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04/26/2008: "What's this? Ron Paul tops McCain?"

Some weird things happened at last Saturday's Clark County Republican convention at Prairie High School, where it was demonstrated that democracy is too important to be left to party activists.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, who will be the Republican presidential nominee and who was the choice of local voters in the Feb. 19 Washington presidential primary, was left in the dust by Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, the anti-Iraq war, anti-tax, anti-big government libertarian.

Highly motivated and disciplined Paul supporters outnumbered McCain forces and thus will send more delegates to the state convention in Spokane next month. Never mind that in the statewide primary two months ago McCain carried Clark County with 44 percent of the Republican votes to 27 percent for Mike Huckabee and 20 percent for Mitt Romney, with Paul getting just 6.5 percent.

[ Maybe more people have voted for Paul, but the vote counts are rigged. ]

http://columbian.com/opinion/news/2008/04/04252008_Whats-this-Ron-Paul-tops-McCain.cfm