Are there enough delegates to nominate RP from the floor at the RNC?

As it stands right now, we don't have the delegates to get past a first ballot, unless something miraculous happens.

John McCain needs 1191 bound or pledged delegates to win the GOP presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in September. As a result of the past week's GOP primaries, according to the most accurate record of how delegates are assigned at http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/R-PU.phtml , McCain now has 1273 bound or pledged delegates voting for him. (While it is true that McCain's "hard count" of pledged delegates, "the preference as originally assigned," [http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/R-HS.phtml ], is still only 1010, leaving an additional 181 "hard" bound delegates to go, the "soft count" is most reliable for our purposes.)

However, we DO have the delegates to possibly get past a first ballot -- and maybe even WIN -- if we nominate him for VICE President.

The presidential nominee and the vice presidential nominee are NOT voted on together, and delegates are NOT bound to vote for the VP choice of the presidential candidate they may otherwise be bound to support. RNC rules say that the vice presidential nominee is voted on in the same manner as the presidential nominee (but in a separate vote). The rules state that if a majority of the delegations from as few as five states support another vice-presidential candidate, they can force a floor vote on that alternative (see Rule No. 40b at http://www.gop.com/About/Rules31-41.htm ). So, should McCain win the nomination and fail to pick Ron Paul as his running mate; and should the majority of at least five state delegations force a floor vote on Ron Paul for VP; and should Ron Paul then receive a majority of total delegate votes...

Ron Paul can WIN the VP nomination.

Is Ron Paul better off staying in Congress? Let's see... vote after vote of 434-to-1... or President of the Senate, with a bully pulpit, franking privileges, and the tie-breaking vote? Imagine it: Ron Paul playing the same influential role as Dick Cheney has, but in an honest, Constitutional way.

We need to get every single Ron Paul delegate -- no matter who they're pledged to support for president -- up there to St. Paul, and NOT just for the presidential nominating process. If you can help out, please click below. Thanks.

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Bill Greene, founder
Delegates for Ron Paul
http://www.DelegatesForRonPaul.com/

I'd like to see Ventura run with Gary Johnson or Barry Goldwater Jr. on an Independent ticket. And Dr. Paul would endorse it.

now THERES a fantasy. Ron Paul wants to restore the party to what it was. Kinda hard to do that from a 3rd party. People dont realise how much he'd (we'd)lose by dumping the party altogether. He's got a pretty loud voice atm- and as long as hes in there we can Ron Paul up the planks so much that actual change is inevitable. A 12% 3rd party vote would make as much noise as our first moneybomb- then he'd be down amongst the ghosts. A memory..with no seat in congress.

3rd party run.

Jesse Ventura and Ron Paul together on a ticket would wake up more sheeple than you could ever imagine.

There would be more news coverage than you could shake a stick at.

Think about it.

They could win, and at the very least, Ron Paul's philosophy would be broadcast far and wide with the help of Jesse Ventura.

4 delegates and 6 alternates from Washington state.

have a sore loser law, if you lose the primary you can't be a write in canidate. Personally I think that law needs to be abolished. As citzens, we have the right to vote for we want.