Nebraska GOP Prepares to Battle Ron Paul Supporters
by Bryan Schott
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The Nebraska GOP is taking extra precautions ahead of their state convention to keep Ron Paul supporters from disrupting the event.

Nebraska GOP executive director Jordan McGrain tells the Nebraska Watchdog they've hired more security to deal with any shenanigans from the Paul supporters.

“We’re just not going to tolerate any disruptions,” McGrain said. “This is not going to be a free-for-all.”

McGrain said Romney and Paul supporters have been “burning up the phone lines” – making calls to delegates to ascertain who they’re committed to before the state convention. He accused Paul supporters of claiming to be from the state GOP or refusing to say who they are. A leader of the Paul movement said those calls are being made by the Paul campaign.

Nebraskans voted for Romney in the primary, and it is delegates’ responsibility to deliver those votes, McGrain said. He expects Paul supporters will “steal away a few delegates” at the state convention, but “nowhere near a majority.”

McGrain said Paul’s supporters are trying to “take by party rules what they couldn’t on election day.”

He has been warned by Republican officials in Nevada and Louisiana to be prepared for “Paulistas” to try to seize control of the convention through endless votes, amendments, re-votes and parliamentary delays aimed at wearing out establishment Republicans. 
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July 08, 2012
The gratitude of every home in our counties, in our States, and indeed throughout the country, except in the abodes of the presumptive GOP nominee, goes out to the Ron Paul supporters who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and political danger, are turning the tide of the Republican Presidential race by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. All hearts go out to the Local and State Delegates, whose brilliant actions we see with our own eyes day after day, but we must never forget that all the time, state after state, primary after primary, our Ron Paul organizers struggle hard through out America, caucus in their conventions in the darkness of The Main Stream Media by the highest organizational skill, be elected Delegates, often under the heaviest confrontations, often with serious arguments, with deliberate, careful discrimination, and inflict shattering blows upon the whole of the nominating and Presidential electing structure of the Republican National Committee. On no part of the Ron Paul 2012 does the weight of the campaign fall more heavily than on the campaign volunteers who will play an invaluable part in the case of nomination and whose unflinching zeal it has been necessary in the meanwhile on numerous occasions to restrain…

Rewritten from Winston Churchill

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July 08, 2012
That was beautiful! You made me cry.

Ron Paul or BUST!
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July 08, 2012
Then We Will Fight In The Shade
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