Republican Party WASTING thousands to challenge delegates

I guess the party faithful think they get elected just with THEIR votes. Sorry party faithful but it is the minority in the party that get INVOLVED in the party apparatus on the federal, state, and local level. The majority of people that vote just cast their ballots for the lessor demon then go on with their lives.
It must really get your gall that the REAL conservatives have finally stepped up to the plate to try to bring the party back to the PLATFORM.

YOUR CREDENTIALS HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED. YOU MUST APPEAR BEFORE A SPECIAL PANEL TO PROVE YOUR SELF, BEFORE YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO PROCEED!!!!

WOW!!! This sounds like something from Oh I don't Maybe 1933. In a far away communist country But guess what its not. It Happened right here in the good old USA!!! That's right -- the United States of America -- In fact right in the Midwest of the country The State of Missouri to be exact. Although elected by their fellow republicans at county caucuses some 300 delegates have been challenged across the state of Missouri -- Just this week on Monday May 5th, Some 45 out of those 300 delegates made the trip to the state capital after receiving certified letters dated April 25th 2008 from the Missouri Republican Party. The Letters states that your status as a delegate or alternate has been challenged. No challenged Delegate or Alternate will have more that five minutes to argue their case. The letter signed by Richard Peerson Chairman MRSC Credentials Committee.

At the special Hearing which some now maybe comparing to the likes of a the integration and or a witch hunt. The people that traveled to the state capital in Jefferson City Missouri Found them self's what some has described as star chamber type integration. A signal chair setting in the middle of the floor facing 10 people calling them self's the credentials committee.With The leaders reading the charges. Doug Russell, Jared Craighead, Susie Eckelkamp, Richard Peerson was "Chair" of the committee, Kurt Witzel, Jim Gamble, Karen Foster, Iola French, Donna Spickert and Emily Klie Thermes. Made up the group of interrogators.

Although these people claim they are not challenging the delegates and refuse to provide a copy of the challenge or identify the person or persons making the challenge(s) they ask questions of the delegates that prove they some are more involved than they are letting on. Remember these Names, I am sure that if you are a Republican or just someone with the sense of decency, right and wrong you will want to contact them and the National Republican Party officials an voice your outrage. The challenges are like something that a teenager would come up with and are at best weak. I.e. He said she said kind of stuff. Once you hear the audio recording you can get an Idea of how the more than 6 hours it took to grill the delegates went. You can listen to a brief part of the recording. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWuhAyJyfZQ

If you was brave enough to go face the committee you were on your own!!! no one was allowed to accompany you before the committee. If you was one of the 45 or so people that took a day off work and used your liquid gold to make the trip only to find your self saying you got to be kidding -- Once they sprung the nature of the challenge on you. Here are what the challenges consisted of "Your credentials have been challenged because of your support of Ron Paul." What?? You can challenge someone's credentials because they supported republican candidate other than John Mccain? That's right because these people choose to support a candidate other than the Presumptive Nominee John Mccain they will be chastised, belittled and maybe completely excluded from the party process.

Wait a minute how do they know who anyone voted for? Isn't Missouri an open state? What ever happened to freedom of choice? Who will they come after next? Hummm, Who did you support in the primary?

One thing is for sure these republican delegates will not forget how they have been treated by the party leaders.

I must remind everyone that presumptive nominee they speak of only got 33% of the vote in Missouri.

According to this new criteria presented by the Republican Party officials like Mr. Peerson. Doug Russell and Jared Craighead and others almost 70% of the Republican voters here in Missouri that voted in February primary should not be allowed to be delegates or alternates. Seems that in order to be considered Republican you would have had to of voted for Mccain. Yes if you had the audacity to support a candidate other than the one the party officials have endorsed then you could be challenged and excluded from the republican election process!!! Doesn't sound much like democracy to me. Again who did you vote for? Pinch your self to see if you are still in America.

Is this how the party should be acting? Is this the kind of message we want to send to anyone republican or not?

I believe that we as Republicans have the chance to change our countries path if we get involved. We need to unite now and show the world that we are ready to bring our party and country back to it's connective roots, By the People and for the People.

I am shocked by the party leaders actions. I am upset because they have decided to play this game and push forward with such un American tasteless tactics. If we keep turning people away it is almost assuring a loss for our party this November. Why are the Republican party leaders are trying to close people out of the party at a time when we need every vote? Shouldn't we be welcoming people to the party with open arms? The party leaders seem to be saying if you voted democrat or even third party you can forget trying to vote republican we don't want you. Oh yea if your a democrat and you just can't bring your self to vote for Obama or Clinton we don't want you either. I think we can see growth in the third parties if we are going to take the path of exclusion.

The party leaders are using some of these and other despicable tactics across the country to oust some of the delegates. Why?

What is the sense of spending the money and wasting resources like fuel, and having hundreds and thousands people attend caucus and conventions in the state and across the country if the out come has been predetermined? What Does a presumptive nominee mean? Why do we have any other primaries if anyone candidate has received the number of delegates for the nominee of that party? Is our next president elected by a handful of what now seem to be hand picked delegates from each state?

What can we do? Pass this along to everyone. Meetups in other states, other republicans, news media, even people with no party affiliation. Call, email and or write the Republican Party leaders both local and national tell them that you find the actions by the party leaders unacceptable. Tell them you wont donate another dime until they stop these questionable tactics. Please get involved attend any conventions even out of state if you can. United we stand.

Here are some links to call and email let them know what you think.

Doug Russell

1616 Arbour Dr, Apt 1

Phone: 417-588-1046

Lebanon, MO 65536

Email: drussell@durhamcompany.com

Richard Peerson

P.O. Box 1627

Jefferson City, MO 65102

Email: dpeerson@wallstreetins

.com

Missouri Republican Party

204 E. Dunklin Avenue
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Phone: 573-636-3146
Fax: 573-636-3273

Jared Craighead

Executive Director

RNC contacts

Office of the Chairman

Mike Duncan, RNC Chairman
Phone: 202-863-8700
Fax: 202-863-8820
Email: Chairman@gop.com

Office of the Co-Chairman

Jo Ann Davidson, Co-Chairman
Phone: 202-863-8545
Fax: 202-863-8631
Email: Info@gop.com

Republican National Committee

310 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

Phone Numbers:
Comment Line & General Information: 202.863.8790
Phone: 202.863.8500
Fax: 202.863.8820

Email Addresses:
General Information: info@gop.com Technical Contact: ecampaign@gop

http://www.mogop.org/wp/about/

Missouri committee numbers and emails

http://www.mogop.org/committees/State.pdf

Kansas city star

Dave Helling
816-234-4656

dhelling@kcstar.com

Who's calling who out

On a recent episode of our local talk show two interesting topics of Ron Paul was brought up. It appears the first one was a caller who generally wondered what the position of the host was on Ron Paul. It is NO secret that many media sources have gone out of their way to promote an agenda that is trying to discredit the Paul movement. Anyone with a thimble of common sense can go look at Mr. Paul's voting record or his web site to see this representative is the MOST Constitutional candidate this nation has seen since Thomas Jefferson. Media types are more than willing to misrepresent this man because they know very few people will do the research on their own, however the information is out there for the curious too look at.

One only need to listen to the speeches of Ronald Reagan and the voting record of Ron Paul to see that Mr. Paul is by far the most experienced and constitutional candidate on the floor of the House of Representatives.

During the show this morning it was said by our local radio show host that the people in the Ron Paul movement have tried to get said radio host fired from his position and by caveat have come after his family. Too bad it wasn't rating sweep week as this would've moved him straight to the top of the ratings heap. I have it on good authority the people who went down to the radio station asked for EQUAL TIME to present their side of this one sided argument. VD Jericho has misrepresented Ron Paul and those in this movement for quite some time so it is only telling that they would want for their side of the information to be presented as well. Mr. Jericho hasn't mentioned quite a few times that he would be willing to have some public discourse on this topic, but apparently he has backed out on this position. I guess he has been told by Dr. Scott Magill that this movement actually has intellectual people in it that can hold their own in the narrative sense. Can't dare do anything to make the host look like an idiot.

This Ron Paul movement has been portrayed as a socialist movement, a peace network movement, and various other ideas which in NO means could be possible of "TRUE" Ron Paul supporters. It is quite possible for a few people to infiltrate the ranks but the vast majority of Paul supporters are firms believers in the Constitution, and are far more conservative then most in the Republican Party. After all we have local republicans serving in the state legislature who haven't a care in the world that private property rights are being usurped by local governments, and in the mean time these representative have DONE nothing but pay lip service to the idea of protecting these rights. And yes I can name names should I need to do so and back it up with proof. I would sooner have a couple of peace nuts in my movement then have elected state officials in my party who could careless about MY property rights and ownership of land.

It has been said the Paul supporters are trying to usurp the rules of the delegation process so they can nominate Paul from the floor at the convention in MN. Here in MO the Republican Party literally sent out hundreds if not thousands of certified letters trying to challenge those that had been elected delegates and alternatives, because these individuals had had their loyalty to the party challenged including yours truly. I knew I was going to be challenged after all I hold an elected position for the local Libertarian Party, but for the party to go to this extreme shows clearly that those working for liberty and the Constitution are NOT WELCOME in the party which espouses its belief in such.

It is said that Mr. Paul is an isolationist, a liberal for his stance on the War on Terrorism, even though he voted to go into Afghanistan, a lunatic for wanting the U.S. to go back to the gold standard. An abortionist even though he states in many areas he is PRO-LIFE. How does this information get so misleading ?? Ron Paul is an advocate for states rights which means the federal government will abide by Amendment X. This type of thinking scares many in the Republican Party as this means some of their pet projects and government programs will be dismantled and allowed for the states to decide what is best for the population of each state, this is a scary transition for those that have been so successful in creating a NEED for government largess.

http://www.ksgf.com/Podcasts/VincentDavidJerichoThisMorning/tabid/3507/Default.aspx

At 36:30 a gentlemen by the name of Chris comes on to talk about Dr. Paul and his stances, which said radio host once more misrepresents by instituting his own agenda instead of what Dr. Paul has said for himself. This call last until 42:05 with the caller still liking the constitutional aspects of Dr. Paul which means the radio host wasn't able to sway him from his thought process with an untrue diatribe.

Later on in the show a caller by the name of Jim calls in to inform radio host of his well made up fallacies on the issue of Dr. Paul. This happens at 47:42 and last until 50:30 where most of the airtime is wasted on the talk show host calling the caller every name possible with the caller on mute. This speaks volumes of the intelligence level of the host as he isn't able to hold an intelligent conversation with an individual Ron Paul supporter who calls up to call his bluff and misinformation on the subject.

I will give VD Jericho his do as he has done wonderful things here on the local level, but time and time again when he goes to the national level he gets in WAY OVER HIS HEAD and becomes nothing more than a parrot to the mainstream media and political party leadership.

I had to laugh

this AM while listening to our local conservative talk show host pontificating on how supporters of Ron Paul are going to destroy the Republican Party. This was done many years ago by people who tried to dictate to individuals how they must live their lives and they determined they should determine the essence of freedom. Dare I might add that lunatic fringe religious zealots added to this demise as well when they decided to dictate to the masses how one must lead a righteous life while they themselves didn't do like wise. Do as I say not as I do is not a way to abdicate political affiliations. As a religious individual I show people through my actions that having faith is essential to leading a good life, however I do know people that aren't religious that lead good lives as well. I'm really going to give him a break on this issue since being raised up in Canada is known to dilute the common sense of people. I would like to challenge Mr. Jericho to look at the voting record of Ron Paul and tell me where he finds such a notion of his thought process. There is NO one in Congress closer to being a reincarnation to one of our greatest Presidents Thomas Jefferson than Ron Paul.

According to the show this AM anyone who believes as Ron Paul is a flaming liberal , hate America crowd, and is destroying the greatest document ever written. Keep in mind that being Canadian raised VD Jericho still has fascist characteristics about him including how the individual should be governed.

I just about rolled off the highway laughing this morning when he pronounced me as a FLAAPL
and that yours truly is a danger to the United States of America. Imagine the horror that my special ops commander would feel if he knew that I was a turncoat and an American hater. I'm not a decorated war hero or anything(during the 80's we didn't go into military battles with anyone except that exercise in Grenada)but, I did serve my country honorably and with dignity until my discharge. I still love the country I was born in and all that it stood for by reading the Constitution. I dare anyone to read the document now and look at the government we have and tell me it still stands for freedom, liberty, and justice for everyone within the borders of this nation. Yes we have more freedoms than many nations, however I wasn't born there I was born here and I have fewer freedoms now then what was available when I was born in the early 60's.

It is a shame that my kids won't be able to experience a time when government doesn't tell you what you can do and how you can do it.

Imagine a staunch Constitutionalist with a good understanding of the document and an avid reader of the Federalist Papers being called a FLAAPL, it still brings a chuckle when I think about it.

what is a conservative

I attended a meeting the other night hosted by a local radio talk show host which was loosely titled "What is a Conservative" now I deem myself somewhat of a REAL conservative with libertarian leanings.
I stand for what is RIGHT in government, lifestyle issues, and in the political realm. I'm not quite to the point of being an anarchist, not that it would be a bad thing if I was. I don't believe that police services and fire departments need to be generated at the behest of government, they are however to make those that can afford the services provided pay for those that can't or wouldn't.

I believe in the power of self responsibility and using that aspect to help myself and others by not committing fraud, abuse, or any other nefarious means to live my lifestyle. Sorry I got off track on the meeting.

In attendance at this meeting were many 35's and younger, which many of them seem to have attached themselves to the Republican Party. Although in the question and answering session many of them stated Libertarian Party ideas on what the meaning of a "conservative" is.

I believe the definition of a modern day conservative(circa 1860's until now) is the following: someone that believes in the tenants of smaller, fiscally responsible government, unless they find a liberty or freedom of which they disagree or take offense to, at this point the "conservative" has NO problem with using the force of government to force compliance amongst the people. This in turn creates a bureaucracy of which the "conservative" will complain about should it be used in any manner which might infringe upon a right or freedom of which they enjoy.

Unless someone is ACTUALLY doing harm to another why should government pass some sort of regulation or ordinance banning what ever it might be. Why should government force people to garner a business license so they can apply their skills in the professional world. Does government somehow know more than I ?

Why should doctors be licensed by some government board when the private sector could do the very same, or it could be accomplished on the state level.

Meeting of Young Conservatives Tonight
Are you a young conservative under the age of 40 who wants to
help shape what the future of the conservative party will look like?

If so, join KSGF's Vincent David Jericho tonight
at Kaldi's Coffee (900 E. Battlefield) at 7pm...
help us figure out what priorities will take precedence for
the next generation.

If you are over 40 you are more than welcome to attend.
However, do not come in anticipation of debating if
the change(s) will happen.

Log onto ksgf.com for driving directions to Kaldi's.

And then there were 3

Mr. Romney falls by the wayside for the good of country and political party ??? Too bad the Huckster and McCain wouldn't do the same and allow a real conservative maverick to take the helm of what the party professes too be.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/romney-to-quit-presidential-race/index.html?excamp=GGPOromney&WT.srch=1&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=PO-S-E-GG-NA-S-romney