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Ron Paul See other Ron Paul Articles Title: Sununu says, "That's not fair." Now he is doing the same thing. (YouTube) In 2012 Sununu explains to Andrea Mitchell why the GOP establishment is justified in kicking out the duly elected Ron Paul delegates. "It's not fair," he says, but he is encouraging the same tactics against Donald Trump in 2016. Sununu also misstates the facts about Iowa. “Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum each had about 35% of the vote. That’s 70% of the vote. And the rest was distributed among the rest of the candidates. Ron Paul’s numbers were close to single digits.” This was totally false but went unchallenged by Mitchell. In fact, the actual vote was Santorum 24.6%, Romney 24.6%, Paul 21.5%, with the other seven candidates falling behind. Sununu also failed to mention that the Chairman of the Iowa State Party, a Romney supporter, refused to release the votes from two Iowa counties for two weeks so that the media would report the contest as a Romney victory and deprive Santorum of any credit for his first place showing which might have added momentum for the New Hampshire Primary the following week. Romney had been chosen by the establishment months before. Knowing that he was a Mormon and might not do well in evangelical heavy Southern States, they had changed those primaries to “proportional” rather than “winner take all” so that Romney, even if he lost, would continue to amass delegates. They also moved up the Nevada contest to give Romney an early win. When asked by Mitchell how they could justify removing the duly elected delegates Sununu said, “They go and cram the next part of the [Iowa] Caucus and they come away with all of the Iowa vote.” Says, Sununu, “That undermines the votes of a million Iowans who went to the Caucus. And that’s not fair. And so they like to abuse the process, in my opinion, when it serves them but when people follow the rules as we did here they get upset with the Rules Committee. “But the vote we had here that they are concerned about was 78 to 14. They really have nothing to complain about.” Sununu failed to mention to Andrea Mitchell that Romney security operatives routed the bus carrying the opposition Rules Committee members all around Tampa for hours, keeping them from arriving at the Convention in time to vote on the issue. This included not just Ron Paul delegates but any Rules Committee delegate not approved by the Romney team. Andrea Mitchell asked Sununu if this kind of division would lead to a defeat in the general election. Sununu said no. He insisted that the Ron Paul people would support Romney anyway who would win in November. He was wrong. In 2016, ironically, Sununu is encouraging the establishment leaders to play the same Ron Paul game. Ted Cruz and all of the other “Never-Trump” operatives are encouraging the establishment to take delegates at the State Conventions and laughing at Donald Trump supporters who are now saying exactly what the establishment was saying four years ago, “That’s not fair!” Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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