Delegates at the Republican National Convention nominated Mitt Romney as the GOP candidate for the White House moments ago in Tampa.
Romney received 2,061 votes. Two-hundred-and-two votes were listed as “others” — six for former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), one for former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, one for former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, one for Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), one “undecided,” one “uncommitted,” and the rest for Texas Rep. Ron Paul. There were also several abstentions.
The 2012 GOP platform was also adopted after some delegates loudly protested the refusal to seat 10 Ron Paul supporters in the Maine delegation.
Paul delegates from Nevada and Maine led the fight against a GOP convention rules change that delegates must vote for the candidate who won the state primary or be stripped of their delegate spot.
A Texas contingent was among those who loudly protested adoption of the rules as other delegates tried to drown them out with shouts of “USA.” Paul supporters chanted “point of order.”
A clearly perturbed chairman Reince Priebus tried to gavel the proceedings along. After the rules adoption, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) offered the GOP platform for adoption.
“We Republicans believe in this great country… we know that our people are our greatest natural resource,” Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) said of the platform. “Job creation must be job No. 1 … what Americans want is what America has always offered in abundance – opportunity.”
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said that thanks to the platform, “the GOP will be known as the ‘great opportunity party.’”
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu (R) offered the nomination for Romney as president. It was seconded by Barbara Comstock, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Blue “Mitt!” signs were fed onto the convention floor in time for the roll call vote. New Jersey put Romney over the top in clinching the nomination.
Only the Romney votes were announced, drawing protest shouts from Paul supporters after each gain for the congressman.
The Roemer, Huntsman, and Bachmann votes all came from the Texas delegation, as well as 20 votes for “fellow Texan and defender of liberty” Paul. Another electoral giant, California, ceded no votes to other candidates.
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan was nominated as the vice presidential candidate by voice vote.
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Romney is now the official Presidential candidate of the GOP. There’s already talk of whether or not Romney can immediately unleash his campaign dollars or whether he’ll have to wait until Thursday’s acceptance speech. Some say he can do so right now … all he needs to do is to write a letter of acceptance to the Secretary and she’ll forward the letter to the RNC, confirming that Romney has the majority. The RNC will place on record its acceptance of the Secretary’s recommendation.
Whatever be the arcane rules of nomination, the first ads Romney should call out Obama. What is he doing campaigning when such a potential catastrophe is bearing down on Americans living on the Gulf Coast? His media shills have been striving to shame Romney into cancelling his Convention, yet these worthies have nothing to say about Obama campaigning. Shame on liberal media.
So, what if Paul Ryan was delving into the federal budget when he was still in high school? I didn’t peek at a federal budget until I was out of college. Yet there is no way I would have cast the votes in Congress that Ryan has through the years. Ryan voted for TARP, the auto bailouts, No Child Left Behind, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, the Bush stimulus, the Patriot Act, and military adventurism abroad. No policymaker is perfect, but no one with a libertarian bone in their body could have supported these policies.
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/paul-ryan-biggovernment-conservative
Ryan is the face of the ESTABLISHMENT, and should be considered as such! Wake up folks, and put down your pom poms!
If you think Paul could win a national election you’re delusional. Like, clinically. You should seek help.
Even if Ryan is “establishment” if you think he’ll do more damage to the nation than Obama then, again, you’re delusional.
So how about instead of telling us to put down the Pom poms you put down the kool-aid and help us save what’s left of our country.
Jan 31, 2012 George Soros support Mitt Romney, investor/communist and Obamas supporter want Mitt Romney. It’s not a good day for a republican to get support from communists. On Fed 2 Donald Trump announced his support for Mitt Romney. It can’t be a good day for a republican when Obama supporters see Romney as a good option.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6aLQU_nYSM
Let’s see…
Keep right on spewing talking points as though no one else has said a word…check.
Ignore the substance of people’s arguments…check.
Yep, you’re a Paulbot all right.
You’re a democrat so who cares.
Republicans work to remove Gary Johnson from Iowa ballot ELECTIONS 2012 AUGUST 27, 2012 BY: KARL DICKEY
http://www.examiner.com/article/republicans-work-to-remove-gary-johnson-from-iowa-ballot
Published on Aug 27, 2012 Ben Swann Reality Check was given a few minutes with Governor Mitt Romney and Congressman Paul Ryan. Ben asked Romney about the RNC stripping Maine delegates of their credentials. Did Romney answer honestly? View and find out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llg-a8FamJg&feature=plcp
Ah well… one of those ..”You knew what I was when you picked me up moments”
That is why I send no money to the RNC. Instead I send it to good people… another Ben to Akin it is.
Standard behavior for Ron Paul’s worshipers, trying to defy democracy to get their guy votes. They literally think (and have stated that they think so) that the people do not know what is best for them and that is why they are trying to go around the system. Pure anti-republicanism.
But the nomination process is actually not a democratic system. If the Republican party had wanted a democratic way of nominating the candidate, they would have had all registered Republicans voting on a given day and taking the candidate with the most votes. The Ron Paul people didn’t try to go around the rules of the party, they went according to the rules (while the establishment openly went against the rules). The rules are that the beauty contest doesn’t matter, the delegate count does.
What I’ve seen of the convention so far is pretty much pure unctuous.
Bring back the hurricane.
Hope that R & R each give great speeches. Come on guys.
The prime-time stuff is MUCH better, thank goodness.
Ann is great.
The Paulestinians are trying to bring hellfire and brimstone (figuratively. I’m not religious) to us all.
a GOP convention rules change that delegates must vote for the candidate who won the state primary or be stripped of their delegate spot.
So, the fix is in even when you don’t need it. Most R’s, presumably, see no problem there. You don’t have to be a Paul supporter — I am not — to be appalled.
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So, the fix is in even when you don’t need it. Most R’s, presumably, see no problem there. You don’t have to be a Paul supporter — I am not — to be appalled.
Please inform the staff that we need cleanup on isle 10. Someone left a pile on the floor…
I agree. The message this sends is “We don’t give a damn about the small grasroots and we will not listen to you.”
Tell me, how is this different from Obama saying “I won”.
I’m not a Ron Paul guy but the message equally applies to the Tea Party wing. As has been shown the establishment will steamroller fiscal conservatives every time.
I don’t always expect to get my way, but I at least expect to always get a hearing, particularly so when I have a mandate from the electorate to be heard, as delegates are.
So Romney really is more of the same, a bit government statist like Bush I & II & McCain. Business as usual at the RNC. And they wonder why they are so close in the polls.
The RNC has become an echo chamber. Dissent and differing views not allowed. Nice to have it confirmed.
Bottom line, if you won’t even listen to me, why should I vote for you?
The GOP platform is a hoax. There is no adherence to it when they hold the power and now they are eliminating legal, lawful delegates elected to make some serious change in the establishment? I was holding out some hope that there would/could be some changes in the establishment but this is the last straw. Time for a Third Party.
Yeah. I guess not allowing Ron Paul voters to decline to represent the actual choice of thier state is just plain awful.
Not all states have winner take all primaries. Some apportion delegates according to vote.
The RNC have disenfranchised the the delegates from those states that apportion delegates proportionally.
Since it is the states that send delegates it should be up the states to decide how to apportion the vote. The time for the RNC to change the rules was prior to the primaries, not at the convention itself.
This sends a very clear message. If you are not in favor of the establishment then sod off. We can and will change the rules at will. In other words, business as usual with no change.
It is exactly the same as Obama saying I won, and not listening to other ideas. This will cost Romney votes. It’s cost at least 2 I know of.
The claim that the revolt against the rule changes were led by the Paulians is just flat out wrong. If that were the case, then I guess that the author of this little piece would have to claim that Eagle Foundation, FreedomWorks and the entire Texas delegation were all Paulbots.
The rule changes were designed for two reasons: to eliminate any grass roots opposition to the inside-the-beltway people and to make sure that Romney, if elected this year, gets to hand pick delegates in 2016.
Most of the time I think the Paulbots are just a pain in the rear, but this time, it really wasn’t them leading the revolt against the establishment RNC, it was the Texas Delegation.
And several states still did get votes tallied for multiple candidates, so obviously the rule didn’t prevent that. What they wanted to do was change votes that were already apportioned.
George Soros At It Again. Paying For ‘Trackers’ To Hunt For Dirt On GOP Candidates
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/08/28/george-soros-at-it-again-paying-for-trackers-to-hunt-for-dirt-on-gop-candidates/