***Official Tuesday Live Convention Thread***

[amberjack]

Nevada Rules.. don't know if someone else posted yet but:

 

[TheGrinch]

Given the contortions people went through to explain his premature betr....er, endorsement, I'm inclined to agree.

Oh stop, do not let scumbag Newt Gingrich convince us to eat our own.

Can you name one person here who's been convinced to vote for Romney after all of this? Because the only ones of us who are even aware of the endorsement are the same ones who weren't ever going to vote for Romney regardless, and definitely not after how he cheated Ron and us every step of the way.

The casual Ron Paul voter doesn't even know or care about an endorsement on Hannity, so methinks you're hyperbolizing quite a bit to say that some token endorsement is going to change any minds.

 

[Mini-Me]

I'm 90% sure Gingrich is delusional on this, even if it's true that Rand is going to try. There is nothing Rand or anyone could say that would get me to vote for Romney.

I think it's a serious misjudgment for anyone to think Rand is going to try in earnest. Gingrich doesn't even believe that, but his words were intended to set expectations, such that Republicans can feel betrayed by Rand if he doesn't live up to them. I don't believe Rand actually wants to sway people to vote for Romney though...that's kind of silly. He's just already made a strategic decision to make his token support plausible, so Fox News can't go out of their way to ream him about it in front of a Republican audience four years from now. A lot of people don't like that, and I'm not a fan of it either, but it's still different from what it's made out to be.

 

[Bruno]

Omg! Santorum and the grandfather coal miner story!!!

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Malkin Tweet

Michelle Malkin ‏@michellemalkin RT @robport ND delegate just texted me saying they were instructed to chant "USA" to drown out dissent. #RNCpowergrab


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[wgadget]

LOL

How NEOCON of them.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Santorum just said something like: If someone can just change the rules/laws with the stroke of a pen, then we are no longer a republic.

WOW! - the hypocrisy is getting so thick you could drown in it.

-t

 

[smithtg]

one more time for old times sake FROTHY FROTHY FROTHY!!!

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Ted Cruz speaking now. Started out by saying this is the new movement of liberty.

 

[thehungarian]

I hate applause lines.

 

[thehungarian]

Fitting that the only two faces you can see on Mt. Rushmore on the giant back-screen are Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, two constitutional monstrosities.

 

[fr33]

For those of you in TX that wants a REAL LIBERTY CANDIDATE instead of Cruz, We have one!!!! http://johnjaymyers.com/

 

[MarcusI]

I missed everything... Got home and got online and turned on the TV and heard Romney "won" the nomination.

Can anybody confirm, is it true Ron Paul was officially on the ballot? AND, if so, DID HE GET A 15 MINUTE SPEECH??????

No, he wasn't on the ballot (5 states and 1 territory were nominating him, but they changed the rule to 8 states, which was very shameful) and he didn't get a speech.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Gotta hand it to Cruz, he gave a good speech.

 

[smithtg]

GOP brings out black guy imagine that

 

[MarcusI]

GOP brings out black guy imagine that

A black former DEM.. how nice. His speech was totally banal.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Nikki Haley up now.

 

[devil21]

Nikki Haley up now.

She's not even the most popular SC Governor in the crowd. Sanford has a much bigger following than she does.

 

[thehungarian]

Did she just say that we "deserve" a President Mitt Romney?

I think we agree in opposite ways.

 

[KramerDSP]

All these politicians and pundits talking takes me right to Rafi Farber's words in this video:

"But something else happens to you. Once you get hooked on Ron Paul, you can no longer bear to listen to a man who wants power, and you become instantly disgusted when they start saying words. Before, they were just boring. Now they’re revolting. Listening to Romney or Gingrich or Bush or Obama makes you sick and you don’t know how Ron Paul gets through those debates without getting nauseous. You see a political veneer in these politicians that’s so transparent it’s like a ghost flapping its ethereal tongue at you. You can’t bear it.

What’s so maddening about hearing Romney or Gingrich talk is that there’s someone standing there saying things, but there’s no soul in it. These are not free men. These are power men. Not that Romney or Gingrich don’t have souls. They do. They are men just like you and I. But they have practically forfeited their souls to try and attain power, to control others with spin and talking points and contradictory statements like “I want to cut the budget and expand the military!” and they’ll say it with a polished tone and a straight face, just like a soulless recording. Their humanity is so buried under the mountain of lies they have told themselves, that neither they themselves nor you can even sense their souls in the human continuum. The scene of a human body speaking but no soul communicating can drive a free man mad."

Word.