{"id":31418,"date":"2012-08-09T08:55:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T12:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31418"},"modified":"2012-08-09T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T14:31:06","slug":"paulians-whats-this-popular-vote-thing-you-speak-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31418","title":{"rendered":"Paulians: What’s this popular vote thing you speak of?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Washington Times<\/a>, Ron Paul may have ended his campaign for the presidency months ago, but his supporters are trying to make an end run around the will of the voters. Even though Paul garnered only single digits among primary voters in every state except in states in which he was one of two choices, somehow Ron Paul’s supporters think they know better than the majority who should be president;<\/p>\n

A federal judge this week allowed delegates supporting Mr. Paul to file an amended complaint in a case in which they accuse the Republican National Committee of manipulating the delegate allocation process.<\/p>\n

Judge David O. Carter did, however, grant the RNC\u2019s motion to dismiss a previous complaint. The Paul delegates\u2019 amended complaint is due by Aug. 20, just a week before the Republican National Convention is scheduled to begin.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Mr. Paul, though he effectively ended his campaign in May without having won the popular vote in any state, has relied on an intensely loyal cohort of followers and staffers who took advantage of sparsely attended caucuses and entered into state party organizations to expand their influence and increase his delegate count across the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then they wonder why the rest of the party thinks they’re crackpots. They claim that they’re the only ones who understand the Constitution and then they show how much they care about the Constitution by circumventing the will of the voters. Although I agree with much of Ron Paul’s domestic policy, his foreign policy is juvenile and more suited to an 18th century agrarian nation. If he suddenly became brilliant in regards to foreign policy, I still wouldn’t support him because I don’t want to be associated with the infantile jerk-offs who do. Grow the hell up, for crying out loud. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Washington Times, Ron Paul may have ended his campaign for the presidency months … Paulians: What’s this popular vote thing you speak of?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ron-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}