Rand Paul says meshing of Ron Paul supporters and Romney crowd "going pretty well"

08/29/2012 01:17 PM

TAMPA — Compromises over seating some Ron Paul delegates and Republican platform positions has allowed the two factions of Paul and Mitt Romney supporters to come together “pretty well,” said Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul.

Paul, speaking with Pure Politics on the convention floor Tuesday afternoon, called the Republican Party’s official platform “one of the most conservative constitutional documents we’ve had in our history, I think.”

Here’s a clip:

_You can see more of the interview with Sen. Paul on Pure Politics Wednesday, 7 p.m./6 CT or 11:30 p.m./10:30 CT. _

About Ryan Alessi

Ryan Alessi joined cn|2 in May 2010 as senior managing editor and host of Pure Politics. He has covered politics for more than 10 years, including 7 years as a reporter for the Lexington Herald-Leader. Follow Ryan on Twitter @cn2Alessi. Ryan can be reached at 502-792-1135 or ryan.alessi@twcable.com.

Comments

  • Bruce Layne wrote on August 30, 2012 12:59 PM :

    “Going pretty well”?

    The RNC has consistently lied, cheated, and stolen the nominating process in every state, throughout this entire campaign.

    The entire Maine delegation, including the Romney supporting governor of Maine, staged a high profile walk-out to protest the way their legitimate delegates were stripped from them, simply because they were not Romney delegates. They marched around the convention chanting, “As goes Maine, so goes the nation!”

    The Virginia delegation was planning a similar walk-out in protest, but they decided to stay on the floor of the convention, and announced it was “game on!”

    The only way to the RNC was the chartered buses, and several of those buses, the ones with Ron Paul delegates, were “lost”, as they circled the convention center for a few critical hours as important opportunities to challenge the RNC were forfeited.

    The RNC has proposed Rule 15, which would legitimize this year’s illegitimate process whereby the RNC oligarchy could disqualify delegates they simply didn’t like. What’s the point of states having primaries or caucuses if the national Republican oligarchy already knows the results in advance and are unwilling to accept any other results?

    The GOP is a top-down oligarchy. For them to pretend that there is a representative bottom-up process is a farce. The term I’ve most frequently heard coming from the RNC is “sham”, but that won’t make it into the mainstream media. If you already know about it, you can see it on YouTube, but that’s about it. If you didn’t already know, you probably won’t hear about it, and the entrenched corruption will get worse.

    And people wonder why we don’t have better choices in the ballot box. Keep letting the Two Parties That Are One choose your candidates, and you’ll keep suffering with the Lesser Of Two Evils choices in every election.

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