Ron Paul eliminated in first round of West Virginia convention
Posted by Brian Bailey on February 5, 2008
These numbers come from the live stream of the convention.
Romney 464
Huckabee 375
McCain 176
Paul 118
Paul delegates will have to choose someone else to vote for in the second round and voting will continue in this manner with the lowest vote-getter eliminated until someone gets over 51%.
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I have been thinking a lot lately about why Dr. Paul isn’t making more of an impact in the larger sense - why is he behind at all? Why not the front runner?
Aside from the obvious - he represents a mortal threat to the government status quo (and the bankers who run government policies through the FED); Dr. Paul also is a threat to those who wish to remain in fear and those who want the government to solve the world’s problems. They both want something from government - welfare for the Dems and warfare for the Republicans.
So I see three different philosophical groups at play here: Us, the Ron Paul supporters who want Liberty and Freedom and don’t want the government taking our money to kill others and dominate the globe.
Second, the Democrats or Liberals / Progressives. They want to use government to create a socialist state where everybody is supposedly equal (are the rich ever really equal to anyone? do they really want to be?)and cared for regardless of who has to pay for it or how much it costs.
They think everyone is “ENTITLED” to health care, social security etc., as long as we all pay into THEIR system do they can get rich. We are not allowed to create our own system, because they write the laws. Just look at the Liberty Dollar situation.
The Republicans or Conservatives are the other extreme. They expect government to keep pumping an endless amount of fiat money into war, ignore or rewrite environmental policy to clear the way for “free markets” and really don’t care what happens to anyone much but their families, cronies and church.
They have represented as much corruption and deceit as any Democrat the past eight years and show that Free Markets with no restraint can quickly become evil in intent and result. They operate mostly on greed, faith and fear.
Actually being free scares the hell out of them because they like to dominate and be dominated by the government (or the God) they create. Rather than Socialist, they lean toward Fascist - profit at any cost, use the government to insulate and support corporate pirates with our armies. Kind of like supporting corporate terrorism against the very public that buys their products and makes them rich. It’s Robin Hood in reverse - the govt. steals from the people and gives to the rich.
We are not Democrats or Republicans. We are free thinkers who do not need labels or someone to take care of us. We are not a cash crop for the elite to harvest every April 15th. We are not afraid enough to have our biometrics recorded into an ID card, or have our phones and internet tapped by the communists who run BOTH sides of Washington. We don’t need a parent because we are adults. We don’t need to solve all of the worlds problems. We need to stop creating them. We don’t need someone to tell us what to think. We just need the FREEDOM to think for ourselves.
We are the “outsiders”, the “fringe”, the “dark horses”, the “long shots” the “independents”, that the media can’t find room for in their newspapers or web sites. We are the face that gets left out of the picture. The name that isn’t on the list. We are the invisible army who do not need weapons to marshall a rEVOLution. We just need to be on the right side of the Law. You remember the Law. It’s called the Constitution of the United States of America.
Live Free or WHY?.
Greg