Repugs in Chaos in Nevada

[CanonRay]

This makes Hil vs Obama look like a lovefest;

Reno Gazette, Sunday, April 27, 2008

After a super-majority of Ron Paul supporters captured control of the Republican state convention Saturday, state party officials abruptly canceled the event without electing delegates to the national convention.

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080426/NEWS18/80426047&OAS_sitepage=news.rgj.com%2Fbreakingnews

[anonymous171]

1. RON PAUL!

:rofl:We dems may have a chance yet!

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

4. I'm in Massachusetts and actually pass a Ron Paul yard

sign everyday. It's been there for months and I'm amazed it lasted that long.

[Sinistrous]

5. Ron Paul might not be such a pushover.

A local Republican candidate for State Senator patterned himself after Ron Paul and used Paul's name in his advertisements. He came within a whisker of defeating the "establishment" candidate in the Republican primary. (In this district, Republican nomination = election.)

Scared the crap out of me.

[Renew Deal]

2. Sounds like a lot of fun.

:party:

[yourguide]

3. If republicans didnt know they had a Ron Paul problem...

ala Nader they do now.

OP: You should probably change the title of the thread to something like: "Ron Paul supporters take control of nevada party convention"

[bluestateguy]

6. The state party committee will probably quietly name a McCain delegation and that will be that

The Establishment always wins in Republican politics.

[kentuck]

7. Maybe the Democrats will win Nevada after all?

:-)

[eridani]

8. Does this mean that the religious whackos are no longer interested in Repub politics?

Good news if that is the case.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/27/nevada-gops-state-convention-shut-down-early/#more-6727

Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders abruptly shut down their state convention and now must resume the event to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention.

Outnumbered supporters of expected Republican presidential nominee John McCain faced off Saturday against well-organized Paul supporters. A large share of the more than 1,300 state convention delegates enabled Paul supporters to get a rule change positioning them for more national convention delegate slots than expected.

"I've seen factions walk out. I've never seen a party walk out," said Jeff Greenspan, regional coordinator for the Paul campaign.

Delegates cheered earlier in the day as former presidential hopeful Mitt Romney urged support for McCain. Later, though, Paul got even louder applause as he delivered his message of individual freedom and fiscal responsibility.


State Sen. Bob Beers, the convention chairman, was booed loudly as he called for a recess Saturday evening. He said that the party's rental contract for a big meeting room at a Reno hotel-casino had expired and there was too much work left to complete.