Which decreases the likelihood of Ron Paul getting the delegates he needs to win the nomination or to prevent Romney from getting the delegates he needs to win the nomination more?
1) Getting fewer delegates than Mitt Romney?
or
2) Talking about the ramifications of getting fewer delegates than Mitt Romney?
Apparently when 1) happens, we either ignore it, or try to spin it into a victory.
You know, in every single state, every one, we have to get (on average) more delegates than Mitt Romney.
There were A LOT of Conventions this weekend. I can't even tell you in how states they were either picking delegates or having a convention.
One of the 5? 6? 7? was Minnesota.
We kicked ass there, a near sweep, hooray!
And in Michigan, we got some delegates. Hooray. Not half, so, in the real world, where moral victories are a little less important, we actually fell behind the curve, we didn't catch up in Michigan, we actually fell behind, but, sure, yes, it's Romneys home state, wow, great we got some delegates there.
Virginia voted on 9 delegates, we got either 2 or 5. They're not done, it's great to win delegates, but I think that these are "bound" delegates.
But what about Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina?
Lots of delegates there that we aren't getting. 3 states worth. Compared to 1 Minnesota.
So what is worse, this happening, or you being told that this is happening?
Our top campaign people were really just telling you what was going on. The campaign moneybomb is at $793K right now, not great like last fall, but it seems better than the last one, at least comparable. So, when the campaign tells us bad news that most of us knew already, it doesn't stop the money from coming in. We just don't have 10 Million dollars to spend for TV in primary races. So the campaign announced it wasn't going to do that any more. The msm wanted to pretend this meant that Ron Paul was dropping out. And Romney wanted to pretend the same thing.
For a victory in August, we pretty much need a series of black swan events. Having these delegates will be helpful if this series of black swan events takes place.
But having delegates won't get us the victory without these black swan events.
These black swan events probably won't happen. But I'm still going forward anyway. Going through this process leads to positive benefits unrelated to Ron Paul getting the Republican Nomination. In Maine, we have control or near control of the Maine State Committee, we should be able to get a Ron Paul chairman in there, they'll probably wait until after November to replace Webster. Ron Paul supporters have these positions because Ron Paul ran for President. The laws in Maine should be better in the future because a Ron Paul Maine GOP Chairman and a Ron Paul Maine GOP State Committee will find Liberty candidates for state senate and state rep, and the money will go to getting these Liberty candidate elected. And when we get the Liberty candidates elected, LePage will have better laws to sign.
And the black swan events could occur.
So, real ancillary benefits take place by pushing forward at the state conventions, and there's a possibility of the necessary black swan events.
all i am saying is the ron paul campaign did the demotivation not us. They could of kept their mouths shut and we wouldn't be at this point and everyone would still be fighting. The rphq brought this whole situation on themselves and that is the fact. do not complain to me i did my job AND WILL CONTINUE!! COMPLAIN TO THE CAMPAIGN FOR OPENING THIS CAN OF WORMS IT IS ALL ON THE CAMPAIGN, but if it makes you feel better blame me. sorry i disagree they are not protecting crap, more like selling out. We followed rules,the gop establishment did not and the rphq threw the state campaigns aka grassroots under the bus no other way to say it. the whole dropping out part was started by benton and crew not the media. maybe you should research posts on when this shit happened it came from the rphq not media. media was blacking out and doing fine. It was the rphq that stopped the blackout by opening their big fat mouths . they should shut the fuck up but damage has already been done not by media but by benton,tate,wead and the rphq.
. Although, in all fairness, you left me this neg rep first:
