What do you think about a Straw Poll being cancelled because too many Ron Paul supporters showed up?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_GADQv3vKs

If anyone agrees with this you are a neo-con creep.

SFC_Ollie - this is from someone who was there.

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I paid my $33 for the dinner and vote. A $5 option was also offered to vote after the festivities. We patiently listened to the guest speaker support Fred Thompson and talk on the issues of water and budget problems in California. They then held a raffle, while all the "cheap" voters waited in the lobby. When they finally let them in, the room was flooded with Ron Paul supporters and the organizer notified us the poll was cancelled. I started the video after the initial announcement and pandemonium broke out. The sudden cancellation and an attempt to change the rules, understandably, upset quite a few people. A Short segment closer to the podium:

michinoku2001 - Spot on!!!!

If Ron Paul is not on the ticket next Nov 4th I will vote libertarian and I could care less if that takes a vote away from a neo-convict.

Answer 1

Bad if not alarming news for certain. The Party is playing old time hardball politics and reliving "the dirty tricks committees" that preceded the great Watergate scandel that drove Nixon from office.

They are getting kinda desperate, it seems.

Answer 2

If I understand your message correctly, it sounded like it was a fund raiser for Fred Thompson, with people paying to vote in a straw poll after the dinner......And then the straw poll was cancelled without any warning.

This may be a clear case of fraud by the organizers of the event, or mis-representation.
If people paid to vote in the straw poll and there was no straw poll, at the very least the money should have been refunded.

If the people are mad enough, press charges of fraud!!

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.
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Answer 3

I like how almost everything people do to stifle or marginalize Ron Paul's support, ends up solidifying it. I didn't see this video, thanks!

Ron Paul supporters should always be respectful however, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar.

EDIT: Lol at the number of older/elderly supporters of Ron Paul, I thought we were "just internet kids"!

Answer 4

I think the GOP is shooting itself in the foot by alienating Paul supporters. The Paul supporters will end up voting Libertarian instead of staying in the GOP big tent if they are not treated fairly. As we all know from hanging chads and all, elections can be decided by very few votes.

Answer 5

One simply has to look back to a quote from good old Abe Lincoln "Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places shall follow". Not much we can do but spread the word and VOTE!!!! RON PAUL 2008!!!!

Answer 6

Just shows who everyone wants for President :) Ron Paul is the only real conservative out there that will actually change anything if he goes into office.. starting with the socialist country America is being turned into.. take away all the damn government programs that are doing nothing.

Answer 7

Wow, I take it you support Ron Paul, and there is nothing wrong with that.

But it appeared to me that this was a meeting of some republican group and that the Ron Paul supporters present were there to disrupt the meeting. I could be wrong but it sure seemed planned . I believe the camera man even stated that "this will be on youtube".

So If my meeting is disrupted by design, I am going to cancel it to.

Of course i could be wrong.

Answer 8

I would think someone have to much control over the polls and the true purpose of the poll.

Answer 9

I think that it is another blatant example of how our governmental system is broken.

The REAL problem now is that even though we all know about it the situation will be ignored and the problems will be allowed to fester to even greater heights of decay.

Answer 10

Ron Paul is a joke. Just a strawman for straw polls.