Ron Paul's Ninja Delegates

[tpfkaw]

Excusez-moi, but why would Nevada, which voted for Romney in 2008, electing a slate of Paul (second-place) delegates be more "undemocratic" than electing a slate of McCain (third-place) delegates?

As it is, Romney delegates were actually the majority in NV in '08; they joined forces with the Paul delegates against the McCainites.

[tpfkaw]

Heard it through the grapeline that the Paulites will try to take the delegates in Florida - because they moved their primary that apparently means the Florida delegates are unbound.

[tpfkaw]

This effort is only trying to get delegates allocated for Paul in the first round of voting right? It doesn't actually have a say in the men and women selected specifically from each state to go to the Convention does it?

Not at all. This is an effort to get bona fide Pautards to the RNC by any means possible, even if they have to be pledged to another candidate in the first round.

The Paul campaign claimed last time (when it was a much more haphazard effort) that they had 260 delegates including ninjae, so they could be quite the significant force this time.

[tpfkaw]

I don't think "ninja delegates" are even obligated to vote for any candidate during the first round. They are pledged, but I imagine they can cast their vote for whoever they want. I.e. most delegates vote for the winning candidate at the convention in a show of party unity.

Delegates can technically vote for whomever they like, but they can be removed from the convention and replaced with other delegates if they vote for a candidate while still pledged to another, and many states have laws against delegates voting for candidates while pledged to another.

[tpfkaw]

Booing terrible candidates also helps. It means not everyone approves of having the wool being pulled over their eyes.

Besides which, the Romneyites of 48 years ago (including George Romney) booed Goldwater at the convention.  Revenge!

[tpfkaw]

Booing terrible candidates also helps. It means not everyone approves of having the wool being pulled over their eyes.

Besides which, the Romneyites of 48 years ago (including George Romney) booed Goldwater at the convention.  Revenge!

Actually the Goldwaterites booed Nelson Rockefeller harder.

Nelson Rockefeller was not the nominee, he spent his speech attacking the nominee, and his delegates were outnumbered substantially.

[tpfkaw]

There's a iPhone app called GOP Unbound (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gop-unbound/id507428404?mt=8) that attempts to estimate the true support of each candidate among pledged delegates.