It Was Ours For The Taking

[jointhefightforfreedom]

Well , We dominated our precinct 4 out of 4 delegates for Ron paul!
unanomously!

 

[c0unterph0bia]

Bump

 

[Banana]

Um. The State convention isn't until June.

However, if Charlotte can't get their crap together, the rest of us have no chance in NC. There are three of us in Stanly County. Three. All three of us are going to the district convention next month.

Maybe alert the meetups to his story? This should give them the kick in ass.

 

[AlbemarleNC0003]

Maybe alert the meetups to his story? This should give them the kick in ass.

Mecklenburg county was this past weekend. There were some precincts that did okay I think. Stanly county held both precinct and county convention on the same day. Everyone that showed up became a delegate for our district convention later this month. Those chosen will move on to the state convention in June. Our primary isn't until May 6.

 

[RonPaulVolunteer]

Befriend the delegates!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!

 

[Banana]

Befriend the delegates!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!

Great idea- invite them for a beer. Be courteous and start off with weather or sports or whatever then find out what is most important to them and show them that Paul actually would do whatever issue they really want to see.

And don't forgot someone's suggestion- If Paul can't win, a vote for Paul is a vote against McCain and thus sends a message to McCain that his nomination shouldn't be taken for granted. Nobody can argue against that, especially if the delegate isn't very happy with McCain.

(I've yet to met a happy McCain supporter...)

 

[BigRedBrent]

WE MUST FIGHT HARDER NOW THEN EVER BEFORE. They will not expect this and we could actually turn the tables. Since they think it is not likely, they will be caught off guard, but since it is still possible then nothing short of everything we got is acceptable.

If we could have won if we had only done as much as we can do, then we will have no one but ourselves to blame if we lose. What we need to endure to win will be nothing compared to what we will endure if we lose.

 

[SWATH]

Yes I think the new strategy for getting votes is to say the following:

"Since McCain has the nomination locked up/is the nominee, voting for him is a wasted vote. So vote for Ron Paul to send a message to the Republican party that we want more conservative candidates and the party to shift to the right and not the left"

 

[nate895]

Yes I think the new strategy for getting votes is to say the following:

"Since McCain has the nomination locked up/is the nominee, voting for him is a wasted vote. So vote for Ron Paul to send a message to the Republican party that we want more conservative candidates and the party to shift to the right and not the left"

Irony is filling the campaign today.

 

[american.swan]

Quote and I would like to say exactly why Ron Paul won't win the nomination.

We attended our county convention which revealed the truth of this election. That truth is so simple it makes one cry. It was pointed out to us by a member of our meet up who is familiar with the process and has been a republican for many years.

There ended up being many more slots for county delegates than there were people who attended. This means that all who attended and those who filed absentee forms were all made delegates as a simple matter of procedure.

We voted to recommend 2 delegates to the national convention. Our people lost.

Of the 157 members in our meet up, only 40 showed up, plus a few probable absentee applications. 30 of them were not registered to vote. 40 of them were registered Dem or Indy. (These are round numbers)

Had all of them been registered R and showed up, we would have completely dominated our convention. Our 2 people would be headed to national and we would have more than a 2/3 majority.

Had every precinct done the same, then at the state convention, all delegates chosen to the national convention would be RP delegates. We would also have a 2/3 majority of delegates in our state.

This means that any one of them could stand up and motion to change the rule so that all delegates be unbound in the first round of the national convention. No one would be able to stop that motion from being adopted, nor could anyone motion for in any other way to negate this rule change.

If every county did the same thing, we would hold the majority at national and enough states, one by one, would stand and declare RP the nominee. There would have been nothing anyone could do about it.

Yes, it would have been that easy.

A few people who knew this have been screaming it from the rooftops for months. Grassroots did not listen. We didn't organize to take the election this way, which would have required no money, no rallies, door to door, no phone calls, no national ads and no HQ.

There is still a chance for us to sway the votes of enough people to vote for our people at the state convention next month, but it will be an uphill battle. Rest assured that I have already begun to do just that, but the sad reality is that our own people didn't register R and s-h-o-w u-p. which is all it would have taken.

113 people in our district is all that was needed. 157 in our meet up alone would have done the job with room to spare. We have 40, and we can't change that now.

To all the whiners against the campaign, the ads, the money and whatever the hell else you have been whining about for the past months, read it and weep. It would have been that easy.

I now wonder how many of our group chose not to show up Saturday because so many 'supporters' told them not to waste their time because 'it's over, we lost, stay home'.

F-U-C-K.

Bosso

 

[nate895]

I must say that if we are one delegate short, I will make a trip to North Carolina.

 

[Banana]

Quote and I would like to say exactly why Ron Paul won't win the nomination.

Relax, it's not end of the world. There's still more victories to be won. Everyone should consider this a wake up call and break clean from the groove in their couch.

Besides, someone already suggesting befriending the delegates, and there's a chance that they still can take the state convention, but that's all up to each and every of us to show up.



Hmm, this probably should get circulated in the meetups all over- to make it clear that it's OUR to lose.

 

[Penners]

Just for the record... quite a few of the people who signed up as precinct leaders on RP site were also not registered as Republicans... some not registered to vote at all.

 

[kimo]

I don`t get it.
Everybody are yielding how f**k up everything is.. we need more effort. blah blah blah.
..or I keep reading "reasons" why somebody casted their vote to McCain..
Now I know why things goes as they do.

 

[LibertyIn08]

Just for the record... quite a few of the people who signed up as precinct leaders on RP site were also not registered as Republicans... some not registered to vote at all.

I'm not old enough to vote. Didn't have a choice on that one. However, I did my best to canvass and get out the message.

 

[Matthew P.]

You're so right - it would have been that easy. All it would have taken was a little effort with the meet-up groups.

Hindsight is 20/20, but I'm afraid this hindsight is going to cost. I'm not saying it's over, because nothing is over yet, but it is indeed a battle!

 

[Matthew P.]

I don`t get it.
Everybody are yielding how f**k up everything is.. we need more effort. blah blah blah.
..or I keep reading "reasons" why somebody casted their vote to McCain..
Now I know why things goes as they do.

It gets worse than that - I talked with one guy who said that he like Ron Paul's message but didn't think he would win so he decided to vote for Hillary - not because he agreed with her policies but because he had never voted for a woman president before and thought it would be fun. "Plus," he said, "primary votes don't really count anyway. I won't vote for her in November." What a crock!

 

[Cowlesy]

bump for grassroots educational thread