The 'Maine Event', wake up Americans

I want to start with a video from the CPAC event. It's a 27 minute speech given by Daniel Hannan, a British conservative member of the European Parliament.



Now, on to the 'Maine event':

It was a squeaker in Maine Saturday. Mitt Romney edging out Ron Paul for the win with 2,190 votes (39%) to Paul's 1,996 votes (36%). Santorum got 989 (18%) and Gingrich received 349 (6%). The problem here is that the caucus in Washington County, one of Ron Paul's strongest counties, was postponed due to inclement weather. Even though the girl scouts somehow managed to hold an event without worrying about the weather.

The chair of the Maine GOP even said that they're not going to bother counting the votes from Washington county because it 'wouldn't make much of a difference'. Really? Again, Washington county is Ron Paul's strongholds and would more than likely yield over 200 votes. (That's more votes than separates Ron Paul from Mitt Romney). The amount of snow forecast was no more than 3-5 inches, which is hardly unusual for Maine. While Washington county's caucus was cancelled for snow, other counties that was also forecast to get snowfall weren't cancelled.

This is obviously the work of someone pulling the strings in Romney's favor. The GOP chair even said that the Washington county votes would never be counted.... WHY NOT!? You are obviously afraid of Ron Paul. You are rigging the election, you are making votes disappear and you are NOT playing by the rules, and perhaps what the saddest part about it is that you're not even doing a very good job of it.

This makes me sick. EVERY eligible voter SHOULD be able to vote, and EVERY vote SHOULD be counted regardless of weather, regardless of what time it is or what day of the week it is. At this moment I am very ashamed to call myself American, we used to be the model of democracy around the world, and that is being eroded away. Our erosion from democracy began slowly at first, but in the last 8 or ten years, it has accelerated exponentially. WHY can't people realize what is going on?! We need to wake up and realize that NOTHING will change for the better unless WE vote against the people in power. ON WE CAN GIVE OUR GOVERNMENT POWER. WE CAN TAKE THAT POWER AWAY, the government it seems has forgotten that. One day they will wake up and find that the citizens no longer believe in them.

Well, that's my rant. Here's a video of Ron Paul on 'Face the Nation' today and as usual Ron Paul tells it like it is from his heart, unscripted, unrehearsed, and truly sincere:



Here are the "results" of the Maine caucuses from CNN.com:

STILL with ONLY 95% reporting:
MAINE
Romney: 2,190 (39%)
Paul: 1,996 (36%)
Santorum: 989 (18%)
Gingrich: 349 (6%)