Holy Crap! Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
I am sorry to be so vehement about this. I know that there is and has been a lot of confusion and honest controversy about campaign strategies on this and various websites. Some people have been making a lot of unsupported claims about the numbers of "Ron Paul" delegates (stealthy or otherwise). The numbers of committed delegates, how long they are committed, under which circumstances they are committed, when they can vote for their "real" preference, and even how and when the national delegates (the only ones that really count) are selected seems to vary depending on who you talk to and which state you are in. For example, I am a delegate to my county convention in Iowa. I will have to be selected as a delegate to the state convention and after I get there, be selected to go to the national convention before I would even have a chance to vote for Ron Paul.
1) We KNOW that we want as many people as possible to hear Ron Paul's message.
2) We KNOW that it would help our credibility, (and possibly our delegate count) to have higher percentages of the popular vote is in as many primaries as possible.
Too many people claim to understand this process without having any credentials or authorization from the Ron Paul organization. Frustrated by the low numbers in popular vote counts, too many people are giving up on tried and true strategies like taking our message to the voters and then getting our supporters to the polls. I know that we have not gotten the best direction from HQ in the past, however...
Before anybody advocates a strategy as risky and non-intuitive as voting for one of our opponents, I think we should get a green light from Ron Paul himself!
