Romney Maine Campaign Chair Does Not Want Me To Go To Tampa

So former Bush Ambassador, current Mitt Romney Campaign Chair in Maine, Peter Cianchette, and current Maine RNC Committeewoman, and Jan Staples, who was unseated at our convention in May by Ron Paul supporter Ashley Ryan, have filed a challenge to have me and my fellow delegates yanked from the national convention in Tampa.  The sent me a copy of the complaint today.  Coverage here.


As I documented in my reporting on the Romney campaign's Maine convention shenanigans, the GOP parliamentarian noted after the proceedings that the rules were followed.  Staples and Ciancette claim that they weren't, so we should not be seated.  Unclear if they think that no delegation from Maine should be seated, or how one should be chosen.

I sent a personal letter back to them:

Dear Ms. Staples and Mr. Cianchette,

Today I was disheartened to receive your notice that you were contesting the seating of the Maine Delegates and Alternate Delegates elected by our party to the GOP National Convention, and I am writing to ask you to reconsider your actions and rescind your request.  I am an alternate delegate to the convention, elected in Augusta that day, and I have been very excited about having the chance to represent Maine in Tampa.

I am a lifelong republican, the daughter of a career Naval officer, I was born in Brunswick where my father was flying P-3s, I hold a Master of Science in Clinical Counseling from Johns Hopkins University and most significantly, I am the mother to a little boy living with autism.

In the eight years since my son's neurological regression, I have unfortunately had to learn first hand how broken our current system is, how much corruption in our country is harming those who are the least able to avoid and recover from it, and most grievously, how the party that I have been loyal to my entire life, has not only failed to address that corruption, but has helped to maintain it.  I have personally briefed our state health commissioner and the head of Mainecare on the way that the federal government has defrauded our state and some disabled families of tens of millions (hundreds of millions?) of dollars, and have had to sit back and watch no action be taken, while families, school systems and state services buckle under the financial strain that is the federal governments (shirked) responsibility.  It is a very difficult thing for a mother to suddenly find out that those that she has trusted and supported for a life time, are deaf to calls from her to bring an end to harm that is being caused to her own child, and children like him, because it is not politically expedient. 

Because of my experience and my loss of trust in what the Republican Party had become, I disengaged from politics (and the party) for many years, but returned recently because I saw that, because the Obama administration had been so egregious in their power grab and so brazen in their corruption, and because the consequences to our economy and society had been so grave, that people were beginning to wake up to how broken the American system had become, and that earnest men were again willing to fight for this country.  They wanted to bring it back to the values it was founded on, to implement a true system of checks and balances, to bring real accountability for misdeeds and to bring actual freedom back to individuals... well it gave me hope that we might be able to resurrect some of what we have lost in the last twenty years. 

So I got back into politics, advocating in issues of free choice in health care, of allowing corrupt systems to collapse in a free market that was able to see that they had little value, and to call out those who would cheat the American people by buying their legislators and lying to the public.  I came back to the Republican Party, because it looked again like it may become the party of Reagan that it once was.  Better even.  Not only was I excited that the liberty movement was taking hold in our party, I was relieved!  Finally conservatives were seeing that the root causes of the problems had to be attacked!  No more rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, now we could start to have real conversations about how to put sound financial systems in place that would make it harder for the corrupt to gain quick access to the easy money that they were using to basically buy the American people, their rights and their labor!  We could actually focus on actual constitutional issues!

And having the chance to do that in Maine... amazing!  I cut my teeth on politics in DC, where one sees the most cynical part of American politics for sure, how wonderful to be here, where people are closer to one another, more accountable to one another and not so tainted by the things that go on inside the beltway.  Being at the convention, and seeing that so many Mainers were showing up to participate in the REAL work to get our country back, that so many had become so passionate about the true values of the Republican party, it was really healing to me, and gave me a great deal of hope.  I was very proud to be a part of that process, and very proud to be elected as an alternate delegate for Maine, because those voting knew I would to go Tampa to support Ron Paul and his values.

But what I have seen at the convention in Augusta and since then have both discouraged and truly baffled me.  Rather than seeing the coming together of Republicans at the convention, I saw (and still see) a bad faith process that I would have expected to see in DC or Chicago, but never here.  I recorded one of Mitt Romney's paid employees, wearing a Ron Paul sticker on his shirt, passing out fake slates of known Paul supporters, who were not running for delegate, in an attempt to trick his fellow republicans.  I had others report to me that a second fake slate being circulated, printed to look exactly like the Paul slate, but with the names of Romney delegate nominees on it, to further divide the vote of those who came in an earnest attempt to vote their conscience for Paul.

That day my father was also a delegate at his GOP convention in Nevada, where the Romney campaign attempted the same deception.

Since then I have followed the state GOP conventions and have been devastated to see the kind of horrible tactics that our party has been using to push out liberty minded candidates in state after state.  I am also completely mystified by it. 

We are a party that lost the last presidential election, and since then, due to the abuse of power and poor judgment of our current president and his officials, people are starting to get it.  They understand how corruption and bad policy destroy our country.  They are clamoring for honest government, open government, accountable government, good faith government... a government that is not going to lie to them or coerce them or steal from them or defraud them.  And so the Republican party has a chance to answer that call and we offer them... this?

Cheating our own members? 

We have young people flooding into the liberty movement, and then into our party, and our response is to douse their enthusiasm, shut them down and shove them out?  What a truly bizarre response!  Would not a wiser, more loving and more productive response be to welcome in the liberty movement, its energy, its ideals and its young people?  To educate them on difficult political realities that they may not have had experience with, and use the resources of the party to put them to work on our issues in the state and nationally?

Why in the world is the Republican party fighting the liberty movement so brutally?  Why are you contesting my credentialing in Tampa?  You don't know me, you have not called me to see if I might be an asset to our party, you don't know what I have to offer or how I might build the party.  You have merely made up some excuses for me not to be seated, because... well because why?

I am earnestly looking for an explanation as to what is so great about Mitt Romney, and what is so horrible about Ron Paul, that some republicans would actually destroy the party rather than just play fair and see where the chips land by allowing those who were elected at their conventions to vote their conscience in Tampa.  Especially when it does not appear that Paul has the votes to win in Tampa any way.

As I have walked through this process, I see the actions by long time Republicans, like you are doing here in contesting our seating in Tampa, and I am constantly reminded of the story of the two mothers who came to King Saul to settle a dispute.  The two women had been sleeping with their infant children, and one had accidently smothered her child during her slumber.  Both women came before Saul and claimed the surviving child as their own.  So Saul declared that the baby be cut in half to be given to both mothers.   Saul then knew who the true mother was, as the other woman did not love the child and was content to kill the child to win the dispute.

More than a third of Maine Republicans voted for Ron Paul in our caucuses (Romney 39%, Paul 36%), and more than half voted for his endorsed delegates in Augusta.  You would actually cut those people out of the process?  You are happy to split the baby to win a dispute?

Everyone who was in Augusta Civic Center that weekend knows full well that the liberty movement was in the majority during those elections.  And if there was any problem with credentialing, which I have seen no evidence of, then it can only be the fault of the party leadership, which both of you represent.  The election was fair and everyone knows it. 

So making this claim, and worse, winning it, will only destroy the baby.  If those in the GOP who are cheating their own people so obviously actually succeed in this, they will be left with the party, but it will be worthless.  When my liberal friends attack my party and claim it is corrupt, I will have no response to them, other than to agree, because I have seen it with my own eyes and am experiencing it first hand.

Tell me what is worth doing this?  What is the worth of acting out the corruption we are calling out in the Obama administration, here in our own state?  And if we are just as corrupt as the current administration, do we deserve to win?  Should we be entrusted with power?  Will we not just screw the country up just as bad, merely differently than Obama Co is now doing?  Is "win at all costs, stab your brother in the back" a republican value?  Because the Republican Party I became a part of was about duty, honestly, hard work, fair play, and holding the big guy to the rules so the little guy does not get stepped on.

And all for Mitt Romney?  Because, if you have not noticed, he is not exactly the embodiment of Mr. Reagan.  I have talked to other conservatives who are supporting Romney, and the only reason they can give for that is because they think he can beat Obama, and, "We have to get Obama out."  I am with them on the last part.  Obama is a terrible president almost any way you measure him.  But why in the world, in this present climate, does anyone think that Mr. Romney has a better chance against President Obama than Dr. Paul does? 

I have a difficult time believing that many self-respecting liberals are going to cross over to our party to vote for Mitt Romney.  Why would they?  But people of all backgrounds are supporting Dr. Paul.  Yet rather than seizing that opportunity, the Republicans don't just ignore them, they actively go to war against them, even inside their own party?  It is like the world has turned upside down.  I don't understand this at all.  Do we want to destroy the party AND loose the election in the process?

Or am I wrong in my estimation of our party?  Is it truly unredeemable?  It is really the cold, corrupt, corporation dedicated to money and power that my liberal friends think it is, with merely a thin veneer of "freedom and justice" talk as a marketing ploy to conservative Americans who want to believe the party of Reagan is still alive?  Who are we?

These questions that I am asking you are not rhetorical.  Both of you hold yourselves out as leaders in my state and national political party, and feel comfortable making leadership decisions for our state party to throw out the votes of thousands of members, so it is safe to say you are morally accountable to answer my questions.  If it has a question mark after it, in this letter, I actually want an answer to it.  A few more specific questions:

1.  Since everyone who was at the Maine GOP Convention in May knew that the liberty movement outnumbered Romney supporters on the floor that day, and the election results were what the majority wanted, why are you contesting the results, knowing full well that it WILL create dissension in conservative ranks, crush morale for those who are working to bring conservative values to our state and local governments and kill trust in our party?

2.  I have reported that Romney's paid employees were caught and video taped deceiving their own party members on the floor to impact the outcome of the election.  The video has had tens of thousands of views on YouTube.  Does this concern you?  Will this be addressed in any way?

3.  Why is my credentialing, me personally, being contested?  Why don't you want me representing Maine at the GOP National Convention?

4.  If indeed this is not just a cynical attempt to change the outcome of elections that you both lost, and you are concerned that the true Maine Republican Delegates did not have their say that day in Augusta, then what do you propose be done to make sure that delegates do have their say?  If the delegation as elected, is not seated, how do you propose that it be replaced?  With individuals appointed by party membership?  If so, how will that better reflect the will of the delegates that were elected in their home towns?

5.  If you believe Maine should be represented by a delegation, and that delegation should be appointed by the party, then how do I hold myself out for consideration by the party for the seat I have already been elected to?  If this is about "Unity" as we are repeatedly being told, then would not the best solution before the party to merely appoint those whom have already been elected?  That way we can be sure that both the will of the people, and the rules of the party have been followed as best we can, right?

6.  If this is not really about rules, or fair play, and this is just your attempt to circumvent the will Maine GOP State Delegates to win an election that you lost, then why should anyone participate in this party any more, knowing that the game is rigged, the power players are just going to cheat, push, bully and bribe to get their way, and that we are merely participating in another broken and corrupt political mess? 

7.  If this is the way that republicans treat republicans, why should we follow your leadership and why should anyone support this party?

Because I am sick to death of political hardball.  I have had enough of behind the scenes strong arming, threats and bribes followed by smiles and bullshit calls for "unity" for the cameras.  The whole country is.  Enough already.  No one is buying it any more.

Things are bad right now.  Any republican will tell you that, but being the mother of a disabled child, who has not had the resources she had before her son's regression, I can attest to the fact that they are much worse than our current party leadership will even face.  There are good reasons that people are beginning to revolt and demonstrate on an international scale.  It is because corruption has become so ubiquitous, and has trickled down so far. 

If the US were a ship, then you are first class passengers complaining that the Captain has steered us into bad weather and rough seas, and a change of course is needed.  I am the woman who got lost down in steerage and is screaming to high heaven that the hull is rotting and collapsing from decades of neglect, and that no matter how fair the seas you seek, the ship is going down unless drastic measures are taken now.  Telling people like me to pipe down and locking us below decks is going to sink this ship.

Have you made any consideration of what the long term consequences of doing this might be?

I appeal to you to stop fighting the liberty movement, get on board with us, rescind your challenge to the current delegates, and start fixing what is broken.  Even the things that we republicans had a hand in breaking.  Things in this country are coming to a head, our current path is unsustainable, the status quo will not maintained for much longer, and everyone knows it.  The way I see it, we can either continue the futile attempt to hold on to a decaying paradigm, or we can let go of the past, change, and be a part of shaping what will come after whatever reset is coming our way.  The resets in the Middle East and Europe are not what I want for my country.  If that is not what you want, then stop battling people like me, and join us to become a part of the revolution that is going to fix this mess that we are in.

I look forward to hearing from you on all that I have written about here.  I live at 11 High Street, in Brunswick, my phone number is 207-729-6757, and you can call me at any time, or visit me at any time, day or night, so we can work this out in good faith, between party members, as should be done. 

Sincerely,

Ginger Taylor

Maine Alternate Delegate to the Republican Convention in Tampa, Florida.

UPDATE: A Statement from fellow delegate, Bryan Daugherty:

"It is a great honor and my privilege to represent Maine Republicans at the RNC in Tampa this August. I received the 5th highest amount of votes (958) from over 2200 Delegates at our State Convention in May. As a republican for more than 18 years, I have supported our party's principles and continue to do so. I support the Maine GOP platform and seek to help the Republican Party maintain the majority in the state legislature.

I have marched in parades for Republican candidates and have helped on Republican campaigns. I give up several days a month to attend various GOP committees, including the State Committee, Penobscot County Committee, and the Bangor Committee, as well as various town committees in my county.

I want to say that my entire family has sacrificed to make sure that I could attend the upcoming national convention, all of us knowing full well that this is the most important election of my generation and that in the balance hangs the future of my children -- and their children.

While I have been busy trying to fulfill my commitment to the party, this bitter woman, indulging her own self-interest, has filed a challenge to the validity of every national delegate and alternate delegate, trying to unseat each of us. If she is successful, she will have unseated every delegate for the state of Maine.

Why would she do this, you might ask. It might be because she was not re-elected to her current position of GOP National Committeewoman.

Or it might be because she did not get the committee seat she wanted on the Rules Committee in Tampa.

Or it might be that she believes that despite the fact that the majority of those who bothered to go to and stay at the state convention support a candidate which she does not support, so she believes that subverting the democratic process of the Convention is a viable remedy.

But whatever her reasons, she clearly misunderstands the definition of “unity,” which is the opposite of what she is doing.

That is why I am asking you to support the National Delegation that our party duly elected at the 2012 Maine Republican State Convention.

I need you to support our petition to ask Jan Staples and Peter Cianchette to withdraw their divisive challenge against the Maine Delegation and recommend that the RNC Credentials Committee seat the duly elected delegation from Maine.

Use the link below to sign right now! Your Support is appreciated!

Update:

When my copy arrived in the mail, it had no return address on it.  But fellow delegate Matt McDonald just noted something:

Matt McDonald

Ok, maybe this isn't as big as I think it is, but today I got my official unmarked letter from Peter and Jan telling my Delegation Seat is being Contested....notice the postmark address..02109.

02109 is Boston, Mass.

Boston, Mass is where Romney HQ is.

Just saying.

Mitt Romney for President's headquarters is at 585 Commercial Street, Boston, MA 02109.

The Obama Administration Makes Contact After Last Week's AoA Article

Last week, the Age of Autism ran stories on the upcoming meeting of the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, and the vast  complaints from our community on the wasted time, money and lives that have been the result of the incompetence and malfeasance of Tom Insel and the Department of Health and Human Services in their "search of the real killers" in the autism epidemic, Age of Autism announced that members of the autism community would be showing up in DC on Tuesday to make their voices heard. At the time, we were planning on holding our press conference in front of the DHHS building, but changes to the IACC schedule necessitated holding it at the hotel, so that our families could participate in public comment and hear their reaction to our input.

I can finally report that after holding a press conference in New York in April, after a letter to Kathleen Sebelius voicing our demands for an appropriate response to the autism epidemic and the government failures that have only served to compound the problem, and after announcing our plans to come to DC, we were finally contacted by the administration last Friday.

But it was not the Department of Health and Human Services calling to find out how they can serve our children, it was the Department of Homeland Security calling to find out if we were planning on chaining ourselves to the building.  As one of the coordinators of the event, I then carried out the somewhat humiliating task of assuring the men with the guns that parents bringing their severely, neurologically injured children (who can barely tolerate traffic noise) to the DHHS building were not planning a violent protest.

Because apparently the administration is reading the Age of Autism, but rather than tasking DHHS with acting to protect our children, they chose to task DHS to protect DHHS from us.

It is clear that we have been heard, and that the Obama administration has decided that we are to be ignored.

Cafe Pharma: "Sex is F'ing up Merck"

If you don't read Cafe Pharma, you really should.  You learn a lot about how the sausage is made that is eventually put into our babies.

Or you could just go back to believing that what Pharma is selling you is actually based on hard science since all of those involved have the lazer focus of Stephen Hawking, the self discipline of an olympic athlete and the compassion for the vulnerable of Mother Theresa.

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#1    06-25-2012, 12:33 PM

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Sex is F'ing up Merck People do your jobs and stop worrying about getting laid. You people are like a bunch of high schoolers.

#2    06-25-2012, 12:37 PM

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Re: Sex is F'ing up Merck ok, great post

#3    06-25-2012, 01:31 PM

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Re: Sex is F'ing up Merck Now we're onto a great topic. From now on if you are looking for action at meetings wink twice while sipping on a Diet Coke at the break.

#4    06-25-2012, 03:50 PM

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Re: Sex is F'ing up Merck Great topic maybe QA should chime in with some insights.

#5    06-25-2012, 04:25 PM

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Re: Sex is F'ing up Merck They are too busy not doing work.

#6    Yesterday, 10:02 AM

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Re: Sex is F'ing up Merck Merck will do this to anyone. The levels of stress here and the corruption goes across departments.

#7    Yesterday, 01:42 PM

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Re: Sex is F'ing up Merck What people don’t or can’t understand is no matter how hard you work here you will not be rewarded or penalized. It’s just go with the flow. If you work your tail off what do you really think you will get? You will get a 3% raise rather than a 1% raise. There are companies knocking down our door stating we can do the exact same thing your people do at 15 cents on the dollar. I kid you not about that. Will it be lower quality, of course. Do they care, hell no. I can assure you that the reps will have it good when this is all over in comparison to others here. As far as QA goes, I never had any respect for what they do. They have the easiest jobs in the company. All they must do is check the results before the product is out the door. Process work is done by people much higher up than them. It’s of no surprise to anyone that they have such low self-esteem. With that come the behavior they exhibit today. I feel more sympathy for them than anything else. They have been put in a position that they can’t handle. Management does not help them in any way, shape or form. Don’t blast them for their unscrupulous ways. Just be happy you only have a work relationship with them. If you are looking for Merck to give you career guidence, that was 20 years ago.

#8    Yesterday, 03:41 PM

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Re: Sex is F'ing up Merck It is just not Merck who is doing this. All companies are moving production overseas. Also since companies don’t have direction how can they give it to their employees. Your confusing America 2012 with America 1970.

#9    Yesterday, 07:57 PM

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Re: Sex is F'ing up Merck and it does not matter who you vote in

#10    Yesterday, 10:28 PM

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Re: Sex is F'ing up Merck The biggest thing made in America are billionaires.

#11    Today, 01:19 AM

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Re: Sex is F'ing up Merck At the end of the day, pharmaceutical companies are leaving NJ as fast as they can. The worse part about it is the saturation it will cause when we will be looking for work. If you read the article these people did not see it coming. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/201...ey_campus.html

#12    Today, 09:36 AM

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Re: Sex is F'ing up Merck Quote: Originally Posted by Anonymous  What people don’t or can’t understand is no matter how hard you work here you will not be rewarded or penalized. It’s just go with the flow. If you work your tail off what do you really think you will get? You will get a 3% raise rather than a 1% raise. There are companies knocking down our door stating we can do the exact same thing your people do at 15 cents on the dollar. I kid you not about that. Will it be lower quality, of course. Do they care, hell no. I can assure you that the reps will have it good when this is all over in comparison to others here. As far as QA goes, I never had any respect for what they do. They have the easiest jobs in the company. All they must do is check the results before the product is out the door. Process work is done by people much higher up than them. It’s of no surprise to anyone that they have such low self-esteem. With that come the behavior they exhibit today. I feel more sympathy for them than anything else. They have been put in a position that they can’t handle. Management does not help them in any way, shape or form. Don’t blast them for their unscrupulous ways. Just be happy you only have a work relationship with them. If you are looking for Merck to give you career guidence, that was 20 years ago. We are not make TV sets or radios. We are talking about medicine in places that does not have the ability to oversee what we are doing. You get what you pay for. Expect 15% of the quality and 15% of the volume. It’s all smoke and mirrors. Remember the Bhopal disaster back in 1984-1985. Fix our issues here and we will be fine. Just make QA accountable along with the rest of Merck. As far as their many affairs, nothing can be done about that. It just shows their disgusting and sickening character. They never should have been hired in the first place.

Rand Paul (sort of) Endorses Mitt Romney: Yawn

Not autism, but part of the political road toward getting our health rights back, so I will wade in with my .02...

My first thought: "Well that's crappy."
My second thought: "Who cares."
My third thought:  "Bet he got some good concessions for doing this before the convention."

Not a chance in my mind that Rand did not get something for the movement for his endorsement. If you can call it that. It was the weakest endorsement I have ever heard. "We both have big families"? He even said that his father was still his first pick!

So things that Rand may have gotten:

1. VP slot... but probably not
2. Dad as Sec. Treasury.
3. Committment to End/Audit the FED, however since Mittens is GoldmanSachs whipping boy....
4. Disarming and defanging the FDA... this is something that Mitt should care exactly jack squat about, and would be WELL worth the trade off.
5. Some sort of roll back on the TSA. Everyone has got to know at this point that what is going on in airports is just stupid, unsustainable and does not make anyone safer. Big happiness factor for the liberty movement, and little blow back for Mitness. Again... well worth the trade.

But certainly this gives Rand more power in the GOP.  Let's sit back and see how he uses it.

IMHO I think that this move by Paul the Younger does the following:

1. Jams the gate open to allow the Paul troops to march into the castle. We will see if the shenanigans at the state conventions continue. If they don't, then that may have been part of the deal.

The establishment has been escalating every weekend with what they are doing to fight the Paulers. Culminating in Louisiania where they sent to elected Paulites to the hospital via police abuse. They thought that the usual tricks would work, but the committed Paul camp is not putting up with the bullying and just walking through it (notice that since the Maine/Nevada weekend, and the two videos on the fake slates, that it has not happened since? That trick went away because it was published. Shutting the conventions down in OK and AZ didn't work, and now the police abuse in LA won't work anymore either.

The Ron Paul supporters can't be bullied and can't be bought.  The GOP establishment has to know they are kinda screwed at this point, because the usual is not working.  The guys walking around in the tri cornered hats kind of expect muskets to be pointed at them... they have called their movements "Tea Party" and "Liberty" and are constantly evoking images of the American Colonists who were martyred for freedom.  People who have "Give me liberty or give me death" plaques on their walls could give a crap that you are yelling at them or calling them names.  They already have videos of them calling cops to assault and drag GOP Elected party officials out of conventions for simply making motions, and then being replaced by another Paul supporter, who is then again assaulted and dragged out... and then replace by another... until they have to give up.  Have you seen the video from Louisiana?



The chairman of the convention fully acted like he could simply replace the elected officials, because he had the microphone and had hired off duty cops to haul anyone out who would challenge him!  This is not a banana republic!

So unless they are going to bring machine guns to the floor in Tampa and put them to the heads of  500+ delegates to be broadcast live on ABC News, the GOP old guard KNOW that they have to start dealing with Ron Paul supporters and making concessions/overtures to them.

So the GOP establishment HAS to now walk back the crap they have been pulling. They HAVE to make a deal with the Paul camp, and Rand is the vessel for that.

If we don't see them fighting the Paul delegates any more, then I think we can assume that starting to play nice with the Ron Paul supporters on the ground was part of what they had to give Rand to get him to say nice things about Mitt.  The establishment battle against us has to have stopped to get Rand's endorsement. If so, we get to walk into ALL of the lower level offices in the GOP that we have been elected to, with out a fight.  The next three months will be VERY telling.

2. Makes the Liberty movement legit to people in the GOP who have not thought openly about Paul or his supporters before now. Watch the interview.  Hannity is bending over backward to make Romney sound appealing to Paul's audience. Paul is in the power position in this interview.



3. Preserves the entire Liberty movement!

I can understand why people are upset about this from a purity point of view... but when you think about it critically... why be upset??  NOT ONE PERSON IN THE LIBERTY MOVEMENT WILL GIVE A CRAP ABOUT THIS ENDORSEMENT! Not one Paul follower is going to hear that and go... "You know what? Romney is a better choice. GO MITTENS!"

But the crazy thing is, RomneyCo... because they are so stuck in the old political game where candidates drop out and endorse whomever will give them the most whatever in return... actually think that this will get them something!  Paul supporters are nothing like Gingrich supporters.  When someone points and says, "go over there." We reply, "Why?"  And if they don't have a good answer, we don't.  RomneyCo likely made a deal thinking this would get him Paul's supporters or delegates.  It won't. This makes me laugh like a mad scientist.

Ron Paul looses exactly nothing. Everyone is still going to Tampa to do what we set out to do. The ONLY consequences of this is that the purists will be pissed at Rand. But why? Who cares about this "endorsement?"  Rand is not running for anything, and he has no delegates.  Will he be the Liberty candidate in four years?  Who knows?  He has four years to prove whether or not he is worthy of their support, or if there will be a better candidate by then.

I think that Paulers need not become upset about this. It only matters to the establishment... not us. I could not care jack about what Rand does politically.  As long as he continues to work to roll back the FDA abuses, I will know he is fighting for us where it counts.

Ron is the purist, Rand is the player, and they both have good on their actions and policy. This is not religion, it is politics.  Let him endorse Romney all he wants.  I'm not gonna.  (And best case scenario, if Mitt is elected, perhaps Rand can have some role in actually holding him accountable to some of the things he said on the campaign trail, that were the opposite of the other things that he said on the campaign trail, but that were the right things, even though while he was Governor he did some of the wrong things.  Trying to decode Mitt Romney gives me a headache.)

And if I am wrong about all this, and Rand is actually not a Liberty guy, but just wants to snuggle with big money Republicans, then we will know that in 4 years, and we will have a better choice by then.

This summer promises to be an interesting one, in so many ways.  But make no mistake, those who want freedom and honest government are winning.  This may seem like a setback, but look deeper and think about the long game, it is just the next stage of a fight that we are winning.

In case you were wondering what I was thinking about all this...  ;)

TO TAMPA.... AND BEYOND!

Stop What You Are Doing And Watch This Video: Jeffrey Smith on GMOs and Autism

Four years ago I watched The World According to Monsanto, and was horrified to learn that I had been feeding my children poison.  We had switched Chandler to a SCD diet the year before, and saw dramatic improvement in his behavior, language, happiness, relationships, and his puffy belly went flat.  Check out my posts on his gains from the spring of 2007:

Chandler Does a New Thing

Webster's New Friend Chandler

"Five."

"March 11"

I wondered if his healing was not just because I had been giving him only simple sugars, but also because this diet was now organic, and he was not getting GMOs any more.

I wrote about it in post entitled, Monsanto GMOs: My Questions about Monsanto's GMOs and Autism.  I got a response from Árpád Pusztai, one of the worlds experts on Lectins who got Wakefielded when he discovered that gm foods caused autoimmunity, GI problems and acted as an adjuvant in lab rats.  He said, yes, it was plausiblethat GMOs could be facilitating some of the damage we see in our kids with an "autism" diagnosis.

Now THE master of the GMO fight, Jeffrey Smith is confirming that it is likely part of the assault on our kids is by Monsanto and her sister witches.  He gave an amazing presentation at Autism One, and if there is only one speech you watch from that conference, it should be this one.  This is the speech he gave there.  And this is not just for those with autism.  Everyone with a mouth should watch this.

Watch it!

Read his full discussion on the topic here:
http://responsibletechnology.org/autism

Honoring the Memory of 1st Lt. C. Chandler Perine

Marine Corps 1st Lt. C. Chandler Perine was my uncle and he loved me.

He died in the service of his country on November 15, 1970 at the age of 26 when the plane he was piloting suffered mechanical failure during take off from McGuire AFB, New Jersey

Chan, my father's younger brother, served as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, a football player in college and "class flirt" in high school.

My youngest son, Chandler Perine Taylor, is named in his honor.

In October of 2003, while attending the Perine family burial plot for my grandfather's internment, Chandler, just 18 months old at the time, wandered away from me and our group, and walked straight to the grave of his name sake.  He lay down the truck he was playing with on Uncle Chan's headstone, and began to stroke the rose that had been laid there a few minutes earlier.

My sister followed him with her camera, and this is the picture she took.