Jen Kuznicki
A great assessment of the grassroots efforts in Michigan during this weekend’s Michigan Republican Convention in Detroit, was posted by Tom Backers at Tea Party Nation:
Conservatives working in unison at the State Republican Convention sent a message to the establishment loud and clear: “It’s our turn!”…No more ‘business as usual’ politics orchestrated to appease the political masses with hollow claims of conservatism and principles each election cycle, only to disappear into the maze of lobbyists and special interests in the interim…This time, the false claims of an election year cycle fell on deaf ears, conservatism ruled the day…Libertarians, Tea Partiers, and true Republican conservatives unified in one of the most sweeping upsets of the incumbent power brokers I have seen in my lifetime…they have sent both the State and National GOP a clear ultimatum…This time we will not be silent, nor ignored, nor brushed aside…
I’ve been in very contentious arguments with Tom, it’s part of politics and pushing your argument. But I agree completely with his assessment. I reject Ron Paul, and his followers know I’m very cranky about him, but we all worked together as Republicans to expose and defeat corrupt leaders in the Party, and this exercise should put the establishment on notice.
What happened during the caucuses and Tom’s assertion that 31 of the 44 delegates are Paul delegates is tough to ascertain. Officially, the MIGOP is saying that 6 delegates are Paul voters, but Backers is a Paul advocate, so either he knows better, or, as I have noticed in the past, he is being aggressive for intimidation purposes. We won’t know for sure until Tampa. Or, it could be that the bulk of the Ron Paul faction are voting or non-voting alternates.
Michigan’s conservative movement made huge strides over the weekend, and the message is now guaranteed to be carried to Tampa and Washington D.C…As I left the floor at Cobo, a long line of conservative activists were manning the railing behind the delegate area, exchanging “high-fives” with everyone as they left….we had legitimately proven we could beat the establishment at their own game, using their own rules…it was a marvelous feeling…Michigan has set the tone for the national convention, let’s hope the nation is watching…
I didn’t agree with the Ron Paul tactic of using the rules against the GOP for the purpose of electing Ron Paul people because Ron Paul people aren’t Republicans.. and like Ron Paul, are using the party to advance a foreign policy agenda that will make America vulnerable. However, the MIGOP lumps conservatives in with the Ron Paultards, so unfortunately, they’ll have to deal with this on their own.
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As someone who was there, I know that in the third district, the paulbots got only one of six delegates, and it was a non-voting position (Tina Dupont, the self proclaimed "Face" of the Tea Party, who participated in throwing out the group charter, and refusing to hold scheduled officer elections in 2010, when it threatened her position).. Sadly many Conservative Precinct Delegates were lied to and mislead by the Paulies. In MI Icaucus has tied itself to the paul agenda, and the John Birchers, Many Conservatives do not realize that there is a vast Gulf between Conservatives and Libertarians. Research Paul's past condemnation of the Reagan conservatives, and the moral majority. They have little respect for the "Values" voters, but gladly claim the Conservative mantle to gain votes. We agree on almost everything fiscal, but National Security, Defense, supporting Israel, Abortion, Marriage, and the always favorite Paulie issue, Legalizing all drugs.
My question is this: is it fair to the voters that their votes, originally cast for Santorum or Romney, as represented by the "uncommitted" delegates, have now been usurped?
How can you disagree with using the Rules? That's like saying 'I disagree with using the Constitution if it hurts our cause'.
To put Paulsitas in perspective you only need to ask hardcore Bush-hating, previous Obama supporters how they feel about the candidate Ron Paul. Yes, you will be shocked over the fact that many would vote for Paul but the real shocker comes when you then ask hardcore Pauistas if they will vote for the republican nominee, should he not be Paul, and find out that most will not. In other words Paulistas, considered a republican fraction, are a polluting movement, disguised as conservatives but with a libertarian outlook, that is so extreme, that, for all practical purposes, if empowered, would take us to the edge of anarchy. Most cannot be converted.
Years ago I discovered that my most liberal Democratic antagonists would bait me with Ron Paul by touting familiar ground. That is when I also discovered that the Paulistas were even more difficult to convert than the most ardent left leaning bots. They are not friends of conservatives. They are not even a splinter movement, from any side and least of all from the conservative movement. They are extreme libertarians that want nothing to do with the World internationally or with government domestically. The only reason we agree with them fiscally is, not because of their affection with the Constitution, as is our case, but because the Constitution partially supports their government free American utopia in a fiscal sense. In other words, Pauistas see utopia as place free of government as opposed to the hard left that seeks a utopia provided by government. Both are exteme anti-conservative.