On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Strange day when whacked out Paul delegates qualify as actual news. > Ron Paul won't form a third party because as batsh*t crazy as he is, > he has enough political savvy to know he would be rendered meaningless > if he left the GOP. He'd have no powerbase, no established system of > donors to draw from, no network of connections, and no chance of > getting elected to anything. > As you say, dude is batshit crazy, and it is not clear how politically meaningful his personal candidacy is right now. But that is not the news here. He has about 7-8% of the delegates at the convention. If even 3% of politically active Republicans decided to sit on their hands this fall and not vote for Romney, that could be a difference-maker. If they doubled themselves, and then took 15% of the Republican party out early next year to join the Libertarian party, perhaps making common cause with 10-15% of disaffected Democrats and a similar chunk of registered Independents, you might have something. I don't think any of that is actually going to happen (except maybe a non-zero percentage of Paul-Republicans sitting out this election). But it is news. News too was the incident when two Republican delegates threw nuts at an African-American cameraperson for CNN and yelled "this is how we treat animals". The two dlelegates were thrown out, and their behavior condemned by Convention authorities. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
