Gee, Stephanie, you suppose that maybe you'd mention the blog you linked to is written by a Romney delegate?

Nah.

I will give her credit for one thing: neither her ongoing effort to make the GOP around here look bad in the article today, nor her her post on the Columbian All politics is local blog contained her previously mandatory Boldt campaign literature.

The post was reasonably accurate.  Linking to a Romney delegate's blog, without MENTIONING it was a Romney delegate's blog?

Not so much.

How do I KNOW it's a Romney delegates blog?

Because Ernie Geigenmiller, who runs the blog in question, was listed as a Romney delegate.

Here's a blog from a writer who sat in the 18th District proceedings and says that Rick Santorum supporters colluded with Ron Paul supporters and double-crossed Mitt Romney supporters. This weekend, The Columbian ran an Associated Press story about the Paul-Santorum alliance.

Much of the logistical description is dead on: credentialing was an inexcusable nightmare.  

In fact, most of the description is pretty close.  Where I take exception is this:

Katja Delavar, a Ron Paul supporter, consistently interrupted the proceedings by challenging rules and motions, much to the exasperation of many around her. One delegate asked to stop talking and emotions ran high. She and her husband, Mike, a former Washougal city councilman, left their seats and went to the back of the large room.

“I find that woman to be very disruptive and annoying,” said Huckvale.

Once nominations were closed, it was a requirement to allow the delegates 30 seconds to make a personal statement. Delegates attempted to amend this rule and allow no time for personal statements. Again, emotions ran high. The rule stood and the audience listened to the delegates make their case.

Delavar challenged nearly every motion or rule by speaking up or going to the district board at the front of the room.

Can't stand Paul or Santorum or, actually, any of the candidates.  I, myself, was an uncommitted auto-delegate because I am a PCO.

But Delavar was exercising her rights.  She had a job to do, and she got it done.

The Paulbots were better organized and more motivated.  They showed up.  They exploited the weaknesses in the system.  They did a better job at it.

The other side lost.  The end.

But as Brandon Vick pointed out, the problems this convention experienced were not the fault of any of the factions within it.

And no amount of whining will change any of that.

If there was an error, it was in extending the time.  The agenda was clear; ending the convention would have been a better outcome for the establishment types.

The Paulistinians got done what they set out to do.   The Romney establishment types were out-thought, out-organized and out-implemented.

Likewise, those blaming the formation of the Unity slate and attempting to lie their way into getting people to believe that they wouldn't have done the exact, same, thing WITHOUT the Unity slate are just that: liars.

We have the internet here: we've seen this sort of thing happening at various locations around the state.  Unity slate or no Unity slate, the Paulistinians would have done precisely the same thing.

I was born on a Saturday... but not last Saturday.

Just sayin'.