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Saturday, March 3, 2012

2012 An Interview With One of Ron Paul's Top Secret Manchurian Delegates

Posted by Eli Sanders on Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:46 PM

This fist caucused for Mitt Romney, but is awaiting a Ron Paul coup at the county convention.

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This Republican-stamped fist caucused for Mitt Romney. But it's quietly awaiting a Ron Paul coup at the county convention.

He's 29 years old. He's employed as "a government worker." And he wouldn't give his name because "a lot of people know me in the party."

He told the people he caucused with at Roosevelt High School this morning that he's "a Romney voter," and he even went for Romney in the straw poll that was held for his precinct.

He then got himself elected as a delegate to the upcoming county convention—for all everyone in his caucus knew, a Romney delegate. But, as he correctly points out: "This is all non-binding. If change my mind, I change my mind."

He continued: "My idea is that I will go to the convention and just see what's playing out." And if enough of Ron Paul's Manchurian delegates make it to the county convention, and if the right signal is given and there's a viable coup attempt, then, as he put it to me, "I'll switch sides."

I asked him if he feels dishonest.

"Do I feel dishonest?" he asked himself out loud.

The answer wasn't no.

Instead, he said: "I'm just open right now."

He is, as the signs say, not alone.

Check out this e-mail we just received from a "Santorum supporter" interviewed by a different Stranger staffer at a different caucus site this morning:

I was interviewed at the GOP caucus by one of your great staff because I was a Santorum supporter.

I was not able to give truthful answers in front of the audience. I was working on and succeeded in getting selected as the delegate/precinct captain for the county convention.

Please take my interview with a giant pile of salt in the wound.

Thanks for doing a great job.

As Paul Constant noted a while back, this may very well be Ron Paul's secret plan to win the nomination. Should be an interesting county convention.

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Sweet!

As the dad of a Roughriders grad, I say kudos to this sleeper agent!

Posted by Will in Seattle

on March 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM

It looks like things aren't going well in Kennewick:

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/03/03…

Posted by passionate_jus on March 3, 2012 at 2:11 PM

And having 1500 people turned away is a big deal, since only 12,320 people attended the 2008 WA GOP caucus (32,220 attended the 2008 WA Democratic caucus).

Posted by passionate_jus on March 3, 2012 at 2:17 PM

This is too perfect. The party of scum-sucking, dishonest assholes has to be scum-sucking, dishonest assholes for their candidate to win the nomination. I actually hope they succeed. Nobody with half a brain is going to vote for Paul. (I guess you know where that leaves you, Will.)

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on March 3, 2012 at 2:40 PM

"Please take my interview with a giant pile of salt in the wound."

Ah, I see. Your English phrase is "with a grain of salt"! How droll! It only shows we Ron Paul men are just like you, hu-man. Our disguise is perfect. We will never be noticed hiding among the puny Earth fools!

Posted by passing for normal passing for normal. nothing to see here on March 3, 2012 at 2:55 PM

Haha, seriously, "take my interview with a giant pile of salt in the wound"? Even if he was trying to comically butcher two metaphors at once, that's just too weird to be human.

Posted by balderdash

on March 3, 2012 at 3:09 PM

Do you see anyone else in government or running for President taking on Bernanke?

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20…

Posted by Spindles on March 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM

That's assuming of course the drooling retards on the Slog understand a thing about the Federal Reserve system.

Posted by Spindles on March 3, 2012 at 3:34 PM

Oh geeze, he knows we drool, you guys. We better take him seriously.

Posted by balderdash

on March 3, 2012 at 3:43 PM

This is why the GOP is so obsessed with gay buttsex and voter fraud. They engage in both.

@legal scholars
Does this amount to a criminal conspiracy of some sort? Are they defrauding the public in some way?

Posted by Mr. J on March 3, 2012 at 4:35 PM

@passing: abortions for none, tiny american flags for others!

Posted by Kodos / Paul 2012 on March 5, 2012 at 6:48 AM