Minnesota GOP: “Vote for McCain and Shut Up!”
The Ron Paul Revolution’s growing success continues to haunt Republican party officials who support amnesty for illegal aliens and Al Gore’s global warming propaganda by pressing on with their efforts to make John McCain this year’s Republican nominee.
In Minnesota, John McCain got only 22% of the vote in the state’s caucuses on February 5, compared with Ron Paul’s 16%. The Minnesota party establishment is concerned enough to send out an unsigned letter to GOP members, signed only as “Friends of the Minnesota Conservative Delegate Team”.
In a chilling attack on free speech and open discussion among Republicans, the missive exhorts GOP members to attend the State Convention this Friday and assist the party establishment in stifling the growing number of dissenting voices:
Dear Republican friend,
Conservatives must unite if Barack Obama is to be defeated in November. As conservative leaders in this state and in our party, we have come together to seek your support for the positions of National Delegate, Alternate, and Presidential Elector.
As members of the Minnesota Conservative Delegate Team, we began this campaign season supporting a wide array of candidates for President. The primary and caucus season was hard fought, but fair. Through the rigorous nomination process, John McCain has emerged victorious as the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. As members of the Minnesota Conservative Delegate Team, we are pledging our support to John McCain should you elect us to the positions we seek at the upcoming Republican State Convention.
Unfortunately, the supporters of Ron Paul still refuse to unite our party behind our presumptive nominee. At our Congressional District conventions, the Paul supporters ran slates of candidates seeking to thwart the will of the majority of those who have already united behind John McCain. Paul supporters are promising to do the same at our State Convention by fielding a slate of candidates who continue to refuse to accept the outcome of the primary season.
You can help launch our party to victory in November in a few important ways. First, please attend the Republican State Convention in Rochester. The convention will come to oder at 9 AM on Friday, May 30. Please be registered and in your chair by 9 AM. Virtually every Paul supporter in the state will be in Rochester. Let’s not let the will of the vast majority be overcome by a tiny, organized and motivated minority.
Second, support the Minnesota Conservative Delegate Team with your vote. Whatever success Paul supporters have had in Minnesota conventions has largely been the result of the failure of mainstream conservative Republicans to unite behind a qualified team of party leaders. A fragmented votes opens the door for the organized minority to have much more voice and control than their numbers justify. Unite behind the Minnesota Conservative Delegate Team.
Finally, reject efforts of the Paul minority to disrupt and manipulate our convention with challenges to the convention rules and procedures. Cries for “fairness” by the Paul group are simply desperate tactics by a minority who simply don’t have the votes and wish to overcome the will of the majority. Manufactured confusion and delay has been the standard for Paul supporters at other State GOP conventions. Support the Committee Reports that will be presented and don’t open the door for Paul manipulation.
History has taught us that Republicans need to stand united if we are to win in November. The civil war that is ripping the Democrats apart does not need to occur within our party; we have our nominee, John McCain.
Sincerely,
Friends of the Minnesota Conservative Delegate TeamPaid for by Minnesota Conservative Delegate Team, 4521 Belvidere Lane, Edina, MN 55435. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
Just like its counterpart in Hawaii, the Minnesota GOP is looking for “sheep to hand in the ballots they want” and who will unite behind their “leader” even if they completely reject his elitist values and plans for America’s future.
Here’s what one outraged GOP member responded:
I do not, cannot, will not, understand the argument that because people in OTHER STATES chose McCain in THEIR primaries, that somehow that defines the will of Minnesota Republicans. It certainly doesn’t represent the people I talked to on Super Tuesday. Why I should support people who try to bully ME so that they can bully everyone in our state from St. Paul is beyond me.
The Ron Paul Presidential Campaign issued the following press release, announcing that Ron Paul would be speaking adjacent to the convention:
Minneapolis, Minnesota – Presidential candidate and Congressman Dr. Ron Paul will speak to his supporters, and other delegates and alternates to the Minnesota Republican State Convention, Friday morning, May 30, at 7:30 AM at the Mayo Memorial Park, 30 Civic Center Drive, Rochester MN. The park features an amphitheater setting adjacent to the rear of the Mayo Civic Center where the convention is to be held.
After repeated requests for an invitation, the Republican Party of Minnesota’s Chairman, Ron Carey, issued a letter to Marianne Stebbins, Minnesota Campaign Coordinator for Ron Paul 2008 PCC, denying Ron Paul a speaking opportunity at the convention. (Letter attached.)
“I put in five calls to the MN GOP over the past several weeks, requesting a simple yes or no on letting Dr. Paul speak, with no response,” said Stebbins, “and only received the written denial following a demand for response via certified mail. So the Ron Paul campaign extends our invitation to all GOP state delegates and alternates to hear for themselves why this remarkable man has created such a stir in this presidential election.”
When the gavel drops in the Civic Center at 9:00 AM, Stebbins anticipates the convention Rules Report will favor the MN GOP Chairman’s picks for national delegate, allowing only “qualified” candidates to appear on the ballot, to be named later by the Nominating Committee, while not defining such qualifications. Paul’s supporters will appeal to the delegates of the convention to amend the rules in the interests of fairness and openness to allow for all who filed their intent to run with the MN GOP to appear on the ballot.
“Other challenges to the rules may be brought in an orderly fashion,” said Stebbins, “by no means as an attempt to disrupt the convention, but strictly to favor an open, democratic process to allow for the delegation to make decisions about whom it wishes support, as opposed to an orchestrated election of unopposed, backroom candidates.”
MN GOP Chairman, Ron Carey, last week sent an email to party officers urging them to turn out their McCain delegates, forwarding an email message from the Ron Paul campaign as an additional motivator. Contrary to Carey’s claims, the vast majority of caucus attendees voted against McCain.
Marianne Stebbins, Minnesota Campaign Coordinator for Ron Paul 2008 PCC stated, “Ron Carey is misusing his office of Chairman to encourage turnout only of delegates for one candidate. The Republican Party Bylaws clearly forbid this activity. If Mr. Carey wishes to actively campaign for one candidate and for his slate of candidates for national delegate, he should relinquish the Chair to someone who can more impartially handle the duties of the office.”
Dr. Ron Paul, tenth-term Congressman from Texas, is one of two candidates remaining in the Republican race for President, and has earned seven national delegates so far out of Minnesota. With his new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto, now in its third week on the New York Times Bestseller List, he remains in the race to offer conservatives an option in the primaries, and to spread the message of Liberty, Peace and Prosperity.
Minnesota Republican State Convention
WHEN: May 30, 7:30 AM
WHERE: Mayo Memorial Park, 30 Civic Center Drive
City: Rochester
State: MN
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Let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of authoritarianism as unpatriotic or uncaring. Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. Understanding the magnificent rewards of a free society makes us unbashful in its promotion, fully realizing that maximum wealth is created and the greatest chance for peace comes from a society respectful of individual liberty. – Ron Paul
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I am having a hard time with “conservative”. Please remember McCain is a Neocon not a “conservative.”
Ron Paul is the true “conservative!”
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Giant Ron Paul Banner idea; Spread it if you like it!
I wonder if anyone at the campaign, or the grassroots organizations around the US, have considered that as long as the banner faces the voters, it’s well placed?
I had the idea that a GIANT Ron Paul BANNER might be placed at such places as the Canadian side of the Detroit River…100% viewable from Detroit, but a lot harder for the McCainiots to damage since they’d have to go into a foreign country to do so.
One could be placed across from Belle Isle Park, where thousands of people relax each day after work, and tens of thousands kick back on the weekends.
Perhaps one could be placed on each side of the Ambassador Bridge, being viewable both upriver and downriver on both sides of the border?
Perhaps on the “VERY LONG WITH NOTHING ELSE TO DO BUT LOOK AROUND AT THE SCENERY” Mackinac Bridge to the Upper Peninsula, or on the Canadian side of that span, as well?
Anyway, these are at least “semi-unconventional” ideas, but let’s face it, Ron Paul’s campaign is building up steam even despite a near-total lack of media coverage…so obviously what we learn from this is that “UNCONVENTIONAL WORKS!”
If you like the idea, SPREAD IT AROUND!
PS: Isn’t it funny how more people know about Ron Paul around the world than seem to know about him in the USA? Hmmmmmmm…
This suggesion comes from ElectroPig on myspace.
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Robyn, I love the idea about a banner in Canada. Hillarious.
“we began this campaign season supporting a wide array of candidates for President (LIE). The primary and caucus season was hard fought, but fair (LIE). Through the rigorous nomination process, John McCain has emerged victorious as the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party (LIE). As members of the Minnesota Conservative Delegate Team, we are pledging our support to (Ron Paul) should you elect us to the positions we seek at the upcoming Republican State Convention.
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Hey Minnesota: It’s not considered fair when only one candidate is advertised and the other is ignored.
According to the Law of the Constitution of the United States, Ron Paul is the only candidate that qualifies as a legitimate American President. All the others lie.
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Ron Paul is a chameleon. He ran as a liberal last time. John McCain is a true conservative. Praise God for his sweeping Idaho victory!
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McCain is the true liberal. Here’s a recent quote by Ron Paul:
They asked McCain the other day which Democrat he wants to run against so [...] he said, “I want to run against Ron Paul, because he is like a Democrat”. That got me thinking, why am I the “Democrat”? I want balanced budgets, limited government, I want the foreign policy that Bush ran on, of no nation building and no policing of the world, I don’t want No Child Left Behind, I don’t want higher taxes like McCain has voted for, I don’t want McCain-Feingold, I don’t want Gore’s environmentalism – and he calls me the Democrat! And then they wonder why they’re losing elections. [...] I think they’ve lost their way.
And here’s a forum where McAmnesty supporters congregate. http://johnmccainforum.com/
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I am not a republican, but I like Ron Paul. Up until this very moment I did not even realize he was still in the race! What happened to Democracy? Please get the word out to the media that Ron Paul is still in the race!!!
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Wow.. Id be embarrassed to be a McCain supporter in Minnesota!!
The McCain campaign thinks they are so dumb that they had people going around the convention floor wearing RED McCain ballcaps and sporting headsets.. These folks were in the balconies and on the floor….. Any time there was a vote they would holdup a “yes” or a “No” paddle to tell the Sheeple which way to vote. One of the lighter moments of comic relief can when a Paul supporter started following one of the McCain paddle prodders around with a homemade sign that said “Maybe”!
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We will NOT shut up! This is the kind of person that likes to take other’s freedoms away so he/she can have their way. I say, NO MORE WAR and if you vote for McCain you will have MORE WAR. These RICH people care nothing of the lives they are expending. It is all about GREED. The oil supplies are depleting and it is a race to see who gets it. Shameful!!!! When lives are looked at as mere expendable we have degraded as a NATION. Those left here will be judged accordingly. How many lives must we expend so the POWERFUL can satisfy their selfishness? How many?
This person evidently has not read what goes on in the Bohemian Groves. I don’t know about you but this is scary leadership. When does a so-called Christian, BUSH, practice the art of worshiping statues and sacrificing child effigies??? Research this people if you don’t believe it. It has been in the New York Times. Read the article. It is disgusting.
I feel like I am living amongst a bunch of brainwashed nuts. I see it and think this is not for real. Then I look at all the pictures in the CFR building and think My God it is real. I would think that people would wake up and see what is going on here. When is it o.k. to pledge allegiance to a Skull and Bones Society? When is it o.k. to take part in homosexual acts when you are suppose to be straight and married? When the media shows this in front of you it should make your stomachs turn but instead you want more of the same thing in office. The media asked Kerry and Bush about their memberships in the Skull and Bones and they make light of it. I think it is disgusting how they have brainwashed AMERICA.
But of course the media is owned by some of these same Club Bohemian members. What America has failed to do is READ!!!! Have we come to the point of accepting this evil as just a play past time for grown men?
Research these if you do not believe: New World Order (Rockerfeller), Martial LAW, The Patriot Act (DICTATORSHIP), The Federal Reserve (ROBBING YOU BLIND), THULES SOCIETY, Secret Society, Prescot Bush and the Hitler Connection, Deceit in America, etc.
If you do are blind you do not understand the FIGHT. The FIGHT is to keep our freedoms. As a government GROWS your freedoms DIMINISH. That Constitution that we hold so dear is what gave you your freedoms. Those that served and died did so to PRESERVE it. Will you let them die in vain?
I am a very educated person and I can tell you I am not in any way a NUT case. I have expanded my research outside the government institutions. My box that they placed me in is now open.
Ron Paul is the only answer to bringing this country back to the people. Smaller government means more freedom. I stand with INTEGRITY. This used to mean something in this country.
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Don’t you idiots know why McCain calls Paul a dem. He RAN AS A DEMOCRAT TWICE!
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Ron Paul is the true American patriot running for President, the one you can depend on to honor the oath of office and fully defend the Constitution.
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Re: earlier email remarks from Skip on the 4521 Belvidere Lane, Edina, MN 55435 address being attributed to Tom Ries or Mr. Ries.
Please disregard said email.
It’s incorrect.
It’s the address of the 3CD Treasurer, who was previously a co-chair of SD41, fyi.
The correction has been verified from an insider from SD41.
Thanks.
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[...] RonPaul.com: Minnesota GOP: Vote for McCain and Shut Up [...]
The Government has become what the people who created it feared, a monster a machine, all the petty political arguments we are caught up in are just blinders to keep us from the truth. McCain could care less about the people. We the people ….what does that really mean to you and I, IT SHOULD MEAN ALOT…but we are so caught up in our own day to day lives that we don’t care anymore, how many people in this country have actually read the constitution, its sad, we should be ashamed…and you who say shut up and vote for McCain….shameful, you get what you deserve. Democrats and Republicans alike have let us down and continued to lie to us yet we the people do nothing and we get what we deserve….slaves to Government. If you want to do something, get up shut off your TV, your Ipod, your computer, your video games and read. Study history because it repeats itself, study the constitution and what our fore-fathers wanted for us. and vote and do something about it….or you can shut up and vote for McCain and become the slaves you deserve to be. Isn’t it time for a party that that doesn’t take money, isn’t corrupt and believe’s in integrity…I know what is that is that a new word?
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I read similar article also named | Ron Paul .com, and it was completely different. Personally, I agree with you more, because this article makes a little bit more sense for me
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Written by a housewife in New Brunswick, to her local newspaper. This is
one
ticked off lady.
‘Are we fighting a war on terror or aren’t we?
Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores
on September 11, 2001 and have continually threatened to do so since?
Were people from all over the world, not brutally murdered that day, in
downtown Manhattan , across the Potomac from the nation’s capitol and in a
field in Pennsylvania ?
Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or
crushing death that day, or didn’t they?
And I’m supposed to care that a a few Taliban were claiming to be tortured
by a justice system of the nation they come from and are fighting against in
a brutal insurgency.
I’ll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for
incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.
I’ll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring
about the Holy Bible, the mere belief of which is a crime punishable by
beheading in Afghanistan .
I’ll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off
Nick Berg’s head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.
I’ll care when the cowardly so-called
‘insurgents’ in Afghanistan come out and fight like men instead of
disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.
I’ll care when the mindless zealots who blows themselves up in search of
nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide
bombs.
I’ll care when the Canadian media stops pretending that their freedom of
speech on stories is more important than the lives of the soldiers on the
ground or their families waiting a home to hear about them when something
happens.
In the meantime, when I hear a story about a CANADIAN soldier roughing up an
Insurgent terrorist to obtain information, know this:
I don’t care.
When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to
move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank:
I don’t care.
When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and
fed ’special’ food that is paid for by my tax dollars, is complaining that
his holy book is being ‘mishandled,’ you can absolutely believe in your
heart of hearts:
I don’t care.
And oh, by the way, I’ve noticed that
sometimes it’s spelled ‘Koran’ and other times ‘Quran.’
Well, Jimmy Crack Corn you guessed it,
I don’t care!!
If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your E-mail friends
Sooner or later, it’ll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous
behavior!
If you don’t agree, then by all means hit the delete button. Should you
choose the latter, then please don’t complain when more atrocities committed
by radical Muslims happen here in our great Country!
And may I add:
‘Some people spend an entire lifetime
wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Soldiers don’t
have that problem.’
I have another quote that I would like to add AND…….I hope you forward
all this.
One last thought for the day:
Only five defining forces have ever offered to die for you:
1. Jesus Christ
2. The Canadian Soldier.
3. The British Soldier.
4. The US Soldier , and
5. The Australian Soldier
One died for your soul, the other 4 for your freedom.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET ALL OF THEM.
AMEN!
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God Bless Our Troops and let’s bring them home!!!
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