So You Think McCain Has Won The Republican Nomination?

Not to be too technical here, but McCain has not won anything as of yet other than some "bound" delegates. A lot can happen at the convention. While the chances are slim that delegates will sit out the first round of voting, most Republican's I know are pretty discussed with the propped up PRESUMPTIVE nominee McCain.

If you think my idea of a revolt at the convention is out of consideration, please take a look at the Bull Moose Party years as well as Abraham Lincoln. In fact historian Michael Beschloss pointed out on a PBS Online Newshour Interview, "From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business. And by that, I mean you had delegates who came to a convention and they wouldn't really know for sure who would be the nominee who would come out of that convention in most cases because not only were the delegates divided but they also were not pledged undyingly to a particular candidate. For instance, a delegate could come to a convention, pledged perhaps to Franklin Pierce, but then perhaps between the time he was made a delegate and the time he came to the convention, he might think perhaps Pierce was not a good idea and change his vote to someone else. So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week. Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee."

He also adds, "One example was the Republicans in Chicago, 1920. There was a deadlock among a number of candidates, a number of ballots, until you finally had leaders of the party retreating into the famous back smoke-filled rooms, and that's where that term first came from, in which they decided on a dark horse, Senator Warren Harding of Ohio. They agreed to throw their votes to him. And so the result was that Harding, who was a figure whom many Americans had never heard of, turned out to be the nominee at the end of that week, something that was a surprise to everyone but the only solution to a very divided convention. Four years later, 1924, the Democrats had roughly the same experience, but they went actually through nine very hot days to 103 ballots, until they finally nominated John Davis, who was a rather obscure West Virginia lawyer, as their compromise candidate, after this great nine days of very raucous divisions that threatened to tear apart that party."

Most people have not taken the time to get informed on politics and they instead focus on what the Media Machine tells them to think. Do yourself a favor and open a history book.

For those of you who do not believe me, take the time to open up some of the books, you would see that both McCain and Obama have trampled and will continue to trample the values that were set forth in our Constitution. Also, you would see that none of the current candidate, aside from Dr. Congressman Ron Paul, wish to address the unconstitutional Federal Reserve.

Most of the people that do not like Ron Paul have never taken the time to fully understand his points-of-view other than the 30-second sound bites from the media that we are fed. This Rally for the Republic has invited delegates to the floor and there will be our opportunity to "give them their political education". We also have the DVD for Delegates plan that should help in urging the delegates to consider what they are really doing to our country with a vote for McCain. The vote is out of the hands of the public and into the hands of the delegates. We cannot give up at this most crucial time.