Spokane RNC Blog
The Convention closes
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So John McCain accepted our party’s nomination for President, the balloons dropped, the confetti fell, the people danced and celebrated. The official John McCain – Sarah Palin ticket is now among us, and so ends Volume I of our story, but Volume II is already being written.
We need to ask ourselves what do we do know? I’ll tell you that the only answer that can provide any kind of positive result is stay involved and work on local campaigns.
The convention was an amazing experience, not only because of the sights and sounds, the people, the press, the camaraderie, but for the education it provided. I now understand exactly what the National Convention is, and it is not a place to choose your Presidential candidate, nor is it the place to discuss your platform. You don’t come here to affect the rules of the party, or even to affect change in anyway on the GOP. You come to celebrate, you come to drink, you come to dance and party.
So why is it important that we continue to endure this process? Involvement! We must maintain our voice. Without our words, our ideas, our faces they have no reason to consider anything other than the status quo or worse yet, “change.” Our voices wont always be heard on the street corners, and front porches, in blog posts, or townhall forums, but the uniqueness of this event provides a rare opportunity to interact with Senators, Governors, State Party Chairs, and other high ranking officials, and from a much more respected level – that of fellow Delegates.
Our mark on history has been made, and we will be remembered as the patriots who began the fight to return our country to its Constitutional roots, and the GOP back to that of the likes of Calvin Coolidge, Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
We may only have 59 days remaining of this election cycle, but lets remember there are just over 1500 days until the election of 2012.
We have only begun to fight….
Not all votes counted
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So the only votes that were officially counted were the 5 Ron Paul Votes from Alaska. However the total is a bit higher. We had 4 delegates from Oregon, 4 from Washington, 2 from OK, which the RNC ignored but Senator Inhoffe and their delegation did everything they could to correct it (it appears). Their were also several votes from various states which were ignored or the Paul Delegates threw in the table we want to find out which Delegates we cannot trust 4 yrs. From now.
The Ron Paul movement was extremely disorganized at the national level it was very chaotic just an hour or so before the vote. We are learning valuable lessons here though.
More soon. …….
Some Paul Delegates throwing in towel
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Some Paul Delegates are preparing to hand over their voting privledges to McCain Alternates in a good faith move. I’m absolutely opposed, this is dumb. Paul will not be appearing on the floor either.
Recapping todays convention
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So today was very interesting, we started out the day traveling to a nearby hotel to a have a sit down with a delegation concerning the nomination of Dr. Paul, it went better than expected. I can’t go into any more detail than that at this point. It still looks tough though.
The convention opened to little fan fare in my opinion I was sitting up in the Alternates section and watched as all of their preplanned motions were pushed through without any opportunity for opposition. They recessed for an hour so that the committees could meet.
I went and had one of the most expensive sandwiches of my life, and then came back into the convention hall. When we resumed they called the committee chairman up and they each made their resolutions to accept their findings. From Credentials – They determined that The credential challenge against the Washington State Delegation was not accepted because of lack of merit. From the Platform – the Chairman came out and gave this long speech about how Republicans came together to form this great platform that is an American Platform, and then the Convention Chairman Mike Duncan gave his long winded opinion of the platform. Unfortunately we were not given copies of the Platform before the vote so basically the Delegates were voting for something they had not seen. They brought it up to a vote and before any opposition could respond the gavel came down.
Then Laura Bush came out and gave a speech talking about the Gulf Coast, and introduced videos from the Governors of the Gulf States. Laura came back out with Cindy McCain. I got into a bit of a back and forthe with one of the other Alternates sitting next to me, because I refused to Stand and applaud Cindy McCain.
After the Convention was adjourned we went to speak to some of the reporters, and I spoke to a French reporter, Steven Hardy spoke with a Belgium Reporter, and John Christina spoke with a Japanese reporter, and we all three were interviewed by Arianna Huffington.
We also saw Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell, Bill O’reilly, and some others (dont care for ‘em but interesting)
We are at the Hotel now, preparing to go to the Ron Paul event this evening so I will report back on that later.
On the way to the big show
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We are heading to the convention on the Delegation bus as I write this. So far we’ve had a great morning doing what we can for the good Doctor. We are ready to roll for todays shortened session.
Here are pictures of Congresswoman McMorris-Rodgers, Senator Slade Gorton, and the bus of delegates.
Inside the palace
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We made it past Security, and John Christina and I are sitting in the Akternatrs section with a pretty good view. Will try to update with more info later. We are going to troll media row afterwards to try and give it to ‘em straight.
