Is Cocktail Party GOP Establishment Rigging Iowa Caucus Against Ron Paul? Hint: Keeping Iowa First in the Nation Depends on It
I normally don’t give much credence to conspiracy theories, but this time the people who believe the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is plotting against them are right.
Here are a few things you need to know:
1. The Iowa Caucus is incredibly easy to steal through voter fraud and other nefarious means. It is, by design, a chaotic and horribly organized affair with no ID checks for people attempting to vote. Very elderly people run most of the Caucus sites and most of the counting is done by hand, without a system in place to assure any sort of accuracy. Results are then called in verbally via telephone from the Caucus site to the “headquarters” that tallies the results. I have known of elections in junior high schools that were more secure and safe from both fraud and human error.
2. When I attended the Iowa Caucus in 2008, I observed the very elderly people who were running the Caucus and watched as they attempted to phone in our Caucus location’s results to “headquarters”. It was like watching Lily Tomlin performing as her telephone operator character from the 70s…or seeing Andy Griffith struggle with the Mayberry switchboard when trying to place an important call on this TV show. The Caucus location was incredibly loud, with Iowans gossiping and comparing notes on how many times they got to meet each of the candidates in the leadup to the Caucus. The very elderly woman who was trying to call in the results at the Caucus I attended had a very hard time hearing whoever answered the phone. I distinctly heard her shouting into the phone with one of her hands covering her ear, trying her best to hear what the person on the line was saying. And then it came time for her to shout numbers into the phone. “Forty-seven”. “What?”. “Not FORTY-seven, not FOURTEEN”. “FORTY SEVEN, oh, mercy they can’t hear me. I SAID FORTY SEVEN! No, not SEVENTEEN. FORTY SEVEN!”. This went on for some time. I am not exaggerating how foolishly the Caucuses are setup or how much they resemble a junior high student council election where the votes are tabulated in the principal’s office after being collected from each of the home rooms. There are many in the agenda-driven media who think this is all very cute, but let me assure you of this: as someone who witnessed this travesty unfold in person four years ago, there is nothing cute about it. At all. The people phoning these results in could very easily make mistakes (some even doing so on purpose) that will disenfranchise many voters…and the Caucus winner will be declared before anyone can ever raise a complaint about it.
3. The Cocktail Party GOP establishment has a vested interest in guaranteeing that Ron Paul does not win the Iowa Caucus, because the Republican Party does not want to do away with the Caucus. There are too many GOP consultants who have a cottage industry that’s called “the Iowa Caucus”, and too many Iowan lobbyists exist in Washington who threaten to punish any political figure who makes a move towards eliminating Iowa’s “first in the nation” status. Since Mike Huckabee won the Caucus in 2008, Iowa’s GOP elite cannot afford for Ron Paul to win in 2012. That would solidify the Iowa Caucus as a colossal joke and give credence to efforts underway to restructure the nomination process for 2016 and beyond. Too many very wealthy Cocktail Party establishment types make too much money off the Iowa Caucus as it exists for them to allow this to be changed: so you can definitely count on tricks being pulled tonight to ensure the Fifth-Dimensional imp known as “Ron Paul” does not win the Caucus.
4. As much as I love Rush Limbaugh, he’s wrong that Democrats are going to Caucus for Ron Paul in Iowa tonight. There has been absolutely no effort made on the part of Democrats to register as Republicans and enter the Iowa Caucuses to propel Ron Paul to a win. Going to the Caucus is a nightmare: it is as disorganized, loud, and chaotic as I have described. Have you been to the DMV, the emergency room, or any sort of free public event at a library or some other city or county building in recent years? Do you remember how frustrating it is to sit there, amongst members of the public at large, and listen to attention-starved, usually older people seize the opportunity to hold court as you wait and wait and wait for whatever you’re there for to be over? Multiply this by several hundred degrees of frustration and you have a basic idea of what the Iowa Caucuses are really like. Now, considering that, just how many dyed-in-the-wool committed Democrats in Iowa are going to willingly subject themselves to the ordeal of Caucusing JUST SO THEY CAN VOTE FOR RON PAUL? It would be one thing if this was a primary, where people could vote all day long (or even weeks in advance via early voting). In that situation, I’d think that, yes, maybe there would be some Democrats who’d want to engage in mischief and vote for Ron Paul just for kicks and giggles…but even then there is a psychological barrier that would prevent many of these people from registering as Republican, even momentarily, to be able to cast that vote. Here in Chicago, if you ever vote Republican in any election — even in a primary — your name gets put onto a list that is given to your local Alderman (the City Council member representing you). Republican voters are punished in Chicago with slow response times for any sort of complaint made to the city (if you want your trash picked up regularly, you need to always vote Democrat and forever vote for your specific Alderman…because they know if you don’t and will hold it against you). Chicago is not the only city where this happens. Unions, also, somehow get reports on people who vote Republican and also punish union members who are not casting Democrat primary ballots. So the idea of people who’ve been so intimidated into voting straight Democrat for years suddenly deciding to throw caution to the wind (in this economy) and register Republican for the Iowa Caucus just to vote for Ron Paul is ridiculous to me.
5. There is no Republican candidate with supporters on the ground as fiercely committed to him or her as Ron Paul’s voters are to him. Not by a mile. Unless the Caucus results are indeed tampered with, Ron Paul should win. Romneycare’s voters just aren’t nearly as committed as Dr. Paul’s are.
I’ll go a step further and say that Ron Paul will win all of the Caucuses in 2012, in much the same way that Barack Obama won almost all of the Democrat Caucuses in 2008.
A Caucus, by nature, is won not by the candidate who has the highest number of people willing to vote for him or her…but it’s won by the candidate whose supporters are the most aggressive, are the loudest, and are most inclined to commit voter fraud, intimidation, and disruptive practices aimed at gaming the Caucus.
Ron Paul’s supporters may not stuff the ballots and use the thuggery that Obama’s campaign directed back in 2008, but I can easily see the more rabid Ron Paul fans screaming and yelling and using intimidation tactics to bully Caucus wins for Dr. Paul in the majority of Iowa’s precincts. Since a Caucus is won with enthusiasm, there is just no way that anyone supporting Willard Romneycare or the other GOP candidates will be able to drown out or match the verve of the Ron Paul supporters. The Caucuses are their turf and barring Cocktail Party voter fraud, Ron Paul will win as a result.
It’s going to be interesting to see how everything plays out considering all of this.
I’m not a fan of Ron Paul’s — and in fact I find his foreign policy horrifying and his lame attempts to distance himself from his newsletters disturbing — but I will be intensely suspicious if Dr. Paul does not in fact win Caucus after Caucus from Iowa to Colorado to Washington and Maine and beyond. Because of his deep investment in ground game for the Caucuses, Ron Paul should win 13 states in the Republican primary season and will end up being a kingmaker at the Convention. If not, then something funny is definitely going on with the vote counting.
I’ll be even more suspicious if Romneycare wins in Iowa, if Rick Santorum comes in second, and if Dr. Paul is not even third. In this scenario, I could almost guarantee that the “secret and undisclosed location” where the Cocktail Party GOP is counting the votes is the place where the votes are in fact being rigged to the Cocktail Party’s desired outcome.
If the voting is fair and accurately reflects the candidates’ enthusiasm on the ground, here is how I’d expect the Iowa Caucus to shake out tonight:
Winner: Ron Paul
Second Place: Rick Perry or Newt Gingrich
Third Place: Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry
Fourth Place: Rick Santorum
Fifth Place: Willard Mittens Romneycare
Sixth Place: Michele Bachmann
Seventh Place: Jon Huntsman
I’m not even going to include Herman Cain, Gary Johnson, or the other people out there that still have supporters in this race even though these aren’t viable candidates for the nomination any longer.
Going forward to New Hampshire and the other voting states, I’d very much like to see Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman leave the race so that the “Not-Romney” vote has an opportunity to coalesce around other candidates.
Huntsman is going to run third party anyway, so why not just start that now? Bachmann is only in the race at this point to aid Romneycare in her quest to become a Cabinet member. Santorum is looking for redemption and a return to the national scene after his disastrous loss in the 2006 Pennsylvania Senate race.
Ron Paul has invested immense effort and treasure in what looks to be a very effective Caucus State Ground Game, so don’t expect him to POOF! back to the Fifth Dimension no matter how loudly you shout Luap Nor! at him or how ingeniously you strive to get him to say his own name backwards like that. This is Dr. Paul’s last time at the cosmic rodeo and he knows it. He is having the time of his life soaking up all this attention and saying outrageous things before large crowds, while building his email list so he can sell more of those newsletters of his in the future (and also hand those lists over to his son so in a few years Rand Paul can become a Mr. Mxyzptlk character in his own right and run for president himself on a perpetual basis). I would not be the least surprised if Ron Paul won every single Caucus state in the Republican race…and also won Virginia’s primary, since it’s just Dr. Paul versus Willard Romneycare on that ballot in March.
Immediately following New Hampshire, I’d like to see either Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry leave the race and 100% endorse whichever of the two is riding the highest against Romneycare. My gut tells me it’s going to be Perry who stays in the race and it will be Gingrich who leaves it (but expect to see Gingrich in a Perry administration in some way shape or form, if Perry wins the nomination and the White House). I don’t think Perry has sense enough to get out and endorse Gingrich if things shake out the other way, which will be to Perry’s great detriment as he’ll never have another chance on the national stage again.
The Cocktail Party GOP establishment has done an impressive job of rigging as much of the nominating process for Romneycare as possible. I have to give them that credit, because so far they have effectively kept the “Not-Romney” vote from unifying behind one candidate who can prevent Romneycare from being the nominee.
The big variable to me in all of this is the Tea Party: I just can’t imagine the Tea Party allowing Romneycare to be the nominee. For some time now, the agenda-driven media has been howling that the Tea Party is over. People I respect very much, such as Andrea Shea King from Patriot Radio, have long argued that the Tea Party is stronger than ever and has just been keeping its powder dry.
If Romneycare’s the nominee, then the Tea Party is over; if Romneycare’s defeated, the Tea Party remains a force to be reckoned with and America really does have a chance of undoing everything that Obama and the Left did to this country.
It really does come down to that.
I don’t think the Cocktail Party will get away with their shenanigans in Iowa, especially not if they go so far as to rig the results enough to produce a Romneycare win. Barack Obama was allowed to get away with that sort of voter fraud, but if anyone but Ron Paul wins the Iowa Caucus, I truly believe Dr. Paul’s committed fans will somehow expose the truth about how the Iowa Caucus was rigged.
Which is ironic, because the reason the Cocktail Party in Iowa is so intent on tampering with results to steal the win from Ron Paul is to keep Iowa “first in the nation” in presidential primary voting…but counting these ballots “in a secure and secret location” will only give the Ron Paul supporters the fire in their bellies needed to keep this controversy burning for years…which will fuel larger efforts to take away Iowa’s quadrennial entitlement.
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If someone acts the least suspicious they can be thrown in to jail indefinetely (NDAA) because of "everyone's safety",
but if someone are likely to tamper with our Democracy (US's biggest export), and even has a RECORD OF RIGGING RESULTS,
there is NO PENALTY FOR THEM, we even let them MOVE IT TO A SECRET LOCATION,
and do it all over again!
As I stated in the previous post, you are right on Kevin. Since I live in Nevada and it is very much influenced by the Morman faith, I do believe Romeny will actually take the caucus here. I can tell you from firsthand knowledge that the Ron Paul-bots are very busy trying to take over the caucus, especially in the rural areas. A family member maintains that if, in fact, Romney does become the nominee for the Republican party, the party will either immediately and very soon go the way of the Whigs. I'm pretty sure he is right, especially in the Mountain West and possibly all of the Midwest and South.
I think if Romneycare is the nominee and he loses to Obama as expected that the Republican Party is over.
I also think if Romneycare wins he will be a one-term president and will be defeated by Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Cocktail Party will be shocked by that, but Romneycare was a terrible governor who could not win re-election in Massachusetts…and he will not have the stones to do what’s needed in the White House to get the country back on track.
Romneycare is a terrible, terrible choice that the Cocktail Party is trying to force on everyone…to their own doom.
A Romney nomination will indeed be the end of the "repubican" party and good riddance. Since T. Roosevelt the repubics with exception of Coolidge have been the party of cowardice & complicity with the left's statists and deserves the dustbin of history.
I would say
1. Paul
2. Santorum
3. Romneycare
4. Perry
5. Gingrich
6. Bachman
The Paul people are getting organized and are ready to fight the fraud.
What are they doing to organize and fight fraud?
Hillary’s team was 100% unprepared to deal with the Iowa Caucus fraud in 2008.
It was alleged that there was fraud in NH in 2008. The Paul people will expose the fraud if there is such tonight in the tally. I could be wrong. We shall see.
apparently nothing, as We have one person who has proof that romney was given 20 extra votes in his district. That at least makes Santorum the winner and makes you doubt that the whole thing wasn't rigged against Paul.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot…
Iowa First In The Nation, Prepares To Saddle Up & We're Off To The Races.
Some video of Imus Guest This Morning, James Carville and Frank Luntz both humping the inevitability of a Romney nomination, and simultaneously pointing how weak a candidate he will be in the General.
This is a very important piece. If I had a blog I would link back to it.
Fighting the Caucus Fraud!! http://transparentvote.net/
Interesting analysis! I was surprised to see you had Santorum so low. Hope you are right!
RE: "Is Cocktail Party GOP Establishment Rigging Iowa Caucus Against Ron Paul?"
Would Barry Hussein and his un-American style thug machine still the Iowa caucuses…say in 2008?
You Betcha!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Democratic_cauc…
URGH!
STEAL that is!
Lookee Lookee who won the 2008 Iowa caucuses……
How did that first win work out for Huckabee?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_Republican_cauc…
Why have said caucus when they are rigged by big government and money changers whose birth right is dishonesty first for the good old boy club up on the hill.If Ron Paul does not win this election it will be pure proof America is ruled by corporation government. At which time the average America will put on his ball and chain attire and be content with it. And don't forget "Where are your papers!!
"…I’ll be even more suspicious if Romneycare wins in Iowa, if Rick Santorum comes in second, and if Dr. Paul is not even third. …"
Count me as way beyond "more suspicious" now. Something is seriously wrong, especially considering what the entrance/exit polls showed (RP win).
For those of you who have attended the Iowa caucus or planning on attending your state caucus remember the words of a once famous person who said…
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
My point here is if votes are counted at an undisclosed site, how do we know if it is accurate? Maybe I'm overly paranoid but I do remember Dubuque, Iowa in 1996, look it up, could it happen again?
Well look who came in first…Rick the warmonger Santorum….this was a caucus driven into a ditch. The Republican Party is a disgrace…and Kevin you have blown this prediction about as badly as anyone can. You are on Planet Moronovich. Iowa, SC, NV and Maine have convinced me to never vote again. Gotta love the 935 dead people voting in just one area of SC. NV and Maine ohh the stories…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!