A message from a Houston Meetup

The message refers to the fact that immediately after the polls closed every precinct had a convention. There business was transacted, including voting on resolutions to be taken to the Texas convention. Ron Paul supporters were selected as delegates in a high ratio and the resolutions were very unfavorable to McCain and favorable to Ron Paul. There is more excitement yet to go. Please read Jeremy's message:

I hear some of you are discouraged even now. Turn off your
televisions. The media lies, people die. How many of you knew the convention process existed 3 months ago? Why do you think the media is going to tell you the truth all about it now?

John McCain does not have the nomination locked up, and in fact the way things have played out is possibly in the worst shape he's ever been on the delegate front. Many of the Huckabee people are not going to vote for him. In our conventions last night, the no-confidence-in-McCain resolution passed unanimously in many rooms where we were not the majority. Those people are with us now, as long as we get them there. You have their names and noticed how they voted on core issues -- that is your new canvass list! Go win them as supporters, and keep them in the fight with us!

We don't need a bunch of candidates at St. Paul to keep going. We need a bunch of delegates there to keep going. Many of them were never bound in the first place, and many of the rest are now released and mad. The floor is going to be McCain-vs-everybody, and his support is just not there in even the people on the ground that are saying they'll vote for him. Remember what we told you about Reagan's Raiders, and get used to the phrase Paul's Patriots. (I'm tired of them having that word, I want it back.) If you think that's a fairy tale then WAKE UP and look at what we did in Texas last night!

HERE is how we could have lost it all last night, and ended the race in favor of McCain -- if you guys had not gone out, across the state, and done the work. That's it. If we got killed in the delegate process, it would send the message that we can't do it even in Texas, and other states that still need to vote would have a very hard time keeping their people going. Other states gave us a fair amount of momentum, but to me it really came down to us, here. Operation Come and Take It. Would Texas keep it going and make it even stronger, or would it fizzle here?

I need not have worried. Phase 2 of Operation Come and Take It was a resounding success. You guys responded, and I think last night may go down as the shot heard round the world of this Revolution. We still won't have final numbers for a while but there's no question we did something the rest of the country has got to hear about. The media isn't going to tell them any more than they told you, and we need those people out repeating our successes and expanding on them. We need them to be delegates in their own areas. Now. Point them to the resolutions we passed, and the strength with which we passed them -- to me, these resolutions serve as a great metric on how well we are doing in delegate strength. If we keep passing our resolutions, we are staying the majority. It's like the final numbers on the primary vote. Show others the resolutions if you want to encourage them; you can find them here:

http://www.ocati.org/dele...

Keep your eyes on the prize. We are after the national delegation and the party platform, nothing less. We had major success on that front last night, but it only continues if we keep going. We have 7 months until the national convention. We don't need all your time until then, and we probably need less than we've needed so far, but when we call we need you to be there. All the way to the end.