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" You have to give the Republican party credit. Faced with a down economy and a vulnerable incumbent, the GOP has managed to put together not only an incredibly mediocre field of candidates, but also a nominating process that seems to have been designed by angry ferrets on crystal meth. It is an altogether remarkable parlay. Take, for example, the events over the weekend in Missouri. A while back, Rick Santorum won a non-binding primary in that state and the problem with non-binding primaries is that they&amp;#039;re not, well, binding. Consequently, the parceling out of delegates \u2014 which is, after all, the point of the entire exercise \u2014 was left to local Republican caucuses. And, while all politics is indeed local, it does not necessarily follow that all politics is sane. I know from following the Republican presidential candidates that the soul of America is in its small towns full of white people where reason and good old common sense prevail. And, when it doesn&amp;#039;t, well, hell, just call in the law.... An off-duty police officer, hired as security, eventually filed a trespassing complaint against the Paul supporters and notified on-duty police in the area municipality of St. Peters, who, along with police from other jurisdictions, arrested two Paul supporters and ended the caucuses early. A joint-jurisdictional police helicopter arrived on the scene. Kipers said about 10 officers arrived in total. &amp;quot;Two people were arrested for trespassing after receiving numerous warnings to leave the school property,&amp;quot; the St. Peters police said in a press release. &amp;quot;Both subjects were transported to St. Peters Justice Center where they were booked for Trespassing and released on a summons.&amp;quot; Or, in the alternative, throw Robert&amp;#039;s Rules at the bastards: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re just a little frustrated because caucuses are supposed to be run by a very strict set of rules,&amp;quot; said Paul supporter John Findlay. &amp;quot;We raised a number of points of order, points of information, points of parliamentary inquiry, many of which have been ignored.&amp;quot; But county caucus chairman Ben Wierzbicki said all caucus goers had been treated fairly. Or, in the last extremity, just pray: Why am I telling you this? I&amp;#039;m let\u00ADting you know that we will not restore our Republic with\u00ADout the help of Almighty God. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Everyone who designed this fiasco now has to own it. The one thing about Ron Paul&amp;#039;s supporters is that they can fashion a legal and constitutional argument to fit almost every circumstance. They can come up with the 10th amendment argument for jelly doughnuts over chocolate frosted at every caucus site. They are bred for this kind of legalistic mischief and the Republicans have devised a process uniquely and hilariously open to it. Anybody who thinks this will stop at the local level, and that the Paul forces are not gearing themselves up for the biggest show of all in Tampa, is kidding themselves. You want a brokered convention? Look to Missouri. That&amp;#039;s what you had over the weekend. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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