Nevada Convention in Chaos -- That's the GOP Convention!
Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 10:06:30 AM PDT
Via Crooks and Liars I read that apparently, without any involvement at all from Rush Limbaugh, the Nevada State Convention has been shut down because of a major disagreement . . . by Ron Paul supporters.
Who, you ask?
That's right, rON pAUL'S 1NTERN3T CANDIDACY lIV3z!!! The "sandroots" base of Ron Paul's support has finally been located in the only state in the Union that permits legalized prostitution! Proving once again that what happens in Vegas . . . stays in Vegas!
Update: A helpful Kestrel has flown in and assisted me with image hosting. Things I never knew -- and I'm an IT guy!
Despite the leg-humping anointment of John McCain as the Republican Appointee Apparent, the press and the Republican Party appear to disagree on who exactly will be sitting next to the (R) in November's election.
Though I'm now completely off the page here and using the remainder of my diary for my own personal amusement, let's go down the path here and talk about what the remainder of rON pAUL'S candidacy will look like!
Though he hasn't got the odds of a snowball in Malbolge of winning, pAUL's supporters hijacked the convention on April 27, forcing the Nevada GOP to recess the convention. What could this possibly mean?
A third party ticket? WE CAN HAZ? Paul's ideas are about as loony and out of the American mainstream as you can get. C&L already was peppered with comments about Obama / Paul, which caused me to shoot my soda out my nose and into my keyboard, as I can't think of two politicians with more radically different agendas. But more importantly, the fact that the GOP can't even control their own party activists (those crazy activists) tells me that the unified front they are trying to present with McBush is full of minute, but nonetheless fatally weakening cracks.
When the election actually starts in the fall, we may see some of those cracks bust.
Here in the Lefto-Land of DKos we have really one agenda: make sure that Bush's catastrophic policies come to an end. We know already that the math makes Obama the putative nominee, and that aside from a few farts in the wind he's going to bring this thing to an end next week.
And that contest on the Republican side was supposed to be over weeks ago. But, Republicans Do Not Riot, you say!
Although I don't see any report of overturned cars (thank goodness) or actual blood on the streets (because unlike Rush Limbaugh I am not a sociopath who likes to see things die), I do believe that the Republican Party's fractures are spreading rapidly and their coaltion, who consists of Business Conservatives (who live in the real world and are just greedy) and Religious Conservatives (who live in a fantasy world and are just freaking nuts) and whose agendas have only coincidentally aligned with each other, is going to shatter to pieces on the reefs of the 2008 election. It's been traditionally the Business Conservatives who have gotten their way in the party, leaving scraps and hunks of rotten meat for their far larger Religious Conservative base. The Ron Paulites are of course the natural fusion of both notions: a religious idolatry of the free-market with no realistic ideas whatsoever contained therein.
At any rate, I do enjoy talking about something other than Fox News and Rev. Wright here on DKos. So fire away. I might go make me a rON pAUL sticker to put up somewhere and get some Republicans in a bind.
Up-up-update: Ron Paul may indeed have two ideas that resonate very powerfully amongst Kossacks: end the War in Iraq, and on Drugs. I have said in the past that a stopped clock can be right twice a day, but that doesn't mean we should embrace Ron Paul. His other ideas are completely counter to the principles of the Democratic Party -- namely that government is a means of projecting the people's power, and Ron Paul would dismantle that means because he finds all these needy little people inconvenient to his lifestyle.
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