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angelatc
04-02-2008, 11:27 PM
Apparently we're too conservative to suit the Texas GOP? LOL!

(bolding mine)

Paul backers won control of GOP confabs in Austin, Victoria.
Thursday, April 03, 2008

Want a fresh political surprise?

How about supporters of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul for president staking a lasting claim in the Republican Party of Texas?
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As Democrats tussled over their presidential candidates at recent regional conventions, Paul backers unexpectedly took control of a GOP convention in Austin and the Victoria County convention.

The results at Travis County's state Senate District 25 convention left old-guard Republicans wondering who lost the party's car keys — and worse.

Gail Suttle, active in GOP circles since the 1980s, watched the takeover in horror. Suttle e-mailed Republicans afterward: "This group is NOT Republican and they will not work together — remember this when you do have to be in contact with them."

At the confab at a local middle school, she'd likened the Paulies to Hitler youth, saying they were to the right of Attila the Hun.

"I am sorry," her subsequent e-mail says, "but I meant it all!"

The victors let Suttle slide; they even named her a delegate to the party's June state convention in Houston.

Most know, too, that they're not likely to vault Paul, of Lake Jackson, into contention for president. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, won the March 4 Texas primary. He remains the party's presumptive nominee.

But the activists harbor long-term hopes. They want the GOP to re-commit to chestnut tenets such as slimmed government, lower taxes and respect for privacy. And a hope is that sooner or later, grass-roots Republicans will accept the Paul partisans as energetic compatriots rather than rating them moon-beamish interlopers from the Libertarian Party. Paul was the Libertarians' 1988 presidential nominee.

"The whole point is to stretch the definition of a Republican, really try to get it back in a direction where it came from," said Robert McDonald, an Austin accountant.

McDonald, 46, a Houston native and father of four, was elected the district convention's permanent chairman by a vote of 110-94.

His rise capped months of door-to-door canvassing in South Central Austin neighborhoods in the San Antonio-rooted Senate district.

Street by street, Paul supporters identified independent-minded voters willing to come to the precinct caucuses on primary night. McDonald said the canvassers looked for Paul yard signs and independent-oriented bumper stickers, even marijuana-leaf stickers—"anything indicating that person is a freedom-minded person."

Caucusing voters then elected delegates to the district convention. People aligned with Paul's beliefs landed 32 of the convention's 36 delegate slots for the state convention.

Delegates also whacked at typical Republican positions.

They voted in favor of deleting language in the state party's platform dealing with family matters such as a call for a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. They said the U.S. Supreme Court should leave abortion rights to individual states; the state platform calls for a constitutional ban on abortion.

"Abortion is not an issue that affects most people in this country," McDonald said. "Foreign policy, the economy, personal freedoms affect everybody. ... Those are the things we need to concentrate on."

Delegates approved a resolution honoring Gov. Rick Perry. They scuttled a commendation of President Bush.

"A lot of people feel like he's let his party and his country down," McDonald said.

Many ideas celebrated at the Austin convention could wither at the state convention.

It might be, too, that Paul's "freedom fighters" lose interest in the party after the intensity of this election year.

Yet Suttle and McDonald independently compared the district convention to the rise of Christian conservatives through GOP ranks in the late 1980s. That surge, a component of Bush's success, helped win elections.

Springsteen wrote it: "From small things, mama, big things one day come."

Yom
04-02-2008, 11:40 PM
Hitler Youth? Wtf?!

Luft97
04-02-2008, 11:57 PM
Hitler Youth? Wtf?!

She is probably an AIPAC person... :rolleyes: Typical Neo-Con. When they lose or are proven wrong they name call and make crazy accusations.

runderwo
04-03-2008, 12:18 AM
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Conza88
04-03-2008, 02:49 AM
Hitler's youth... OH PLEASE..
IF she wants some hitler youth.... wait till the state starts mind f-king the youth to dobb in their parents. i.e 1984 style

Hope she enjoys gitmo.

syborius
04-03-2008, 03:47 AM
This person should have been purged into the trash bin of irreparably brainwashed idiots. I'm sorry, but someone this astoundingly stupid won't realize how badly things are screwed up until they are shackled and waterboarded under extraordinary rendition.

shrugged0106
04-03-2008, 03:50 AM
ironic that those "Non-Republicans" that she claimed could NEVER work together, seemed to work together quite well to wrest control back from her good ole boy pals from the 80's. LMAO

sratiug
04-03-2008, 05:24 AM
I move that Gail Suttle's delegate status be immediately revoked for such hate-filled rhetoric against her own local party leaders.

IPSecure
04-03-2008, 05:57 AM
Application for Consideration to the National Convention - Texas

http://txgop.convio.net/site/DocServer/Application_for_Consideration_to_the_National_Conv ention.pdf?docID=4942



SERGEANT AT ARMS APPLICATION

http://txgop.convio.net/site/DocServer/2008_convention_Sergeant_at_Arms_Application.pdf?d ocID=4882



Convention Information:

http://txgop.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=2008_Convention

Barney
04-03-2008, 08:52 AM
Too much attention paid to the vitriol of one misguided individual.

What of the great accomplishments of this band of true Ron Paul Revolutionaries? This is the type of insurgencies that's needed to win the long term struggle of the Revolution.

His rise capped months of door-to-door canvassing in South Central Austin neighborhoods in the San Antonio-rooted Senate district.

Street by street, Paul supporters identified independent-minded voters willing to come to the precinct caucuses on primary night. McDonald said the canvassers looked for Paul yard signs and independent-oriented bumper stickers, even marijuana-leaf stickers—"anything indicating that person is a freedom-minded person."

Caucusing voters then elected delegates to the district convention. People aligned with Paul's beliefs landed 32 of the convention's 36 delegate slots for the state convention.

Inflation
04-03-2008, 09:21 AM
What is it about GOP battle-axes named Gail that makes them hate Freedom?

(It was another Gail that canceled a Straw Poll when too many Ronulans showed up.)

orlandoinfl
04-06-2008, 10:26 PM
godspeed.