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03.14.2008 1:19 pm

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. 

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Yesterday in Saint Charles County Missouri, the largest Republican County caucus in the state 111 of a possible 137 Delegates were elected for Ron Paul. The St. Charles Caucus was a landslide turnout for Ron Paul.

The Republican Platform was amended to oppose the Patriot Act, The Iraq war, the Federal Reserve, Fiat Currency, the Global American Empire, the income Tax, Estate Tax, Mccain Fieingold, the National ID Card, The Real ID Act of 2005 and much much more.

Kudo’s to Ron Paul supporters in Missouri!!

This was only one county in Missouri yesterday and it was happening all over the state. Please keep this bumped up…the GOP is freaking out and other states can do the same!!

This article is on the top of http://www.ronpaulforpresident2008.com

— Yet Another RP Supporter
10:59 am March 16th, 2008

Seriously, people do you really think RP could be a President of the US? Seriously doubt it. He has the ignorant, stupid look on his face at all times. And he is whiny.

— Dave
11:05 am March 16th, 2008

Congratulations to the Ron Paul supporters…but while you may have dominated the caucuses yesterday throught out the state, your conduct in doing so alienated many of the Republican party faithful which you will need to prevail. My fear is that all you have really accomplished is to hand the State of Missouri to the Democat candidates.

— Berks
11:14 am March 16th, 2008

Die-hard Republicans should be ashamed that they chose to sleep in Saturday rather than show up at the caucuses. I understand the desire of the Ron Paul folks to make changes, but I would ask them to work within the party rather than show up at the last minute and hijack caucuses.

John McCain wasn’t my first choice either, but if the only choices this fall are McCain, Clinton or Obama, I am going to swallow hard and support McCain. While we are squabbling over procedure and hopeless candidates the Democrats will eventually unite behind one candidate and beat us just as the Ron Paul supporters defeated the “real” Republicans yesterday.

These past few months I have seen lots of phone calls and deal-making to determine who was worthy to go to the convention. It’s ironic how all that wheeling and dealing was for naught when Republicans couldn’t get their supporters to the caucuses and the Ron Paul folks could.

I mostly disagree with Ron Paul and his supporters, and I am sorely disappointed with the embarrassment that these tactics will bring Missouri, but I have to admit that the RP people beat the veteran politicians at their own game. For that I must grudgingly congratulate you.

— Delamer
11:24 am March 16th, 2008

Delamer,

Die-hard republicans did show up yesterday and vote Ron Paul. We did work under the party system. We didn’t hijack anything, we showed up at 10 like everyone else and voted. Neocons are the ones that hijacked the party, we are just taking it back right now.

Also remember that Ron Paul is still a choice and McCain is unelectable. With yesterday’s conservative win, McCain has 56 less delegates to the national convention while Dr. Paul has 56 more. This is a 112 delegate turnaround in just MO. Conservatives also won Texas, Nevada, Colorado, Washington and many other state caucuses. So you see “my friends” this revolution is for real.

Now, it was interesting that you should lament that all those “phone calls and deal-making to determine who was worthy to go to the convention” and that “all that wheeling and dealing was for naught.” That is EXACTLY the problem! Conservatives did not wheel and deal, we spread our message, and the message of liberty was strong enough to outnumber the message of the wheelers and dealers. The neocons have driven us to the brink of collapse but fortunately we have honorable people like Ron Paul still keeping the flame of freedom alive.

You seem like an articulate and intelligent person, I just think you are misinformed on Ron Paul and his supporters. I voted for Bush twice and still support the platform he ran under in 2000. Unfortunately he has abandoned this platform - luckily Ron Paul picked it up. Research Ron Paul and the issues and you’ll probably be pleasantly surprised.

— Marcelo
11:46 am March 16th, 2008

THere’s a nice Alzeheimer’s unit I’d like to invite Ron to stay where he can get his medications regularly.

— Bill
11:47 am March 16th, 2008

Folks, people like Bill above are the neocons we are fighting. Nothing substantive to say, just ridicule. Well bill, we can see you have no clothes and more and more people are waking up to this fact. Which part of Ron Paul policy don’t you like? Following the constitution? Freedom? Liberty? Peace? Prosperity?

Begone you vile weed!

— Marcelo
12:12 pm March 16th, 2008

Bottom line: We don’t care about “party loyalty”, we care about loyalty to our constituion. The neo-cons are the ones who have manipulated the elections. We are not giving up. And we will gain control of the party and return it to its small-government, fiscally conservative origins.

— Dave
1:15 pm March 16th, 2008

Another thing:

The primaries are not national elections. They are elections of a private club. That club is ruled by its ACTIVE members. The traditional conservative wing is going to be more active then the neo-conservative wing.
The GOP needs new blood, and they need our activism and fundraising ability to compete with the dems and the bias of the liberal media.

— Dave
1:24 pm March 16th, 2008

As posted on dailypaul.com

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/42866

My friend you are mistaken. The whole reason people don’t come to those central committe meetings is because you elect and push people like liberal John McCain. You deserve to lose the caucus because people that voted in the primary have no clue and listen to the television for two minutes and would never show up at a caucus because they have no clue how it really works, and idiotically think McCain was the frontrunner and vote without ever looking at his record.

The Ron Paul people are here to stay, except we won’t be baking cookies and having our little tea parties. We are here to recruit patriotic Americans that are sick of seeing their country go to hell by voting for the likes of McCain, Obama or Clinton. Do you seriously think Pro Life, Pro Second Amendment and illegal immigration enforment Conservatives will vote for John McCain who is totally against all of those things.

Give that up, McCain has already lost

In Missouri 2/3 of the voters, voted for someone other than McCain in the
Primary and we need to make sure that those voters are not disenfranchised with the idiotic winner take all system. Many Many Huckabee supporters are with us on this and we will change it at the state convention and make it retro active to the District Conventions which come first.

— Marcelo
2:02 pm March 16th, 2008

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