"I wish I could tell you we were doing well right now, we're not. Ron Paul has totally taken our state party over" - Jon Kyl
Submitted by Shawker on Wed, 08/29/2012 - 14:02TAMPA, Fla. — Two Republican leaders are worried about the condition their state party structures are in, a concern mirrored in a number of key battlegrounds nationwide.
"I wish I could tell you we were doing well right now — we're not. Ron Paul has totally taken our [state] party over," Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) told an activist from his state.
"His folks have taken over half of our party, as a result of which we are split down the middle, totally ineffective, screwed up," chimed in former Rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.), a foreign-policy adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign who remains active in Minnesota state politics. "We are almost better off that they totally took over our party because most of us now are not worried about the party, we've got two or three independent expenditure efforts going by business leaders. We were split down the middle and had constant civil war within the party — nobody would be doing the basic get-out-the-vote."
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/24563...
Jon Kyle denied his comments today on Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/happening-now/index.html#/v/18...
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No worries
Sen. Jon Kyl. Diebold has the honors of picking the winner anyway.
You should have backed Ron Paul but it makes no difference. Diebold is boss.
Ron Paul is da man.
We KNOW with 100% certainty
We KNOW with 100% certainty he is a damn LIAR. The Paul delegates are NOT behind Romney...
If you disagree with me on anything you are not a real libertarian...
Ha... I voted yesterday.
He must be talking about me. I am not going away.
~Jerk~
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I can tell you with certainty
that the get out the vote effort is almost nonexistant in every state, except by special interests.
especially at the county level. maybe some state.
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NJ
Hee hee hee.
How "awful"! Heehee. Liberty is coming to town.
Wow. This is incredibly good
Wow. This is incredibly good and inspiring news.
Holy crap
and fall over backwards in it! That's funny!
Thats why...
Good example.
That's why everyone must join the GOP and go to their meetings.
Become the tent.
Appears to win bid to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl
Jeff Flake wins GOP primary for U.S. Senate
Appears to win bid to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2012/...
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Great News
Time for Flake to join the Revolution and the AZ Liberty movement to help his Senate Campaign. Flake always ranked near the top in the annual RLC Liberty Index ratings. Go Jeff
Make a post of the down votes in each state
If you know of someone worthy post it. Don't just comment because it'll get lost in the thread amoung other comments. Now we go for the down vote. "Hit the ground running running running" (-author Haley Reinhart songstress)
Ron Paul is da man.
We are only half the party now. Wait four years.
Soon Paul-Liberty Republicans will be the Party, like it was intended.
Exactly.
We the people took over half the party. We'll take back the other half four years from now.
Made me laugh. Good point. :)
Made me laugh. Good point. :)
It's Kyl not Kyle
Not to pick nits, but he's one of my two dufus Senators, and it's spelled Kyl, not Kyle.
No King but Jesus, no President but Ron Paul
cheers.
fixed.
It's not our fault the old
It's not our fault the old fool doesn't even know how to spell his own last name properly. ;-)
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Lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ron Paul has NOT taken over our party. Really? That's why you're on Fox news of all places playing defense! Love to watch the worms squirm!!!
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"Fully half the quotations found on the internet are either mis-attributed, or outright fabrications." - Abraham Lincoln
Re Senator Kyle, I will never again watch any Senate hearing
on C-Span and believe a word he's saying. Okay, so maybe The Hill totally fabricated that he'd said anything Ron Paul (a direct quote that was published). When asked about the party showing a more united front, to see that man stand there and say, "I'm not sure it would be possible to show a more united front than we are right now" was laughable. Just too bad the reporter wasn't such a coward, mentioning what people were saying, how what happened on the floor showed the RNC's power grab, regarding "rule changes, things like that." Would have been nice if she specifically asked this Republican leader about... "the new rule that changes the traditional means by which Republicans have chosen their candidates, with the RNC granting itself power to overrule Arizona's right - the right of all states - to elect their own delegates."
Translation
"I'm not sure it would be possible to show a more united front than we are right now"
Translation: This is the best we can do as we have only half a party and they are all morons. This is the best it gets right now.
Ron Paul is da man.
You're right Teafortwo :)
I was thinking that he was implying the party was already 100% united - such as other propaganda I've seen. But you're right. He might have been telling the truth. The situation might not be good, but it's as good as it gets!
I Wish Dr. Paul
I wish Dr. Paul would get behind a down ballot get out the vote drive. It would give more credibility to our state people that are now responsible for the get out the vote tasks at the local level.
. It would be awesome if they saw US house senate candidates got significantly more votes than Romney
Hello Mr. Kyle, here's a tip
Hello Mr. Kyle,
here's a tip for you, sir:
and it's just the beginning. Yup.
Still, hats off to your boss in his cheating again. You guys never cease to surprise me. Seriously !
With My Best Contempt for You,
Cyril
My name's pronounced like "see real". Its root is "Lord".
"The demand of a great people is always at the scale of its most serious misfortunes." --De Gaulle
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Eloquently spoken, Lys!
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Ha,
"We are almost better off that they totally took over our party because most of us now are not worried about the party, we've got two or three independent expenditure efforts going by business leaders. We were split down the middle and had constant civil war within the party — nobody would be doing the basic get-out-the-vote."
He means they will starve the party for money. That is what the Nueces gang did here in Texas when they lost a county chair seat. Well that and doing everything possible to drive out the new chair.
As for as doing the basic get-out-the-vote, how much work do you think the old rich bastards do?
I hope that some of folks
I hope that some of folks that have taken over parties will try to get donations from around the country from liberty supporters. There are many of us who don't have much to support yet locally, and can donate to spots around the country who do. I'd be happy to donate to the new Ron Paul supporters in the Arizona GOP, so long as I know the money will be going to those folks.
This is why we should STAY INVOLVED
WINNING. :)
"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid." - Ronald Reagan
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