PHOENIX — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s son was booed off stage by Ron Paul supporters at the Arizona Republican Party convention in Phoenix on Saturday night, The Arizona Republic reported.
Speaking at the event, where the state party was electing delegates for the national convention in August, Josh Romney told the crowd, “We cannot afford four more years of President Obama. We need someone to step in there and turn things around.”
But Romney, the third of the presidential candidate’s five sons, was booed and jeered by some members of the crowd who supported Paul’s campaign, and was forced to wait for the noise to die down several times before resuming his speech.
Later, when he requested that the party members choose the preferred number of Mitt Romney delegates, the younger Romney was forced to cut his speech short when those in the room competed with boos and cheers, the Republic reported.
Some people at the event told the newspaper they heard Paul supporters yelling out that the former Massachusetts governor is “the white Obama.”
Tom Morrissey, the state party chair, asked people to “keep their eyes on the prize” of beating Obama in November.
“Maybe it’s going to take getting behind somebody we weren’t so excited about … What I want is to save this country, and we’ve gotta do it together. None of us gets everything we want,” Morrissey said.
The Paul campaign has said it is attempting to secure convention-bound delegates in district- and state-level contests to vote for their candidate, even though Paul has failed to win a single primary or caucus.
Republican strategists, however, say such tactics are hurting the party and its efforts to unify for the general election.
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This is yet another inaccurate report. Romney’s son was booed, not off the stage, but booed because, as the article mentions, he was campaigning from the stage – which was prohibited by the AZ Convention rules.
I tire of these misrepresentations of Paul supporters as people who will just boo people for their own sake. If you check up on the facts, you’ll find that in each case, they boo because something is being said that is either dishonest (asserting that someone is the nominee who, in fact, is not), insulting (calling us “Obama lovers”), improper (breaking the rules), or objectionable (advocating murder, torture, etc).