Thoughts after the Franklin Co, MO caucus

[Romulus]

What a day! We showed up with a good amount of people, but Santorum had more. Romney had about 1/3 of support, all establishment figures mostly.

So with 40 delegates at stake, the Paul camp knew we needed to Romney to win, otherwise it was all going to Sant. So in exchange for their votes, we put 1/3 of their delegates on our slate. When the standing votes were counted, we had enough to win! Paul got 24 delegates and Romney got 16. Sant got 0.

My advice is we can't always do this alone. The Santorum support is downright irrational and scary. So forming an alliance with the Mitt crew (blah) got us the majority of delegates where we easily could have got NONE! Take that however you like.

I'm an alt delegate and will go on, an am proud to do so. Sadly some of the soft support in my area didn't show up.. had they done so we could've got all 40! So get involved. Don't quit - Ron Paul has never quit on us.

Onward!

 

[enrique]

Nice work. That's politics. Sometimes the enemies of your enemy is your friend.

 

[sailingaway]

Exactly!! BUT REMEMBER THIS!!

Because the WSJ is tweeting that these were 'new signs of a Romney Paul alliance' at the caucuses rather than it being an arrangement of convenience when someone with plurality but not majority tried to shove a slate down the throats of two parties who together outnumbered him.

There is going to be a new round of stories on this. Remember, Santorum and Romney banded together in MN, as well. This is no 'alliance' but the MSM is clearly seeing it work at dispiriting our troops and turning off the principled left who would vote for Ron's principles -- but not for a potential Romney alliance. They know what they are doing.

 

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We tried the same thing in jasper county. Santorum had to many supporters to change any of the rules that were put in place. We still came away with 11 delegates to Santorum's 25.

 

[Matthew V]

We tried the same thing in jasper county. Santorum had to many supporters to change any of the rules that were put in place. We still came away with 11 delegates to Santorum's 25.

Stone County was 1/16 for RP. Santorum's folks were well organized thanks due to an hour long recess. Frothy's people are a lot better organized than I would of thought; however, they had a campaign manager their.

 

[sailingaway]

+ rep to both of you!

In the end as good as you are, numbers will prevail.

 

[Romulus]

I don't care about any "alliance" rumors. Let them talk! We need the publicity anyway. And walking out, I said to a Romney supporter, "See, you need us to win" She agreed. We need to start using our muscle, otherwise its all for naught. We aren't compromising anything! Just using the establishment to move us further.

Stone County was 1/16 for RP. Santorum's folks were well organized thanks due to an hour long recess. Frothy's people are a lot better organized than I would of thought; however, they had a campaign manager their.

Not an our caucus. That's how they lost the whole deal. No game plan or knowledge.

+ rep to both of you!

In the end as good as you are, numbers will prevail.

That's right, it all comes down to showing up!

 

[Lets_Race]

SORRY, I miscommunicated. Ron Paul got 24 delegates, 60% of 40.

 

[phill4paul]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Romulus again.

 

[sailingaway]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Romulus again.

I covered you!