Ron Paul's stealth campaign to take over the GOP

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The Iowa, Nevada and Maine caucus foul ups are starting to reap dividends for the Paul campaign to quietly rack up delegates and take over the GOP. Even though he is losing the public pronouncements in straw polls his machinations to get national delegates to the convention may be coming to fruition.

In Iowa the Romney man is out and the Paul man is in to lead the delegate process.

Caucus chaos has also proved to be fertile ground for Paul's quiet takeover of the Republican Party. Since 2008, the campaign and Paul's Campaign for Liberty PAC have made a concerted effort to get Paul sympathists involved in the political process. Now, tumult in state party organizations has allowed these supporters to rise up the ranks.

"We like strong party leadership when it comes from us," Paul campaign chair Jesse Benton told Business Insider. "Our people work very hard to make sure that their voice is heard."

The fruits of this labor are evident in Iowa, where Paul's former state campaign co-chair A.J. Spiker was just elected as the new chairman of the Iowa Republican Party. Spiker replaces Matt Strawn, who stepped down over this year's Iowa caucus dustup. In Nevada, the state chair has also resigned over caucus disaster, and several Ron Paul supporters are well-positioned to step up to fill the void. These new leaders not only expand Paul's influence at the state level, but also help protect Paul and his hard-won delegates from state party machinations as the delegate-selection process moves to district and state conventions, and eventually the Republican National Convention this summer.


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Maine is still in chaos and Paul could very well come out of the end process with more delegates than Romney and his people could take over the party leadership there as well because of the problems. Paul's supporters are mostly young and inexperienced and this election will give them a taste of process and if the election continues to be a four or three man race with no one getting a majority of delegates, Paul may be the broker in the convention.

Very interesting....

 

[Oddball]

Been sayin' this for months.