Texas Ellen

The National Republican Convention had to have known that seating the Texas delegation, and the rest of the Ron Paul delegates, in the back of the hall would lead to whining, eye-rolling, hissy fits. The Texas Delegation is up in arms over a Romney lawyer sliding a rule change in that would allow a presidential campaign to replace elected delegates with “chosen” (read big checkbook) delegates.  In both parties, the folks who do the most work planting lawn signs, holding fundraising carwashes,  block walking, telephoning, etc. tend to be the folks that other folks want to elect.  Now it looks like the Romney folks think that money should be worth more than sweat equity.

The Ron Paul delegates are particularly unamused.   Those folks may be youngish and not particularly wealthy, but Lord knows they have energy and a stick-to-it ethic.  So far, The Chronicle, Salon and the International Business Times have detected a disturbance in the force.   If the pack of bored journalists jump on this, that Convention could become lively.

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/08/ron-paul-delegates-get-worse-seats-than-republicans-from-guam-samoa/

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/27/texan_gop_delegation_revolts/

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/377869/20120827/ron-paul-delegates-republican-national-convention-seating.htm