Nev. GOP recesses state convention, angering Paul supporters

RENO, Nev. — 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.

Comments

[exotic]

Go Ron Paul!!!!
Obama/Paul sounds great to me ...And put Hagel somewhere in the mix too!

[RedWolverine]

It is pathetic how people on the Left have no idea what Ron Paul stands for. Limited Government, Lower Taxes, No regulations, No entitlements. This is everything that you idiots are against.

[alireiner]

Okay ron pauliacs add to the things he wants the libertarian government to OUTLAW Abortion, he wants the libertarian government to restrict free speech, and is not to happy about not teaching god in schools.

[RoloTomassi]

He's also for ending the drug war, restoring the constitution, and ending the war in Iraq, which rightwing idiots like you are clearly against. IMO, you hold your nose and vote for the candidate who promotes the values dearest to you, and for liberals that doesn't require lockstep loyalty to nonsensical rightwing/neocon dogma.

Sure Paul represents things I wouldn't support, but since when do we get to tailor-make the candidates? Hell, if we could do that, we'd have a field of a few thousand every presidential race....

[BadCompany]

Yeah, beause Hagel *always* votes against the neocons!

[BadCompany]

Hagel:
Voted NO on redeploying non-essential US troops out of Iraq in 9 months. (Dec 2007)
Voted NO on redeploying US troops out of Iraq by March 2008. (Mar 2007)
Voted NO on redeploying troops out of Iraq by July 2007. (Jun 2006)
Voted NO on investigating contract awards in Iraq & Afghanistan. (Nov 2005)
Voted YES on authorizing use of military force against Iraq. (Oct 2002)

[huffnpuffn]

Passion matters. If only the GOP would embrace it rather than trying to bury it, they'd stand a chance in November. Look for more of these stories in the weeks and months to come.

[Taaj]

Paul or Obama,

Americans can't you see in 2008, we are more alike than different. We all want CHANGE. I'm voting democratic, but if I did not have someone like Obama speaking the truth about Washington, War and Waste; and Ron Paul was running I would have voted Republican.

[mikeydreslim]

Ha! I'm a democrat but Ron Paul is definitely not a bad idea. Its never going to happen so lets keep it clean for Obama!

[bob5701]

Obama Paul '08 ?

[dadw5boys]

individual freedom and fiscal responsibility???

REPUBLICANS DON'T WANT THAT!!!

HOW CAN YOU HAVE ENDENTURED SLAVES IF THEY HAVE FREEDOMS?????

[ImmanuelGoldstein]

Hey Rush was dreaming of riots at the Democratic convention.
How does he know there won't be any at the Republican convention?

[wm1066]

I do NOT want to see riots in St Paul, Fox news would only use it to catapult thier propaganda.
What I want to see is a boycott of the convention by republicans. What if nobody of import showed up!
What if the Excel arena was only half full. That would be quite the message.

[BadCompany]

Who's going to riot in Saint Paul?
The Paultards?
All 15 of them?

[SomeOtherDude]

BC, just how far up your own posterior is your head? There are more RP supporters out there than you think. They'd be the ones trying to make the "conservitive" party actually be conservitive instead of criminal.

[ImmanuelGoldstein]

How far indeed! The whole point of the freaking article was that the 'Paultards' were all over the place and shut down the state convention! I doubt those were all the 'Paultards' in the country. We'll see what happens as the other state conventions progress but is one helluva harbringer of what could happen. Just keep your head firmly planted in the sand BadCompany and you could be in for a whale of a surprise!

[BadCompany]

No, there aren't.
If there were, RuPaul would get a larger percentage of the GOP vote.
Are you arguing that his groupies go to conventions, but stay home on election day?

[mamacat]

Good for them. It would be so sweet to see some democracy returned to the Republican party, not to mention common sense and ethical behaviour. Take back the Republican party for the people!

[BadCompany]

Take th GOP to the trash can instead.

[mamacat]

I remember a time when the GOP was not so corrupt. They may go the way of the Whig party, or the Bull Moose party, but something will have to replace them, and it may be even worse.

[nighttimelady]

Repeat after me kiddos:

Presumptive nominee !! Let the class say it again:

Senator McInsane is ONLY the presumptive nominee.................

Go Ron Paul !!

Ron Paul would have been the nominee if he had the Obama machine working for him - AND if the MSM had chosen to give him more press.

[Pyrum]

Obama has the machine and the press working for him because he's CFR and has voted in favor of reauthorizating the Patriot Act and funding the Iraq war: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uud-fqelmaI No Obama for me: it's Ron Paul or no one. Thank you for pointing out John McCain is the "presumptive" nominee: we're working hard to get our delegates to the national convention. Go Ron Paul!

[politisophical]

ron paul/ obama supporter ARE THE BEST!!.... lets take this county back!... heck, lets take the republican party back

obamacans 08!!

[Pyrum]

Are there Paul/Obama supporters? I sure don't know of any. But hey, O.K., let's take the republican party back!

[estevancarlos]

I'm an Obama/Paul supporter. I've donated to both their campaigns and help set up an official Ron Paul organization at UCLA. We should understand that both the democratic and republican parties need reform.

[Pyrum]

Unfortunately, Obama is not about reform no matter how often he claims he's for "change": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKSfwfy0h8 I do admire your efforts to do something about both parties, though.

[RoloTomassi]

I'm not sure if the term can be applied as a label, but I currently consider myself to be a Obama supporter, while feeling very open to some of the progressive changes Ron Paul represents.

What is definitive and true is the feel of MOVEMENT; many are beyond ready to move away from the status quo of what the US government has become, and frankly, I would push the wave behind Ron Paul as easily as I would Obama, as I desire a real effort to challenge the established way of governing this nation, and the policies we project around the world.

CHANGE is the word; perhaps in 2012 or 2016 there will be enough of us to comprise the MAJORITY. Too many things MUST change in order for us and humanity at large to have a fighting chance against hunger, abject poverty, class warfare, government waste & corruption, unjust and unnecessary war, and the uncertainty of our energy and environment.

[tsog]

Ron Paul for Obama's Cabinet!! Secretary of Defense? Finance? What's it going to be?

[BadCompany]

Obama might lock him in a cabinet to protect us from this lunatic.
He won't be giving him a job.

[Pyrum]

Dream on. Even if he won the democratic nomination (he won't) Obama doesn't want Ron Paul in his cabinet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uud-fqelmaI

[politisophical]

the fact remains that obama HAS to have republicans in his cabinet, or else he will be criticized to no end... the list of anti war republican is short.. hagel and paul would look great in his cabinet because they wont agree with him on many issues and will give him a correct view of conservative policy... and not the "conservative" policy of bush

i am for universal health care and paul would be a great adviser when it comes to incorporating free market mechanisms.. most people dont realize that universal health care could save Americans money.. the japanese, the swiss, the germans, the british all pay less in health care than americans

[Pyrum]

How can free market mechanisms be incorporated into universal health care? That doesn't make any sense to me. I wouldn't mind seeing Ron Paul in a Obama cabinet position, but I still don't think it's going to happen.

[YeahDonkey]

RUSH TOLD US TO DO IT!!!! WE DON'T NEED NO WATER LET THE MUTHA FUCKA BURN!!!!!!!!

[aceholiday]

agreed

[colleen2]

"What's it going to be?"

Nothing even remotely connected to the welfare of women or women's reproductive issues.

[sheperdess]

They're OUR kind a people. Come over to Obama! Ron Paul is a decent man.

[Pyrum]

Yes, Ron Paul is a decent man. Barack Obama isn't a decent man, and Ron Paul doesn't advocate his supporters going over to Obama's side: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uud-fqelmaI

[Zeusthunderbolt]

If one counts the split conservative vote between huckabee and Romnee, add the Ron paul supporters, we have a large number of republicans, ready to jump ship or sit at home. Obama will win without racist low income, uneducated whites. I also do not see the over 50, post menopausal women going for McCain.

So Superdelegates, be confident that obama will win this election. Don't you let the Clinton people scare you. Remember, it is a pattern. And it is a trgedy that it is still selling: Caucauses do not matter, middle america does not matter, small states do not matter, young people do not matter, pople making more then 50000 do not matter, college educated professionals do not matter, AA do not matter and on and on it goes.

The current political spin is : What matters are working class Whites. If some of them do not like obama because of the color of his skin, or because they do not feel comfortable with him in a bar, or the fact that he eats salad,while they are ready to drop dead after a high fat meal, matters not.

Obama can win.

he deserves a chance to prove it. And I will wake up and listen to a great speech::::: They said it can never be done. They said it was not possible, and Thankyou america, today we have made the impossible possible. We have come to pass, and the change, that we seeked, us, has arrived.

Obama 08

[Pyrum]

Of course he can win. The only way a democrat won't win is if Ron Paul gets the republican nomination. Obama has even less chance of winnig the democratic nomination than Paul does of winning the republican one. Don't underestimate the power of the Clintons.

[granamica]

Beautiful.

[Vige]

Limbaugh "Dreams of" Riots

Oh Rush, careful of what you "Dream Of" could come back and bite you in your fat ass.

Got to love it.