Ron Paul Is Secretly Taking Over The GOP – And It’s Driving People Insane
February 16th, 2012
(BusinessInsider) – By now, it is clear that the Maine caucuses were a complete mess.
Evidence is mounting that Mitt Romney’s 194-vote victory over Ron Paul was prematurely announced, if not totally wrong. Washington County canceled their caucus on Saturday on account of three inches of snow (hardly a blizzard by Maine standards), and other towns that scheduled their caucuses for this week have been left out of the vote count. Now, it looks like caucuses that did take place before Feb. 11 have also been left out of final tally.
As the full extent of the chaos unfolds, sources close to the Paul campaign tell Business Insider that it is looking increasingly like Romney’s team might have a hand in denying Paul votes, noting that Romney has some admirably ruthless operatives on his side and a powerful incentive to avoid a fifth caucus loss this month.
According to the Paul campaign, the Maine Republican Party is severely under-reporting Paul’s results — and Romney isn’t getting the same treatment. For example, nearly all the towns in Waldo County — a Ron Paul stronghold – held their caucuses on Feb. 4, but the state GOP reported no results for those towns. In Waterville, a college town in Central Maine, results were reported but not included in the party vote count. Paul beat Romney 21-5 there, according to the Kennebec County GOP.
“It’s too common,” senior advisor Doug Wead told Business Insider. “If it was chaos, we would expect strong Romney counties to be unreported, and that’s not what’s happening.”
The Maine Republican Party won’t decide which votes it will count until the executive committee meets next month. But Wead points out that even if Mitt Romney holds on to his slim lead, it will be a Pyrrhic victory.
“He will have disenfranchised all of these people,” Wead said. “It could be a costly victory — it is a mistake.”
The (alleged) bias against Paul may also be the product of an organic opposition to the libertarian Congressman and his army of ardent fans. Paul volunteers tend to be young and relatively new to party politics, and their presence has many state GOP stalwarts feeling territorial.
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February 17th, 2012 at 2:11 am
Anyone with at least an I.Q. of a chipmunk is keenly aware that the next president has already been selected by the vermin that own politics incorporated. Since it has long been obvious that the two parties serve one agenda it comes as no surprise that the manipulation and corruption rears its ugly but expected head. The election process is sooooo corrupted that it doesn’t even resemble free elections. In a system where free elections are left unmolested every candidate is allowed and given ample opportunities to present their platform so that the public can vote and feel that it counted. The owned candidates are burned into the people’s psyche electronically with 10-15 second sound bites that make sure the public never gets any info about the chosen ones that would be helpful in making an informed decision about the vote that a person casts. Even if votes were counted with any integrity it doesn’t alter the outcome of the person that the CFR has already deciged to fill the position with.