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[Leafsnail]

The Pope has personally tried to cover incidents like this up, so yes, the institution is rotten to the very core.

[Scelly9]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B39W91O-rUg
Good. god.

WTF is this shit?

[FearfulJesuit]

Something that I would hope will land the party in court.

[Scelly9]

Something that I would hope will land the party in court.

It's a bit sad they didn't have the fucking foresight to keep their blatant fraud off the god damned teleprompter.

[Sheb]

Well, the convention isn't mean to elect the candidate anymore, since Romney had a huge amount of delegate and you can't switch vote anymore. It's a PR event by the party to promote their candidate, Paulites effectively want to use obsolete rules to wreck that PR, seems normal the GOP leadership won't let them do it.

[Scelly9]

Still, the refusal to even say his name was quite dickish.

[G-Flex]

Why? Do they have to mention the name of every failed nominee?

[Scelly9]

No, but it just seems, to me personally, that when a state votes 15 Ron Paul and 5 Mitt Romney you at least mention it. Or, in the case of one of the others, you don't cut off their mike.

[GreatJustice]

The bigger problem is that they shoved in controversial rules via teleprompter and then ignored the minority reports. Oh, and then they ignored the attempts to get Paul officially in the running (which would have given him a 15 minute speech).

[darkrider2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B39W91O-rUg
Good. god.

WTF is this shit?

Holy fucking shit. Just... what.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Are you really surprised? The GOP party line is openly supportive of authoritarian, anti-liberty ideals of a uniform and controlled American society. That they would enforce that in the one place where they do have total power is not very surprising.

I hope Ron Paul gathers the sane amongst the GOP and leads them on an exodus, because that's what needs to happen at this point.

[darkrider2]

I'm curious whether or not the news will cover this fiasco. I want them to... badly.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm saying that as in 'what is this? I don't understand what this means!'

can someone please explain it?

The RNC did everything possible to hinder Ron Paul's delegates from reaching the convention, forcefully changed the rules against the wishes of the crowd to prevent Ron Paul from being allowed a speech, and generally did everything possible to make it a Romney circlejerk despite Paul's successes in the primaries. They also confiscated at least one Ron Paul sign and sent plants out in the crowd to block them with Romney signs.

The rule changes will also make it pretty much impossible for any candidate besides the one the party leaders favor to have a chance in the future.

[Frumple]

"Chance in the future"... history of American political scuffles (especially the conservative bits of 'em ) not exactly being my strong point, was there a point in the last few decades where there was a chance? Seems like this may be a shift toward the more blatant, but still be kind of standard operating procedure.

[darkrider2]

Its one thing to disagree with the democrats on every goddamn issue possible just because you want to spite them forever.

Its a whole 'nother thing to treat your own party like shit because they don't pledge %100 percent unquestioning loyalty to you.

Even though my bar for that party is pretty low, I expected more than this, shame on you.