Cheating, Patting us on the back and say 2nd Place is OK is NOT acceptable

[JohnnyWrath]

Are there any states at all where the public shows up to vote and paper ballots are hand counted in full view that same day? I think we would win then. So far, every single state has some screwed up process or system that allows those in charge to nominate whomever they want.

 

[Jae0]

Drama Queens have now replaced truthers as the most annoying RP supporters.

aint that the truth?

 

[aymn27]

This had nothing to do with RP. It had everything to do with Fred Thompson.

The GOP establishment in LA had picked the Thompson slate as the one they would all run on. Had he not dropped out, the finish in the caususes would have been Thompson-McCain-Paul instead of PLPF-McCain-Paul (pending provisional ballots, of course).

When it became obvious a few weeks back that Thompson might not make it to LA, the establishment came up with a fallback plan, the PLPF slate, because they figured people wouldn't want to vote for a guy who had dropped out.

Doing this also enabled them to reach out to a handful of other campaigns' delegates before the caucuses -- heck, they even included a token RP person according to one thread on this forum. That isn't cheating, it's just standard cooalition politics, the kind of stuff that goes on at every level of gov't every day.

This wasn't about Paul, this was just the LA GOP making sure no one took away "their" seat at the table.

While I whined against the LAGOP yesterday...I think you may have hit the nail on the head right here....however, I do think an anti-Paul factor was involved, though not the motivating force.

 

[aymn27]

Are there any states at all where the public shows up to vote and paper ballots are hand counted in full view that same day? I think we would win then. So far, every single state has some screwed up process or system that allows those in charge to nominate whomever they want.

Well...I kinda think that that's part of the caucus system. To take out those in power you have to have a mighty big contention of folks behind you.

 

[Sandra]

Many voters also considered the Pro Life slate as a "none of the above" vote since they didn't openly advocate a candidate. My great aunt voted pro life.