I've assumed that all this talk of a brokered convention is premised on the battle between Santorum and Romney. But maybe what's really looming is a highly entertaining piefight between Ron Paul supporters and the Republican Party itself.
I gleaned this idea from my dirty little habit of reading the Daily Caller.
Ron Paul supporters plunge Denver GOP meeting "into madness"
In Colorado on Saturday morning, video correspondent Kelly Maher videotaped a meeting of the Denver County Republican Assembly. When a group of Ron Paul-pledged delegates arrived, she told The Daily Caller, things got crazy and Coloradans may have caught a sneak peek of Republican events to come later this year.
Maher says that reports that some sort of trouble was planned were circulating last week, which is why she was in attendance with her camera rolling.
“The Ron Paul chair here went around the GOP chair and committed $900 worth of security from the Denver Police,” she warned. “And now they’re sending out strategy emails on how to ‘shanghai’ the assembly.”
And shanghai they did. The meeting, Maher said afterward, “descended into madness” when Paul’s supporters “started screaming from the floor.”
The version of events that Maher gave to the
Denver Post goes like this:
The Ron Paul people showed up with an alternate set of rules and calendar for the day. (One woman) was standing at the mic and kept demanding to be recognized. She kept calling point of order and that was the first yelling. Once the rules were adopted the Ron Paul people demanded they be read aloud so Danny [Stroud, Denver Co. GOP Chairman] called up Brett [Moore, Denver Co. GOP Secretary] to read them, which made everyone flip out again because he did it in his fast reader voice (he used to be the reader for the state House.)
So what happens this summer if Ron Paul's delegates feel that the that they are being marginalized and trivialized at the national GOP convention?
PUMA II - Let the Piefight Begin!!!
UPDATE: This is in no way relevant to the above, but you need to know that Ron Paul wears an eyebrow toupee:
Now available in real human hair!
h/t to jennifer poole in the comments