August 23, 2008

Neocons Worried About Ron Paul People in Nevada

According to Rupert Murdoch's War Street Journal: "Two Nevada delegations are packing their bags "for the Republican National Convention Sept. 1, and if the latest party ruling stands, neither of them will be seated.

"A fiasco at the state convention spawned the dueling delegations -- one for John McCain and one for Ron Paul -- and their continued wrangling has exposed a split in the party that may spell trouble in a key state for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

"Running a strident libertarian campaign in the primaries [say the unbiased Murdochians], Texas Rep. Ron Paul tapped a seam of Republican frustration across the country, railing against the Bush administration's impact on civil liberties, foreign policy and the growing federal government. Mr. Paul's message resonated particularly in Nevada, a state where frontier spirit and personal freedom runs deep, and he captured second place in the January state caucuses, ahead of Sen. McCain." Read the rest.

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