP National Convention

Ron Paul won't even get to speak at GOP National Convention
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that's ok ... you can still vote for him

On Jul 20, 2:53 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> More time to watch the Cartoon Channel now.
>
> **
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> <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>  Ron Paul won't
> even get to speak at GOP National
> Convention<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/ron-paul-wont-even-...>by
> Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>
>
> Some "big tent" the GOP turns out to be.
>
> In the 2012 GOP presidential primary
> election<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2012_Republican_Party_pre...>s,
> after Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and Newt
> Gingrich all dropped out of the race, Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) was
> the last candidate that remained to compete against Mitt Romney.
>
> Finally, on May 14, 2012, Paul also quit, but announced that his campaign
> would switch to a delegate accumulation strategy. On May 29, according to
> projected counts, Mitt Romney crossed the threshold of 1,144 delegates
> needed to secure the party's nomination.
>
> Nevertheless, Paul did win 3 states, 10.9% of or 2,049,410 popular votes,
> and 166 delegates. He is also the Republican candidate that has received
> the most campaign donations and support from actively-serving members of
> the U.S. military. Ron Paul has also consistently pushed for auditing the
> Federal Reserve.
>
> Despite that, Paul won't be speaking at the upcoming GOP National
> Convention in Tampa, Florida.
>
> <http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/big-tent.jpg>
>
> Anugrah Kumar reports
> for<http://www.christianpost.com/news/ron-paul-fails-to-clinch-speaking-s...>Christian
> Post, July 16, 2012, that according to Republican National
> Committee rules, a candidate must have a plurality of delegates in five
> states to be officially eligible for the nomination at the national
> convention and be granted up to 15 minutes for a nominating speech.
>
> Paul was hoping that the Nebraska convention would give him a plurality of
> delegates along with delegates from Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, and Minnesota.
> But Paul lost it all, results on Saturday showed. *Now, it's up to Romney
> and convention organizers to decide whether to include Paul in the
> proceedings in late August.*
>
> However, Paul's insurgent spirit remains strong. His campaign is planning
> on bringing as many as 500 supportive delegates to Tampa to make his
> presence known. Paul is planning a rally in Tampa around the convention,
> and his supporters have organized Ron Paul Festival, an independent event
> that will include live music, according to ABC News.
>
> Paul had said his delegate count gave him "a tremendous position to grow
> our movement and shape the future of the GOP." He believes in a
> non-interventionist foreign policy and decriminalizing drugs, and says
> government should not have a role in some of the conservative social causes.
>
> Paul is also asking Romney not to select former Secretary of State
> Condoleezza Rice amid rumors that she could be his running mate. "I don't
> dictate anything to anybody, but they wouldn't be very happy with her,"
> Paul said in an interview with the Fox Business Network. "She represents a
> foreign policy quite different than what energizes college campuses today."
>
> *~Eowyn*
>  *Dr. Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* | July
> 20, 2012 at 3:30 am | Tags: Condoleezza
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