OUTRAGE in Louisiana!!

What you all are missing is that when we get to the convention there will most likely be only one of them left and Dr. Paul, and they will throw their votes to whoever opposes Dr. Paul. They did this purely to tie up the delegates for who ever is left standing at convention time. They also used the RTL moniker to deceive voters into voting against Dr. Paul but not for anyone.

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I saw your comments down at the bottom and hopefully I can help. If it makes you feel any better, I live here (in LA) and I find the process one mass of confusion.
We have 7 districts, and each district elects 15 delegates to go to the state level (on Feb. 16) at which point the # of delegates will be reduced to 44 through rounds of voting. After that point, I get confused so I won't try to explain it further than that.
Our primary is on Feb 9th.
Now, last night at the caucus (district 7) we had a huge Ron Paul table, and LOTS of Ron Paul people. There was one little Mitt Romney table with 3 people and hardly a soul talking to them.
Further down the hall, there was a large group of people with "Pro-life/Pro-Family" fliers, and lists of which delegates to vote for. We, at the time assumed that they were McCain people. Now, it appears that it was a fusion of the candidates banding together.
At one point, some McCain people were trying to take the Ron Paul delegate list out of our people's hands and substitute it with their list; but our group wisened up to that REAL quick.
We had a huge turnout, and there were Ron Paul people everywhere. We had stickers on everyone who walked in and was voting for Ron Paul delegates. But it was essentially one candidates delegates, up against all 4 others running as one group. It's ok though, we'll still kick their butts at the primary on the 9th.
Hope that helps a little.

My thoughts after the process....maybe we should have infiltrated THEIR campaigns, and run as delegates for their candidates (or pretended to be uncommited like they did) and then voted for Ron Paul at the state level. But then, that would be stooping to their level. :)

Something like "Ron Paul won more delegates than any other candidate!"

THAT would send the OM into a tizzie, and put this issue into the limelight!

Let's Reign! (Rev. 5:10)

I guess we should expect a lot more of this childlike behavior in the coming contests. On the positive side though, this is an obvious act of desperation. The saddest part is that this all boils down to 1 issue: Iraq. Blind loyalty to corrupt leadership is NOT a virtue, But saving face has become a way of life for this poor lot. These people would sooner Die than let their precious Trophy from Iraq slip away, and they'll gladly take the rest of us down with them.

So my question is, what is the better strategy? Focus on converting the enemy, or focus on new recruits? or both?

It doesn't matter if the other campaigns formed a pro-life/pro-family slate (Mitt pro-life?) except for the MEDIA. otherwise we still get the same number of delegates to the state convention. The other FUSION delegates are now UNCOMMITTED, which means that they could vote for anyone, including Ron Paul, but are most likely to break up into their previous choices. I mean can you see a huck supporter voting for Mitt? So we will still have the most delegates at the convention. That means we picked up AT LEAST 10 delegates last night. Probably more, with another 11-12 being split between the other 4 and 22 uncommitted unless there is a clear majority (51%) in the primary, which will mean those 22 go to the winner. Clearly underhanded, but does not affect our delegate count.

Do they actually WANT us to never vote Republican again?
I just watched Ron Paul's speech at the March For Life. They had huge Ron Paul banners. At least some of us are old enough to know what a real Republican is. Ron's speech was good.
And to think that the psuedo-Republicans used Ronald Reagan's image to impose tyranny. What a travesty.

Wouldn't these provisional votes matter once the no-RonPaul group has to split to their candidates? They don't matter against the entire group, but they could easily matter when the group gets to the LA state convention and each delegate has to pick one Republican candidate.