Why was this tactic not anticipated?

[Joe3113]

I thought we had professionals running the official campaign?

At least we now know the level the GOP will go to in order to stop us.


DON'T GET MAD....GET EVEN

 

[Deborah K]

what tactic

 

[mello]

What exactly are you talking about?

 

[Joe3113]

Pooling the neocon delegates on a misleading handout and whatever else went on

 

[Edward]

What exactly are you talking about?

I assume that he is talking about how the supporters of the other candidates ganged up to form a delegate block because individually they couldn't beat the Paul supporters one on one.

 

[bgarrett]

maybe, because its never been done before??

 

[MsDoodahs]

edited because I am not on topic.

Sheesh.

 

[Hayek]

Was this tactic not expected?

Expected? What exactly would you suggest people do to stop all the other candidates from pooling their votes to beat Ron Paul?

 

[stevedasbach]

I assume that he is talking about how the supporters of the other candidates ganged up to form a delegate block because individually they couldn't beat the Paul supporters one on one.

It's called smart politics. The other side doesn't just sit around waiting to get beat. They adjust their tactics to try to remain in the game. In this case, they figured out that getting some delegates was better than getting none.

 

[Joe3113]

Expected? What exactly would you suggest people do to stop all the other candidates from pooling their votes to beat Ron Paul?

Not sure. I really don't know how the process works. I'm just surprised because of all the threads that said we could win. Not only that, considering the intelligence of Ron Paul supporters compared to the others, I expected these things to be anticipated. But I guess the whole GOP false paradigm is banding together to shut Dr Paul out.

 

[wgadget]

So did Ron Paul come in second?

I guess I don't understand how this works...sigh.

 

[mokkan88]

It's called smart politics.

Bullshit. It's called an assault on democracy.

 

[VoluntaryMan]

It's called smart politics. The other side doesn't just sit around waiting to get beat. They adjust their tactics to try to remain in the game. In this case, they figured out that getting some delegates was better than getting none.

Really? "Smart"? I think "corrupt" is more appropriate. Is there a precedent for this?

 

[Dave Wood]

It says everything to me that these idiots had to gang up to be able to overcome the one true Republican candidate


Huck, Rudy, Romney, Mcclame Go back to the Democratic party where you belong.....Sen Lieberman says they are waiting on you over there.

 

[jenninlouisiana]

In the end, they got more votes than we did. That's the bottom line.

And after licking my wounds, in district 5 I think it is pretty awesome that we definitely have 4 of 15 delegates (one cinched the #2 spot) and we are all unknows in a sea of established GOP.

So even with all of their maneuverings and strategy, they still couldn't keep 4 of us out.

And, with provisionals, we could wind up with 6-8 delegates in district 5... .8 would give us a majority and send 3 delegates to the national convention in my district.

 

[hueylong]

Sounds like Jenn and them did great in District 5. We have to wait and see what the final numbers are...

There was nothing illegal / immoral about what went on. Since all the delegates are technically uncommitted, delegate wannabes could try to get votes with whatever type of appeal they wanted.

The pro-life coalition clearly had more experience and a grasp of what a small electorate would care about...

 

[VoluntaryMan]

In the end, they got more votes than we did. That's the bottom line.

And after licking my wounds, in district 5 I think it is pretty awesome that we definitely have 4 of 15 delegates (one cinched the #2 spot) and we are all unknows in a sea of established GOP.

So even with all of their maneuverings and strategy, they still couldn't keep 4 of us out.

And, with provisionals, we could wind up with 6-8 delegates in district 5... .8 would give us a majority and send 3 delegates to the national convention in my district.

After all this time of referring to the other candidates as "Rudy McRompsonbee," they, themselves, have finally admitted that they are virtually indistinguishable from one another. Will we see this headline, though: "Rudy McRompsonbee edges out Paul in LA."

 

[Sandra]

Provisional votes have not yet been counted. This is where the rest of our vote is right now. I think the pro lifers CAN be swayed RP's direction when they hear he's the strictest of all pro lifers. Most of them don't know who he is or are told something different.

 

[Deborah K]

Way to go Jenn. How do we beat them at their own game?

 

[mortepa]

Way to go Jenn. How do we beat them at their own game?

Let's fight back in Florida...

Let's form a block of RP, McCain, and Huckabee to go against Romney and Giulliani. Some votes are better than none, right?!?!