James Robert Kelley

The Republican Party has let the sheep skin slip in recent months.  In Louisville, KY Republican Senator Mitch McConnell “pressured” Republican Chris Thienman into stopping a run for Congress.  The reason was simple, McConnell supports Ann Northup, who lost the seat to John Yarmuth during the 2006 Congressional Election, and he is unapologetic about applying pressure and taking the option away from voters.

Louisiana GOP officials held off for days when counting the Louisiana Caucus results, which brought charges of vote tampering.  The votes they were not counting were enough to replace  John McCain with Ron Paul as the top candidate delegate earner.

Then today the truth comes out from Maine.  Maine held the Republican Caucus Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  The results at the end of Saturday were posted quickly on the Maine GOP website, which accounted for 70.5% of the vote.  As it stood, John McCain held the second place slot, with Ron Paul coming in third.  I was eager to see the completed totals, which should not have taken long due to the small size of the electorate; because that 29.5% of the remaining vote could make a difference for second place.

As of 4pm EST on Monday the results have not been posted, but news articles have been circulating widely that John McCain scored the second place finish with 21% and Ron Paul at 19%.  This was in spite of the fact that during most of the counting Ron Paul was in second place.  A conspiracy theorist would suggest that they picked the best time to stop counting.

Now it turns out that Ron Paul may have scored 35% of the delegates, based on internal numbers, according to the official Ron Paul Blog:

Delegates to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis are elected by the state delegates.  Internal results from 10 of 16 counties, including the largest cities of Portland, South Portland, Lewiston, Auburn, Augusta, Waterville, Bangor, and Brewer, show Ron Paul picking up 215 of 608 State Convention delegates so far reported, or 35%.

Don’t expect any corrections in the media, they only want the truth to come out after it is too late.  That way they can have yet another sad story to report on the news.