The Media Lies! This WILL be a BROKERED CONVENTION!

[Thomas_DK]

This just off dailypaul.com (http://www.dailypaul.com/node/37070):

The Media Lies! This WILL be a BROKERED CONVENTION!
Posted February 11th, 2008 by Jops27
Look, I just got done volunteering at the local GOP typing in freaking names for all of the precincts that voted. I straight up asked them if the Straw Poll gives a candidate any delegates at all.

She said, "No Way! The media isn't telling the truth and we have told them time and time again that this isn't how it works. All it is is a popularity contest. The real delegates get selected at the State Convention."

Men, ONWARD! It is time to get out of the fox holes and move FORWARD! CHARGE THEIR POSITIONS! TAKE NO PRISONERS!

We are being told a blatent LIE. We are WINNING! Can't you SEE???? RP has more grassroots people in his campaign than any other candidate. BE A DELEGATE! Go to all of the County and State conventions. Get on the wait lists if you aren' selected.

Right now isn't the time to quit. Right now is the time for the counter offensive. We're on the MARCH and the Empire is on the RUN!

LET"S DO THIS!

 

[JordanQ72]

All it is is a popularity contest. The real delegates get selected at the State Convention.

Who then for the most part must vote according to the results of this popularity contest. Come on guys, we've been over this. 80+% of the delegates are bound for the first vote.

 

[CrazyRonPaulSupporter]

Of course the media lies. It's their job!



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[mkeller]

The Media Lies! This WILL be a BROKERED CONVENTION!

Knew the first part already. Let's hope the second part is true, too!

 

[No1ButPaul08]

This is garbage. Who knows what state they are talking about. Delegate rules are different by state. 75% of the delegates are bound to a candidate on the first ballot

 

[affa]

Who then for the most part must vote according to the results of this popularity contest. Come on guys, we've been over this. 80+% of the delegates are bound for the first vote.

Everytime I read one of your posts, I wonder who you're planning on voting for.

 

[No1ButPaul08]

Everytime I read one of your posts, I wonder who you're planning on voting for.

Being Realistic = Troll

At least around here anyway

 

[Banana]

Hmm, confused.

One post somewhere said that more delegates were unbound to bound (something like 60% to 40%), as a backdoor to avoid nominating a loser.

Now, it's 70% delegates being bound on the first ballot.

Where would one go to verify this?

 

[affa]

Being Realistic = Troll

At least around here anyway

If we were being 'realistic', this movement never would have begun. I reject your declaration of what is and what is not realistic.

 

[Richandler]

The only way there is a brokered convention is if Huckabee runs away with these last states. Otherwise you are fooling yourself.

 

[Deborah K]

Then why did RP state in his letter that there will most likely NOT be a brokered convention? Wouldn't he know?

 

[Ex Post Facto]

If we were being 'realistic', this movement never would have begun. I reject your declaration of what is and what is not realistic.

The greatest point of the Day.

 

[Join The Paul Side]

If we were being 'realistic', this movement never would have begun. I reject your declaration of what is and what is not realistic.

I concur with your rejection. I hate internet wiseguys.

 

[kaleidoscope eyes]

If we were being 'realistic', this movement never would have begun. I reject your declaration of what is and what is not realistic.

+100
I think "Realistic" thinking would have killed this race at the starting block!

 

[vitaminb12]

I tend to agree with Alex Jones, that even if there were a brokered convention, Paul wouldn't be a factor. Can you imagine how the media would portray the situation if a bunch of hidden Paul delegates "stole" the nomination on the second ballot? He would be a criminal in the eyes of the MSM, and subsequently the public.

Our only shot is if McCain gets tripped up by a scandal. Even then it would be tough.

 

[affa]

Anyone who posts that we should give up is the enemy.

I don't care when you joined this forum.
I don't care how many posts you have.
I don't care what you claim to know.
I don't care who you claim to be.
I don't care what you've done.

I care about who you are NOW. This very moment. And if today you're posting that he has no chance, then you've always been the enemy and just didn't know it. I don't care what good will you've built up - you spill it all out across the floor the second you quit.

Because Ron Paul has not quit. He's been doing this for decades. The least you could do is stick it out until we see him elected.

I'm still in it to win it. Ron Paul 2008.

 

[affa]

I tend to agree with Alex Jones, that even if there were a brokered convention, Paul wouldn't be a factor. Can you imagine how the media would portray the situation if a bunch of hidden Paul delegates "stole" the nomination on the second ballot? He would be a criminal in the eyes of the MSM, and subsequently the public.

Our only shot is if McCain gets tripped up by a scandal. Even then it would be tough.

We deal with that bridge when we come to it.

For now, we soldier on.

They made the rules. They are the banker. They read the results of the hidden dice. They've played before.

If we beat them at this, at their own game, then they deserve to lose. And oh, do they deserve to lose.

 

[kigol]

Of course the media lies. It's their job!



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yup.

 

[JordanQ72]

And if today you're posting that he has no chance, then you've always been the enemy and just didn't know it.

So Ron Paul is 'the enemy'? Fantastic... And you're talking about others not being realistic. I've read over Ron's assessment and looked over the various GOP rules and primary results so far and I concur with his assessment. The only even mathematically possible, not even plausible, scenario I've seen so far is if every single unpledged delegate votes against McCain and Huckabee sweeps every single remaining state. Tomorrow, after McCain actually sweeps up 110+ bound delegates, that scenario starts fading as well. After that, if you want to play off the possibility of McCain, Huckabee, and Romney dying, that's fine, but I'm being a bit more objective.

 

[nbhadja]

Then why did RP state in his letter that there will most likely NOT be a brokered convention? Wouldn't he know?

It has been confirmed that Ron Paul DID NOT write that letter.