"Ich stamme aus der Sowjetunion", sagt Yelena Vorovye aus Minnesota. "Das sieht mir ganz nach einem kommunistischen Regime aus!"

Mensch* abgelehnt Hintergrund nicht ok!

rechtsaußen - denn um nichts Anderes ahndelt es sich ja bei den Paul-Leuten.

Komisch, dass in den US-Medien nichts davon zu lesen ist. War der Spiegel-Redakteur vielleicht auf der falschen Veranstaltung?

Sag mal Mensch - das ist doch wohl nicht Dein Ernst, oder?

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Yesterday, the Republican National Committee proposed a new rule that would allow the party’s nominee to overrule state conventions and choose his or her own delegates. This, many feared, would turn delegate slots into perks for insiders and donors, and further shut activists out of the process. The reaction was livid. In a widely circulated open letter to the Republican National Committee, Thompson wrote, “The audacity of creating a firestorm when there is an opportunity for unity and peace that is needed to win back the Senate and take back the White House is irresponsible and I seriously question the motives of those behind this attempt.�

In the end, the party decided to compromise, adopting a measure that simply binds delegates to vote for the candidate they were chosen to vote for. But it adopted a second rule, Rule 12, allowing the party to change its regulations between conventions. Many at the RNC suspect that the party will use this rule to institute new delegate-selection procedures when the convention is over. When House Speaker John Boehner held a voice vote on the floor over Rule 12, there seemed to be as many “nays� as “ayes,� but Boehner declared, “The ayes have it.� That’s when the booing started.

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The fight over the Maine delegation, and the treatment of Paul more generally, has been one of the few bits of drama at a convention that has journalists debating whether it’s the most boring ever, or just the most boring in a couple of decades.