Will the TX GOP do what's right re Romney and Ron?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbksbW4AhTs Romney Visits Gilligan's Island The word "debate" is a sad and forlorn one. It can't get anyone to recognize it in public anymore. It used to be universally known that a debate means a serious, in-depth discussion about important matters. But nothing stays put anymore, and today people mainly hear the d-word mentioned after the word "presidential", as in "presidential debate". Alas and alack, there really ain't no such animal as that in these post-Constitutional Untied States! Call them presidential quizzes or maybe love-ins for presidential quislings, but debates they ain't. No actual discussion is allowed. All questions come from the host or hosts, often a panel of extreme-left media mavens. When a candidate answers, it's as if his or her opponent doesn't exist -- all stated in the third person, again directed at the questioner, not the rival. (Unless some neocon decides to go after Ron Paul, etc.) Now it appears the Texas Republican Party is on the brink of changing that. Let's hope so, because the sheer monotony of presidential banality gets positively prison-like around now each quadrennium. /\/.\/\/. http://www.change.org/petitions/mitt-romney-debate-ron-paul-houston-tx-on-may-24th-2012 Mitt Romney debate Ron Paul (Houston, TX on May 24th, 2012) The Republican Party of Texas is close to finalizing a deal that will bring a nationally televised Republican Presidential Debate to Houston, TX on May 24th, 2012. The debate will be the first one held since the March 3, 2012 hosted in Wilmington Air Park in Wilmington, Ohio. Now, is the perfect time to have another Presidential Debate as 1,001 delegates are still up for grabs. These delegates could change the course of the entire Republican race. It would cause great shame to the Republican Party to deny the constituents of these states a final debate that includes all continuing candidates as such could set clear the platforms of each candidate. With politically minded lineups on both sides of the fence, it is imperative that the constituents know EXACTLY where the candidates stand on the issues that face America as well as their respective states. New details come out about the platforms of the candidates on a daily basis and it is impossible to keep up with the updates. A public debate can clarify confusion. If that is not enough motivation, here is why We the People believe it is important that ALL candidates jump into the political debate arena in Texas: 1. Candidate Stances on Critical Issues: Topics will range from national issues, such as foreign policy, balancing the budget, and health care to state dilemmas, such as illegal immigration and education. The Republicans will present different sides of each issue as well as how their plans differ from the views of the incumbent. Therefore, it is imperative that the constituents know EXACTLY where each candidate stands on the issues and hear the opposing opinions that surround them. Identifying points and counterpoints for even the best-crafted message can only strengthen the argument. If an argument is solid there should be no fear of losing. 2. Public discourse: The Republicans will be able to show that they can engage in civilized debate of critical issues. It is imperative that the constituents are able to trust that their nominated candidate can stay on topic and not resort to accusations that are not well researched or are not based in proven fact. Designing a well-structured clearly articulated format for debate creates an environment for people to speak up. 3. Agreement/Disagreement: Constituents will be able to see where the candidates agree and disagree not only with each other but also with the incumbent. There is a difference between being told differences in ideology and seeing said ideology play out in debate. It is expected that there will be some conformity as well as differentiating sides. Each citizen is entitled to know just where the lines are actually drawn in order to form a clear cut decision on who should receive the binding vote of said individual. Inviting and debating opposing viewpoints disarms whatever resistance resides in the system. 4. Participation of Constituents: When candidates are on the campaign trail they mostly just talk about what said candidate is going to do for the state in which they currently reside. On the other hand, public debate covered by a news station gives candidates the opportunity to talk about national issues with a national participating audience. As it is the 21st century, people from all across the nation will be able to participate by asking questions. This promotes a mass understanding of the issues that ALL Americans face. A structured well-moderated debate is a novel and powerful alternative to another webcast or town meeting..........

Ron Paul liberates the Bayou State

This shouldn't need much comment. Sure sounds like our hero still has a fighting chance to me! Wish the beautiful formatting and emphasis of Mr. Wead's email would transfer, but that's how it goes. /\/.\/\/. Louisiana Shocker: Ron Paul Wins By Doug Wead Well, the cat is out of the bag. Saturday’s district conventions in Louisiana give the Ron Paul campaign 74% of the delegates headed into the June state convention where the delegation to the Republican National Convention in Tampa will be finally determined. Another state, another unseen victory for the Texas congressman. And, it should be noted, another embarrassment for the apparent nominee, former Governor Mitt Romney. Now, the question is this. How many other states have their own surprises coming? Months ago the Ron Paul campaign looked at Louisiana and decided that the best strategy was to concentrate on the caucus. The rules in Louisiana apportion 20 of the states delegates from the votes in its statewide primary, which was held last March and 24 delegates from it caucus system which elects delegates at the precinct level to go to district conventions where they elect delegates to go to the state convention where the final delegation will be chosen. What would you do? Spend your money trying to win the 20? Or spend your money trying to win the 24? Former Pennsylvania Senator, Rick Santorum, former Speaker, Newt Gingrich, and former governor, Mitt Romney, spent their money competing for the publicity of the statewide primary, which Santorum won and which he proudly and tearfully acknowledged before a national television audience last March. Our hapless New York Times and Associated Press duly reported that the delegates in Louisiana would be awarded 15 to Santorum and 5 to Romney. Ron Paul was not even a mention. But as Lee Corso would say, “Not so fast.” The actual delegates will be chosen at a state convention in June which Ron Paul supporters will now dominate. Not just by a bare majority but by 74%. It means what they will not only get their 24 delegates to Santorum’s 15 and Romney’s 5, but they will also decide who the delegates representing Santorum and Romney will be. Ain’t it sweet? And it is the brainchild of Jesse Benton – John Tate’s masterful delegate strategy run by our intrepid, Dimitri Kesari. Shortly after the Newt Gingrich victory in South Carolina the hope for Louisiana seemed like a long shot. There was even talk of helping Gingrich there, to blunt Romney and Santorum. But the campaign surged and the moneybombs came through (thank you) and men and women at the grass roots refused to give up in the face of sometimes hostile party operatives. Saturday, it all paid off and Ron Paul won majorities in contests in Congressional Districts 1, 2, 5 and 6. The decision in district 4 was close, with Ron Paul winning almost half. What does it mean? It means you should review some of the posts written on this blog and read carefully what was predicted. As of now, the Ron Paul campaign is ahead of anything anticipated and is doing more with less than any modern presidential campaign in recent memory. It means that there are more surprises coming. It means that Ron Paul will be a factor in Tampa. Onto Texas, where liberty may once again make its last stand on May 29, 2012 in the Texas Primary. Remember the Alamo!

Gary North: "With YouTube and websites, there is no memory hole any longer"

[THEY'VE CHANGED BLOGGER.COM AND MY PARAGRAPH BREAKS DON'T WORK!?!?!] Gary North's byline always intrigues. Here's a typically piercing study by him on Dr. Paul's campaign. http://teapartyeconomist.com/2012/04/25/how-wrong-i-was-ron-paul-blackout-continues/ How Wrong I Was! The Media’s Blackout of Ron Paul Continues I thought that when Rick Santorum quit, that would get Ron Paul into the news. It is now a three-way race. I wrote that the media could no longer pretend that Paul is not running. Google lists only three candidates in its reports. So, that would mean Romney, Gingrich, and Paul. Wrong! In Google’s algorithm, Santorum is still in the race. He was the lead story on April 25 at 8:30 a.m..... In spite of Dr. North's brilliance, I suspect Ron still has a chance of winning the nomination. If he doesn't, and ends up helping Obummer win by splitting the GOP vote, maybe that's exactly what the GOP needs and deserves most. No, I wouldn't be any happier than you to see another four years of Obummer. It would be appalling and shocking every day as he appoints himself commiCzar of everything in sight and emperor of the universe. Everything will go to "the bad place" at an accelerated rate. But RepubliCONs would do the same at about 90% the same speed while all the while giving forth the strong delusion that they are a measurably "conservative" alternative to the Dummacrats. They aren't, and the sheeple urgently need to face it! Ron Paul is a Republican, not a RepubliCON, so I'm not talking about him in those terms. .........Speaking of RepubliCONs, get this from activist Talbert Black in Columbia area! I didn't catch it in time to act, but it's quite the commentary on our favorite topics: After passing the House today by a vote of 101-1 the Sunshine bill, H3235, will die and never become law! H3235 would have removed the legislative exemption to the FOIA Act if Representative Gene Pinson hadn't objected to giving the bill third reading tomorrow. In defiance to an overwhelmingly positive vote, Rep. Gene Pinson is singlehandedly killing the bill with this procedural tactic! By objecting to giving the bill third reading tomorrow, Rep Gene Pinson prevents the bill from making the cross over date to the Senate. By not meeting the cross over date, the bill will never be voted on in the Senate. This move by a single House member will prevent this bill from becoming law! Call Gene Pinson NOW at (803) 734-2821. Tell him to REMOVE his objection to giving H3235 third reading tomorrow. There is no time to waist. Act IMMEDIATELY. Call and email. One sentence is all you need to say: "Mr. Pinson, remove your objection to giving H3235 third reading tomorrow!" If we don't convince him TODAY, then the General Assembly will remain exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. They will continue to be able to hide their papers, e-mails, letters and documents from public scrutiny. Contact him today at (803) 734-2821 and at genepinson@schouse.org! Best regards, Talbert Black Jr. Dr. Clarkson always called the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act the greatest bills Congress ever passed. They are indeed something like that if Americans will only activate them -- but I fear hundreds of millions of our co-citizens have no idea of their existence or meaning! Say, isn't it good to see RepubliCON John McCain taking a short breather from being a communist stooge -- and New York being exposed as a fount of evil once again? http://godfatherpolitics.com/4882/new-york-media-whore-senator-trying-to-run-arizona-state-government/ New York Media Whore Senator Trying to Run Arizona State Government ......In other news, some decadence in the private sector you may want to beware of: http://godfatherpolitics.com/4887/groupon-offers-discounted-pornography-tour/ Groupon Offers Discounted Pornography Tour Decadence can strike home without warning. This just in from a staunch PN news gatherer: http://greenville.craigslist.org/grp/2899851080.html New Witchcraft/Wicca Study group (Greenville/Upstate) Pardon my cynicism -- and please plan to come to the PN's Health and Freedom Conference THIS SATURDAY. Details at patriotnetwork.info! /\/.\/\/.

More delicious zeroes for Dr. Paul -- the rEVOLution in Iowa

Via email, a fantastic video featuring one of the worst people in the world, Rachel Maddow:

"I Think Ron Paul Just Won Iowa!" Rachel Maddow April 23, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EfS1x5RnZZQ

"Forget the beltway media narrative, forget the main script" -- that's what Ms Madcow actually says almost as if she's joined the ranks of Ron Paul truthers. This is the language typical of those standing up for freedom of choice in presidents, not those in the business of squelching it in the very "media" she epitomizes.

She does a passable job of reporting this momentous news, so we won't attack her as she deserves the rest of the time -- but be warned: the video contains uncensored, un-processed images of Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Wolf Blitzer. I therefore give it an R rating -- safe for children to hear, but not to watch.

Ms Madcow covers the "Warren Harding" strategy which Paul supporters are in effect using. It simply amounts to working to win the election in real, practical terms as opposed to relying on hype, image, and clichés. Half the fun of all this is our hero and his supporters have freely announced what they were doing but the GOP establishment and its groupies have gone on pursuing those other tawdry things in blithe indifference to reality. Now it appears Ron very well may win the nomination via number of delegates! The PN Executive Director assures me that today's headlines proclaiming Romney the nominee are as fake as the others all this time (I've been out of the country -- more on that soon).

The zeroes mentioned in our headline? Ms Madcow has to admit that four thousand came out to cheer our hero in Philadelphia in the rain.

Please don't miss the Health and Freedom Conference in Greenville this Saturday -- details at http://www.patriotnetwork.info !

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Mitt Romney's hawks deeply concerned for future of GOP -- not USA

Or, as a fine Ron Paul blogger puts it, "Romney advisers are concerned that the rising total of Ron Paul delegates will lead to an unmanageable RNC." So, why don't the dummies all agree to vote for the only true Republican on the ticket?

"The sleepy New York Times" -- I like that. Somebody slip it a few vitamin C tablets!

Ron Paul Wins in Iowa and Minnesota, Romney in a Panic

By Doug Wead

Ron Paul supporters surged to victory in yesterday's Minnesota and Iowa district conventions, dominating the process and picking up more delegates to the Republican National Convention. As reported last week, a number of Romney Hawks are now deeply concerned that Ron Paul has already laid the groundwork for similar success in six more caucus states.

Yesterday"s results for Ron Paul will only increase the influence of Hawks inside the Mitt Romney camp.

Romney advisers are concerned that the rising total of Ron Paul delegates will lead to an unmanageable RNC. Some observers felt that the 1992 convention hurt an incumbent president George H. W. Bush and was a factor in his loss to Bill Clinton.

In most states, victories at the district conventions decide who will move onto the state conventions where most of the delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa will be selected.

The rules in Minnesota are slightly different and some of those final delegates were actually selected at scattered district conventions yesterday. Reports from our own Marianne Stebbins in Minnesota show that Ron Paul now has 20 out of the 24 delegates already chosen to represent the state at the Republican National Convention in Tampa and the campaign is poised to do just as good at the upcoming state convention, May 18-19, when the final 13 will be chosen.

In Iowa, Jennifer Jacobs, a reporter for the Des Moines Resister, broke into open what had been our little secret, namely, the takeover of the GOP in Iowa. "A rising tide of Republicans who share Ron Paul"s philosophy of limited government are flooding into GOP party roles in Iowa," Jennifer wrote, reporting on yesterdays Iowa district conventions.

Actually, it is a phenomenon seen all across the country. It is viewed by many political observers as the biggest transformation of the Republican Party since 1988, when evangelical Christians joined the process and dominated state positions for a whole generation.

While the Iowa Ron Paul campaign is keeping its cards close to the vest, we all got a sneak peak from an the Des Moines Register story which reported that six of the new Iowa GOP state central committee members elected Saturday have publicly expressed support for Ron Paul. Joes Kurtinitis, Kris Thiessen, Dave Cushman, Jeff Shipley, John Kabitzke and Marcus Fedler. "Two more," Jennifer Jacobs reports, "have close ties." The new state chairman is also a Ron Paul supporter, who served as a co-chairman for the congressman"s Iowa state organization.

The Iowa state GOP convention is set for Jun 16, 2012.

Meanwhile, the sleepy New York Times has posted for five months and still posts, even today, that the total delegate count for Ron Paul in Iowa is one. They say that the total delegate count for Ron Paul in Minnesota is nine. In fact, Ron Paul supporters will now dominate both state conventions. And the same trend is ongoing in states across the country. (end of message)

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Heart-stopping economic news

Yesterday it was a sudden, brilliant anti-Zionist article in a site For the second time in a row, God has graciously dropped a great link in our laps from a source not noted for it. Today, by providence and coincidence, the opposite: a great non-Zionist article courtesy a site normally taken up with those subjects. A money guru I know is ecstatic to hear about it! http://www.henrymakow.com/alternative_currency.html The Money Power can be Defeated: The Swiss "WIR" The Rothschild bankers are using debt-based currency to enslave us. By failing to adopt alternative currencies, we are accomplices in our own enslavement. /\/.\/\/.

Un-common sense for states re the fedplague

Sites are proliferating that offer deep yet simple wisdom for the supposedly complicated problems making headlines these days. Here's a good one: www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-how-states-can-protect-themselves-financial-collapse How States Can Protect Themselves From Financial Collapse Well, how about it? Why should states send money to a behemoth that spends it on goofy junk? Each state is incapable of maintaining its own highways, etc? If Texas were to secede it would be something like one of the top fifty economies in the world. (Or was it the top 20?) I don't necessarily recommend secession as my friends in the League of the South do, but the possibility makes for some good statistics. Email from Talbert Black in Columbia yesterday -- a further blip on the screen: I just wanted to drop you a quick note that the South Carolina Sound Money bill, H4128, may get a vote on the floor of the SC House today. Remember, this is the bill that will give South Carolina a legal alternative to failing United States federal reseve notes. You can tune in and watch live at this link. Best regards, Talbert Black /\/.\/\/.