Tyranny at the Texas Straw Poll

I found this on digg.com and I’m pretty shocked. to summarize, for reasons beyond my comprehension, republican presidential candidate ron paul’s supporters were flat out *not* allowed to enter the texas straw poll. i can only imagine that if things in texas are like they are in brentwood, tn… it’s because in reality it was just a rich white folk drinking and feeling good about yourself party, and the actual republican conservative base showed up and were unacceptably crude by the standrads of the corporato-fascist neocons. Some of the comments on the digg page are worth reading…

We should really not be surprised that the GOP would resort to all sorts of tricks to ensure Ron Paul would not have a first place win in Texas. After all, here in Texas, we are the home of big oil and back room deals.

This straw poll was so well regulated that only true Neo-con co-sponsors could possibly win. They don’t like it when the peasantry tries to change politics as usual.

We counted about 12 or so people walking up to the door and being turned away every 10 min or so. This went on from 10am till 1:30 when I left. This does not count the delegates who showed up in Ron Paul shirts and could not or decided not to change and simply went home frustrated and out the $50 or $75 fee the GOP charges.

Unbelievable.