Missouri GOP caucuses on Saturday — Ron Paul’s last stand?
Saturday morning (times vary slightly depending on the site), Republicans from around the state will gather at various locations to select delegates.
The voting is the first step in a multi-tier process to select the delegates and the alternates who will get to go to the GOP presidential convention next summer in Minneapolis.
ALL of the delegates from Missouri will be committed to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, who won the state party’s primary on Feb. 5.
On the Republican side, Missouri is a winner-take-all state, so no other Republican captured any of the 58 delegates at stake. (The Republican Party also doesn’t have any “super delegates,” as do the Democrats, so there are no big-name free agents to worry about.)
So Saturday’s sessions will focus solely on who those delegates will be. After the delegate-selection process is completed later this spring, the GOP committed delegates are expected to include many of the party’s big names, as well as rank-and-file activists.
In any event, there are rumors afoot that some Ron Paul loyalists plan to show up at some of Saturday’s GOP caucuses and to see if some of their own can be elected delegates. It’s unclear what their aim is, since the delegates MUST back McCain.
The sites for Saturday’s caucuses can be found by clicking here.


Well, now I’ve seen everything. The RP supporters want to subvert the Republican convention by what appears to be the breaking of the Republican’s own set of rules. It is indicated that they would and will vote for RP even at the first ballot even though they were elected by the Republican voters to support candidates other than RP. And this from the set that supports a candidate who claims to honor the law, the Constitution, and to try to get the President and Congess and the Courts to uphold the law.
And if the fantasy of this subversion does succeed, just exactly will they do next in a Paul Administration, assuming that he beats the Democrat’s nominee? Do they really think that a President Paul will be able, by an Executive Order or a signing statement, repeal the 16th Amendment, eliminate Social Security and the Federal Reserve? If Paul attempted such actions, he’d become the tyrant that he claims Bush is.
The posts by the RP supporters give the reality of thier revolution. That reality is that little of the republic or its laws would be left. Indeed, any opposition to the new Pauline order would be met by the same force that they claim is the hallmark of an unjust government.