Minnesota State Convention had the best possible outcome

[newyearsrevolution08]

liberty bump so keep it up

 

[PlzPeopleWakeUp]

nt

 

[JohnDevilman]

I'm very happy to have read this.

 

[speciallyblend]

sweet

Praise the Lord!

I'm so proud of everyone. SEE YA IN ST PAUL aka RON PAUL CITY, support OPERATION ST PAUL ASAP

 

[ninepointfive]

Good Job! Sounded much like Colorado, although the McCainites outnumbered us.

 

[Lucille]

I was seeing conversion after conversion and awakening after awakening. It was a beautiful thing. The party lost a lot of respect from a lot of people who were not Ron Paul supporters. Ron Paul and Ron Paul supporters gained much respect and many members during the convention. They just made taking the Minnesota Republican Party over 10 times easier because we now have a lot of old-timer’s backing as many of them truly seemed to admire what we did. We conducted ourselves in an excellent manner, followed all the rules, made valid thought provoking points, and showed the convention attendees that there is not ANY unity in the MN Republican Party at the moment and it is because the leadership is inept and is not interested in growing the MN Republican Party.

I'm not from MN, but I have been watching all of the the conventions closely. What you say here is what I've read on several MN (as well as other state's) political blogs. This gentleman here is not a Paul supporter, but he has been very supportive of your efforts nonetheless, and extremely critical of the establishment's treatment of such an enthusiastic and conservative group. (I post him again because he's updated since the convention, and I think it would be great if a few of Paul's MN supporters thanked him for his fair-minded analysis and common sense insights.)

Republican Disasters - "Get Over It?"
The Minnesota GOP is Hemorrhaging
Rochester - The Morning After!
Minnesota GOP - Delusional in Rochester?

Well done, MN! You do our candidate and the liberty movement proud. Thank you!

This is one of my favorite photos on Ron, and I think it says so much about that day. (I cannot get it to post, so here's the link! Props to the Star Tribune's photog! If someone can post the photo here on RPF, please do.)

 

[Paulitical Correctness]

I grin from ear to ear because real change is coming soon!

 

[Danke]

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[tomveil]

Any youtubes of his speech outside?

 

[humanic]

Glad to hear this... thank you for posting!

 

[mediahasyou]

In the morning just before he spoke, the rain stopped, the clouds parted, the sun came out, the temperature was perfect, the birds started chirping loudly, and it was an absolutely beautiful brisk Minnesota morning outside when he spoke.

Sounds like the mesiah coming.

 

[luaPnoR]

One person got on the microphone and stated that who ever came up with the establishment slate’s huge banners and must have been psychic because it almost completely matched the nominating committee’s final results and wanted an explanation of that having a high probability. The place roared. A majority of the crowd (the sheeple) did not understand the irony of them cheering for this, but yet they cheered like fools due to group-think. The leadership looked like fools.

That was my husband who said this!!! Here's his exact quote "I just wanted to commend the nominations committee on their successful prediction of 14 of 14 delegates on this slate (pointing to the MCDT banner on stage left) and 14 of 14 alternates on that slate (pointing to the banner on stage right)" as the creators of the MN Conservative Delegate Team slate and the Nominating Committee were purportedly separate entities. He also said something about unity meaning, "agree with us or get out!"

 

[wgadget]

I'm not from MN, but I have been watching all of the the conventions closely. What you say here is what I've read on several MN (as well as other state's) political blogs. This gentleman here is not a Paul supporter, but he has been very supportive of your efforts nonetheless, and extremely critical of the establishment's treatment of such an enthusiastic and conservative group. (I post him again because he's updated since the convention, and I think it would be great if a few of Paul's MN supporters thanked him for his fair-minded analysis and common sense insights.)


Well done, MN! You do our candidate and the liberty movement proud. Thank you!

This is one of my favorite photos on Ron, and I think it says so much about that day. (I cannot get it to post, so here's the link! Props to the Star Tribune's photog! If someone can post the photo here on RPF, please do.)

I LOVE this guy's blog:

"So what did we learn this weekend. First, that their are a lot of Republicans willing to act like lemmings and blindly follow their MN GOP leaders over the cliff of oblivion for a third disastrous election cycle. Second, the this state leadership can manipulate the rules to suit their power grab agenda without any checks or balance by the party faithful. Third, rules matter if you want to run for a national delegate spot, but only if you are in the opposition. Finally, the only people that matter are the elected officials, special interests and the big money folks that pony up the expensive signs and brochures.

Lets look at each one more closely. The party leadership screamed alarm because of a fraction of Republicans convention attendees, 25% according to statements to the Star Tribune by Chairman Ron Carey, supported Ron Paul. It seems that the Ron Paul people were trying to get some names on the ballet to run as national delegates. So what does this leadership do? Instead of sitting down and discussing how the problem could be settled, the party chair spent the last month and a half belittling "these people" as outsiders, unworthy, and unwanted. Now that is a perfect example of great leadership technique on how to unite the party when one of every four at the convention was one of "these people." To make sure that the rank and file stayed in line, red capped party storm troopers complete with ear pieces and two way radios roamed the halls and byways holding signs to tell the lemmings how to vote.

Second, this party leadership imposed draconian style rule changes to the State Constitution, all in the name of controlling "these people." The rules change was not so much an attempt to control the Ron Paul people as it was to signal the party faithful that if you step out of line like the two BPOU's that sent Senator Norm Coleman letters saying they could no longer support his reelection, you will be stripped of your elected BPOU positions.

Thirdly, the party in a premeditated action stacked the deck of the nominating committee to insure "these people " who applied for a national delegate position would not meet the requirements imposed. Leadership structured hard and fast rules that applied to "these people" but not to some of the highest ranking elected Minnesota politicians. What is more shameful, is that a majority of the convention goers, who are very good people, actually went along with this charade and voted down a proposals that would have done the right thing. It is amazing how fear and hate can motivate good people to do wrong things.

 

[wgadget]

More from this great blogger:

Selective rules are no rules! But what can we expect from a group that believes a tax is really a fee.

Finally, the grassroots be damned, only high ranking elected officials and their big buck backers are all that matters. It's all about the power baby! Follow the money folks. Just who is the "Minnesota Conservative Delegate Team" really? Certainly this new Edina based group are not "Conservatives," they are just using the word as a smokescreen. Some in this group belong to the most liberal wing of the Republican Party and are responsible for Edina turning "Blue." How did they afford enormous signs in the auditorium, mass mailings and a 30 page glossy brochure? Who picked up the bill? Not authorized by any campaign or candidate? Then why did Ben Golnik, John McCain's man in Minnesota take the microphone and say that the slate proposed by the Minnesota Conservative Delegate Team were approved by the McCain election committee? These items didn't come free. Someone in power felt incredibly threatened to pony up this kind of money. Who was it? What party rules were violated? What FEC rules were violated? I guarantee you that there are a lot more questions then answers.

The convention was an utter failure. This party came away more un-united then ever. Where are the young people with passion going to come from to do the grassroots work to win this election in November. Too many, including myself a national delegate, feel more disenfranchised then before the convention. Lord knows I'm no Ron Paul supporter. But I believe in honesty, fairness and civil treatment for all who don't attack me. That was not practiced by this parties leaders in Rochester!

Sadly, this pathetic party leadership is thumping themselves on their chest saying what a great victory they had in Rochester. With their delusional bunker "us against them" mentality, these idiots don't realize that they only won a fixed battle while they were losing the entire war.

Minnesota a purple state? Get real! In November the DFL is going to paint this state solid "blue."

Like the DFL blogs are saying, their secret weapon is - Ron Carey.

 

[wgadget]

And sadly, the story is repeated in many other states across this great nation.

The GOP Old Guard should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

 

[pepperpete1]

Maybe we can get the blogger to challenge the rule breakings and file a complaint with the FEC seeing that no one from our groups is willing to do so.

 

[liberteebell]

The convention was an utter failure. This party came away more un-united then ever. Where are the young people with passion going to come from to do the grassroots work to win this election in November. Too many, including myself a national delegate, feel more disenfranchised then before the convention. Lord knows I'm no Ron Paul supporter. But I believe in honesty, fairness and civil treatment for all who don't attack me. That was not practiced by this parties leaders in Rochester!

Isn't this great? The Establishment shoots itself in both feet.

 

[pinkmandy]

This is epic. They are destroying themselves. Even your avg person may be scared of us because of the media, but they know the outrageous stuff just can't be true (they have to realize that a 10 term Repub Congressman doesn't keep his position because he loves heroin!). Nobody likes finding out they have been lied to. It leads them to question what else they've been told that may be false. We should thank the GOP for helping us out. They are pushing their own supporters to seek out the truth and that's exactly what we need.