{"id":1138,"date":"2012-08-27T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2012-08-27T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:02:18","slug":"the-alternate-tampa-of-ron-pauls-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/27\/the-alternate-tampa-of-ron-pauls-army\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alternate Tampa of Ron Paul&#8217;s Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"IMG_9356 by daveweigel1981, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/58372028@N00\/7865344112\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" alt=\"IMG_9356\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8290\/7865344112_9220af3d4a.jpg?resize=500%2C374\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. &#8212; I spent Saturday at one Ron Paul party and Sunday at another, putting me in airborne contact with at least 10,000 followers of the Modern Thomas Jefferson. One question I kept asking: Are you guys 100 percent sure that Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee? Nobody said yes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n This is what outsiders don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand: Oodles of Paul supporters believe that the delegate switch-ups<br \/>\n <em>\u00c2\u00a0literally<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0cost them a chance at the nomination. James DiPasquale, a Florida activist who watched some friends try and fail to become delegates, argues that Paul could win if the contest stretched on for a few ballots. (There has been no multi-ballot convention for decades.) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If every delegate was allowed to vote his conscience,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he asks, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153how many of them really would want to vote for Romney? It would be a landslide for Ron Paul.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d To emphasize the point, he walks around with a life-size stand-up poster of\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/post\/ron-paul-and-ronald-reagan-fact-checker-biography\/2011\/12\/22\/gIQA6NJpKP_blog.html\">Ronald Reagan<\/a>, to which he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attached a quote from the Republican demigod, praising Paul.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2012\/08\/ron_paul_s_supporter_rally_in_tampa_in_a_desperate_attempt_to_keep_his_presidential_hopes_alive_.html\">Read it all here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Photo by David Weigel.)<\/p>\n<p>via Slate Blogs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/weigel\/2012\/08\/27\/ron_paul_in_tampa_not_giving_in_to_romney.html\">http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/weigel\/2012\/08\/27\/ron_paul_in_tampa_not_giving_in_to_romney.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. &#8212; I spent Saturday at one Ron Paul party and Sunday at another, putting me in airborne contact with at least 10,000 followers of the Modern Thomas Jefferson. One question I kept asking: Are you guys 100 percent sure that Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee? Nobody said yes. This is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/27\/the-alternate-tampa-of-ron-pauls-army\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Alternate Tampa of Ron Paul&#8217;s Army&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[286,6,287],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-david-weigel","tag-ifttt","tag-slate-blogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-im","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}