The Ron Paulists

It's probably because Romney and the GOP screwed him over. As many people have been saying, if you do not fall in line with this new Republican party you get shoved out of the way. Just ask Buddy Roemer and Gary Johnson.

I think you're confused: no one has electoral college votes until the general election. What Ron Paul has are RNC votes.

Clrum, I have a customer of mine who is a huge Ron Paul supporter, he was down in Tampa for the convention, and is VERY upset with the RNC. What many people don't understand is that Ron Paul COULD have been the man making the acceptance speech last night. Paul had a plan to win the nomination, and many feel he either won, or was closer than anyone thinks. His plan was to run in the states that aren't winner take all, and at the convention try to get the states that other candidates won to vote for him instead of Romney. No one really knows if this would work, and the RNC made sure that Romney was nominated if the voters said so or not. You might want to ask why they stopped calling out how many votes Ron Paul received? Paul wouldn't endorse Romney because he doesn't support Romney, nor his views. I am not a crazy Ron Paul supporter, but if he was the republican nominee I would have considered voting for him. He has some very "matter of fact" ideas, and I think that he could run this country better than anyone running for office in the last ten years (including Obama, for all of my right wing (nut) haters out there). I think it was the RNC who weren't happy when the Ron Paul supporters were making more noise than the Romney supporters. I think it is the RNC members who showed poor manners hosting the ENTIRE party, not just the ones that bow down to the RNC. I think it would be very interesting to see Ron Paul run as a third party candidate. I can tell you that it would be the RNC that would regret their treatment of his supporters, and Romney would pay for it at the polls!!!

I worked as a volunteer on the Ron Paul Campaign. I did not get elected as a delegate. But I have friends who were. Their messages back to us were pretty bad. It was an all out war with the GOP doing a lot of underhanded things. The big walkout was over the rule changes that would basically stop any grassroots groups from every getting any real delegate representation in the party in future elections. The Romney campaign decided at the last minuate to take away delegates from some states and replace others from other states...getting rid of ron paul supporters who were lawfully elected as delegates by their state and replacing them with romney supporters. When it was going up for a vote on the convention floor the GOP keep some states delegates TRAPPED on buses and refused to let them off. why? they were going to file a minority report to stop the rule changes. also those states would have filed a floor motion to put forth Ron Paul as the nominee for president and force it to a full floor vote. Maine got mad when 1/2 their delegates got taken from them and staged a walk off. I am hearing all kinds of underhanded BS if not out right illegal BS that went on at the convention. Nothing done by the Ron Paul delgates were illegal. They were following the convention rules. I am hearing a lot of bad things about what happened at the convention...Not just holding delegates hostage on a bus until after the rules change vote was over,or replacing delegates...things like threating people's lives and there have been reports of a few broken fingers. i know of one lady that gathering signatures for the minority report had her paperwork forcefully taken from her by a GOP member. The media only showed the walk off, they did not show what lead up to the walk off. Also if anyone was watching...when the rules change was being done on live tv by the muppet man...did anyone else notice that the "I" did not have it...the "na"s did...but they passed it anyway. There is video circulating of the telepromter while this was going on...it was ALL scripted and decided BEFORE the vote, the telepromter muppet man was reading off of said motion passed BEFORE the vote was made. IT was all just a dog and pony show. IT WAS RIGGED. Stupid us played by the rules...we should have known the RNC would not. I don't want to hear ONE gop person tell us we should fall in line and vote for Romney in November. The GOP has showed us exactly what they think of us and what lengths they will go to to keep us from having a voice in this party. So why support a party or a candidate who has no respect for us or our views and has done everything possible to marginalize us and push us out of the party. The GOP has shown itself to be a corrupt bully, who thinks rules do not apply to them. That they can break them or change them at the drop of a hat to make sure they win and any opposition voice is silenced. No thanks..not a party I want to belong to. If this is how they will treat one of their own...how do you think they will treat the rest of the nation?